On today's episode of Relatable, we discuss the death of a NYC subway rider who was killed after being put in a headlock during an outburst on the train and the reactions to that. We also talk about the use of a man's clothing to model female clothing. And of course, we talk about anthropology.
00:00:00.000Trans activists are losing their minds over state legislation that is protecting kids from body mutilating procedures and medications that are being given to them in the name of so-called gender affirmation.
00:00:13.300And then other states are passing legislation to become havens for these kinds of terrifying procedures.
00:00:22.240So there's good news and there's bad news when it comes to the kinds of laws that states are passing.
00:00:26.420We're also going to talk about that NYC subway rider that died after being put in a headlock during an outburst on the train and the different reactions to that.
00:00:37.060And then, of course, we're going to talk about anthropology.
00:01:11.560I don't know if you and your loved ones celebrate wherever you are, but you should have at least a quesadilla or something to mark the day tomorrow.
00:01:31.580We've got a lot to get through today because the last two days, they've been interviews, and so I haven't been able to get through all the news that I want to get through.
00:01:38.880I will try to get through them as quickly as possible.
00:01:41.280I probably won't because knowing myself and my history, it's basically impossible to do that.
00:01:47.840But, okay, first, let's talk about the story that everyone's talking about on Twitter this morning.
00:02:01.020I wanted to go ahead and give you a little bit of a rundown about this man, 30-year-old man, Jordan Neely, who was killed during an outburst that he was having on the New York City subway.
00:02:14.220The reason why it's become a big deal is not only was he killed, but also he was a homeless person.
00:02:22.200He apparently was ranting and raving about not having any food, not having any shelter.
00:02:27.000He was put in a headlock by a white man.
00:02:29.980So people are calling this a lynching.
00:02:54.440This is according to the New York Post.
00:02:56.360On Monday, a 30-year-old man, Jordan Neely, was put in a headlock when he began acting erratically and making threats to passengers on the subway just before 2.30 p.m.
00:03:03.940The man was shouting on the F train that he was hungry and thirsty but did not attack anyone before he was placed in a chokehold.
00:03:09.900He had, however, started to throw garbage at fellow commuters, according to freelance journalist Juan Alberto Vasquez, who was there.
00:03:20.500I don't mind going to jail and getting life in prison.
00:03:23.840I'm ready to die, which is obviously very sad.
00:03:27.520Now, I will say there are a lot of resources in New York City for those who do not have resources, those who do not have a home, who don't have shelter, who don't have food, who don't have anything to drink.
00:03:38.220There are a lot of places, thankfully, that provide that kind of thing.
00:03:42.200There's also a lot of government help.
00:03:44.760That's why there are so many homeless people who are in those kind of city centers in New York, because there are so many resources for him.
00:03:53.660Obviously, this guy has some mental health problems.
00:04:09.600At the time of his death, he had a warrant out for his arrest in a November 2021 case where he was accused of assaulting a 67-year-old woman in the East Village.
00:04:20.600The man, he's 24 years old, who put Neely in the chokehold.
00:04:43.980Of course, people are saying that this was a murder.
00:04:46.880Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a relatable fave.
00:04:50.600Tweeted, Jordan Neely was murdered, but because Jordan was houseless and crying for food at a time when the city is raising rents and stripping services to militarize itself, while many in power demonize the poor, the murderer gets protected with passive headlines and no charges.
00:05:06.960Obviously, there's something there's something wrong and inconsistent about this take, because the real failure here, the real failure here is the criminal justice system in New York,
00:05:16.620which didn't do anything about this person, who has 42 prior arrests.
00:05:21.220Now, maybe he has some mental health problems.
00:05:23.560Maybe the underlying issue here is poverty.
00:05:26.880But look, for someone to be arrested and released 42 times, wouldn't you say that that's a problem?
00:05:33.700That's not compassion for Jordan Neely.
00:05:37.580That's not compassion for the innocent people of New York.
00:05:41.060Look, that is a broken criminal justice system.
00:05:43.640Does that sound like a criminal justice system in New York City that is militarizing itself, according to AOC, that is actually taking law enforcement seriously?
00:05:53.160No, that means that we have a we have a very sick problem in the United States, especially in these major cities, with how we deal with crime, how we deal with those who need help.
00:06:04.100Maybe he needed mental health help, but however he was treated, he did need to be separated from the rest of society so that he was not constantly harassing and assaulting innocent people so that they can't live their lives peacefully.
00:06:24.160Now, all that to say, does that mean that he deserved the death penalty from this person who put him in a chokehold?
00:06:33.340I'm not an advocate of vigilante justice.
00:06:36.520Now, if this was a case of self-defense, and we don't really know, I guarantee there's going to be more footage, more facts that come out here.
00:06:45.040But if he was really threatening violence, if he was putting this guy who put him in a chokehold or the innocent people around him in imminent physical danger, then this wasn't vigilantism.
00:07:00.460But citizens should never have to be put in a position to have to protect themselves and the people around them in this way when it's so clear that law enforcement and the system in New York City have failed.
00:07:13.060They have failed to actually protect their innocent citizens from someone who is known to be a serial, violent criminal.
00:07:23.440Now, pertaining to the charge of racism, that this was a lynching, that this happened because he was black and this white person was just looking to inflict violence upon a black person.
00:07:37.720And there's obviously no evidence of that.
00:07:41.000And actually, if you will put up, we'll put up a still.
00:07:43.520I don't know if we can actually play the video because YouTube might, you know, give us a strike for that or they might say, no, you can't do that because it's violence.
00:07:52.120But we can put up a picture that we have, which is a screenshot of the video that shows all of the people who are holding him down.
00:07:59.660And what you'll see is that there is a variety of ethnicity going on here.
00:08:03.320You've got black people that are restraining him.
00:08:05.800You've got a white man that's restraining him.
00:08:08.180Like this is a multicultural effort to try to restrain this black man.
00:08:12.920And so, of course, because the media likes to stoke this kind of revision, they like the race wars, they like the racial resentment, the media really likes black people angry at white people.
00:08:26.440They really like to stoke that kind of fear, that kind of suspicion of underlying and constant white supremacy.
00:08:33.460They will focus on the fact that there was a white man among the many people restraining him that put him in a chokehold.
00:08:40.080The fact of the matter is there were many people responsible for this.
00:08:43.440Again, I'm not defending the actions because I just don't know the proper context.
00:08:47.520And I don't think a disproportionate reaction to someone who is maybe just verbally harassing people is the right way to go.
00:08:54.600I am in favor of law enforcement actually doing something.
00:08:57.500But look, places like New York have become so chaotic and so violent.
00:09:02.000And I think people have kind of thrown up their hands in despair in a lot of in a lot of ways because they don't actually trust the system to be able to protect them from violence and from threats that unfortunately you're going to see more situations like this.
00:09:18.460And the only person, the only people that are being demonized are the people who ended up assaulting and very sadly and tragically killing this guy.
00:09:47.060But there have been multiple murders in the subway that these people did not protest.
00:09:51.640There have been other assaults, other terrible incidents that have happened where people similar to Jordan Neely, people probably with mental health issues, people on drugs, just criminals, violent people pushing innocent people and children in front of trains, assaulting people, pulling knives out, harassing people, intimidating people with violence.
00:10:14.380I mean, there's been all kinds of incidents that have basically gone unchecked on the subway and no one was protesting for that.
00:10:22.800But again, this is just an opportunity for the left wing media to stoke racial resentment and to stoke that kind of division and hatred that doesn't have to be there.
00:10:34.140It's not actually relevant to the story at all just to get people active, just to get people again to keep pushing this narrative that white supremacy is the problem, that white violence against black people is pervasive.
00:10:50.380As we've said many times, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, it is much more likely for a white person to be killed by a black person than vice versa.
00:10:59.300Despite black people only accounting for a small percentage of the population.
00:11:05.600Now, most violence is between white people and white people, black people and black people, Hispanic people and Hispanic people, intraracial violence.
00:11:12.820But if you want to look at statistics, like if we're going to fear monger and say that one kind of violence is a big, pervasive problem, well, then we're going to have to actually look at the numbers and to see what's more statistically likely.
00:11:27.140White violence, white violence, white murder against a black person is not statistically likely at all comparatively.
00:11:34.120And so I just don't think it's helpful.
00:11:38.180I don't think it's just or compassionate or wise to turn this in to a racial story.
00:11:44.660The only thing that does is divide and bring apart and bring down and it does nothing to edify and it doesn't paint.
00:11:55.380It doesn't paint the whole picture and actually it distracts us from the real problems that led to something like this, which is a lack of proper tools, mechanisms in place to be able to prevent crime, to protect innocent communities from people who commit crimes.
00:12:12.600So that people don't go out and commit vigilante justice, which I think is bad and not something that is going to help society ultimately.
00:12:24.120The system, in a lot of ways, failed in this case.
00:12:30.960They're failing the people of New York City.
00:12:33.100And only now are people like AOC and others getting up in arms about what happened.
00:12:38.300Well, there's a lot of things that could have happened over the years, over the course of his 42 to 44 arrests that could have prevented something like this.
00:12:48.560I mean, this is an image bearer of God.
00:12:50.720This is, it's sad that he died, especially that he died in this way.
00:12:55.380This is, this is something that we can mourn over without jumping on a narrative that is not truthful and is not righteous and is not compassionate.
00:13:08.300All right, let's move on to Texas where there's other chaos going on.
00:13:19.980So Texas is considering Senate Bill 14 right now, which would prohibit doctors from providing so-called, this is according to the Dallas Morning News, this is the language they use, gender affirming treatments like puberty blockers.
00:13:34.020Now, if that is, there is no more Orwellian phrase than that, gender affirming treatments like puberty blockers.
00:13:42.760So you are stopping a natural process in the body in order to affirm someone's gender.
00:13:50.300Try explaining that to someone from like 10 years ago.
00:13:53.980Puberty blockers in children, a natural, necessary process that the body, that the mind has to go through for normal, healthy maturation.
00:14:04.460This is something that we are allowing to happen for children.
00:14:09.260And Dallas Morning News is calling it gender affirming.
00:14:12.700Look, if you're actually affirming someone's gender, you don't block their puberty to do that.
00:14:17.900But of course, they have a different definition of gender than sane people do.
00:14:21.320Gender apparently is something that you just come up with in your mind and not something that your body dictates at all.
00:14:27.440Hormone therapy, they say, or surgery intended to transition the biological sex of any child under the age of 18.
00:15:04.980Senate Bill 14 in the Texas State Legislature.
00:15:07.920For the purpose of transitioning a child's biological sex, as determined by the sex organs, chromosomes, and endogenous profiles of the child, or affirming the child's perception of the child's sex, if that perception is inconsistent with the child's biological sex, a physician or healthcare provider may not knowingly perform a surgery that sterilizes the child, including castration, vasectomy, hysterectomy.
00:17:01.980No doctor should be even willing to do this just ethically and morally.
00:17:07.440But because there are so many doctors who have given into this ideology, who are scared of the political pressure, they're scared of the left-wing activists, and because many of them just don't care.
00:17:18.200They just don't have any moral qualms with it because it makes them rich.
00:17:22.240And it even gives them virtue points at this point.
00:18:49.340And then he's describing Aslan's army.
00:18:52.820And what they looked like, what Jadis' army looked like compared to Aslan's army, it always reminds me of these kinds of left-wing protesters.
00:19:03.840Who I'm not saying that they naturally are ugly people.
00:19:08.260I'm not even talking about their facial structure, their bone structure, anything like that.
00:19:13.540But how they have morphed themselves to look, how they have tattooed their body, pierced their body, changed their hair, the kind of clothes that they wear, sometimes to look like the opposite sex or to look not like a normal human.
00:19:27.600It's so grotesque, like it's so dark, it's so clearly demonic that every time I see them, I'm like, it reminds me of the ghouls and the goblins that are described by C.S. Lewis in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe.
00:19:40.240They don't only look like that, but they seem to be possessed in some way.
00:19:46.440And I don't call everyone who is evil demon-possessed because I think those are different categories.
00:19:51.760Now, we understand from Ephesians 2 that you are either under the authority of Satan, the prince of the power of the air, or you have been bought by grace through faith in Christ.
00:20:02.640So you're either an enemy of God or a friend of God, whether you have been reconciled to God through Christ.
00:20:12.280So I don't know if these people are actually demon-possessed or if they are just evil, like if they are just playing the part of the enemy's army.
00:20:22.800Either way, like there is a rabidity to these people.
00:20:26.420They are almost literally, like if you're watching that on YouTube, they're almost foaming at the mouth.
00:20:31.360And of course, when you just stop to consider what they are actually advocating for, they are angry that it is illegal, will be illegal to butcher the body of a minor, to render them permanently sterile because they're confused about their gender.
00:20:49.180Now, what they will say is that this is killing kids.
00:20:52.360This is causing suicide in kids when there is no, no objective data proving that.
00:20:58.220Actually, the best data that we have shows that most kids grow out of any perceived confusion or real confusion that they might have about their gender after puberty.
00:21:10.360Like, why would we want a kid to be confused about their gender and to maim their body and to pause puberty?
00:21:18.100All the people who say that pausing puberty or going on cross-sex hormones or even just socially transitioning, that it's harmless, that it's temporary, that is not true.
00:21:26.820You do not, we don't even know all of the physical, physiological, and psychological consequences that that has on a young person who is actually being forced to not mature in a normal way.
00:21:41.020And again, like I will ask you, and you can look at some of the people that were protesting there, and like I would say that this probably applies to some of the people that you saw there.
00:21:50.880Again, I will ask what category of person, what kind of person benefits from or likes the idea of kids being trapped in perpetual adolescence by putting off their puberty?
00:22:10.480Like, if you put off your puberty, okay, then your body, does it grow, does it mature, does it form the same way that it would if you went through that natural and good puberty process?
00:22:22.480You look like a child for much longer, and you also think and act like a child for much longer.
00:22:30.680What kind of person likes that delayed maturation?
00:22:35.300What kind of person likes the idea of there being masses of children who don't go through puberty?
00:22:43.380What kind of person likes prepubescent children and likes to talk about all of the procedures and all of the things that have to do with their genitalia and sexuality and identity?
00:22:57.560It's not a coincidence that we keep seeing some overlap there, right?
00:23:30.400And to just prove, again, that this crossover that we tend to see between absolute sexual perversion and this kind of identity madness is not coincidental.
00:23:43.580That is actually very consistent and persistent.
00:23:46.120We'll move on to our next story, which is in the state of Minnesota.
00:23:49.960All right, let's look at the state of Minnesota.
00:24:05.740So, on Thursday, April 27th, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz signed legislation, the Trans Refuge Act,
00:24:12.500that makes the state a haven for those seeking abortions or gender, quote-unquote, transitions.
00:24:19.280It also allows for the courts to seize emergency custody over a child if he slash she is prevented from receiving, quote-unquote, gender-affirming care.
00:24:29.780So, I mean, this really just builds off of the conversation that we had on Tuesday with the woman who was trying to adopt in the state of Oregon.
00:24:38.040And she was told, sorry, you can't unless you say that one day you will go along with cross-sex hormones and puberty blockers for a potential child that you adopt.
00:24:46.540So, it's more important to make sure that kids are orphans.
00:24:50.900It's more important that, or rather, I would say, it's more important to these liberal states that these children are able to mutilate their bodies than it is for them to have a safe and secure home.
00:25:06.100They would rather them be orphans than to stay in a home that doesn't agree with the maiming of bodies of kids who say that they're confused.
00:26:36.660In the state of Minnesota, if you decide that you don't want your child to go on puberty blockers because they decided on their anime-obsessed subreddit that they were the opposite sex,
00:26:49.740then you get your child taken away from you, and they go into the system where they will receive all of these body-mutilating hormones and surgeries.
00:27:00.920And who will be there holding their hand when they figure out that they've made a huge mistake and that they no longer want to live?
00:27:36.660The proposed pedophilia protection that is a part of this.
00:27:39.820The Minnesota state legislature is also considering a proposed bill that makes updates to the current Minnesota Human Rights Act legitimizing pedophilia.
00:27:48.720So the current Human Rights Act protects against discrimination based on sexual orientation defined as having or being perceived as having emotional, physical, or sexual attachment to another person without regard to the sex of that person or having or being perceived as having an orientation for such attachment or having or being perceived as having a self-image or identity,
00:28:05.720not traditionally associated with one's biological maleness or femaleness.
00:28:10.320The current law also includes the caveat sexual orientation does not include a physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.
00:28:18.280So it's basically saying, look, we're talking about all different kinds of sexual orientations, however many you want to say that there is.
00:28:23.340But we are not talking about pedophilia.
00:28:26.080That's what the current Minnesota Human Rights Act says.
00:28:28.520But the Take Pride Act was authored by Rep.
00:28:33.000Lee Fink, who is a man who thinks he's a woman and identifies as a woman.
00:28:37.860He proposed this bill that creates a new separate definition for gender identity.
00:28:43.620Gender identity means a person's inherent sense of being a man, woman, both or neither.
00:28:47.800A person's gender identity may or may not correspond to their assigned sex at birth or their primary or secondary sex characteristics.
00:28:54.460A person's gender identity is not necessarily visible to the other.
00:28:57.240So it's saying you can't be discriminated against because you're a man who thinks that he's a woman in a variety of contexts in the state of Minnesota.
00:29:18.160But that's not even the most troubling part of this.
00:29:20.260Also in his bill, he proposes removing the clause in the Minnesota Human Rights Act that says sexual orientation does not include physical or sexual attachment to children by an adult.
00:29:36.800He's saying, yes, that actually is a sexual orientation.
00:29:40.340An adult being attracted to a child that should be protected under human rights law.
00:29:47.500This so-called transgender representative in the state of Minnesota.
00:29:52.040He defended the measure to Fox News and said that the measure updates outdated language that incorrectly ties pedophilia to a person's sexual orientation, which is not true.
00:30:01.240Nothing that the bill changes or weakens any crimes against children or the state's ability, he says, to prosecute those who break the law.
00:30:06.700Of course, pedophilia is not a sexual orientation, Fink says.
00:30:09.780The language never should have been included in the statutory definition in the first place.
00:30:13.640Crimes against children are located in Minnesota's criminal statutes.
00:31:20.860Oklahoma, Kansas, North Dakota, Indiana, and Idaho are among the most recent states to pass laws that ban these harmful gender procedures on minors and protect sex-specific spaces.
00:31:45.420So on Monday, Oklahoma Governor Kevin Stitt signed a bill into law in a bill 613, banning so-called gender-affirming care for minors with the possibility of a felony charge for health care professionals who provide it.
00:31:57.100BAM effective immediately, the ban prohibits surgeries, puberty-blocking medication, and hormone treatments for those under the age of 18.
00:32:20.080SB 180 legally defines male and female based on the sex assigned at birth.
00:32:24.420I hate that language, but I get what they're trying to do.
00:32:27.240A sign to birth and protect separate spaces based on the sex of an individual.
00:32:31.500The law specifically names athletics prisons or other detention facilities, domestic violence shelters, rape crisis centers, locker rooms, restrooms, and other areas where biology, safety, or privacy are implicated.
00:32:49.620We have to be able to protect those places.
00:32:51.200You know, those women are getting raped in prisons in Washington and California because of the gender identity laws there.
00:32:59.020Those vulnerable, helpless women are being raped and sometimes impregnated by these violent men who suddenly identify as women and get moved to the women's prison.
00:33:07.940Yes, it is the job of the state to protect those women.
00:33:19.980The law says there are important governmental objectives to protecting the health, safety, and privacy of individuals in such circumstances.
00:33:29.080Two weeks ago, North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum signed House Bill 1254 into law preventing so-called gender-affirming procedures for minors.
00:33:37.760In early April, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed Senate Bill 480 into law.
00:33:42.420And Idaho Governor Brad Little enacted House Bill 71, both banning gender transition procedures for minors.
00:33:59.320But don't think that your social media posts, that your truthful conversation, that your sermon pastor, that you're standing for truth, that you're attending or speaking at your school board meeting or every single step that you take in the way of what is good and right and true doesn't matter.
00:34:24.780It is one brick that is placed in the path to what is good, right, and just and true.
00:34:31.340You don't know what flap of the butterfly wing you are, but you do know that you are called as a Christian to simply do the next right thing, say the next true thing.
00:34:41.800That's all we can ever do in private and in public.
00:34:54.460And speaking of like our voices having an impact and like having a say, I do think that our voices could have a say when it comes to anthropology's decision.
00:35:07.320To be really stupid and to go along with this radical, crazy, insane agenda that says that men can be women.
00:35:19.080So here is the latest post on anthropology's Instagram page as of yesterday.
00:35:37.320Okay, I want to first, I want to show like if we can show a still of this man's back.
00:37:41.200A model wearing clothes that she clearly couldn't zip up or couldn't button on the side that was clearly too small for her because it wasn't made for her?
00:37:47.520No, you wouldn't make that kind of exception for a woman.
00:37:49.600And you only make that kind of exception for a man, which shows me actually that you elevate the position of this man wearing women's clothes more than you do a woman wearing women's clothes.
00:38:00.300And some people are still asking the question, why would Anthropologie, why would a clothing line like this do this?
00:38:11.200Anthropologie has a very large, I would say, like conservative Christian audience for whatever reason, not audience, but clientele, customer base.
00:38:21.040And I have been shopping at Anthropologie at least for 15 years.
00:38:25.380They've taken a lot of my money over the years and not that I thought that they were conservative or aligned with my values in any way.
00:38:32.040I just thought that they made very unique and beautiful clothes for women that I have bought many, many times over the years.
00:38:40.240And of course, I still love their clothes and the variety that they that they offer.
00:38:44.760But now they're telling me that they think that men can be women or that it's OK for men to cross dress.
00:39:08.300They actually probably don't even really want your business or they think that they don't want your business.
00:39:16.440So it's not really that confusing to me anymore.
00:39:20.420These companies, Nike, all of these companies, they care more about their ESG score.
00:39:27.940They care more about their score from the human rights campaign.
00:39:31.620They care more about being called inclusive, tolerant, diverse, pro-LGBTQ, gender, fluid, diverse, whatever, more than they do their bottom line.
00:39:43.260So I still think it's important for us to make our voice known.
00:39:48.760They shut off comments on their Instagram post because they can't take the heat.
00:39:53.940They post something like that that they know is going to be controversial.
00:39:57.940And then they're mad when it stirs up controversy.
00:40:00.680And then it gives them the opportunity to be the victim and to say, oh my goodness, here we are, the martyrs laying down on the altar of inclusion and tolerance when really, no, you just joined in the movement of female erasure.
00:40:16.400You think men and women are interchangeable.
00:40:18.640You actually think that men in some cases apparently make badder women than actual women do.