Ep. 1044 - Dismantling John Oliver's Ridiculous Trans Propaganda
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Summary
A panel of non-binary and trans people on a college campus discuss my film, What is a Woman? , and the conversation is as great as it sounds. Plus, colorblind casting is apparently back in style again, as long as it excludes white people.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, John Oliver goes on the attack to defend so-called trans rights.
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His monologue on the subject is supposed to be a sort of definitive takedown of the conservative
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position. We'll go through it piece by piece today to see if it lives up to the hype. Obviously,
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it doesn't. Also, a panel of non-binary and trans people on a college campus discuss my film,
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What is a Woman? And the conversation is as great as it sounds. Plus, colorblind casting is
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apparently back in style again, as long as it excludes white people, of course. In our daily
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cancellation, outrage and controversy erupt over my comments about anime. Will I backtrack or
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spitefully double down on an issue that doesn't really matter to me one way or another? We'll
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Go to expressvpn.com slash Walsh to learn more. All right. So last week, Jon Stewart devoted an
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episode of his little watched Apple TV show to the subject of so-called transgender rights. It was his
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attempt to hit back against those transphobic extremists who believe that human biology exists.
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Now, Stewart, like so many other aging leftists, is a recent convert to gender ideology. Sometime in the
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last few years, he decided that women can have penises and men can have babies. He didn't explain
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his conversion. We don't know if there was a road to Damascus moment wherein a pregnant man appeared
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to him and unveiled the secrets of the universe or if he experienced some other sort of vision.
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But he did apologize for his past acknowledgement of scientific reality. He regrets it deeply,
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and he's pledged to never make the same mistake again. Stewart's efforts to debunk biology
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consisted primarily of him smirking at clips of people saying common sense things.
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Stewart, of course, belongs to that school of political debate, which teaches that
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a smarmy grin and a laugh track qualify as a counterargument. He's not the only one to employ
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this strategy. His understudy, John Oliver, who hosts a slightly more popular but still
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little watched show on HBO, has also made a career out of this same tactic. Oliver has earned a
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reputation on the left for thoroughly demolishing conservative arguments, a reputation that is
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relatively easy for him to maintain because nobody actually watches his show to find out if it's
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accurate or not. If they did, they would see that his manner of demolishing an argument is to deliver
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a series of the most standard and banal left-wing talking points imaginable, couched in lies and
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half-truths. But these rants apparently still count as an epic smackdown because Oliver is extremely
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snide. I mean, even more snide than your usual leftist. And he peppers in a few lame punchlines,
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plenty of vulgarity, and also has a British accent. Indeed, the tagline of Oliver's show could be,
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and for all I know is, last week tonight with John Oliver, the same stuff you hear on MSNBC except
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British and with the F word. On Sunday, Oliver decided to follow his mentor's lead and bring his
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brand of snide propagandizing to the trans debate. He spent 30 minutes addressing what he describes as,
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quote, attacks on transgender rights. And the left ensures us that the entire segment is a brilliant,
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breathtaking, bulletproof defense of their position and a devastating takedown of the other side.
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The same was promised of Jon Stewart's attempt a week prior only to discover that the devastating
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takedown was the rhetorical equivalent of an overinflated balloon. It only took the slightest
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pinprick to burst the whole thing. So does Oliver fare any better? Yes, they're both named John.
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They're both wildly overrated. They're both insufferable, smug little Muppets who imagine
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themselves to be about 65 IQ points smarter than they really are. But does that mean that they will
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fail both of them miserably in their attempts to engage with critics of gender ideology? Well,
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the answer, of course, is yes. But don't take my word for it. I will go through now John Oliver's
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segment piece by piece so that you can see for yourself. Oliver begins by calling out the, I don't
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know, one or two Democrats in the country who are not yet fully committed members of the gender
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ideology cult. And we'll start there as well. There are many on the left who seem at best reluctant
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to engage on this issue and at worst outright hostile to it, either complaining about pronoun police
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or arguing that this issue will cost Democrats elections.
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If you go to the middle of the country, people would say, if your conversation during a presidential
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election is about some guy wearing a dress and whether he, she or it can go to and go to the
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locker room with their daughter, that's not a winning formula for most people.
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Wow. It. Michael Bloomberg can all the way off with that. But also, while this fun sized billionaire
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is clearly good at a lot of things like making money and end of list, maybe don't take advice
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on a winning formula for elections from a man who spent over a billion dollars of his own money
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Now, first of all, it is the grammatically correct gender neutral pronoun. A human being who is neither male
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nor female, if such a creature existed, which it doesn't, would indeed be an it. It is a singular pronoun,
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whereas they, in most cases, is a pronoun that indicates multiple individuals. Now, is it dehumanizing?
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Yes, obviously it is. But a person who rejects their male or female identity has already dehumanized themselves
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or itself. To be human is to be male or female. There are no other options. If you reject that, then you
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reject your humanity. You have dehumanized yourself. Also, as far as Michael Bloomberg goes,
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Michael Bloomberg goes, yes, his presidential campaign was an abysmal and often hilarious failure.
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We can agree on that. But the list of things that he's good at actually extends beyond simply making
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money, as Oliver claims. Here's one other highlight on Michael Bloomberg's resume. When he was mayor of
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New York, the city was actually livable. And ever since far left or farther left Democrats anyway took
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over, it has been a dystopian crime-ridden hellscape. And I think that's worth noting. It's also worth
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noting that John Oliver is so thoroughly wrong about everything all the time that he just forced me to
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defend Michael Bloomberg. I already feel like I need to take a shower. We've only made it about a
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Let's also remember that it's not actually the left talking about trans rights nonstop.
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It's Republicans who see an advantage in demagoguing this issue. And to ignore them doing that
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is to allow them to have real calamitous impacts on people's lives. A few years ago,
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Vice profiled a girl named Kai Shapley. And just watch how happy she is talking about her hopes for a
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future until she remembers something that changes her mood.
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What would you change about the world if you were a president?
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Um, let trans people be free and go to the bathroom they want to go to.
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Are you able to use the girls' bathroom at school?
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No. No. And now they just put security guards up for the bathroom security or whatever?
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That is brutal. It is so dark, it's genuinely hard to watch.
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Agreed, John. I mean, it is brutal and hard to watch. That is a very young boy who has been
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convinced by his parents that he is a girl. Not only that, but he is being paraded around on camera
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and used as a political prop. He has been made not only trans, but into a trans mascot.
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Very dark indeed. Now, how do I know that the boy is not a girl? Well, because a girl is a human
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female child, and that boy is a human child, but is not female. He is male. He is a boy. If you have
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some other alternative definition for the world, girl, I'd love to hear it. In fact, nothing you
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say on this subject, John, no argument you present, no talking point you put forward has any meaning
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or any value or any significance at all if you cannot or will not define the words you're using.
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Now, here's something else I know about that boy, aside from the fact that he is one. The other thing
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I know, John, is that being a child and being confused and being raised in an environment which
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intentionally fosters confusion means that he has no real concept of what a girl is. That means that
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when he says, I am a girl, the statement doesn't mean anything. At best, he is trying to express his
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affinity for or interest in some of the things that he associates with girls, the color pink, long hair,
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dolls, whatever. None of that actually makes him a girl, John, and that's something that he needs an adult
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to explain to him. Unfortunately, all the adults in his life are just as confused as he is, or at least
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are pretending to be, just like you. Jumping ahead a bit, Oliver goes after Abigail Schreier, who's the
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author of the great book, Irreversible Damage, about the trans epidemic claiming the minds and lives of
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countless adolescent girls. But Oliver sees no issue with millions of girls suddenly all at once in unison
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deciding that they're really boys. This is perfectly normal, John Oliver insists.
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Schreier sometimes dresses her argument up by using the term rapid onset gender dysphoria, which is total
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horseshit. It comes from a study published by a researcher in 2018 hypothesizing that some kids identify as
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trans due to peer pressure. But it's worth you knowing that study was based on a survey of parents, not actual
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trans kids and targeted parents from organizations dedicated to opposing trans ideology, which is
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instantly disqualifying. It's like citing a study claiming that all postal workers are terrifying hell
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demons sent to attack your family, but then learning that the researchers only surveyed a collection of
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anxious dogs. That's some heavy sampling bias that clearly skewed your results. And to be very clear, there is ample
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evidence of gender variance throughout human history. And as far back as historians have found evidence of trans
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people, they found trans children. As for the rapid rise in kids identifying as trans, as the writer Julia
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Serrano has pointed out, when you look at a chart of left handedness among Americans over the 20th century, you see a massive spike
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when we stopped forcing kids to write with their right hand and then a plateau. That doesn't mean everyone became left handed or that
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there was a rapid onset Southpore dysphoria. It means people were free to be who they were.
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Okay. All of that is, should go without saying, nonsense. First of all, we don't need a study to tell us that rapid onset
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gender dysphoria exists any more than I need to read a study drawing a link between the proliferation of fast food and
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obesity. Such studies do exist, but people with functioning brains can draw obvious common sense conclusions without needing
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permission from a research paper to do it. Trans identification has risen 20-fold in the youngest generation.
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Even that example he gives of left handedness, which is a red herring if I've ever seen one,
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that shows what, a 6% rise over the course of decades? We're talking about 20-fold in the course
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of a few years. We went from almost nobody being confused about their gender to huge swaths of young
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people being confused about their gender. That is rapid. It is gender dysphoria. It seems that calling it
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rapid onset gender dysphoria makes a lot of sense. Oliver takes issue with the study that coins this
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phrase, questioning its credibility on the grounds that the researchers only surveyed the parents
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instead of the, quote, trans kids. Yes, because you're not likely to get a clear or accurate answer if you
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ask a child whether they're doing something because of peer pressure. See, the children also aren't fully
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cognizant of their own motivations. If you go up to a child and say, are you only doing that because
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of peer pressure? You're not likely to get a clear answer because it's a child. As a parent, you should
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be better equipped to explain your child's behavior than your child is himself. This is the insight that
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comes with age and maturity, for some of us anyway, obviously not for you, John. Oliver also says that
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the study is unreliable because the people who conducted it were allegedly biased. Now, that may or may not
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be true. I don't know anything about the study. It doesn't matter to me. I don't need the study
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to observe what I can clearly see all around me. But then John goes on through the whole rest of his
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diatribe to quote studies and experts who not only have clear left-wing biases, I mean, all of them,
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every single person that he cites as an authority, every single one has a clear left-wing bias. In that
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very same clip, at the end, he cites a left-wing activist about the left-handed thing.
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But not only that, not only do most of his authority figures have left-wing biases, they
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also have a financial stake in promoting and defending gender ideology. So he shows no concern
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for conflicts of interest in those cases. In fact, just like John Stewart, his entire defense
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of the mutilation and castration of children is that the people making money off of these procedures
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think it's a good idea. That is the entirety of his argument. He has no other argument.
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As for the, quote, ample evidence of gender variance throughout human history, well, I went
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and read the article that he cites because, you know, he puts the quotes up there on the screen.
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And what you're supposed to do is just see the quote and then say to yourself, well, he had a quote
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on the screen. It must be true. But I actually went and looked at that National Geographic
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article. And what I've found, as always, is that it points to examples from history of spiritual and
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religious practices where a man acts out the part of a woman. Okay? That is not the same as a man
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claiming to actually be a woman. It's not even close to the same. It's not even the same sort of thing.
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Unless, John, you're admitting that transgenderism today is a religious and spiritual conviction
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because those are all of the historical comparisons that you are making.
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For the thousandth time, there has never been, ever in history, not once, not anywhere,
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a culture that believed that men could literally physically be women and vice versa.
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Ours is the only civilization that has ever believed in pregnant men. There is no precedent for that in
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history anywhere. One other point. John, later in the show, cites the high rates of suicide among
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trans kids. He says that suicidal ideation is as high as 57, I believe he says 57%, almost 60%
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for quote-unquote trans kids. Now, he blames this on a lack of affirmation. He says, indeed,
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the consequence of not affirming trans kids is that many will kill themselves. He also says that
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the reason there were not millions of trans kids historically is that they were not free to be who
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they effing were. Well, according to him then, as I've pointed out many times, there should be
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historically evidence of millions and millions and millions of kids all over the world every year
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for thousands of years killing themselves. That's how you connect those dots. High rates of suicide if
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you don't affirm. There were millions and millions of trans people through history that were not
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affirmed. And yet, no such evidence exists. It didn't happen. Kids only started killing themselves
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in significant numbers now, in modern times, in correlation with the rise in trans identifications.
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So what does that tell you, John? Can you turn the laugh track down for a moment and think clearly
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about this? It's not very hard to connect the dots. We'll play one more clip. Oliver eventually
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gets around to offering a defense of so-called gender-affirming care. And let's hear what that
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sounds like. At the onset of puberty, an adolescent and their family might consider puberty blockers,
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hormones that delay puberty. And importantly, if that treatment is suspended, then puberty will resume,
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meaning that this is reversible. Think of it like a pause button, the thing you can't do easily
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Now, the next potential medical intervention is usually hormone therapy, which boosts levels
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of testosterone or estrogen. Opponents of gender-affirming care make a lot of alarmist claims about
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hormone therapy, from saying that it's experimental, which it is not, to arguing that it sterilizes
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people. And look, for some, in specific situations, there can be risks to fertility. But for others,
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the effect is anticipated to be reversible if the medication is discontinued. But there is definitely
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You will notice that none of what I've mentioned so far is surgery. But when it does come to that,
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some teens may be eligible, for instance, for top surgery or chest masculinization. But you should know,
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not only is that pretty rare, it, like all of this, would only happen after a team of medical professionals
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discussed all of its risks and benefits with their patient and their patient's parent or guardian,
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all of whom would have to sign off. It is a long, involved process, even before you get to the fact
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that it is also incredibly expensive, which is why working class families, families of color,
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and people with less resources are way less able to access it. Basically, no kid is casually dropping
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into an operating room because they just decided to get their uterus removed with impulsive recklessness
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normally associated with getting bangs. Because that is an absolutely ridiculous thing to say.
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Yes, it is a ridiculous thing to say, John, which is why nobody is saying it. You have very
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impressively torched a straw man, but let's get back to the reality. First, John claims that puberty
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blockers are totally reversible and merely put a pause on puberty. This is simply a lie. I'm not
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going to speculate about whether John Oliver is smart enough to know that it's a lie. Everything he says
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can be explained either by his idiocy or his utter lack of integrity, but it's impossible to know which
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aspect of his personality is flaring up at any given moment. What we can say is that the NHS
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used to claim that puberty blockers are reversible. They had it on their website.
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If you go to the website now, it's not there. They removed that claim from their website,
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and they now admit that, in fact, they don't really know anything about the long-term effects
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of these drugs on kids. Why don't they know? Well, because we've never put millions of physically
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healthy kids on this kind of drug regime before, so we don't know. There's no way to know for
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certain what the long-term effects are. Anyone who claims they know is lying. These kids are being
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experimented on. We don't yet have the full results of the experiment. It is ongoing right now. Yet
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common sense would tell us that all drugs have side effects, especially those that intentionally
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interfere with the natural physical development during childhood. You cannot pause the human body like
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you pause a television, John, which, by the way, it's not that hard to figure out how to pause on HBO Max.
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I'm not even sure what you're talking about. This is not science fiction, okay? Human bodies can't just
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hang out in a state of suspended animation without consequence. That's not how it works.
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Oliver then acknowledges that hormone therapy for children does sterilize them, but he just kind of hand waves
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it away and assures us that for some, sure, there are kids that are being sterilized, but for some,
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the effects of the drugs are anticipated to be reversible if the medication is discontinued in
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time. That is a lot of qualifiers. A lot of qualifiers attached to that sentence. In other words,
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yes, it permanently damages a child's body, permanently sterilizes them, but that's okay because
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sometimes, potentially, maybe, it won't harm them as much if they stop it before the worst side effects
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set in. In other words, Oliver knows that the drugs harm kids, but he doesn't care. He takes the same
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approach to mutilation surgeries on minors, assuring us that there are no genital surgeries happening to
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kids under the age of 18, which is just a lie. And then he also says that chest masculinization,
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otherwise known as double mastectomy, only happens if all the people who will make money on the
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procedure say that it should happen. This is the best defense that Oliver can offer.
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It's not only dishonest and deceptive and strikingly stupid, but also morally horrifying.
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And notice the two questions that Oliver avoids. He never grapples with the issue of consent.
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Can a child under the age of 18 actually consent to any of this? Can a 14-year-old consent to taking
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a drug that will likely sterilize him? Can a 15-year-old girl consent to having her breasts
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removed? Oliver spends 30 minutes dancing around the subject, but never once offers his own theory
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of consent. Of course he doesn't, because he doesn't want to be on the record arguing that a 14-year-old
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can consent, because he knows how horrifying and creepy and disturbing that would sound.
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But he also doesn't want to be on the record acknowledging that these things are happening to
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kids without their consent. The question of consent presents an impossible problem for his side of
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the argument, and he knows it, so he ignores it, which makes literally everything he says on the
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subject of, quote, gender-affirming care for minors irrelevant, as he is slithering around and avoiding
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one of our primary and most fundamental objections to it. But there's an even more fundamental objection,
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which he also avoids. And that is this. It is not true that a boy can be a girl, or a girl can be a
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boy. It is not true that gender is fluid. Gender ideology is false. It does not reflect the actual
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reality that we find ourselves situated in. John Oliver, like every other propagandist on that side,
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simply leaps over this point. But you can't leap over it. We're not challenging your views simply
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on the basis that it causes harm to people, though that is one of our most important objections.
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We are challenging its factual validity. Okay? We are saying that it is not true. And so,
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if you have any hope of even coming close to debunking any of our arguments, you must begin
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by defending the fundamental proposition that a male can be a woman and a female can be a man.
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If you skip that question, then you skip the whole debate, John. Just as people skip your show on HBO
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Max. Because unlike you, apparently, they're smart enough to work a remote. The pause button is right
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there in the middle for future reference. Now, let's get to our five headlines.
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All right, I want to start with this because this just, it makes me happy. I was very annoyed to start
00:26:12.940
the show, which is why I went on for, if I start the show annoyed, then I'm going to go on for 25
00:26:16.220
minutes. But this I like. So YAF has this video that they posted yesterday. There was a panel
00:26:22.080
discussion at St. Louis University, SLU as they apparently call it. And you may remember St.
00:26:28.780
Louis University because that's where I gave a speech last spring, and there were huge protests
00:26:37.120
outside and all the rest of it. They really didn't want me there. And they've kind of been,
00:26:43.380
from what I understand, ever since my appearance there, they've really been grappling with the fact
00:26:48.340
that I was allowed to be there. And the trauma from my visit still has not worn off. I mean,
00:26:54.380
people are still devastated and traumatized by it. So yesterday at St. Louis University,
00:26:58.600
they had a panel discussion featuring trans and quote, unquote, non-binary people.
00:27:03.660
And during this discussion, a line was uttered that is perhaps, in my opinion,
00:27:09.600
the greatest thing ever said during a panel discussion, though I am biased and you'll see
00:27:16.380
It was like, let's talk about these transgender topics. And it made it sound like he was a subject
00:27:22.000
matter expert or that could be even like pro-trans, but it was like, it was a trap. He was going to get
00:27:28.140
you into that room and then he was going to say a bunch of transphobic stuff. Go ahead.
00:27:31.800
You can't stop the Matt Walsh. Like you can't stop them. I think you can only pour in as much
00:27:38.680
That's true. Okay. Can we stop? Just pause there for a second.
00:27:41.580
You can't stop the Matt Walsh. What makes that so good? If he had just said you can't stop Matt
00:27:46.280
Walsh, that would be great. But he said, you can't stop the Matt Walsh. And for some reason,
00:27:51.260
the the in that sentence makes it so much better. You can't stop the Matt Walsh. We need to get that
00:27:55.360
on a t-shirt that needs to be in the merch store tomorrow. You can't stop the Matt Walsh. And in
00:28:01.220
fact, fact check true. Fact checkers have looked into that claim and have found that it is actually
00:28:06.540
accurate. You can't stop the Matt Walsh. I also want to mention, but right before that, it's the
00:28:10.120
other person as I assume talking about what is a woman and says that, well, we laid a trap and got
00:28:17.320
people in the room and started saying a bunch of transphobic stuff. Well, anyone who's watched the
00:28:22.060
film knows that that's nonsense. I didn't all I said to that. I asked questions. I didn't present
00:28:29.300
any arguments at all, actually, to any of these people. So saying transphobic stuff apparently
00:28:36.120
equals asking questions. And all of the questions, of course, we ask in the film all really just boil
00:28:43.140
down to what are you saying? Like they're saying things and then all of my questions really come down
00:28:50.600
to what does that mean? What you're telling me right now, explain what that means. I'm trying
00:28:56.260
to understand it. I want to understand it. That's transphobic. I don't know what else is in this
00:29:02.600
clip, but we've already heard the best of it. But let's play a little bit more.
00:29:06.840
We're talking about people who, no matter what it is they think that they know or what it is that
00:29:13.720
they're ignorant about. That ignorance or that lack of information or the misinformation is leading
00:29:20.760
them to a place where they are afraid of trans people because they're afraid of what trans people
00:29:26.700
existing might mean for them and their worldview. Whether the woman, you know, as far as trans
00:29:33.460
experience goes, what does it mean for, you know, cisgender women and trans women or trans men
00:29:39.060
and the TERFs and everything because a lot of the times. TERF, really quickly, uh, it's an
00:29:43.700
acronym for Trans Exclusive Radical Feminism. T-E-R-F. So feminists who, in their
00:29:50.980
place for feminism, will exclude trans folks at best and at worst be like trans folks are impeding
00:29:57.460
on like women's, cis women's safety. Or it would be a situation of you being intimidated by my look
00:30:05.540
and the fact that I have a nice physique. It's just for me, a lot of the times, I know from my
00:30:11.380
personal experience. Right. Okay. Let's pause that. Or don't pause it. Stop it altogether.
00:30:18.100
Yeah. Oh, that explains, right? That's, um, that is how you explain that these people are so good
00:30:23.780
at lying to themselves and telling themselves the most flattering lies they've possibly
00:30:27.440
can. So according to this person, all of our objections to, uh, gender ideology all boiled
00:30:33.860
down to the fact that we're intimidated, we're intimidated by his, was that a trans, was that a
00:30:41.240
trans person? His looks? That's, you're, I'm so good looking. That's what, uh, you're just intimidated
00:30:48.740
by that. No, the fear, see, see, the fear is not on our end.
00:30:57.440
This is what they love to do. They love to accuse us of, uh, we're, we're, we're afraid of
00:31:01.020
trans people. We're, we're, we're just trembling in fear. So we're the ones afraid. Meanwhile, if I go
00:31:09.980
to a college campus, you, you are, you are outside screaming with tears streaming down your face.
00:31:17.860
You don't even want me to show up. You're trying to stop me from even being there. And I'm the one
00:31:21.440
afraid. I am trying to go to a place and you were saying, you don't even want me in your physical
00:31:27.140
vicinity. I'm afraid. No, you're afraid. You're terrified. You're terrified of me. Maybe it's
00:31:35.700
because I'm good looking. Maybe that's also part of the, part of the, part of what's going on,
00:31:39.320
you know, going into this. You want to date me? I don't know. But what I certainly know is that
00:31:45.360
you're afraid of the questions. You're afraid of the ideas. So all of the, you know, trying to shut
00:31:52.900
down conversation, shut down discussion, all of that happens on the left. When it comes to gender
00:31:58.780
ideology, we're on the right. We're not doing any of that. Now we will say that, uh, we don't want
00:32:04.860
discussion of this in like a kindergarten classroom. You know why? Because that's not a discussion.
00:32:10.940
That's indoctrination. The kindergartners that are sitting there, they're not going to be equipped
00:32:15.520
to respond and ask skeptical questions and debate you, which is why you want to relegate these
00:32:23.140
conversations to those kinds of environments where you're talking to people who are not able
00:32:27.900
to contradict you. So yeah, you want to bring gender ideology up in an environment where you know
00:32:34.480
no one's going to ask any skeptical questions. No one's going to make you explain yourself.
00:32:38.260
Um, there's not going to be any debate whatsoever.
00:32:42.480
As far as an actual discussion, it's like, we're the ones trying to engage you in that.
00:32:50.220
All right. So here's another clip that I wanted to play for you. Uh, Colin Wright has this on,
00:32:57.840
on Twitter. He posted this. It says, in Matt Walsh's documentary, he confronted surgeon Marcy Bowers
00:33:02.740
about the logical parallels between surgery justified on the basis of gender dysphoria
00:33:07.300
versus body integrity disorder or body integrity dysphoria. Um, Bowers dismissed the latter claim
00:33:15.260
as kooky, but WPATH standards of care now include BID, body integrity disorder. So then he's got this
00:33:22.720
video, which, um, contrasts that scene in the film with what a presenter at WPATH now says about, uh,
00:33:30.620
this subject. And by the way, Marcy Bowers is the incoming president of WPATH. I think is now
00:33:36.600
officially the president. So, you know, I was told that comparing these two things is totally off the
00:33:45.300
wall. You can't do that. Um, and yet here's what they said at WPATH. And this was just a few weeks
00:33:51.700
ago. Let's watch the clip. I don't know if you've ever heard of people in the trans abled community.
00:33:57.740
These are people who are physically able-bodied, but feel like they should be disabled or identify
00:34:04.540
as such. There are others who have a feeling that their genitals are not a part of their proper part
00:34:10.900
of their body, body integrity dysphoria. Uh, for example, a man who has two arms, but feels like he
00:34:17.060
should have one. If, uh, if a man in this kind of marginalized community was, went to the doctor
00:34:22.300
and said, I want to have my arm cut off. Do you think that that doesn't have anything to do with
00:34:27.760
gender identity? Uh, this is in the SOC-8. It's also an ICD-11. It's classification 621, or 6C-21.
00:34:38.700
Uh, so it's, it's there in the ICD as well as the standards of care. Well, it's, uh, someone's,
00:34:45.160
someone's self-identity has someone identified. That's someone who has a, um, a, and I'll accept
00:34:53.280
it as a mental diagnosis, a psychiatric condition. I don't even pretend to know what
00:34:59.160
aptomenophilia is all about, but somehow it's the idea that you, you know, you're fascinated or
00:35:04.580
charmed by having a limb or part of a limb missing. Okay. I would say that's, uh, pardon my non-medical
00:35:13.500
language. Kooky. They desire to be not male, to be emasculated, but don't want to be female
00:35:20.920
either. They have a male to unique gender dysphoria, now part of the SOC-8. You don't see any? You
00:35:30.740
think this is totally irrelevant? Yeah. But I am the first trans-feminine person
00:35:38.160
to be elected president of WPATH, and it's 43 years ago.
00:35:42.980
So there you go. So it went from, uh, we did an interview with Bowers, I don't know,
00:35:50.820
in September. And so less than a year, you know, that's, that's how quickly we're on this,
00:35:57.100
uh, slippery slope here is that it took less than a year for that to go from kooky, irrelevant
00:36:02.400
and kooky to, oh yeah, totally legitimate. That's, uh, it's, it's all part of the same,
00:36:07.120
it's all under the same umbrella now, they admit. That if you want to, because of course it is,
00:36:12.480
of course it is. If we're supposed to take someone's self-identity seriously, as I try to
00:36:17.720
explain, they're taking someone's self-identity seriously. It's how they self-identify. It's their
00:36:21.180
truth. If that's the precedent we're setting, then on what basis can we tell someone that they're
00:36:25.540
wrong? If someone identifies as disabled, they want to have their leg chopped off.
00:36:28.920
And they say that, you know, they feel like that's how they're supposed to be. They're
00:36:32.620
supposed to only have one leg. It doesn't make any sense. What do you mean you're supposed to
00:36:36.780
have one leg? Well, it makes as much sense, at least as a man saying he's supposed to be a woman.
00:36:45.000
It actually makes more sense. See, that's the thing. It's, it's, that's one of the problems with
00:36:48.820
the slippery slope. And I, I use the term too, but it's not exactly accurate because it makes it sound
00:36:53.320
like there's this kind of logical progression or regression in this case, where we go from a,
00:37:00.260
you know, one thing to a, to a slightly more extreme thing to slightly more extreme on down
00:37:04.140
the way. But oftentimes what you find is that we go directly to the most extreme thing. And then we
00:37:08.660
kind of circle back and cover all the bases that we skipped. So the legitimizing body integrity
00:37:16.840
disorder, legitimizing someone's claim that they're supposed to have one leg or they're supposed to
00:37:23.220
be a eunuch, that is crazy. Okay. That is perverse and insane, but it is, it still makes more sense
00:37:34.720
than the claim that a man is supposed to be a woman.
00:37:38.040
It makes more sense because it is at least, you know, it's, it's, if you're, if you have two legs
00:37:45.120
as a man, you can become a one-legged man. That is possible. You, that's, that is a possible thing
00:37:50.900
that can happen. It happens to many men. Um, whereas there is nothing, if you're a man that could ever
00:37:57.620
make you a woman, it's impossible. It is impossibility. So it's the difference between identifying,
00:38:04.120
it's the difference between identifying some, identifying as something that is possible
00:38:09.140
versus identifying as something that is impossible. So we, we went to the most extreme thing
00:38:16.820
and now everything else that happens that we consider to be sort of, uh, down the slippery slope
00:38:22.020
is actually further up the slippery slope, not further down. All right. We got to do sort of an
00:38:28.900
abbreviated five headlines because I spent so much time on John Oliver, but
00:38:33.020
we've got another John that's causing a problem today. I also wanted to mention this. This is from
00:38:37.600
the Daily Mail. It says John Leguizamo. It's not been a great couple of weeks for Johns. John Leguizamo
00:38:43.680
has slammed the all white cast of Super Mario Brothers, uh, the new film that's coming out and
00:38:49.340
the lack of Latinx leads on, uh, he said this on Saturday, the actor 62 who played Luigi in the 1993
00:38:55.800
live action film critiqued the casting choices as the film sees Chris Pratt take on the iconic role of the
00:39:02.260
Italian plumber Mario. Following the release of the first trailer for the upcoming film,
00:39:07.060
John voiced his concerns while praising the groundbreaking colorblind casting of the original.
00:39:15.400
So glad Super Mario Bros. is getting a reboot. Obviously it's iconic, but too bad they went all
00:39:23.200
white. No Latinx in the leads. Groundbreaking colorblind casting in the original. Plus I'm
00:39:29.460
the only one who knows how to make this movie work script wise. Latinx is a term that is intended to
00:39:35.180
be gender neutral. Okay, we know that. He attached three screenshots of himself as Luigi and Bob Hoskins,
00:39:40.260
who played Mario for the 1993 film. In the photo caption, he wrote, apologize to this movie right
00:39:45.600
now. Okay, so his, his real problem is that just, he's not being cast in the film and he has, he's
00:39:51.660
somehow convinced himself that the original Super Mario Brothers film was some sort of iconic
00:39:58.100
masterpiece and he made the script work. Now there's, there's like nothing that can make the script
00:40:03.920
work in that film or in this one, by the way. I mean, it is a, a film based on a video game
00:40:11.320
about Italian plumbers who are in some sort of hallucinogenic state and have magical powers and
00:40:20.340
are fighting oversized turtles. So like there's, there's really nothing that can happen that can
00:40:24.920
make that script make any sense at all. But he seems to imagine that, uh, that that's what he did.
00:40:29.600
But, but here's the, here's the real point about this. It's just shows how these, it's just the,
00:40:35.220
the, it's fruitless and hopeless to point out the hypocrisy, but I still, I can't help but do it.
00:40:41.520
Because John Liguizamo, just a few weeks ago, was taking issue with the, uh, casting of James Franco
00:40:50.340
as Fidel Castro. And his issue, then he called for a boycott of the upcoming Fidel Castro
00:40:55.800
biopic, which is by the way, I'll be boycotting it just, uh, by default because I have no interest
00:41:02.160
in watching a biopic about Fidel Castro. That's not his problem with it. And he agrees with Fidel
00:41:06.700
Castro politically, but he doesn't want to see Fidel Castro besmirched and degraded by having a
00:41:12.240
white guy betray him. He said that there should be, there should be quote, latinx person betraying
00:41:16.540
Fidel Castro. So that, that was his criticism for the Castro film is that there shouldn't be a white
00:41:21.600
guy because you need to make the ethnicities accurate, need to reflect, you know, the character
00:41:27.100
that they're portraying. But then on this one, he has the exact opposite criticism. So his problem
00:41:34.400
with Fidel Castro film is that they did colorblind casting. His problem for Mario is that it's,
00:41:41.400
is that it's not colorblind casting. So what is his real issue here? His real issue is just with
00:41:48.320
hiring white people to act in films. That's it. He just doesn't like seeing white people in films
00:41:52.760
because he is a raging, despicable racist. All right, let's get now to the comment section.
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00:43:14.260
cosmetic and beauty companies that we talked about to start the show yesterday, says they're not
00:43:18.760
marketing to women, Matt. They're marketing to men who have to buy a lot of makeup because they
00:43:22.800
have to cake on so much. You're right. It is a minstrel show. By the way, I have to say, and I wish I
00:43:28.080
could take credit for this, but I saw somebody on Twitter, I don't remember who, but someone on Twitter
00:43:31.260
yesterday said that this woman-faced performance of men dressing up like women, I called it a
00:43:39.020
minstrel show, but the better term for it would be minstrel show, and that is brilliant. I so wish
00:43:46.140
that I had thought of it that I could steal it, but I can't in good conscience because it's so good,
00:43:49.220
but I will be using it from now on. So it is a minstrel show. Now, you say that they're marketing
00:43:54.700
to men and not to women, but that's why you're wrong. See, that's the point. That's what makes all of
00:43:59.040
this all the more outrageous and absurd is that they are still marketing to women.
00:44:03.960
Ulta Beauty and Revlon and CoverGirl and all the rest of them that have bought into this,
00:44:13.020
to what they called yesterday the degenderization, they are still, even though they're using male
00:44:18.820
mascots now and they're bringing men in to pontificate about the beauty of girlhood,
00:44:25.060
quote-unquote, they are still marketing to women. If they didn't have women customers,
00:44:31.580
they would all go under. There are not enough gender-bending males out there to keep any of
00:44:37.560
these makeup companies in business, and there never will be. There never will be, and they know that.
00:44:45.060
So it's not just that their core customer base consists of women, but that's still pretty much,
00:44:50.380
in effect, their only customer base. And yet, they are intentionally alienating and degrading and
00:45:01.200
demeaning their customer base for the sake of scoring woke points. And I don't know if it's so
00:45:09.280
much that they are willing to lose money. I think it's more that they're confident they won't.
00:45:14.340
It's not going to gain them anything, but they figure, well, we can virtue signal to the woke left and
00:45:18.660
earn some points that way, and we can keep the pitchfork mob from coming after us.
00:45:23.540
But, you know, the customers will just deal with it. Even if they don't like it, they'll still buy
00:45:27.880
from us. And that's where it's up to the customers to prove them wrong. All right. Aaron says,
00:45:36.280
I feel like there's a chance Matt will complain so much about watching the WNBA game. Then when he
00:45:40.940
gets there, he'll have an amazing time and become a lifelong fan. I would not put any money on that bet,
00:45:46.260
Aaron. Now, you know, granted, like almost every other American, I've never watched a WNBA game.
00:45:56.420
So I guess I can't say for sure that I won't enjoy it. But I hope you don't put too much money on that
00:46:02.580
on that's a wager. Tom says, I'm a 70 kilogram person, and it makes me so angry that I'd have to
00:46:09.580
pay extra for bags. But a 120 kilogram person is allowed the same weight of bags as I am and is
00:46:15.840
allowed to take over my personal space. I agree with you, but please stop using those fake British
00:46:20.580
measuring units. Okay. They're called pounds. I don't know what this kilogram stuff is. This is
00:46:25.640
America. We speak American here. Tom. Lagoon JL says, Matt, I feel a trend coming on where you tend to
00:46:33.540
agree to terms, not wholeheartedly thinking about the consequences. For example, the interpretive
00:46:37.960
dance fiasco. I still feel cheated. And now the WNBA bet, the old saying rings true. Don't let your
00:46:43.500
mouth write checks that your ass can't cash. Have fun at the game. Still love and honor you SBG for
00:46:49.240
life. Yet that's not a trend that's developing or coming on. That is the story of my life. I will
00:46:55.980
basically agree to anything if it's more than one week away, because if it's more than one week in the
00:47:02.220
future, I'll just agree to it. Somebody could come up to me and say, hey, Matt, in two months,
00:47:07.060
I was wondering if you want me to come and shoot you directly in the head. And I would just
00:47:12.620
absentmindedly look up and say, two months? Yeah, sure. Go ahead. But just put it on my Google
00:47:16.720
calendar and I'll, yeah, that's fine. Yeah. Okay. The future isn't real to me. I don't know. It's
00:47:22.540
the curse of a procrastinator. This is how we work. We work in the present and the future is just,
00:47:28.340
it's an abstraction. It's an idea. That's all. Time is a flat circle. I don't know.
00:47:34.160
Red Nick Roy says, if Matt tells his wife he's leaving for the night for a WNBA game,
00:47:38.500
she's going to think he's having an affair. In my case, no, because she's, my wife is used to me
00:47:44.480
doing totally bizarre things that involve me leaving the house sometimes for extended periods
00:47:49.760
of time. I mean, keep in mind, I had to have the conversation with my wife last year at some point
00:47:53.780
that I want to go to a third world country on a 26 hour plane ride to go talk to primitive
00:48:00.740
tribesmen about transgenderism. Like that's, that's a conversation I had to broach with her
00:48:05.080
and it's, and it's a, it's a conversation that we had. So that's what she's, those are the kinds
00:48:10.580
of ideas she's used to hearing from me. And finally, Forklift Certified Gentleman says,
00:48:15.740
Bubba Wallace acts like someone who's named Bubba. I totally disagree. And that's actually one of my
00:48:23.080
biggest problems with Bubba Wallace is that I think he's a disgrace to the name Bubba. I don't,
00:48:28.640
when I think of Bubba, I don't think of this whiny, attention starved guy who's also always
00:48:36.120
complaining about being a victim. Like when you think of a Bubba, you think of someone who sees
00:48:40.280
a garage door pull and collapses onto the ground in a fetal position and starts weeping. That's what
00:48:47.580
you think of when you, when you hear the name Bubba. I don't know, not me. That's a, don't try to put that
00:48:53.140
on all Bubbas everywhere. That is not fair. Well, if you know me, you know how much I love
00:48:57.920
Halloween and how excited I am to dress up for the holiday. Now I may have to settle for a run
00:49:04.000
of the mill superhero costume. That's, you know, that's my default every year. Just pull out the
00:49:08.720
Batman costume, but there's still hope for you. This year I will be going as my favorite anime
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character. But this Halloween, you could be the star of the year's breakout hit documentary,
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What is a Woman? That's right. You can head over to dailywire.com slash shop and check out my
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collection to get your very own Matt Walsh Halloween costume. As you know, they did all
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this without my consent or approval and they have put my likeness out there and my very identity is
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now being appropriated as a costume. And that's okay because we're making some money off of it. I
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have principles after all. So be sure to post on social media and tag me in the Daily Wire to show
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off your costume. You might even make it on the show. Remember, not all heroes wear capes. This
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one wears a sandwich board. Also, the Daily Wire is hiring. Oh, come on. The Daily Wire is hiring a
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senior vice president of marketing, analytics, data, and operations. Wow. That's a lot of responsibility.
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I'm told that this is a high profile executive role with paid relocation to Nashville. This innovator
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will design, hire, and oversee a world-class marketing data analytics team that is built atop the
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marketing data stack from CRM platforms to multi-touch attribution tools to propensity targeting
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models. This leader will, for example, study which Daily Wire shows and films most interest the fans
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and also which Daily Wire host is the most annoying. So if you understand what a full marketing data and
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analytics stack is, head over to dailywire.com slash careers now to apply. Please, dear God. Someone
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just applied for this damn job. Now let's get to our daily cancellation.
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Yesterday on the show, I briefly mentioned a controversy that had at the time only recently
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started simmering. It was a controversy surrounding comments made by the humble host of this very
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podcast. And if you've been paying attention at all, you know that when my comments spark
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controversy, it's always because I have broached a very important subject and raised an issue of
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urgent national importance, such as, of course, the backlash over my advocacy for the rights of
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translucent mermaids. The topic this time around isn't quite that serious, but almost. So as I
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detailed yesterday during an all-access live chat this past Friday, I was asked to give my opinion on
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the subject of anime. And I spent about 35 seconds on the subject in which I stated that from my vantage
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point, anime is satanic. Now I acknowledge that I have no argument to support that view. I have no perhaps
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reason or justification for it. It is rather, as the kids say, a vibe. Anime has a satanic vibe.
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That's all. Have I ever seen anime? Do I even know exactly what anime is? These questions aren't
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relevant. All that matters is that, as I said in response to a live question someone asked, anime is
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the work of the devil. That's my truth that I live in every day. Now there are some who might assume
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that this comment was simply a half-assed, off-the-cuff joke about cartoons, and that's all. Now there are
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some who might observe that I've also argued for cyclists to be imprisoned. I've said that people who
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leave their shopping carts in the parking lot are morally equivalent to serial killers and should be
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executed on the spot. I've called for legislation outlawing small talk in elevators and the use of
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emojis by males over the age of 18. I even spent three months on this show attacking my own employer
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over his refusal to give me a giant stuffed walrus. So you might assume that my theories about anime's
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satanic origins should be taken in the same spirit as all those other sorts of comments. And you're
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right, because I'm totally serious about all of it. It's good then that social media took it with the
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seriousness that it was intended. I was one of the top trending subjects on Twitter nationwide yesterday,
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again, this time due to my controversial stance on anime. A great many accounts with anime avatars
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expressed their hurt and anger over my opinion, leading me to believe that maybe I was wrong about
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anime causing demonic possession. Maybe it actually just causes you to become an extremely whiny dork.
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That's another theory. Meanwhile, the news media jumped into action. My randomly muttered hot take
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about anime made it into the headlines of several major news outlets. Yahoo News reports, Daily Wire
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troll Matt Walsh denounces anime as satanic, though he doesn't know why. Denounces. I denounced it.
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Mediaite says, Matt Walsh declares anime satanic, but admits he's not sure why. The Independent says,
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Matt Walsh says he thinks all anime is satanic and adults shouldn't be watching cartoons.
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Newsweek takes a slightly different angle. They say, Daily Wire host who called anime satanic
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blasted by real satanists. Oh, well, if real satanists are angry about it, then I guess I'm
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more right than I ever realized. So I can now, with more confidence than ever, say that I stand by my
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comments, obviously. Anime is satanic and it leads to demonic possession in upwards of 87% of cases,
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studies show. Recent reports suggest that half, listen to this, listen to this, half of all Pokemon
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fans will become mass murderers. The other half will also become mass murderers. If any of my critics
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had ever studied history, they would know that Adolf Hitler, Genghis Khan, Caligula, all were anime fans
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or would have been if it existed. In fact, and this statistic is the most shocking of all. I want you
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to listen closely to this. Nearly 100% of all violent criminals in the country have seen Dragon Ball Z
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or have heard of it or know someone who has seen or heard of it. The numbers speak for themselves.
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Though in fairness, there is perhaps no reason to single out Japanese animation in this way.
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Sure, it's especially weird and unsettling, but it's from Japan after all, so what do you expect?
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Really though, every cartoon is satanic. That's the only clarification that I'll offer here.
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Every cartoon is satanic. Look at Paw Patrol, for example. Talking dogs with dead, lifeless eyes who
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engage in all manner of sorcery. The whole town of Adventure Bay cowers in fear under the tyrannical
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regime of these beasts. Even the mayor, who's really a figurehead, obeys their every whim.
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There are no checks and balances in this system. The Paw Patrol are given free reign to be judge,
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jury, and potentially executioners. Now, when you consider that scripture often uses wolves to
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symbolize the forces of evil, you begin to see in the Paw Patrol a sort of perverse satanic fable.
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And this is still one of the tamer shows. What about Cocomelon? A bizarre, deranged,
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plotless, hypnotic spectacle which places toddlers into an insensible, trance-like state where they
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mutter incantations, summoning dark forces that they don't understand? These are yet more cartoon-related
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opinions that I am seriously stating and which I hope will be taken as seriously as I mean them.
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Of course, hypothetically, as a thought experiment, if you were to pretend for a moment that with my
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infamous anime commentary I was actually just making a random spur-of-the-moment joke about a
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subject that I really don't care about at all, and that Media Matters is creating a controversy over
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something that I forgot I even said 45 seconds after I said it, then in this alternate universe,
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one might make the following observation. It is sad that we live in a culture where you can't speak
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off the cuff or offer an opinion even ironically or in jest or only half seriously without it being
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clipped and isolated and turned without your consent into your die-hard mantra or fundamental
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belief system. I had people yesterday demanding to know why I've chosen to die on this hill. Why am I
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ranting about anime? Why do I care so much about what other people choose to watch? Well, am I dying
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on a hill by making a flippant hyperbolic remark on a subject that someone else asked me about?
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Is literally everything you say a hill you're dying on? Are you seriously pretending that you never
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exaggerate or engage in hyperbole or say something outrageous for comedic effect? Are you pretending that
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you've never articulated an edgy or weird opinion, maybe seriously, maybe as a joke, maybe as some mixture
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of the two? Are you pretending that you don't understand these methods of human communication
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that are utterly commonplace and a feature of nearly every conversation you've ever had in your life?
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Yes, you are pretending that. You are pretending so that you can score whatever point you think
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you're scoring here. And the effect over time is that authentic conversation is stifled and people
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feel as though they have to constantly speak like they're reading from a press release written by a
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corporate PR firm. The color and flavor of human conversation, the stuff that makes it fun and
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interesting, just kind of fades away. These are all things that you might say if you believe that I was
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not being totally serious when I declared all animation made in Japan satanic. But again, I was serious.
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I'm serious about everything. If I was joking, I would laugh. Deadpan humor has never been my thing,
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as you well know. And that is why, in the end, with all that said, anime is still canceled and cast back
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down into the fiery hell flames from whence it came. That'll do it for this portion of the show as we
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move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you tomorrow. Godspeed.