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00:02:03.000Because protests happen all over the United States for a variety of reasons, and yet they do not receive international let alone national media attention. They just don't receive any of that sort of attention. So the real question is, why is it that the media are obsessed with covering like a few dozen people who are pissed off at Netflix, as opposed to all of the other issues in the world? And the answer is because deep down in their hearts, members of the media are these protesters. And by covering this sort of stuff, they get to feel virtuous. According to the Wall Street Journal,
00:02:30.000a group of protesters gathered outside one of Netflix's LA office.
00:02:34.000offices Wednesday to express anger over streaming giant Dave Chappelle's comedy special as some employees released demands for management and staged a walkout.
00:02:42.000First of all, your demands will not be met, and you can enjoy unemployment anytime you see fit.
00:02:46.000In the special, The Closer, Chappelle made jokes and remarks regarding gender.
00:02:49.000Many in the transgender community, including some Netflix staffers, found offensive.
00:02:53.000The company has defended the special, citing reasons, including the company's commitment to artistic freedom.
00:02:59.000We have some video of the protesters and they were not acting well.
00:03:06.000One of them was carrying a sign that said, we like Dave.
00:03:09.000And this prompted one of the very sensitive and deeply emotionally in touch protesters to immediately tear down that sign and take it apart.
00:03:43.000Okay, and then they had scuffles and shouting at the Netflix protest.
00:03:48.000I love these people who also get up in your face like this.
00:03:50.000There's a guy, he's literally just standing there holding his sign.
00:03:52.000And then the lady who comes up at the end, I assume she's a lady, I don't mean to misgender anybody, who comes up at the end, like stands right in front of him, like she's boxing him out from a rebound.
00:04:00.000First of all, if this guy goes for a rebound over this person, that is not a contest.
00:04:04.000That's Charles Barkley going up against Muggsy Bogues.
00:04:07.000But in any case, that was not all of the video from this.
00:04:09.000Again, this is not a major protest, guys.
00:04:34.000And they're chanting Trans Lives Matter.
00:04:36.000So there's nothing quite as funny as watching some members of the Intersectional Coalition adopt the rubric of other members of the Intersectional Coalition.
00:05:55.000And they have a little graphic of a woman says she her and then a man says he him and then a woman that says they them and then a woman that says he him.
00:06:04.000Why do many Americans list pronouns on social media profiles?
00:06:08.000I'm so glad that we can push this via the State Department.
00:06:11.000Read on to learn why it matters what pronouns you use to refer to people and how the United States embraces sharing pronouns.
00:06:19.000If you make fun of this, then that's punching down, even though it's coming from the State Department.
00:06:22.000By the way, very much looking forward to seeing how the State Department celebrates International Don't Abandon 19 Million Women to the Predations of the Taliban Day.
00:06:30.000That'll be really exciting stuff from the State Department, where we share pronouns because we care so much about people who are gender non-conforming, but also are happy to turn over 19 million women to the Taliban.
00:06:43.000Solid priorities there over at the State Department.
00:06:46.000When you make jokes about the question of whether trans people are in fact members of the sex to which they claim membership, that is not punching down.
00:06:54.000By the way, if you want to talk about quote-unquote punching down, Dave Chappelle makes two separate anti-Semitic jokes in the closer.
00:06:59.000And no one in the Jewish community seems to care.
00:07:01.000Because if you're a left-wing Jew, you don't care because you agree with him.
00:07:04.000And if you're a right-wing Jew, or if you're a traditional Jew in any way, you're like, yeah, he made a joke.
00:07:16.000In a list of demands sent to Netflix management, a group of transgender employees called on the company to create a new fund to develop trans and non-binary talent, recruit more trans people into leadership roles, and added a disclaimer before transphobic titles that specifically flag transphobic language, misogyny, homophobia, hate speech, etc.
00:07:33.000The employees wrote these changes and others were necessary to quote avoid future instances of platforming transphobia and hate speech and to account for the harm we have caused and will continue to cause until the below measures are put in place.
00:07:45.000So in other words, pay us money and give us better jobs.
00:07:47.000And if you give me more money and better job and then you slap like a little warning, then you can put on the Dave Chappelle special to pay my salary is what they're saying, which is pretty cynical.
00:07:57.000They're not calling for Netflix never to put up a Dave Chappelle special again.
00:08:00.000They're saying that if you put up a Dave Chappelle special, you have to put up a little disclaimer at the front so we can pretend that we did our due diligence.
00:08:07.000And then you have to give us a better job.
00:08:08.000It's the same thing Disney does, right?
00:08:09.000Disney does this stupid routine where if you watch Aladdin, they put up a little warning beforehand saying, this movie traffics in cultural stereotypes.
00:08:16.000Now enjoy the film because they're not going to take down Aladdin because everybody loves Aladdin because Aladdin's a great movie.
00:08:21.000So instead, they do this dumb routine where it's like, yes, but if you watch this film, you should just remember that we're very sorry we put it up, but not sorry enough to actually take it down because it's important it be up so we can make money off of you.
00:08:34.000A Netflix spokeswoman declined to comment on the specific demands.
00:08:37.000Now, the best part of this is that the Netflix co-chief executive, Ted Sarandos, originally, he had defended the Chappelle special.
00:08:43.000Originally, he was like, yeah, you know, you guys are just gonna have to get over it.
00:08:46.000It makes a lot of money for us and we believe that people should have different perspectives and that's fine.
00:08:51.000Now, if you believed that from Netflix, You're a sucker, okay?
00:09:02.000But in any case, Saranzos now has walked that back a little bit.
00:09:06.000He says he screwed up in his communications with staff over the controversy.
00:09:09.000He had cited Chappelle's popularity and said the company didn't believe that programming can spur real-world harm.
00:09:14.000He said, quote, I should have recognized the fact that a group of our employees was really hurting.
00:09:19.000See, this is where he would have been better off just reading my credo, right?
00:09:22.000Facts don't care about your feelings would have been a lot better than, I should have recognized that you were hurting.
00:09:26.000Okay, first of all, if you think that Sarandos saying, I see why you're hurting would have led to them being like, oh, okay, he understands us.
00:09:53.000Also in attendance was B Pagels Minor, which sounds sort of like a bad concerto, who doesn't identify as male or female and uses they as a pronoun.
00:10:00.000So we know literally nothing about this person other than a very odd Surname.
00:10:05.000B Pagelsminer said they were fired by Netflix last week for disclosing sensitive information outside the company that ended up appearing in a Bloomberg media story.
00:10:13.000In an interview, B Pagelsminer acknowledged sharing documents internally but denied providing the information to any media outlets.
00:10:19.000I categorically deny leaking information, B Pagelsminer said.
00:10:54.000This is what we've got now from our news stories.
00:10:57.000Bee Pagels Minor said that Bee Pagels Minor is the greatest Bee Pagels Minor since Chopin's Nocturne in B Minor.
00:11:03.000Netflix said in a statement, quote, While we would normally never talk about an investigation like this, these claims are not supported by the facts.
00:11:09.000This employee admitted sharing confidential information externally from their Netflix email on several occasions.
00:11:14.000Also, they were the only employee to access the detailed sensitive data on four titles that later appeared in the press.
00:11:19.000They claim only to have shared this information in an internal document and said another employee must have leaked it.
00:11:23.000However, that document was missing for one title and so cannot have been the source for the leak.
00:11:28.000And then the employee wiped their device.
00:11:29.000Okay, so that's why the person was fired.
00:11:33.000Now, again, why is this a national media story?
00:11:35.000The reason it's a national media story is because the media are in league with this.
00:11:47.000I want to make it very clear that this isn't an instance of cancel culture, because I've invited Dave Chappelle to have transformative dialogue with us on multiple occasions, and he has made it clear that it is not of interest to him.
00:12:00.000So, just to be clear, this isn't cancel culture, but an avoidance of accountability, when we've invited you to be a part of the repair that it takes to be able to not only heal culture, but to move all of us forward.
00:12:16.000It's not cancel culture to try and literally get somebody's special removed.
00:12:50.000If you're on the left, you have to virtue signal to demonstrate that you're part of the intersectional coalition because the cultural cram-down is in every area of American life.
00:12:58.000By the way, if you think this stuff doesn't matter politically or it doesn't move votes, you're wrong.
00:13:01.000When people feel inundated by stories like this, their immediate response is to flip the bird to the cultural arbiters and then just do precisely the opposite of what they want.
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00:14:30.000So if you subscribe to Netflix, a stigma is now put upon you because seven people are mad at Netflix, plus most of the mainstream media.
00:14:38.000There are lots of people who are saying that they don't wish to work with Netflix right now.
00:14:42.000I've had producers and showrunners tell me that they are having people be fired and resigned.
00:14:50.000And the third thing is that Netflix may become a stigma brand.
00:14:53.000That is to say, it may no longer be a place where you're proud to say that you work.
00:14:59.000And if that's the case, they will lose employees to their competitors who are dying to know Netflix's secrets.
00:15:05.000And if those employers allow those new employees to not only bring their knowledge, but also this desire for more diverse content, over time, Netflix could be in real trouble.
00:15:18.000Okay, if you think that Netflix is going to be in real trouble because its 11 trans employees walk across the street to Hulu, Yeah, sure.
00:15:26.000If you think there's gonna be a mass walkout by the people in Hollywood from Netflix, which is currently paying them exorbitant sums of cash to make movies when the movie business is in a serious...
00:15:43.000It's what happens to your business because you're not Netflix.
00:15:45.000So next time you get hit with a controversy, know that the media are going to put you on the front page.
00:15:50.000Understand that all you have to do is have one pissed off employee with a picket sign outside your store saying that you're transphobic and it will be a national news story and you're not Netflix.
00:15:59.000You're not a multi-billion dollar company.
00:16:02.000And again, the entire left surrounding this thing is really fascinating.
00:16:05.000It really is, because think about this.
00:16:07.000The AFL-CIO, which is an industrially based union coalition.
00:16:15.000I would imagine the vast majority of members of the AFL-CIO have no dog in the Dave Chappelle versus the trans folks at Netflix fight.
00:16:23.000Not only that, I would imagine that the vast majority of members of the AFL-CIO coalition We're not particularly up on using pronouns in their bios.
00:16:29.000And yet, the head of the AFL-CIO put out a notice, quote, sending support to Netflix employees, especially those in the trans resource group, walking out today for human rights, dignity, and respect on the job.
00:16:40.000Again, remember, none of these people were fired.
00:16:43.000Netflix is paying for their health care.
00:16:45.000Netflix is paying all the payroll taxes.
00:16:47.000Like, how did Netflix disrespect them?
00:16:49.000By literally allowing a thing to be said they didn't like.
00:16:53.000According to the AFL-CIO head, it's time for Netflix to listen to its LGBTQ employees and live up to its standards of radical transparency.
00:17:06.000But the fact that the AFL-CIO is in league with this demonstrates that, again, the entire way that the left operates in the political sphere is that the common man does not matter.
00:17:14.000You have a bunch of white Liberal elites, college graduates, who are siding with the most radical elements of various groups in order to cobble together a coalition that they think will be politically successful.
00:17:26.000If you just feed enough members of the coalition something, then they will all stick by each other and create a certain solidarity.
00:17:31.000This all started on campuses, by the way.
00:17:33.000Where you would have these bizarre coalitions of like the LGBTQ club and the Muslim club on campus protesting Israel.
00:17:40.000And you'd be like, whoa, why is the LGBTQ club protesting Israel along with the Muslim club, which there's not a single Muslim country on planet earth that has any significant level of tolerance toward gay people.
00:17:51.000And the answer is, if you can form a coalition, then the LGBTQ club knows the Muslims are going to show up for whatever they're protesting, right?
00:18:16.000The fact that the media are so into this is really, it's really demonstrative of the massive disconnect between the elitists who try to cram culture down on the rest of us and the rest of us.
00:18:27.000And it's ongoing and it's consistent, it's continuous.
00:18:29.000By the way, we here at Daily Wire enjoy it.
00:18:31.000Keep trying to do this because all you are doing is driving more people out into the cornfield and we are out here in the cornfield selling stuff they actually want.
00:18:37.000And we're going to be doing more of that.
00:18:38.000So if you want to create a market share for us, please continue with this nonsense.
00:18:42.000Like, truly, I hope that Netflix caves to the LGBTQ plus radicals.
00:18:59.000But there's a columnist at the Washington Post.
00:19:01.000This demonstrates again where the minds of the media are when it comes to how you should think culturally.
00:19:05.000First of all, this rubric that it is actually dangerous to make a joke about the trans cause, which again is anti-biology and anti-reality, is absurd.
00:19:11.000Chappelle's latest special, the company's defense of the comedian and its dismissal of concerns that the content was dangerously transphobic.
00:19:18.000First of all, this rubric that it is actually dangerous to make a joke about the trans cause, which again is anti-biology and anti-reality, is absurd.
00:19:42.000If you normally say, I just don't like what you're saying, so I want you to shut up, then we all understand that you're a censorious fascist.
00:19:46.000But if you say, it harms me, it's dangerous for me if you say this, then we're like, oh, well, if it's dangerous, then maybe we should shut it down.
00:19:54.000I mean, if speech is violence, then maybe we need to silence the speech.
00:19:58.000According to this columnist at Psychology Today, is there evidence to suggest a comedy special such as Chappelle's could increase violence rates?
00:20:04.000The good news is, there's not clear evidence linking entertainment media to violence in real life.
00:20:10.000Even some professional guilds like the American Psychological Association are sometimes caught on a limb of promoting moral panic with bad signs.
00:20:17.000This sort of stuff happens all the time.
00:20:18.000Again, because it's politically driven, not scientifically driven.
00:20:20.000But this is the Washington Post columnist Helena Andrews-Dyer saying, quote, A crowd of dozens gathered outside the streamer's West Hollywood offices to denounce both Chappelle and the company's chief executive, Ted Sarandos.
00:20:48.000Some supporters of Chappelle attended the rally, clashing with protesters as they urged Netflix not to limit speech and held up signs with messages such as, jokes are funny.
00:20:56.000We're here today not because we can't take a joke, said Ashley Marie Preston, media personality and the Walkouts organizer.
00:21:01.000We're here today because the jokes are taking lives.
00:21:26.000How does the joke... The jokes are taking lives.
00:21:30.000The jokes are taking lives, you idiots.
00:21:32.000The issue exploded after the October 5th release of the Comedian Special, in which he compares being trans to wearing blackface, makes jokes about transgender people's genitalia, and declares he's team TERF, which stands for Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, because he believes that gender is a fact.
00:21:45.000He compares the struggles of the black community directly with the LGBTQ community.
00:21:49.000He said, I can't help but feel like if slaves had baby oil and booty shorts, we might have been free 100 years sooner.
00:21:55.000In their list of demands to Sarandos, the Netflix employee resource group Trans, little star, which consists of trans and non-binary employees, wrote in a news release, they want the company to add disclaimers, make investment in trans creators, recruit trans people to work in Netflix leadership roles.
00:22:10.000But again, the fact that this has driven such media attention demonstrates that it is not about where people think the culture actually is, it's what they think the culture should be, and you should shut up, and you should take it.
00:22:21.000And this is the nature of how culture changes.
00:22:24.000The media now represent a hardcore minority of radicals who are going to change the culture whether you like it or not.
00:22:32.000And they're going to excise you from the culture whether you like it or not.
00:22:36.000We have some more examples of this in just a moment because it is, again, it seems bizarre up until the point when it actually comes for you and your kids in school and your business.
00:23:44.000Okay, so, it is not just with regard to Netflix that the cultural arbiters are determining what the rest of us are supposed to think.
00:23:58.000And if you question it, then you are labeled intolerant.
00:24:01.000If you question it, then you are labeled outside the bounds of moral discourse.
00:24:05.000I mean, corporations will spend literally hundreds of millions of dollars in order to convince you that something is popular that it's not popular.
00:24:12.000Right now they're trying to convince you that the trans movement, the trans rights movement, is extraordinarily popular in the United States.
00:24:18.000They're trying to convince you that the movement to drug your kids at the age of 15 with hormones and then prepare them for surgery is popular in America.
00:25:15.000Now, again, women can play basketball.
00:25:16.000They're more skilled than I. All of that is fine and dandy.
00:25:19.000But there is this mainline effort in the media to promote the notion that the WNBA is a thing, when it is clearly not a thing.
00:25:26.000ESPN tries to cover the WNBA as though it is equivalent in interest level to any other major sport.
00:25:32.000When the WNBA's fan, singular, is just that, a fan, The grand total number of people who care about the WNBA are the executives at the NBA who want to pretend that they care about gender parity while paying WNBA players $40,000 a year and NBA players $40 million a year.
00:25:52.000And the immediate families of the people in the WNBA and some very driven feminists who are apparently willing to sacrifice an evening of time to watch somebody play the four corners offense, essentially.
00:26:05.000Okay, so this was made humiliatingly clear yesterday.
00:26:11.000So, the Chicago Sky, apparently they're a team in a league that exists.
00:26:15.000Yeah, didn't really know or care, really, because who does?
00:26:19.000So they had a championship celebration.
00:26:21.000So the championship celebration started off at the park.
00:27:26.000And people haven't been this excited since the release of Ishtar.
00:27:33.000The bicyclists and the people, honest to God, the people on the top of the bus, wildly outnumbered the number of people who are supposedly cheering them.
00:27:40.000It's really, like, it's an amazing sight, because they've spent tens of millions of dollars over the years to try and make the WNBA happen, and it's not happening.
00:27:47.000Again, that is not a rip on the players, because the players have a certain level of talent and a thing that is not marketable.
00:27:55.000And yet, there's an attempt by the culture to continue to force it down, and it just won't end.
00:27:59.000And watch, because I'm saying this, people get very angry at me.
00:28:02.000Because I'm merely pointing out that there is no crowd for the WNBA, and no one cares about the WNBA.
00:28:06.000They'll be like, ah, you're a sexist, that's why you're even pointing this out.
00:28:09.000No, I'm just pointing out that there are cultural arbiters who try to tell you that things are popular that are not popular, and that things are unpopular when they are popular.
00:28:31.000So popular, and man, people are gonna be so pissed at you if you make fun of the fact that no one showed up for the- By the way, it's been a long-running joke that no one watches WNBA games.
00:28:41.000I mean, Norm Macdonald was making jokes about this like 20 years ago.
00:28:51.000And I'm sorry, that's right, and it's hilarious.
00:28:54.000The thing about leftist views of culture is that they run up against reality, but it is also true that sometimes, not always, but sometimes, if you just keep pushing, and you push hard enough, and you just keep pushing, eventually, you shift the entire culture in your direction, which is why you get the stubbornness.
00:29:08.000Normally, if you're the NBA, and you run up against the hard reality, and then nobody wants to watch the WNBA, you just shut it down.
00:29:13.000You're like, okay, we could use that money better elsewhere.
00:29:15.000But instead, you insist on promoting it.
00:29:18.000Because maybe, just maybe, you will change the landscape.
00:29:39.000Rational human beings don't run into traffic.
00:29:41.000Rational human beings don't jump off of hundred-story buildings.
00:29:45.000And rational people don't watch WNBA games, unless forced to do so.
00:29:49.000But the thing is that this sort of cultural control does have real world consequences on a smaller scale and with regard to particular issues.
00:29:59.000So, for example, on college campuses, this continues to be a major problem.
00:30:03.000It is this view, by the way, of things like the WNBA that leads to the Title IX stupidity, wherein sports is supposed to be equivalent in colleges between men and women.
00:30:15.000Women's softball is not the same as men's baseball, for example.
00:30:20.000But in any case, a good example of sort of how the cultural arbiters decide things comes courtesy of MIT, according to the New York Times.
00:30:28.000Michael Powell reporting, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology invited the geophysicist Dorian Abbott to give a prestigious public lecture this autumn. He seemed a natural choice, a scientific star who studies climate change and whether planets in distant solar systems might harbor atmospheres conducive to life. Then a swell of angry resistance arose. Some faculty members and grad students argued that Dr. Abbott, a professor at the University of Chicago, had created harm, harm by speaking out against aspects of affirmative action and diversity programs. Right, so people are making the same claim about
00:30:57.000this geophysicist, Dorian Abbott, that they're making about Dave Chappelle.
00:31:04.000In videos and opinion pieces, Dr. Abbott has asserted that such programs treat, quote, people as members of a group rather than individuals, repeating the mistake that made possible the atrocities of the 20th century.
00:31:14.000He said he favored a diverse pool of applicants selected on merit.
00:31:18.000So that Inarguable fact, which is that when you use affirmative action, you are treating people based on group characteristic rather than individual merit, which is inarguable.
00:31:27.000It is literally the purpose of affirmative action.
00:31:29.000The purpose of affirmative action is that black people historically were discriminated against.
00:31:33.000Therefore, we must affirmatively discriminate in favor of black people and applications in order to rectify the breach.
00:31:39.000He points this out and says that this cuts directly against the notion of individual merit and judges people on the basis of group, which has a very ugly history in the 20th century.
00:31:48.000And this caused the lecture to be withdrawn.
00:31:53.000He said that his planned lecture at MIT would have made no mention of his views on affirmative action, but his opponents in the sciences argued he represented a, quote, infuriating, inappropriate, and oppressive choice.
00:32:03.000On September 30th, MIT reversed course.
00:32:05.000The head of its Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences department called off Dr. Abbott's lecture to be delivered to professors, grad students, and the public, including some top black and Latino high school students.
00:32:14.000Robert Vanderhilst, the head of the department at MIT, said, quote, besides freedom of speech, we have the freedom to pick the speaker who best fits our needs.
00:32:24.000Ever more fraught arguments over speech and academic freedom on American campuses have moved as a flood tide into the sciences.
00:32:30.000Biology, physics, math, all have seen fierce debates over courses, hiring and objectivity, and some on the academic left have moved to silence those who disagree on certain questions.
00:32:40.000A few fields have purged scientific terms and names, seen by some as offensive.
00:32:44.000There is a rising call for citational justice, arguing that professors and grad students should seek to cite more Black, Latino, Asian, and Native American scholars, and in some cases, refuse to acknowledge in footnotes the research of those who hold distasteful views.
00:32:59.000So you actually have major universities now deciding whether or not you're allowed to cite a scientifically useful or innovative paper based on the race of the person who wrote the... I mean, this is Soviet science.
00:33:49.000But apparently, they now want you to not cite people if those people hold outside views that you don't like.
00:33:57.000I hate to break it to these people, but literally every scientist, up until the last five minutes, disagreed with them on politics.
00:34:03.000I promise you, there are things I'm sure that Einstein said that you would disagree with, so I guess you can never cite Einstein again.
00:34:10.000The decision by MIT, viewed as a high citadel of science in the United States, took aback some prominent scientists.
00:34:14.000Debate and argumentation, impassioned, even ferocious, is the mother's milk of science, they said.
00:34:18.000Jerry Coyne, emeritus professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Chicago, said, I thought scientists would not get on board with the denial of free speech movement.
00:34:34.000We're not going to do the best science that we can if we are constrained ideologically.
00:34:39.000No sooner had MIT cancelled his speech than Robert George, director of Princeton's James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, invited him to give the speech there on Thursday, the same day as the cancelled lecture.
00:34:49.000Dr. George says MIT has behaved disgracefully in capitulating to a politically motivated campaign that is part of a larger trend of the politicization of science.
00:34:58.000And then the story took another turn this week because David Romps, a professor of climate physics at the University of California, Berkeley, announced he would be resigning as director of the Berkeley Atmospheric Sciences Center.
00:35:07.000He said he had tried to persuade his fellow scientists and professors to invite Abbott.
00:35:11.000In my view, he said, there are some institutional principles we have to hold sacred.
00:35:14.000Okay, but apparently they did not want him to.
00:35:19.000They agreed that this scientist should not be able to speak.
00:35:24.000The controversy surrounding Dr. Abbott's cancelled talk speaks as well to a tension manifest in progressive circles between social justice and free speech.
00:35:31.000Some faculty members have come to see identity and racial inequities as more urgent than questions of muzzled speech.
00:35:37.000Phoebe Cohen is a geosciences professor and department chair at Williams College, one of many who expressed anger on Twitter at MIT's original decision to invite Dr. Abbott to speak.
00:35:46.000Cohen agreed Dr. Abbott's views reflect a broad current in American society.
00:35:50.000Ideally, she said, a university should not invite speakers who do not share its values on diversity and affirmative action.
00:35:56.000Nor was she enamored of MIT's offer to let him speak at a later date to the MIT professors.
00:36:01.000To me, the professional consequences are extremely minimal, she said.
00:36:05.000What, she was asked, of the effect on academic debate?
00:36:07.000Should the academy serve as a bastion of unfettered speech?
00:36:11.000Here is her answer, and this is everything.
00:36:12.000Quote, this idea of intellectual debate and rigor as the pinnacle of intellectualism comes from a world in which white men dominated.
00:36:27.000If the idea of intellectual debate and rigor is restricted to white people, or is a white people invention, that is the most ra- You know who agrees with that?
00:36:38.000Intellectual rigor and debate, as a pinnacle of intellectualism, if it had been up to, apparently, the people of color around the world, these things would be of very low priority.
00:37:22.000Why are you paying attention to the cultural cram downs?
00:37:24.000After all, you don't have to pay attention until you make me pay attention.
00:37:28.000You will be made, as my friend Eric Erickson suggested, you will be made to care.
00:37:33.000Hands off is not a policy that redounds to your own benefit at this point.
00:37:38.000Okay, in just a second, we'll get to the Biden administration announcing the long-awaited ability to get a vaccine if you are five years old.
00:37:46.000When I say long-awaited, I mean not all that many people were deeply concerned about it if they had checked any of the stats, but we'll get to that in just one moment.
00:37:52.000First, let's talk about another podcast you should give a listen to, the Jordan Harbinger Show.
00:37:57.000I know every day somebody tells you you have to listen to some podcast or other and most of you just kind of nod and then you forget about it, but you should check out Jordan's show.
00:38:03.000Apple named it one of its best of 2018.
00:38:05.000It is aimed at making you a better informed, more critical thinker so you can get a sense of how the world actually works and come to your own conclusions about what's happening even inside your own brain.
00:38:13.000Each episode is a conversation with a different fascinating guest.
00:38:16.000When I say there's something for everyone here, I really mean it.
00:38:18.000In one episode, Jordan talks to a hostage negotiator from the FBI who offers techniques on how to get people to like and trust you, which sounds useful and somewhat disturbing.
00:38:26.000At the same time, you should check out Jordan's conversations with people like Scott Adams, maybe Jack Schafer.
00:38:31.000Even though I don't always agree with Jordan, his interviews are always fascinating.
00:38:56.000All righty, we're gonna get into the Biden administration now pushing COVID shots on kids, which is the next step.
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00:39:28.000All righty, meanwhile, the Biden administration is preparing for COVID shots for five to 11 The White House COVID coordinator Jeff Zients, he says we now have enough shots for all of the kiddies.
00:39:44.000We have secured vaccine supply to vaccinate every child ages 5 through 11.
00:39:49.000And as soon as the vaccine is authorized by the FDA, we will begin shipping millions of doses nationwide.
00:39:59.000States, tribes, and territories are working to ensure that doses continue to be distributed efficiently and equitably across their jurisdictions.
00:40:08.000And importantly, we worked with Pfizer to modify the packaging of the pediatric doses to make it easier for pediatricians, family doctors, and other providers to provide vaccines to children.
00:40:22.000Were you concerned about your 5 to 11 year old?
00:40:24.000Because if so, I'm wondering exactly how concerned you are.
00:40:27.000It's one thing to say, you know, on the off chance that maybe my kid is going to really suffer from COVID, I'll get the vaccine.
00:40:33.000I've looked at the stats and I think that maybe the vaccine is going to be safer for my kid than the alternative of actually getting COVID.
00:40:39.000But if either of these things is like deeply worrying you on a serious level, You should just understand that according to Martin McCary of Johns Hopkins, 10 to 20 kids total across the entire pandemic have died.
00:40:48.000I'm talking not between 5 and 11, I'm talking between 0 and 18 have died without serious pre-existing conditions in the United States over the entire course of the pandemic.
00:42:07.000I mean, they'll be vaccinated, all the kids will be vaccinated, we'll have slowed the spread, my kid will be immune, and everything will be hunky-dory.
00:42:14.000Dr. Rochelle Walensky of the CDC announced yesterday that even after your kids are vaccinated, your five-year-olds, who should not be masked in schools anyway, okay, let's face it, there is no data, none, that masking five-year-olds has been effective in lowering the hospitalization and death rate There is zero evidence that kids need to be masked in schools.
00:42:35.000There are many countries that do not mask small children in schools, including Great Britain and all of the Nordic countries.
00:42:44.000This belief, this religious belief that slapping a cloth mask on a five-year-old somehow is going to protect them from the disease is unsupportable by any of the available data right now.
00:43:27.000Seeing faces is very critical for, I mean, it's amazing how we just threw out the actual science on this.
00:43:32.000The neuroscience on this is absolutely clear.
00:43:34.000Seeing faces for children is really, really important.
00:43:37.000There are all sorts of orphanage studies from places like Romania and China demonstrating that when kids in developmental stages do not see faces, it actually damages them.
00:43:44.000But we've pretended for a year and a half like that's not the case, because the American Psychological Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics has decided to just mirror whatever the leftist priority of the day is.
00:43:53.000Here's Rochelle Walensky announcing that even if you get your kid the jab, your kid still can't take off the mask.
00:44:04.000And there are people all over the United States on health boards for schools who have taken the position that literally there is no metric by which the masks will ever be removed.
00:44:14.000They cannot tell you at what point the risk is low enough for the mask to be removed from your kid.
00:44:18.000Here's Rochelle Walensky doing this routine yesterday.
00:44:21.000We will be working to scale up pediatric vaccination.
00:44:26.000And as I just noted, as we head into these winter months, we know we cannot be complacent.
00:44:31.000We also know that previous data that schools that have had masks in place were three and a half times less likely to have school outbreaks requiring school closure.
00:44:42.000So right now we are going to continue to recommend masks in all schools for all people in those schools.
00:44:53.000I know there are a lot of people out there, even on the central right, who are saying, well, you know, if I get my kid jabbed, then maybe they'll leave us alone.
00:44:57.000They're never going to leave you alone.
00:44:58.000The not leaving you alone is the point.
00:45:38.000When they talk about vaccinating kids, I have no trust, by the way, they're not going to try and make this mandatory.
00:45:44.000I got in a bit of a tiff yesterday with Yair Rosenberg online because he was angry at me for pointing out that very few kids had died from COVID.
00:45:53.000And thus, the notion that you should be panicked about making sure your kid gets a shot in the same way that you were about your 75-year-old father, mother, or grandparent getting the shot was very silly.
00:46:03.000Like, I wanted to make sure that my grandparents got the shot, my grandmothers got the shot, like ASAP.
00:46:07.000I wanted to make sure that my parents got the shot ASAP.
00:46:09.000Didn't care about my kids getting the shot because I can actually read a risk chart.
00:46:13.000But he was saying, well, yeah, but you know, you shouldn't discourage people from getting the vaccine.
00:46:41.000My five-year-old's sick all the time because he's five.
00:46:44.000And if grandma's really that immunocompromised, then she should be socially distancing from my kids regardless because kids are little disease bags.
00:47:14.000And so long as it's never going to happen, they'll continue maintaining this stuff.
00:47:17.000Because the great danger to them Is that it is proved once and for all that government cannot fix all of your problems, not even the biggest problems like disease.
00:47:25.000Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with an additional hour of content coming up soon.