Ep. 1080 - Leftists Answer 'What Is A Woman' Question By Rewriting The Dictionary
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Another major dictionary tries to meet the What is a Woman challenge by redefining the word. It s an Orwellian move, and even worse, the redefinition makes no sense at all. Also, a transidentified male physically assaults two girls in the girl s bathroom, something we continually are told never happens. A member of a human rights commission resigns after going on an absolutely unhinged rant against Christmas trees, and four nurses are fired for airing their complaints against their patients in a TikTok video. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, another major dictionary tries to meet the what is a woman
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challenge by redefining the word. It's an Orwellian move, and even worse, the redefinition
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makes no sense at all, of course. Also, a trans-identified male physically assaults two
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girls in the girl's bathroom, something we continually are told never happens. A member
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of a human rights commission resigns after going on an absolutely unhinged rant against Christmas
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trees, and four nurses are fired for airing their complaints against their patients in a TikTok
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video. All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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Definitions are important. If I were to summarize my work over the last couple of years in one
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sentence, that would perhaps be the best summary. Words must have definitions and we must know what
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those definitions are. We cannot communicate. We cannot express ourselves meaningfully. We cannot
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convey any ideas or get across any message about anything if words don't have meaning. And if we
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don't all know and recognize the meaning. Words cannot be subjectively defined. It cannot be
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left up to each individual on their own to decide what any given word means because the essence of
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language is that it is shared. It is a way for people to convey meaning to each other. But that's
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not possible if words and their definitions are not communally understood. This of course has been
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the crux of the what is a woman argument. The word woman must mean something or else it means
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nothing. And if it means nothing, then it cannot be meaningfully used in communication between
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people. A man cannot coherently say I identify as a woman if the word woman doesn't mean anything
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because then he is identifying as nothing. Yet the only definition of the word that anyone has ever
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been able to offer is one that would exclude the man claiming the title for himself. So the man is in
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a bind. Either the word woman means something, in which case he cannot be a woman, or it means
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nothing, in which case he still cannot be a woman. This is the position that the left finds itself in
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when you ask what is a woman and it's why the question what is a woman has proven to be, if I may say
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so, one of the most effective counter arguments against the left ever, period. In fact, it's been so
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effective and devastating that they are now literally rewriting the dictionary in response to it. As the
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National Review reports today, the Cambridge Dictionary has added a new, quote, trans-inclusive
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definition of the word woman. This was apparently done sometime last week. The Cambridge Dictionary
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supplemented its original definition of woman, which is still adult female human being. That's
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definition one. And now they've added, in the last few days, this secondary definition, which is this.
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An adult who lives and identifies as female, though they may have been said to have a different sex
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at birth. Now, this is very similar to the move pulled by Merriam-Webster's dictionary a few months
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ago, which left the word woman untouched. Didn't change that definition. So the definition for woman
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in Merriam-Webster's is still adult human female. But then you ask, what's a female? And well, they added a
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new definition of female, which now reads, having a gender identity that is the opposite of male.
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And obviously, in both cases, you know, Merriam-Webster, they also changed the definition
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of male. And then the Cambridge Dictionary has also changed the definition of man.
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Of course, the problem with this attempted rebrand is that it's totally nonsensical.
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In both cases, with Cambridge as well as Webster, the new definitions contradict common sense,
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science, and even the left's own narrative. And it accomplishes the latter feat by conflating sex
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and gender, two categories that the left still pretends to insist are distinct. So to hear them
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tell it, according to them, woman is a gender while female is a sex. Now, they've never been clear about
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what this distinction is actually supposed to mean, because it doesn't really mean anything.
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But whatever the distinction is meant to be, both dictionaries have erased it by treating woman as
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a sex and female as a gender identity. But obviously, it's going to contradict the orthodoxies
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of gender ideology. You cannot make any statement about sex or gender that doesn't contradict some
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aspect of gender ideology, as the entire thing is a confused pretzel of competing mutually exclusive
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claims and internal inconsistencies. The greater problem is that these definitions fly in the
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face of basic logic, not to mention human biology. So they say a woman is an adult who lives and
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identifies as female, though they may have been said to have been a different sex at birth,
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according to the Cambridge Dictionary. But how can someone live as a female if they are not female?
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I mean, to live as something is to be that thing. You cannot be something and yet not live as it,
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just as you cannot live as something if you are not that thing. Unless by live as, we really mean
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living in the manner of, or living as an imitation of. And if that's what's meant here, and it is what's
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meant, because that's all that could possibly be meant by it, then the Cambridge Dictionary is actually
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telling us that a woman is either an adult human female or not an adult human female. It is claiming
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that a person who imitates something is definitionally identical to a person who is that
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thing. But if that's true, I mean, if to imitate it is to be it, then there's no need to add this
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second definition in the first place. If trans women are simply women, then they're already included
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under the original definition, and there's no need to expand it. But if a new definition needs to be
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added in order to include so-called trans women, that proves in and of itself that so-called trans
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women are in a different definitional category. So think of it this way. A woman, by her nature,
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has a uterus. This is part of what is meant when we talk about an adult human female.
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A man who identifies as a woman is attempting to live as someone who has a uterus, a female,
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even though he doesn't have one. So Cambridge Dictionary is now telling us, therefore,
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that there is no difference between having a uterus and not having one. There is no difference between
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a thing and the negation of that thing. There is no difference between one and zero. There is no
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difference between something and its opposite. They're not just erasing women. They are erasing
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the concept of differences. Even things that are different are still somehow not different.
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We have descended into pure nonsense. We literally cannot make sense of this because there is no sense
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to make. But we can't arrive at one conclusion, which is that we are winning the argument.
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Dictionaries frantically changing their definitions, that is an admission that definitions matter and that
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they must be objective and shared. And the fact that the new definitions are totally incoherent and
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ridiculous and cannot be understood even on their own terms is an inadvertent admission that everything
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we've said about gender ideology is correct. The left cannot ignore the what is a woman question.
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They know they can. They want to, but they know they can't. And yet they cannot meet the challenge
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it poses to them without wildly contradicting not only biology and logic, but even themselves in the
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process. We win. The game is over. The dictionaries can say whatever they want. They cannot rescue the left
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here, though. After all, dictionary definitions are descriptive. They're not proscriptive.
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Cambridge Dictionary doesn't decide what a word means. It's not up to them to decide.
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If the dictionary is functioning properly, it merely records what the word means.
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So they could rewrite the definition of elephant to say, an elephant is a small round fruit that grows on
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a tree. But this editorial decision would not actually cause elephants to suddenly start growing
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on trees. Elephants would still exist just as they did before. They are things that occur in nature.
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They are a physical reality. They have certain objective properties, whether we choose to recognize
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that or not. Likewise, women exist in nature as a distinct biological category with certain natural
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abilities and functions and possessing certain common traits. The category exists. So we could
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abolish every word that describes the category. Or we could simply refuse to use the words that
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describe the category. And yet the category itself would remain. The truth remains. Because the truth
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does not require our permission or our acknowledgement. You can close your eyes. You know, it's like little
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kids. They close their eyes or they cover their eyes and they think that everything around them has
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disappeared. They think that they've disappeared because they're refusing to look. Well, no, you can
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close your eyes, but the thing is still there. It just is. And that's it. Only one side of the gender
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ideology debate is interested in recognizing this truth. Only one side can speak coherently and intelligibly
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about that truth. And so we win the argument. Now, the other side will continue arguing, no doubt.
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They'll continue saying things. But it's all sound and fury signifying nothing. We've already won.
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We begin here with the website Redux, which does a lot of actually important journalism. And here's
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another example of that. It says, two female students have been left with injuries after
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reportedly being assaulted by a trans-identified male student in the women's restroom at a high
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school in Edmond, Oklahoma. Redux has obtained a police report related to a violent assault that took
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place in a women's washroom at Edmond Memorial High School. The report, dated October 26th,
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reveals that a trans-identified male student was handed a juvenile summons after two female
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students were left with injuries following a fight he had reportedly initiated with them
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in the women's washroom. On October 26th, at approximately 8 a.m., police responded to reports
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of a fight that had broken out at Memorial High School in the small community of Edmond, Oklahoma.
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Upon arriving, the officer found a female student with injuries to her face and head at the nurse's
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station. The attending officer noted the female victim had several red areas on her face and that
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both of her eyes were beginning to swell. The officer conducted an interview with the victim,
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whose full name was redacted due to her age. The female student advised the officer that a trans-identified
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student, indicated by the letter A, had approached her in the women's bathroom while she was speaking
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to her friends. She explained that A had tried to talk to her and she had ignored him, at which point
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A began to get angry and asked if she wanted to fight while approaching her with bald fists.
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The victim said the trans-identified student then hit her in the face and she indicated in her statement
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that she was not strong enough to fight back due to the force of the blow. The transgender student
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pulled the girl's hair and forced her to the ground, at which point he began to kick her in the face
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and punch her repeatedly. The victim's friends, who had been in the washroom at the time,
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witnessed the incident and were pleading with A to stop his assault. One of the other female
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students attempted to intervene and was punched twice on the left side of her face by the assailant.
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One witness indicated that the girl had tried to step in because A is a man, quote-unquote,
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and she felt her student, her friend's life was at risk. The female student intervened as listed as
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having injuries to her eye, face, and head with a possible concussion. Now a statement from the
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transgender student indicates that he had initiated conversation with the victim because he was trying
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to pay her back for clothes he had stolen from her. The student also contradicts the victim and
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witness statements and provides details that are inconsistent with the girl's injuries as recorded
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by police. So this happened back in October, first time we're hearing about it, because of course the
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media has absolutely no interest in these kinds of stories. And there's almost no interest or
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motivation, certainly no interest or motivation in the corporate media to report on them.
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Oftentimes there's very little interest on the part of the school to report these crimes. In this case,
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the school did, did the right thing. But as we saw in Loudoun County, oftentimes that's not the case.
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There's much more of an interest in covering it up. So the point is, we don't actually know. We hear
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about these cases. Now we hear from the left that this never happens. It's a fantasy. You're not
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going to have trans-identified males who are going into women's locker rooms and bathrooms and
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assaulting, physically assaulting, sexually assaulting, whatever it is, women. They say it
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doesn't happen. Well, we know it does happen because we hear about the cases. But the cases that we hear
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about are, it's in spite of the best efforts to prevent us from hearing about it. So we don't even
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know how common this actually is. And it's obviously no surprise. Well, it's no surprise to
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hear about the fact that he stole clothes and even he admits to that. So this appears to be a little
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bit of a trend. You know, think about the Sam Brittain case. But it's also no surprise when we hear
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about incidents like this and we see acts of violence against women carried out by quote unquote
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trans people in bathrooms and locker rooms and so on. Because how could it be a surprise?
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Their very presence in that space is an act of violence in and of itself. Okay. So for a man to
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enter into a private female space where females are vulnerable and exposed, that is an act of sexual
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harassment in and of itself. For a man to knowingly walk into a women's bathroom, that's sexual harassment
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just to be there in the first place. You are an abuser simply by walking into the room. So we make a
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mistake, and conservatives have made this mistake for a while, when we have the bathroom debate and we
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center it around, you know, hypotheticals about what about men who might pretend, quote unquote,
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to be trans just so that for nefarious purposes they can gain access to the bathroom or the locker
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room. And yeah, that is a concern. I mean, we know for sure that that happens. And I think that's
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probably even more common in prisons, where you have male prisoners who just, out of whole cloth,
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invent their, quote, trans identity as a way to access the women's prison. So we know that that sort
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of thing happens. But when we center our argument around that, it makes it sound like, well, we're
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not concerned about the sincere trans people. You know, if there's some way to determine the
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insincere trans men from the sincere ones, then it would be no issue at all. I don't care if they're
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sincere or not. It's like either it's a man pretending to be confused about his gender or
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he's sincerely confused. Either way doesn't make a difference. It's not suddenly better if the man is
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actually confused and he's going into the women's restroom. Because that's what we mean when we say
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sincerely or really trans. Trans as a category is imaginary. It's a human invention. So there's no
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way to be really trans, but you can be really confused about your identity. That does exist.
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But either way, no matter what your intentions are or your motivations, being there in the first place
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is a problem. It's an act of violence. Your presence is an intrusion. It is abusive.
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So there is no question about whether men in the women's room are a threat. Are they a threat? Yes.
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How do I know? Because they're in the room. Because they're there. Just like if somebody walks
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into your house in the middle of the night. You don't need to wonder if they're a threat. They're
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in your house. It doesn't matter what they do once they're inside. I mean, it matters. They could make
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the situation even worse depending on how they behave once they get there. But my point is that by
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walking in the door, they are already perpetrating a violent and intrusive act.
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Same for men who walk into the women's room or the locker room. Just by walking in that door,
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that is an act of violence against the women that are in there. There's a threat. There's intimidation.
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This is all based around intimidation. None of these women actually want the men in there.
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None of them do. Why would they? Is there even one actual woman in real life who actively wants
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males to come into the locker room with them? There are plenty of women who won't speak out
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because they've been intimidated into silence. And there are others who pretend that they want
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that. These are minority. But of course, you wouldn't want that.
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So it is an act of violence just being in the room. And that's, of course, you say that and the
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left will scoff at it, to say the least. But these are the same people that find acts of violence
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everywhere. They think that a tweet can be violent. They think an opinion can be violent.
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They think a joke can be an act of violence. And of course, in all those cases, that's absurd.
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But walking into the locker room or the bathroom, that is an actual physical act that you are. It's
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not just an opinion. You are physically doing something. All right. Here's some good news.
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Accountability for a change. Actually, two examples of accountability. Quick update first on a story
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from yesterday. It says an Upper Moreland School Board member said she would not vote for the only
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white cis man, quote unquote, on the board for the role of president because it sends the wrong
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message to the community. We played that clip for yesterday. A Pennsylvania School Board member who
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refused to vote for the only cis white male on the board to serve as president has decided to resign
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from her position at the start of 2023. Upper Moreland School District Board member Jennifer
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Solat made the comments during an open school board meeting on December 6th, just before a vote was held
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to appoint a new board president. And now she's actually going to resign because there was enough of
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a backlash against this that now she should be fired rather than being given the opportunity to resign.
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But I'll take that is the best we could do. And it's a good sign, at least, that there's some
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accountability here. There's a reason why she felt perfectly free to say this. She didn't think there'd be a
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problem because she lives in an environment where, well, of course I can express my bigoted views
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against heterosexual white men. Because this is what, you know, it's like this is the environment
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she lives in. She never thought this is the atmosphere. So she thought she'd be perfectly,
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I'm sure this is not the first time that she's expressed such views publicly, I would assume.
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She thought she could get away with it here, but she couldn't. Is that a sign that things are
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finally changing, that people are finally willing to speak up and say, you know what, no, actually,
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it's not okay. It's not, you know, it's not suddenly okay to be bigoted against a group of people based
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on their gender or their race, as long as it's white males. Also, there's this, a member of a Boston
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Suburbs Human Rights Commission resigned after posting in a profanity-laden post to Facebook last
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week that mocked God and cursed her fellow citizens amid controversy regarding a local library's
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Christmas trees. So the town of Dedham, Massachusetts, about 30 miles southwest of Boston,
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drew national attention after Lisa Desmond, the manager of the local Endicott branch library,
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wrote on Facebook earlier this month that its annual Christmas tree display had apparently been
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canceled to prevent offending people. Desmond wrote, I've never posted a negative post on Facebook.
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That is, until now, I found out today that my beautiful library will not have its Christmas tree
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this year. When I asked, I was told that people were made uncomfortable last year looking at it.
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I'm sorry, what? In my 28 years at the library, I have never heard a negative comment.
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Yeah, because it was probably just one person. I mean, how can you, I don't care what your religion is,
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or if you don't have a religion, it doesn't even seem physically possible to conjure feelings of anger
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or revulsion when you're looking at a Christmas tree. It's just, it's a naturally joyous, like,
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doesn't it make anyone smile to see a Christmas tree? It could even make me smile. So how could you
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manage to actually be upset, stewing in anger, looking at a Christmas tree, of all things?
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Well, most people can't, but it was probably one person. So for 28 years, they had a Christmas tree,
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no problems, no one ever expressed one single ounce of anger about it. One person comes along
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after almost three decades and says, you know, I really don't like that. Okay, well, yes, sir,
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we'll take it right down. Desmond noted that the town historically has celebrated and included
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everyone in our community, and she happily participated in a recent Juneteenth celebration
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at the library last summer. Diane Loud, who was appointed to the Human Rights Commission
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in Massachusetts by the town's Commission on Disability, reportedly called Desmond a selfish
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effing bee in a subsequent Facebook post that accused her of endangering lives by raising the issue.
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She wrote, for a tree, for a mother effing tree, you've put people's lives in a lot of danger,
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a lot of danger. So a Christmas tree puts people's lives in danger. I'm not exactly sure,
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maybe if the tree falls over on you, or if it's a real tree and you're not watering it enough,
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then it could become a fire hazard. I mean, that's real. So is that what she means? I don't think so.
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Addressing others, she speculated, might also have been responsible for bringing the controversy to
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wider attention. Loud continued in part, I hope you know the fact that you, who claim to believe in
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Christ and Christmas or whatever happy horse S, you're trying to hide behind, are the least gracious,
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most hateful, most disgusting trash in the world. Is this what you think your magic sky daddy wants?
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Where in the Bible was this again? In closing, I would like to add an F you, you pieces of trash.
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I hate each and every one of you, and I do wish great suffering on you. You're terrible,
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terrible, terrible people. You did it all because you didn't get your way. You're despicable.
00:25:25.620
I always thought that the story of like the Grinch who stole Christmas was, you know,
00:25:29.180
it's a little hard to get invested in because it's just not very realistic. Like, how could anyone
00:25:32.440
hate Christmas that much? But here we go. This is the person that the story was based on, I guess.
00:25:39.800
And it says, loud participated earlier this year in an LGBT pride event hosted by the town of
00:25:44.500
Dedham and its HRC Human Rights Commission, where she was joined by her grown child, Max,
00:25:49.660
who discovered his transgender identity at the age of 13. All right. Big surprise there. So
00:25:53.460
Diane Loud, with a very appropriate last name, I must say, sounds like a, just a deeply miserable
00:26:01.580
person, a horrendously unpleasant human being all around. No wonder she has a trans kid.
00:26:07.060
She's exactly the kind of adult, exactly the kind of, especially over-domineering,
00:26:14.280
left-wing, mentally unstable mother who ends up having a trans child just by coincidence. No,
00:26:22.520
it's not a coincidence because she imposes that identity on her child. No surprise there.
00:26:28.500
But I really want to focus on the fact that she's an anti-Christian atheist with the Human Rights
00:26:35.000
Commission, or she was with the Human Rights Commission. And this is a problem that goes
00:26:39.900
far beyond just this one individual. It's a bigger issue. And I'm sure this never occurred to her
00:26:45.940
because she doesn't seem like the sort of person who makes a habit of, you know, thinking, much less
00:26:50.280
thinking self-critically. But you cannot be involved in protecting or preserving human rights
00:26:58.840
as an anti-Christian atheist. It doesn't really make any sense. It doesn't. And as I said, this is a problem
00:27:07.000
that goes far beyond Mrs. Loud. I'm going to say Miss Loud because I'm going to assume she's not married.
00:27:12.700
It goes far beyond that. It's like, if you're an atheist, you're a secular leftist, and you go around
00:27:19.120
talking about human rights all the time, you've got a real issue here. Because what do you think,
00:27:23.020
like, what is a woman? Well, what is a human right? Well, what do you think a human right even is?
00:27:29.260
Where do you think it comes from? What are you talking about? Now, the people who came up with
00:27:35.700
the concept, the concept as we understand it today, and if you want to, you know, if you want to trace
00:27:41.400
back the lineage of this thought process that led to the formulation of modern human rights as we
00:27:46.900
understand it, you can decide how far back you want to go. But the people who came up with the concept
00:27:51.280
as we understand it today, who formulated sort of the modern understanding of human rights,
00:27:55.420
these were Christians. And it's very much grounded in a Christian worldview of natural law, of human
00:28:03.180
beings created by God, endowed by certain rights, which we have as, you know, thanks to our inherent
00:28:13.860
dignity. And all of this is rooted in the fact that we are created by this transcendent being,
00:28:20.880
that there is something beyond the physical, that we are not merely subject to and products of
00:28:30.140
Darwinian evolution. There's something beyond that. That's human rights, as it's always been
00:28:36.780
understood. But if you don't believe any of that, and if you think, as Diane Loud does, that all that is
00:28:42.740
a bunch of happy horse S, then how do you hang on to the human rights? What do you think that's
00:28:48.760
grounded in? A human right must either come from, if it means anything at all, it either comes from
00:28:56.900
God, or it comes from man, it comes from the government. So either this is, a human right is
00:29:03.520
something that's ingrained, that we just, that we possess, whether it's recognized by the government or
00:29:08.240
not. It's just, we still possess it by our very nature. So it's either that, or it's simply words that we
00:29:17.700
write on a piece of paper. You know, governments decide what your rights are. You have the right to do
00:29:24.440
this because the government said you do. And if they say you don't, then you don't anymore.
00:29:30.660
But nobody wants to understand human rights that way. They certainly don't on the left.
00:29:37.720
Now, when the Supreme Court made the decision about Roe v. Wade,
00:29:39.980
we were told that by the left, including many of them secular atheists,
00:29:46.580
they said, well, it doesn't matter what the Supreme Court says. Women have the right to abortion.
00:29:51.260
What do you mean right? Says who? What are you appealing to exactly when you talk about this
00:30:00.640
mystical right that exists? You're not appealing to God. What are you appealing to?
00:30:04.640
If you can only appeal to man, if you can only appeal to the government,
00:30:10.620
then it's up to them what the rights are. And it doesn't make any sense. If the government says
00:30:14.300
you have a right to this, it doesn't make any sense to say, no, that's not true. What do you mean it's
00:30:17.880
not true? According to you, a right by definition is simply whatever the government says.
00:30:25.460
This is a real problem that I don't think anyone on the left has even attempted,
00:30:29.420
or very few people on the left have even attempted to confront or deal with or wrestle with.
00:30:34.640
Um, and it just makes everything they say about human rights totally meaningless.
00:30:41.340
All right. In response to Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter, the media seems to have two talking
00:30:47.500
points, basically. One is that Elon will restore free speech, which is bad and dangerous.
00:30:52.380
And the other is that Elon will actually restrict free speech, which is bad and dangerous.
00:30:56.820
And they seem to rotate kind of between these two talking points at will,
00:31:00.820
sometimes within the same sentence. So here's joy read last night, taking the ladder track. Let's
00:31:06.660
listen to those people. The apartheid child tweeted the woke mind virus is either defeated or nothing
00:31:12.560
else matters. That came a day after he used his platforms, not only mock the LGBTQ community,
00:31:18.120
but also to go after America's most visible public health official tweeting.
00:31:21.620
My pronouns are prosecute Fauci. Not funny. Dangerous, though. And the latest example of
00:31:28.580
Musk playing his role in the right's attempt to redefine free speech, which to them, simply put,
00:31:34.240
is whatever conservatives want said and nothing more. They've gone to great lengths in those efforts.
00:31:39.640
And when it comes to social media platforms, as the Atlantic's Adam Serwer writes,
00:31:43.500
to use them for their own political purposes, including propaganda, disinformation,
00:31:47.880
harassment, and message discipline, conservatives had to invent a new constitutional right,
00:31:53.520
a conservative right to post. And the Atlantic's Adam Serwer joins me now. Adam,
00:31:58.880
your piece was excellent. I want you to explain for those who have not read it,
00:32:01.980
and they all should, what the conservative right to post means.
00:32:06.620
It basically means that you would have a right to free speech as long as you are saying
00:32:16.640
They just have no, it doesn't, it, it, they are not worried about saying things that, um,
00:32:24.080
even pretend to reflect reality. Uh, and obviously, of course, this is what
00:32:30.120
conservatives were saying about Twitter and about big tech for years and years and years.
00:32:35.060
And we were told by people like Joy Reid that this is all fanciful and it's ridiculous and, uh,
00:32:41.140
so on and so forth. And these are private companies and stop your whining, stop it. And then,
00:32:45.300
and then the, the script flips and within seconds, they, um, they, they're, you know, they start
00:32:53.020
contradicting what they've been saying for the last several years. But in reality, see the conservative
00:32:57.840
complaint that, um, people on the right were being specifically targeted on ideological
00:33:04.640
grounds and shut down and censored. That was real. It was actually happening. And we know that it was
00:33:11.000
actually happening. We now have the documentation. It was obvious to anyone that it was happening
00:33:14.640
because we could all see it. But now we have the behind the scenes and the documentation and the
00:33:19.720
email chains, and we've seen all that. So we now it's, it's only been further confirmed that this was
00:33:24.960
happening. What Joy Reid is talking about as usual is made up BS. This is not happening.
00:33:32.200
Like there, there, there aren't any leftists that are being kicked off the platform simply for
00:33:38.780
expressing left-wing ideas. It's not happening. It's simply not happening. And not only that,
00:33:45.200
there's no one calling for that to happen. Nobody even wants that to happen.
00:33:51.300
So while big tech has been censoring the right for years, they've also been doing it at the behest of
00:33:56.680
the left who's been very open about the fact that they want that to happen. Like these ideas are
00:34:00.060
dangerous. You shouldn't be allowed to express them. It doesn't exist on the right. It simply
00:34:04.760
doesn't. There, there, there's seriously no one saying that, um, that the left should be shut down
00:34:11.620
or censored on the internet because for expressing their ideas. No one's saying that. In fact, it's
00:34:16.080
exactly the opposite. I want them on these platforms expressing their ideas. I want that. I actively
00:34:27.080
want it. And I'm not the only one. We just want it on a level playing field. We don't want the deck to
00:34:34.820
be, we don't want the game to be rigged against us to begin with. But as long as it's not rigged and
00:34:39.980
we're on a level playing field and things are fair to begin with, then yeah, we want you out on the
00:34:43.720
playing field with us. We want you there. Do you know why? Because we believe we can beat you.
00:34:49.460
That's why we want you there. It's like, you don't have to believe that we have, that we,
00:34:53.380
that it's our, you know, that we have some sincere passion for free speech. I mean, we do,
00:34:58.000
but I'm saying you don't even have to believe that because on top of, uh, believing in free speech,
00:35:03.620
there's also the, I don't know if you'd like to say more selfish motivation that we want to beat you
00:35:09.840
and embarrass you. And I'll make no secret about the fact that that's my, that's what primarily
00:35:16.920
motivates me. That's, that's the primary reason why I believe in free speech, but, but even more
00:35:26.580
than that, why do I want the left on Twitter posting so that, so that we can expose them
00:35:30.660
because they cannot win these arguments. They cannot win any of these arguments if the, if it's
00:35:39.380
a level playing field and they will inevitably humiliate themselves. And that's what I want to
00:35:45.320
see happen. So yes, I want Joey Reed on the platform. Please keep posting. Please do that.
00:35:53.040
It's just that they're terrified now. They're terrified and they're running away
00:35:56.300
because the game isn't rigged because it is a level playing field and they know they can't win
00:36:07.640
on those, on those grounds. All right. One other thing, uh, I wanted to get to briefly. So Candace
00:36:15.840
Owens attracted the attention of our PR reps at Media Matters yesterday. They, they published this
00:36:20.920
headline and shared the clip on Twitter from her show yesterday. Uh, the daily wires, Candace Owens,
00:36:25.220
uh, quoting her, I actually think that society would be safer if we discriminated more. And they
00:36:30.460
actually published multiple clips of Candace scandalously suggesting that discrimination can
00:36:35.820
be justified or even good. Uh, and these were posted by Media Matters yesterday. I thought we've already
00:36:41.700
talked about what is woman, what are human rights. And so, uh, we'll, we'll continue on this theme of
00:36:46.700
definitions. What is discrimination? Because what Candace has said here is obviously correct. So this is
00:36:53.400
yet again, Media Matters getting upset about something and anyone listens to it, any normal
00:36:57.840
person listens to it and says, well, yeah, that makes sense. Of course we talk about, um,
00:37:02.960
it's obviously true. Here's what discrimination means to discriminate. Okay. Until they, until they
00:37:09.880
change the definition of this too in a Merriam-Webster, but, but even if they do, it still means what it
00:37:13.880
means, uh, to discriminate means to recognize distinctions. That's what it means to discriminate.
00:37:21.500
That's all. That's discrimination. It is to recognize distinctions. And so if you recognize
00:37:27.420
a distinction between one thing and another, you are discriminating. And that's why in the old days,
00:37:33.580
we, you know, you might describe someone, you might say that he's a, he's a very discriminating
00:37:37.240
person, but it would be a compliment. Because what you're saying is that this person is, uh,
00:37:41.180
that they're, that they have the powers of discernment and they're able to, and they're,
00:37:46.420
and they're very able to recognize distinctions. That's all discrimination is. If you, if you can
00:37:53.900
look at one thing and then another thing and say, those two things are different, you have
00:37:58.660
discriminated. And that means that we all discriminate every single second of the day. I mean,
00:38:06.300
every, every, every moment of the day that you are engaged in thought, you are discriminating.
00:38:11.540
You are recognizing distinctions. I don't think it's possible to be a sentient being without that
00:38:18.600
ability. Because the only other option is to look and think that all things are exactly the same.
00:38:24.180
There's no, that we're just living in this, uh, you know, hazy mess of nothingness. And there are,
00:38:29.600
there's no distinction from one thing to the next.
00:38:31.120
That's all discrimination is. Um, now you could discriminate wrongly. You could discriminate
00:38:42.580
unjustifiably. Um, you could discriminate unfairly. All those things are possible,
00:38:49.260
but discrimination in and of itself is not unfair just because you're doing it.
00:38:55.160
And this is also true of people. So like there's the obvious things where if you're,
00:39:00.680
if you're drawing a distinction, if you recognize that vanilla chocolate's different than chocolate,
00:39:04.700
than, uh, that vanilla ice cream is different than chocolate ice cream, you are discriminating
00:39:08.420
between the two types of ice cream. And nobody would have, uh, I don't think anyone would have
00:39:13.440
any moral problem with that. Although maybe some people would find a way to, um, that's the easy
00:39:17.820
thing. But what about discrimination among people? If you're discriminating, but you know,
00:39:23.440
one person distinguishing one person from another is, is that wrong? Well, obviously not.
00:39:30.240
I mean, in any kind of context, you're drawing distinctions between people.
00:39:37.140
I know we say that it's illegal to engage in discrimination while hiring. Well, it's obviously
00:39:44.440
not literally true. You wouldn't be able to hire anyone if you couldn't discriminate.
00:39:48.220
Like you have a, you have a job posting, you have a certain position you want to fill and you're
00:39:54.500
looking for the person who will best fill it. And so you're discriminating against the people who
00:39:58.060
will not be good in that job in favor of the people who you think will be. It's discrimination.
00:40:05.740
So media matters yet again, another swing and a miss. What else is new? All right,
00:40:11.880
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Amika says, I think a lot of people who participate in the preferred pronouns thing actually confuse
00:41:23.780
pronouns and personality. Just because we all have different personalities doesn't mean we get to
00:41:28.060
modify the language whenever we see fit. Well, you're exactly right. That is 100% what they're trying
00:41:34.820
to describe. And so really, they're trying to come up with pronouns to describe personalities,
00:41:40.420
which just doesn't make any sense. And that's not what pronouns are meant to do.
00:41:46.220
Max says, watch Brittany Griner get a book deal and a Netflix documentary as soon as she lands on
00:41:50.540
the US. Oh, are you kidding me? Look, she's going to put Colin Kaepernick to shame. If you think
00:41:57.760
Kaepernick cashed in on his faux victim status, you ain't seen nothing yet. Just wait until Brittany
00:42:03.760
Griner gets done. This is going to be, I mean, she is, my prediction is within a year, she's going
00:42:09.080
to be worth over a hundred million dollars on endorsement deals and Netflix and book deals and
00:42:13.300
everything else, cashing in on the victim status, 100%. Just Keating says, you really did have a big
00:42:21.980
year, Matt. In a fairer world, you would have at least been a finalist or even an honorable mention
00:42:26.040
for Times Person of the Year. I could not agree more. Thank you. Dan says, I'm a big fan of Jordan
00:42:34.700
Peterson, but I'd like to know what Matt thinks about Peterson's war on anonymous Twitter accounts.
00:42:40.820
Yeah, so this has been something that has gotten some people upset at Jordan Peterson on
00:42:45.920
Twitter. And I don't think it's a new thing. I'm pretty sure that Peterson has always made this
00:42:50.940
argument against anonymous accounts. And I don't want to speak for him. I'm not sure if he actually
00:42:56.360
thinks that anonymous accounts should be banned from social media and that you should only be able
00:43:01.580
to have an account if you have your actual name and face attached to it. I'm not sure if he believes
00:43:04.760
that or not, but certainly he thinks that it would be better if there were no anonymous accounts
00:43:10.060
on the internet. Now, I don't agree with him. I used to feel that way. There was a time when I would
00:43:16.640
have agreed with him. And I can understand why you would feel that way, especially if you're in the
00:43:23.740
public light and you're voicing your opinions all the time and your face is out there and you've got
00:43:31.400
your face and your name attached to it. And then inevitably, you know, we all end up getting doxxed
00:43:36.020
and even our addresses are out. Like everything is out there about us and we're putting our name and
00:43:39.900
our face with it. And then when you're doing that and you're constantly getting criticized by these
00:43:49.280
anonymous trolls, it's hard not to respond by saying, oh, you cowards, you won't even put your,
00:43:53.680
it's real easy for you to do, hiding behind your anonymous status, coming after someone who's put,
00:43:58.580
you know, it's like I've put everything on the line here and you're putting nothing on the line,
00:44:02.420
hiding behind it while you fling insults. And it's true that the anonymous accounts who do that,
00:44:07.440
they're merely anonymous so that they control people who are not anonymous and that's all
00:44:14.280
they're doing. Yeah, they're just nothing but cowards. But the reason I changed my mind about
00:44:18.660
anonymous accounts in general is that, of course, that's not what even the majority of anonymous
00:44:23.680
accounts are actually doing. It's, they're not by and large trolls who are trying to hide behind
00:44:33.960
the anonymous status. It's more that, you know, they want to use these platforms because these
00:44:41.460
are people who don't have jobs where it's your job to express your ideas. They have other kinds of
00:44:46.720
jobs, but they want to use the platforms and they still want to be able to participate in the kind of
00:44:50.980
conversation. But if they do that with their name and face attached to it, then they're just opening
00:44:57.940
themselves up to having their lives destroyed, to being targeted, fired, all these kinds of things.
00:45:04.160
Things that won't happen to me. I'm not going to get fired just because I express my opinion on social
00:45:08.760
media. That's my, I get paid to do that. But if you have a, you know, a job that is not in the media
00:45:15.600
and you do that with your name and face attached to it, then you've opened yourself up to that.
00:45:23.160
And so if you get rid of the anonymous accounts, what you've really done is you've just,
00:45:27.020
you've just taken away the ability of a lot of these different people to participate in the
00:45:32.520
conversation at all, which would be a very bad thing. You know, and this is, this is the game
00:45:42.160
the left plays too, by the way. It's like they, you know, if you say something they don't like,
00:45:45.960
they want to know everything about you. They want to find out everything they can about you.
00:45:48.920
Not, not because they are really interested or because they want to give you an award,
00:45:53.500
because they want to find this stuff out about you so they can destroy you.
00:45:57.360
And we don't want to make that easier on them. All right. Dennis Robinson says,
00:46:01.960
yes, there was an uprising by my wife and I to see our grandchildren during the alleged pandemic,
00:46:06.900
yet it was my afraid children of ours that kept the grandchildren from us. We are still
00:46:11.460
attempting to restore relationships. Meanwhile, Mallory says, I was extremely disappointed in my mom and
00:46:17.040
my mother-in-law. Both dads didn't seem to worry so much, but the grandkids were,
00:46:22.020
the grandmothers were afraid to come around any of their grandkids, even through Christmas 2021.
00:46:27.200
Thankfully, they've stopped the nonsense, but I lost faith and family a little bit.
00:46:31.960
I've heard many stories like that. So many stories of families where, you know, I think in many cases,
00:46:40.440
the rifts that were opened up, the wounds, damage may be permanent in some cases.
00:46:47.660
When you've got family members, you know, there's a sickness going around and you have family members
00:46:53.580
that will tell you, I'm okay not seeing you indefinitely just so I don't get sick. That's a
00:47:02.820
statement that people are not going to be able to forget. And then Raptor Man says, whoever was in
00:47:09.300
charge of the wardrobe for this episode really needs to be reprimanded, a tan suit for our sweet
00:47:13.260
daddy is just plain evil. Was it tan? I feel betrayed in that case because this is the position
00:47:17.960
I'm in as a colorblind American. I didn't even know that it was tan, but I've made my feelings
00:47:23.620
about tan suits very clear. So I feel somehow violated that I was put in a tan suit without my
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Well, I regret to inform you, my friends, that the nurses are at it again. We all remember the
00:48:27.160
COVID days when nurses across the country were posting choreographed dance routines to TikTok,
00:48:31.800
constantly complaining about being overworked and understaffed, even as they turned the hospital's
00:48:35.740
hallways into a scene from high school musical. It was annoying. It was insufferable. And it exposed
00:48:41.160
a troubling weakness in the nursing community. That is their need for attention, which is of
00:48:46.080
course a weakness shared by almost everyone in our culture. Among nurses, it was put on display yet
00:48:50.720
again with a slightly different style of video this week. NBC News reports four labor and delivery
00:48:57.060
nurses at an Atlanta hospital came under fire over a TikTok video in which they shared the things that
00:49:02.460
annoy them about expecting mothers and their families. The nurses at Emory Hospital or Emory
00:49:07.060
University Hospital Midtown were participating in a popular trend where users share their icks
00:49:11.640
or turnoffs about a person. The TikTok trend originally began as a way to for someone to describe
00:49:17.040
why they stopped dating another person. I can already tell you one of my icks, which is people
00:49:22.480
using the term ick to describe their pet peeves. I know this might come as a shock to TikTok users,
00:49:27.420
but we actually don't need a cutesy new slang term for everything. Now, I realize that every
00:49:33.860
generation is entitled to come up with its own slang, but this latest generation has grossly abused that
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privilege. There should be laws governing this. Like if I was theocratic fascist dictator, I would allow
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maybe three new slang terms to enter the lexicon every 25 years. Each generation gets to pick three,
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not three in a week, but three total. In any case, bringing it back to the nurses,
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not to jump ahead and spoil the ending, but according to NBC, it would seem that they have
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been fired. It says, quote, Emory Healthcare said the video is disrespectful and unprofessional and
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does not represent our commitment to patient family-centered care. We've investigated the situation,
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take an appropriate action with the former employees responsible for the video, the company
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said in an Instagram post. So, former employees. The hospital never specifically confirmed that they
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were terminated for the video, but I think we can logically assume that they didn't all happen to
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retire suddenly at the same time. So, it appears, therefore, that this video was a bad idea. Here it is.
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My ick is when you come in for your induction talking about, can I take a shower and eat?
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What? My ick is when you ask me how much the baby weighs and it's still in your hands.
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Dad comes outside and asks for a paternity test right outside the room door.
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Saying you don't want any pain medicine, no epidural, but you are at an 8 out of 10 pain
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just to serve an ill and you're still closed. Fingertips. Well, we've already told you to push
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a call light, but every five minutes, your family member coming at the front desk asking for something
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else. Excuse me, can I have a blanket? Another ick. When you're going room to room between one baby
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mama and your other baby mama. Oh, no. Ick. Say that. It's the unlimited trips to the nurses station for me.
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Well, ladies, the good news is that you don't have to worry about any of those icks anymore.
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The bad news is that you're going to discover a new ick, which is called unemployment.
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I can understand why you are so frustrated. I mean, it must be difficult when your patients are a bunch
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of domineering prima donnas, constantly making outrageous and haughty demands for exorbitant
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luxuries like food and blankets. Next thing I know, you're going to tell me that they even sometimes
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request anesthesia before surgery. I mean, these are divas we're talking about. Now, I admit,
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there might be something to some of the complaints they lodged in that video. It wasn't all unreasonable.
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I would also be annoyed and kind of grossed out by a man who has two children being born by two
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different women in the same birthing unit, though that sounds more like the plot of a
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90s comedy starring Eddie Murphy than an actual real life event. Be that as it may,
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some of the complaints seem valid. And I'm sure there are plenty of nurses out there who could make
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many other complaints even more valid and defensible than the icks these ones outlined.
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In fact, I know they could because I have nurses in my family and I've heard the stories.
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But there are two points that these ill-fated TikTokers failed to understand. And these are
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lessons that all of us, no matter our careers, would do well to keep in mind. First, you go into the
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same job every day. You have helped hundreds of patients, if that's your job. So you have been
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asked for blankets and food hundreds of times. And every slightly annoying or silly or thoughtless
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thing a patient might say or do, you've encountered dozens and dozens of times. So you feel the
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cumulative effect of all of those little annoyances. But your patients don't. So this is a job to you.
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This is something that you punch in and punch out of every day. But if you work in the labor and
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delivery unit, for many of your patients, it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience. On average,
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these days, it's not any more than a twice-in-a-lifetime experience. Nobody is in there
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having a new baby every three days, unless it's my wife we're talking about. This is always the
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tension between employee and customer, employee and client, employee and patient. You're both involved
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in the same experience, but the experience is fundamentally different for both of you because
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of your roles. For you, it's a job, but not for them. So part of your job then is to not bring
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your weariness and annoyance into the experience. Yes, you've been asked for a million blankets,
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yet the patient asking you for a blanket right now isn't cognizant about that or thinking about it
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and shouldn't have to. You should treat the patient like their needs are the most important thing to
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you, and then treat the next patient exactly the same, because that's what you're being paid to do.
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And it's difficult, but that's what you're supposed to do, no matter what your job is.
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You're running a cash register at McDonald's. Each customer who comes in,
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the number one value meal, you've punched that in a thousand times, but you should act like this
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is the most important thing in the world to you, getting this person their Big Mac.
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Yeah, you're faking it, but that's your job is to fake it.
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Second, everybody complains, okay? There's no sense in complaining about the fact that people
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complain. People complain about their jobs, about their families, about their personal struggles,
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their health problems, etc. Everyone has complained about all of these things.
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But what people seem to not understand these days is that there is a proper time and place for these
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complaints, and there are improper times and places. There are appropriate forums and inappropriate
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forums. There are people in your life you can and should register these complaints with, and people
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you shouldn't. And making a complaint publicly on video for the entire world to see is very rarely
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the correct time, place, forum, or audience. Generally, you should be complaining to someone who,
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A, can actively do something to solve whatever problem you're having, or B, is a trusted confidant
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who can listen and provide you with meaningful support. So if your complaint is something that
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nobody can reasonably solve, and it's not serious enough to warrant a consultation with a trusted
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confidant, it's probably best if you just keep it to yourself. Because stifling a complaint, telling
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it to no one ever, is also an option, and one that should be selected far more often than it is.
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When it comes to complaints about your job, just some complaints about your family,
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a great majority of them will fall into this last category. Like, there are complaints that you
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should just never tell anyone, if you could believe it. There should be a whole list of complaints that
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you have about people in your family, about your job, that you never tell anyone. Because there is no one
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in your life who needs to hear all of that, or should have to. Grin and bear it. And the rest should be
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articulated to the appropriate party within your family or your job. They should almost never be
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aired in public for the entire world to hear, because the public can't do anything with your
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gripe. We can't solve your issue for you. We don't know you. We aren't your friends, so we also can't
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act as your trusted confidant. All we can do is listen to your whines and think to ourselves, wow,
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I wish this person would stop whining. That's all we can do with it. And then we get back to our own
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lives and our own petty annoyances. Whatever you were hoping to get out of the public airing of
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your grievances, you almost certainly will not get. Unless in these nurses' cases, they were hoping to
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get fired, in which case, mission accomplished. And not to add insult to injury, but I must also say
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that along with being fired, they are today, needless to say, canceled. That'll do it for this
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portion of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you there. If not, talk to you