Ep. 1137 - Race Hustlers Scrape The Bottom Of The Barrel In Desperate Pursuit Of Victimhood
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The Race Hustlers scrape the very bottom of the barrel in their desperate search for racism. This time, they claim that memes are digital blackface. Also, AOC takes to TikTok to valiantly defend TikTok from those who want to ban it. A Minnesota politician who pushes gender transition drugs on children reveals that he has no idea if the drugs are safe or not, and doesn t care. Donald Trump spends time during his rally attacking Ron DeSantis, and in our daily cancellation, George Washington University is dropping its Colonials nickname because it brings to mind the evil history of colonization.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the race hustlers scrape the very bottom of the barrel in their
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desperate search for racism. This time, they claim that memes are digital blackface, quote-unquote.
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Also, AOC takes to TikTok to valiantly defend TikTok from those who want to ban it. A Minnesota
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politician who pushes gender transition drugs on children reveals that he has no idea if the
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drugs are safe or not and doesn't care. Donald Trump spends time during his rally attacking
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DeSantis, and in our daily cancellation, George Washington University is dropping its Colonials
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nickname because it brings to mind the evil history of colonization. But is the history of
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colonization actually evil? Well, no, not at all. We'll talk about all that and more today on the
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Well, CNN is a dying, pathetic husk of a fake news organization, but at least it still serves
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a purpose, and that purpose is making the rest of us feel smart by comparison. And it fulfilled
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that vocation again this weekend with an op-ed on its website from one of its senior writers,
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What is digital blackface, and why is it wrong when white people use it?
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Yes, digital blackface. And no, he's not referencing Justin Trudeau's Twitter account.
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The digital blackface scourge, according to Blake, is much more widespread than that. He explains,
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quote, maybe you shared that viral video of Kimberly Sweet Brown Wilkins telling a reporter after
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narrowly escaping an apartment fire, ain't nobody got time for that. Perhaps you posted the meme of
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supermodel Tyra Banks exploding in anger on America's next top model. I was rooting for you.
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We were all rooting for you, is what the meme says. Or maybe you've simply posted popular GIFs,
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such as, and it is GIF, not JIF, such as the one of NBA great Michael Jordan crying, or of drag queen
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RuPaul declaring, girl. If you're black and you've shared such images online, you get a pass. But if
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you're white, you may have inadvertently perpetuated one of the most insidious forms of
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contemporary racism, you may be wearing digital blackface. Now, before we go any further, I want
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you to think about what Blake has just unwittingly conceded here. He has essentially admitted that
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anti-black racism is a non-issue in modern America. He admitted all of that by claiming that white people
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posting GIFs of Tyra Banks are engaging in one of the most insidious forms of contemporary racism.
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Now, whatever else we can say about these GIFs, if they constitute one of the most insidious,
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most sinister, most evil kinds of anti-black racism in modern America, then that would mean
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that anti-black racism is basically over. I mean, certainly if we lived in a culture where black
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people suffered actual widespread systemic racism, then memes of Michael Jordan would not make the top
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tenless. There were no GIFs in 1850 during the slavery era, but if there were, nobody would have
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said that they constitute one of the most insidious forms of racism at that time. If they do now, then
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that should tell us something. Of course, digital blackface is not a thing and GIFs are not racist,
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but my point is that we could actually concede everything that this ridiculous hack is claiming.
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We could grant him the entire premise, and it would only undermine his underlying premise,
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which is that anti-black racism is a serious systemic problem in modern America. In other words,
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if he's wrong about this subject, he's full of crap. But if he's right about this subject,
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he's still full of crap. Either way, this is one crap-filled man. Let's continue.
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Digital blackface is a practice where white people co-opt online expressions of black imagery,
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slang, catchphrases, or culture to convey comic relief or express emotions. These expressions,
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what one commentator calls racialized reactions, are mainstays in Twitter feeds, TikTok videos,
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and Instagram reels, and are among the most popular internet memes. Digital blackface involves
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white people play-acting at being black, says Lauren Michelle Jackson, an author and cultural critic,
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in an essay for Teen Vogue. Jackson says the internet thrives on white people laughing at exaggerated
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displays of blackness, reflecting a tendency among some to see black people as walking hyperbole.
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Another quick aside here. We're all busy people. We have a lot going on. Well, John Blake doesn't.
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He has time to write a 5,000-word dissertation about memes that hurt his feelings. But some of us
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are busy, which means we look for shortcuts. We look for ways to assess and understand things
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very quickly. And here's one. If you're ever reading anything that mentions an essay in Teen Vogue,
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and it's not in the context of making fun of the essay, but rather it's citing the essay as an
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intellectual and moral authority, then you can immediately disregard everything else the author
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has to say on that subject or any other subject. And if you are ever writing something and you find
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yourself favorably citing an essay in Teen Vogue, then you can know that you have at some point in the
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past suffered some kind of head trauma that maybe you don't remember and you need to seek medical
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attention right away. More from CNN's John Blake. Quote, if you're still not sure how to define
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digital blackface, Jackson offers a guide. She says, it includes displays of emotions stereotyped
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as excessive. So happy, so sassy, so ghetto, so loud. Our dial is on 10 all the time. Rarely are black
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characters afforded subtle traits or feelings. Many white people choose images of black people when it
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comes to expressing exaggerated emotion on social media. A burden that black people didn't ask for,
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she says. We are your sass, your nonchalance, your fury, your delight, your annoyance, your happy dance,
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your diva, your shade, your yass moments. Jackson writes, the weight of reaction giffing, period,
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rests on our shoulders. Well, if you were hoping that there would be some kind of rock bottom
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to our cultural descent into stupidity, now you know better. Because if there was a rock bottom,
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then the paragraph I just read would have to be it. A paragraph which ends with the sentence,
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the weight of reaction giffing rests on our shoulders. This woman is pretending to be somehow
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emotionally burdened by gifts of black people. According to her, she walks around every day
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carrying the cross of gifts. She is a Christ figure, suffering and sacrificing herself so that
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the rest of us can have memes. This is how she presents herself. And yet this is not our intellectual
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rock bottom. We are still falling, still plunging eternally into the idiot abyss. Now, you've probably
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heard enough of this article. You've heard enough after the title, really, but here's a bit more.
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Quote, some may say posting a video of Sweet Brown saying, oh Lord Jesus, it's a fire, is just for
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laughs. Why overthink it? Why give people yet another excuse for labeling white people racist for the
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most innocuous behaviors? But critics say that digital blackface is wrong because it's a modern-day
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repackaging of minstrel shows, a racist form of entertainment popular in the 19th century.
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That's when white actors, faces darkened with burnt cork, entertained audiences by playing black
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characters as bumbling, happy-go-lucky simpletons. That practice continued in the 20th century on hit
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radio shows such as Amos and Andy. Put simply, digital blackface is 21st century minstrelsy.
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So without a hint of irony, the article repeatedly uses a RuPaul meme as an example of this 21st century
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minstrelsy, but not because drag is the modern-day minstrel show, which of course it is. Okay, these are the
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minstrel performers of modern America. So we do have minstrel performers in this country, but they're
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wearing woman face rather than blackface, just as degrading, just as dehumanizing, just as offensive,
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just as insulting. That's not what the author means. To him, RuPaul is an example of modern-day
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minstrel only when a white person on Twitter uses his image as a reaction gif.
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One last time, back to the article, it says, historical blackface has never truly ended,
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and Americans have yet to actively confront their racist past to this day, Aaron Wong writes in an
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academic paper on the topic. In fact, minstrel blackface has emerged into even more subtle forms
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of racism that are now glorified all over the internet. Wong says that digital blackface is
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wrong because it culturally appropriates the language and expressions of black people for entertainment
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while dismissing the severity of everyday instances of racism black people encounter,
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such as police brutality, job discrimination, and educational inequity.
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An academic paper on the topic, we're told. This is the kind of thing they write academic papers
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about. The fact that academic papers are covering the same subjects as essays in Teen Vogue should tell
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you everything you need to know about academia. And of course, they're all just following TikTok's lead.
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Indeed, TikTok has been on the front lines fighting against digital blackface for years now.
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Hi, Benji here, and I'm going to explain what digital blackface is.
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Digital blackface is when non-black people use images or emojis of black people to express emotion
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online, often extreme ones like anger or disbelief. Sometimes images are edited to indicate blackness
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for this purpose. The intents may be innocent, but digital blackface, like the original use of blackface,
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exploits blackness through media for entertainment. The overuse of these images also reinforces
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negative stereotypes that drive racial discrimination. We can use images of people that are a different
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race. It's okay to enjoy popular culture. We should just be conscious of the impact the media that we
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share online may have on communities with less privilege. For example, if you find you always use
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images of black women to express sass, consider the negative stereotypes you're reinforcing and how
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this might reflect your own unconscious biases, and try a different image next time. Hope that helps. Bye.
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You know, I would really prefer if they just yelled at us like they obviously want to,
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because this cheerful, smiling routine is just intolerable. I mean, there's something even more
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repugnant about this kind of tone. Hey, guys, hope you're having a great day. Hey, by the way,
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you're racist if you do this totally normal and innocuous thing. Do as I say, you white devils.
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Okay, bye, bigots. Love you. That's even worse. And of course, the condescension is part and parcel
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here. Patronizing, smugly, disdainful. None of that is incidental. Leftism is, after all,
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an ideology of trifling tyrants constantly looking for new ways to manipulate us. The pettiness is the
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point. I mean, these are people who invented the word problematize, which literally means
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taking something that is not a problem and turning it into a problem. They aren't trying to solve
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problems. They're trying to create them, and they aren't even hiding it. They'll admit it.
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That's why this kind of garbage, this push to make every benign thing into a racist assault on black
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identity or into some other form of bigotry, even now, including memes, may seem idiotic and laughable,
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and it is. I mean, it is idiotic, and we should laugh at it, absolutely. But underneath the stupidity,
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bubbling just under the surface, is the very real and very sinister agenda to control every last aspect
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of our lives and of our expression and of our words and our thoughts.
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You know, they don't want you to do, say, or think anything without referring to them first to see if
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it's allowed. And that's why the pettier, the better. The more seemingly innocuous, the better.
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Because they want you to start thinking that, oh man, like this is the thing I thought didn't matter
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at all. It's like, I can't even do this without being a racist. That's the agenda. But whether we
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engage with this on the surface level or we consider what lies underneath it, our response should be the
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same. And the response, again, should be utter contempt, disdain, dismissiveness, and mockery.
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All right, so I think we're going to begin with this. Late last week, Minnesota finally passed a bill that makes
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Minnesota into a refuge state for child castration and mutilation. We've been following the progress of this bill,
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and as expected, it passed. So parents can now take their children across state lines to Minnesota
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to have them abused and butchered in the name of a quote-unquote gender transition.
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If you want to know why this bill is insane, then, well, you only need to have a conscience and a brain
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to figure that out. But also, this clip will help. Here's Representative Finke, who is a male who identifies
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as a woman, being questioned about the side effects. This is one of the main proponents of
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this bill and of this move to make Minnesota into a quote-unquote trans refuge state.
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Well, he's questioned about these drugs and about the side effects because this is like
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one of the main arguments that people who are against child transition will make is that these
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drugs are harmful and that they do a lot of harm to kids. And so here he is being questioned about
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that. Like, what do you have to say about that? And listen to his answers, or his non-answers, rather.
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Representative Finke, do GNRH hormones cause bone loss?
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Thank you, Madam Speaker. That is not a yes or no question. You'll have to talk to a doctor
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about a specific treatment plan to have an answer to that question.
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According to the NIH.gov, human clinical trials revealed significant bone loss at the spine,
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hip, and femur in patients treated with a GNRH antagonist. Thus, osteoporosis and the
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resilient fragility fractures pose a significant impact on health and quality of life of the GNRH
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antagonist users. Representative Finke. Are any of the drugs that are prescribed to children
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also given, and by drugs I mean hormone therapies or quote-unquote puberty blockers,
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are any of them prescribed to children? Are they also given to violent sex offenders with the purpose
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of chemically castrating the violent sex offender?
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Madam Speaker, thank you. The answer, members, is yes.
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I mean, to think that there are people who could watch that video and then come away with the
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conclusion that the dude with the purple hair is in the right on this one. Like, I'm gonna be on his
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side. Okay, he's promoting and pushing these drugs on children, and then he's asked, well,
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does it have horrific long-term side effects? Well, I don't know. Who knows? Who knows?
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Now, we will say that if this exact conversation was happening, say, two years ago,
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then he would have answered all those questions, and he would have said no.
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Does it cause this? Does it cause that? He would have said, no, no, it's 100% safe.
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And there are still plenty of trans activists who will claim that. But the reason he doesn't say
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that is because he is aware that more and more people are aware of this issue now. And if he
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just straight up lies, people will know that he's lying. So instead of just outright lying and telling
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lies everyone will know are lies, is that it's, well, I don't know. Who knows? It's not a yes or no
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answer. By the way, if you ever are at the doctor and you're asking about, they're trying to get you
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to take some kind of drug and you say, oh, well, does it have this terrible long-term side effect
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like bone loss, okay, which is a debilitating and severe, I shouldn't have to tell anyone that,
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debilitating and severe long-term side effect is bone loss. If you ask your doctor that,
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does it cause this? Well, not a yes or no answer. It kind of is. Can it cause that or not? It either
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can or it can't. So a not or yes or no answer in this context is a yes answer. Now, obviously he's
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lying. Now he knows, he's saying, oh, we don't know the answer to the question. We know the answers to
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those questions are all yes. Causes bone loss. This is a, these Lupron's drug, drug used to chemically
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castrate sex offenders. That is a fact as an absolute fact, uh, causes sterility. Yes. Another
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fact. Okay. It's part of the point of, of the way these drugs are used. And so that's all facts. So
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he's lying about that. But in this case, the way he's presenting it is, uh, not only, I don't know,
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but I don't care. Just total dismissiveness. So we went from on the, on the trans activist side,
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we went from, oh, all these claims you're making about the drugs are false and wrong and untrue.
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And now it's, and now, and now we've entered the phase of, well, no one can know for sure,
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but who could really know? There's no way to know. And then pretty soon we're going to get to the part
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where they start saying, well, yeah, it does cause that. And it's good. We're going to get there next.
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We are very soon going to get to the point where they will answer and say, well, yeah,
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we're sterilizing kids. Good. It's a good thing we are. Of course, that's already what they think.
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Okay. It's already what they think. To them, it is a good thing. They are well aware that they are
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sterilizing children with these drugs. They're chemically castrating children and they, but
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they, that's not a, that's not a bug. It's a feature for them.
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We are rapidly getting to the point where they will admit that out loud because this is always the
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way that things progress. First, it's the denial not happening. Then it's the, well,
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no one can know we have to relate. And then soon it's going to be, well, yeah, we're going to
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sterilize kids. And it's a good thing we are. It always, it's, it's not happening. Okay. It is
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happening, but it's good. It all, with everything on the left, it always works that way. It's not
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happening. Okay, fine. It is happening and it's good. Now let's stay on this topic for a moment.
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Grinnell College put out a poll result showing that a majority of Americans are not in favor
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of bills banning gender transitions for minors. Okay. So according to this poll,
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a majority of Americans will be on the purple haired dude's side. Okay. Not in favor, allegedly,
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of the bills that ban this stuff. So a majority think that it's okay to medically transition a
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child, according to this. And trans activists have, of course, swarmed on this poll, attached
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themselves to it like, like flies on feces. Here's just one example, Ari Drennan of Media Matters.
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New poll shows that the majority of U.S. adults oppose legislative bans on gender-affirming care
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for trans youth. And then you can see the numbers there. Supposedly proposed ban on children receiving
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gender-affirming medical care with parental consent. And what we're told is that 53% overall
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oppose the ban. Obviously among Democrats, it's more 78%, but still you got almost 30% of Republicans
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who oppose the ban and over 50% of independents who oppose it. What does this poll prove?
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The poll proves that language is very important. So you look at the wording, gender-affirming care.
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This is what people were asked, whether they support gender-affirming care. And the way they're
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asked the question begs the question. Because the whole point of the people who object to this stuff
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is that it is not, quote unquote, gender-affirming care, but rather butchery. It is the rejection
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of the self, of the true self, of a person's true sex. Okay, so you're not affirming anything.
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You're not affirming any reality. You're affirming confusion. They have taken aside just in the way
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that they word the question, and they get a different answer. Because most people don't know
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what these terms really mean, even now. I think more people understand now than did two or three
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years ago. But even now, most people don't know what these terms mean. They don't know what it's
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referring to. They just hear affirming, and they think, oh, well, it must be good. Most people don't
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even know that gender-affirming care is the new term for, you know, where they used to use the
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term sex change or gender transition, which is why when you ask people if they support sex changes for
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minors, as Rasmussen did a month ago, the numbers flip. In that poll, when Americans were asked if they
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support legislation making it illegal to perform sex change surgery on minors, 58% said that they did
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support the ban. So you've got the numbers almost exactly flipping, depending on how you word it.
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But even sex change is euphemistic. I mean, even the term sex change, because it used to be they
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said sex change, and then they changed it to gender transition, then they changed it to gender
00:24:15.880
affirmation. But it was always the pro-trans side that was coming up with all these terms, and then
00:24:21.640
coming up with new terms, because they decided, you know, this is another thing that always happens
00:24:26.080
on the left. They use a term to, like, as a euphemism to denote a certain thing. And then
00:24:31.640
people start to realize what the term actually means and what it really stands for, and then they
00:24:36.760
have to change the term again. So they have to stay sort of one step ahead of the public
00:24:40.420
consciousness on these issues. So even sex change is euphemistic. It's euphemistic in favor of the
00:24:48.120
trans side, because you can't really change your sex. It's not possible to do.
00:24:52.640
The really revealing poll, and I don't know if anyone's done this, would be one that drops
00:24:58.360
all euphemisms and just ask people directly, like, explain what the thing is. Don't use any
00:25:05.840
label or term for it. Just explain what it is and say, do you support that? Do you think it's okay?
00:25:12.820
Do you support the chemical castration and sterilization of children? Do you think children
00:25:18.700
should be given drugs that chemically castrate and sterilize them? Period. Do you think that children
00:25:22.500
should be given those drugs? Because that's what these drugs do. That's what it is, plain and
00:25:27.280
simple. There's no editorializing there. It's just what it is. Or you could, as I said, you could go
00:25:34.460
in a longer explanation, you know, use more than one sentence. Say, here's Lupron. Here's what it does.
00:25:41.480
Do you think kids should be given this? You ask that question. And yet again, those numbers are going
00:25:48.840
to, you know, rather than 58% being in support of bans. It's going to be, you know, 75% or more.
00:25:57.820
All right. And do you know why it would be 75% or more? Because also many of the people,
00:26:05.620
you know, even people who would say, oh, I support gender transitions. Drop the affirmation part of it,
00:26:13.940
that euphemism. Even many of the people would say, I support gender transitions for minors. Yes,
00:26:18.260
I support that. Many of them also don't know what that entails. They don't really know what that
00:26:25.440
means, what it involves, what these drugs do. They don't know that. If you tell them,
00:26:32.160
you're going to get a different answer. All right. Trump held a rally in Waco on Saturday. Of course,
00:26:38.540
he spent a while during the rally attacking DeSantis. I mean, he attacks DeSantis far more
00:26:44.340
than he attacks Democrats these days. But I'm not sure that the attacks play well. And I thought
00:26:51.240
this was a revealing part of the rally. Check this out.
00:26:54.000
Long before this guy became governor, Florida was tremendously successful under Rick Scott.
00:27:01.080
He was, look, whether you like him or not, Charlie Crist, it was very successful. He was a
00:27:06.180
Republican at the time. But Florida has been successful for decades. In fact, probably as or
00:27:13.980
more successful than it is now. But when a man, you know, you get him elected and there's no quid pro
00:27:21.300
quo. Get rid of that word. Remember those words? Quid pro quo with the perfect call I made with the
00:27:27.700
Ukrainian president. But when you're getting a guy, so he gets a nomination because of you,
00:27:34.080
he wins the election because of you. Two years later, the fake news is up there saying,
00:27:40.660
will you run against the president? Will you run? And he says, I have no comment. I say,
00:27:48.140
that's not supposed to happen. So a few things. Trump's entire argument against DeSantis really
00:27:55.580
is that it hurts his feelings that he endorsed DeSantis. Now DeSantis has the gall to possibly run
00:28:01.980
against him. I think it's clear that DeSantis is going to run, but you have to do that Pierce
00:28:05.240
Morgan interview. So it hurts his feelings and it's offensive to him that, that just, you know,
00:28:12.700
his argument is that DeSantis owes him loyalty. I mean, that's his whole argument. That's his
00:28:16.000
argument against it. But, you know, that might be how he feels about it. But in terms of the American
00:28:21.840
people, does that, does that mean that we should see DeSantis as like he wouldn't make a good
00:28:25.740
president because of that? Because he, because he had insufficient loyalty to Donald Trump? I mean,
00:28:31.040
should the American people give a damn about that? And this is, this is, and again, I know
00:28:37.620
if you're a Trump supporter, Trump fan, you don't like this part of it, but Trump rose to prominence
00:28:44.680
2015, 2016, talking about issues that matter to Americans. Illegal immigration was obviously the big
00:28:52.940
one, not the only one, but that's what he was talking about. These days, he spends most of his
00:29:00.340
time talking about things that matter to him. It's like complaints that he has personally and trying
00:29:06.480
to make some sort of connection as to why this should matter to everyone else. And he doesn't even
00:29:10.000
really explain that because he can't, you know, now it comes to DeSantis, he really has no choice.
00:29:17.540
DeSantis has been a good governor. He's been, he just has been, I'm sorry. He has been
00:29:22.800
good. And, uh, and he has also enacted conservative policies in a meaningful way and in a, in a way
00:29:28.740
that no other Republican in elected office has in years. That's just a fact. And to most Americans,
00:29:39.280
that's what matters, especially Republican primary voters. That's what we care about.
00:29:42.860
Can you, can you get the policies? Can you put them in place? Can we, can we trust you to govern
00:29:47.280
according to the principles that you pretend to, to, uh, or, you know, that you, the principles that you
00:29:51.800
claim to hold, can we trust you to govern according to them? That's the question we have for any
00:29:56.520
presidential candidate, right? Um, the fact that some other politician is offended because, you know,
00:30:04.760
he feels like you owe them loyalty. He didn't that. Who cares? I don't care about that. No, no real
00:30:08.960
American voter cares about that, but this is what he spends his time on. I think it's a, I think it's
00:30:13.360
a huge mistake. And if he wins the primary Trump and he goes to the general, it's especially going
00:30:21.200
to be a mistake there. Maybe you get away with this in the primary. I don't know. Like maybe you
00:30:25.920
get away with a campaign that's like 90% focused on your own, uh, complaints about things that are
00:30:32.540
happening to you in a general election. No way. That's not going to fly. It just won't.
00:30:40.820
And when it comes to DeSantis, uh, the attacks on DeSantis, they play well on Twitter. Okay. They
00:30:48.040
play, there's a, there is a group of people on Twitter who go for this stuff. He's not even
00:30:53.120
getting cheers at a rally at a Trump rally. I, you, you rarely hear a Trump rally as quiet and awkward
00:30:58.680
as that, nor should you. It's a rally for, you know, if your rally, these are your people.
00:31:04.360
It's supposed to be raucous. And unless it's a, uh, you know, unless it's a Biden rally that
00:31:09.140
sounded like a Biden rally, which is not good. But there, there is a, I think this is just a
00:31:16.220
catastrophic strategy in general. Spent so much time going after the most popular Republican,
00:31:22.140
elected Republican in the country. And a guy who's popular in DeSantis, not just because of stuff he's
00:31:27.820
saying, but because of the stuff he did, we, we're not idiots. Okay. The, the Republicans who
00:31:32.740
support DeSantis, even if you like Trump more, if you still support DeSantis, um, we're not morons.
00:31:41.140
We like him because we see what he's done and we, we appreciate that. And this is what we want.
00:31:47.080
So I, I think this, it just, it's, I don't think it's playing. I don't think it's playing outside of
00:31:51.180
Twitter. I don't think it plays anywhere else. And, uh, I think it's a mistake. Um, not unsalvageable.
00:31:57.260
People have short memories, especially in a political campaign. Trump could pivot from this
00:32:02.440
and just say, all right, you know, let's talk about things Americans actually care about and
00:32:06.360
not complain about DeSantis the whole time. Um, let's even acknowledge that DeSantis is doing,
00:32:10.980
you know, doing a really good job rather than, rather than praising Charlie Chris. This is not
00:32:16.420
the first time either that he's praised Charlie Chris, by the way, praising Charlie Chris was better
00:32:22.040
in DeSantis. That is not, even Trump can't get away with a line like that in a Republican primary.
00:32:27.780
People are not going to go for that. It's possible to pivot, to get away from this,
00:32:34.000
to start focusing on issues people actually care about. Um, it's possible, certainly possible.
00:32:40.320
You know, if he were to pivot now, by the time the primaries really start in earnest and by the time
00:32:45.720
the, the, the voting actually starts, you know, right now is ancient history. Nobody even remembers
00:32:50.400
it. But, uh, I, I don't have a lot of confidence that that pivot will happen. All right. This is
00:32:59.000
from Business Insider. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said TikTok should not be banned
00:33:03.280
in her first video on the app on Saturday. The New York Democrats started her video by saying,
00:33:08.140
this is not, uh, not only my first TikTok, but it's a TikTok about TikTok. Do I believe TikTok
00:33:12.700
should be banned? No. So she started a TikTok in order to go on TikTok and defend TikTok from all
00:33:20.640
the people who want to ban it in both parties, by the way. Uh, let's watch a little bit of that video.
00:33:26.980
So why would we be proposing a ban regarding such a significant issue without being clued in on this
00:33:32.680
at all? It just doesn't feel right to me. And additionally, this case needs to be made to the
00:33:40.080
public. We are a government by the people and for the people. And if we want to make a decision as
00:33:47.200
significant as banning TikTok, and we believe, or someone believes, that there's really important
00:33:52.620
information that the public deserves to know about why such a decision would be justified,
00:33:57.780
that information should be shared with the public as well.
00:34:00.180
Great argument there. It doesn't, it just doesn't feel right. That's her, that really is her
00:34:05.920
argument. You can watch the whole video. It's, that's essentially her whole argument. Doesn't
00:34:09.300
feel right. Doesn't feel right to me. You know, that's that, at least that's the argument that
00:34:13.900
she'll present to the public. Doesn't feel right. Well, she also says that it's significant. This is
00:34:19.840
such a, it'd be such a significant move to ban TikTok. And I agree. It would be significant in that it
00:34:24.240
would be, you know, it would be, it'd be a significantly good, be significant in a good
00:34:29.780
way. But it's also not, it's not significant in the way that she, she frames it. Like it'd be this
00:34:39.080
huge deal, this huge power grab to ban TikTok. Um, it's actually not. It's, it's really a pretty
00:34:48.480
simple equation here. All you have to do is, is balance. So you, it's a balancing act. And on one
00:34:56.980
hand, you have the harm that TikTok does to the American people, especially to kids. And then you
00:35:07.020
also have to give the harm that it, that it does to children who are obsessed with this app and spend
00:35:13.100
like all day just scrolling, you know, when you've got, when you've got millions of kids who are
00:35:17.700
spending hours a day staring at their phone and just scrolling through like zombies. Okay. Not even,
00:35:24.480
not, not, not, not to even mention the content that they themselves are putting on this app that
00:35:28.620
will live in cyberspace and infamy forever. Um, so you have that harm and then you also have the
00:35:34.660
national security concerns and, uh, and all the rest of it. So that in one hand, and then you have
00:35:41.980
to balance that against the harm done by banning the app and by saying, okay, there are a million
00:35:51.280
apps you can use, but there's one that you can't, this one's banned. Well, what is the harm exactly?
00:35:57.560
So we know what the harm is here and it's quite significant. What is the harm in this hand that
00:36:03.160
we're worried about? What's the, uh, like dystopian scenario? What's the worst case scenario from banning
00:36:10.300
TikTok? In what way does that hurt us as a country? I know how it hurts us to have it.
00:36:16.060
How does it hurt us to get rid of it? Even she can't explain that the people defending TikTok
00:36:22.680
can't explain it. None of them have laid out. Okay. If we do this, here are the ways, boom,
00:36:28.980
boom, boom. I'll, I'll lay it out for you. Bullet point. Here are the ways that it harms,
00:36:33.360
uh, this country, harms the American people to get rid of it. So does a lot of harm by having it.
00:36:39.800
Doesn't really no harm by getting rid of it. It's owned by a Chinese company to begin with.
00:36:45.840
So what's the problem here? There really isn't one. Let's get to the comment section.
00:36:51.680
Todd says internet accessible cameras and microphones should be in every classroom.
00:37:06.000
If people have to have body cameras, then the, or if police have to have body cameras,
00:37:10.120
then there's no reason why schools shouldn't have this available to every parent. Yeah. We talked
00:37:14.740
about this, uh, a while ago and I completely agree with you. You know, there are, it's, it's not a,
00:37:20.340
it's by no means a perfect solution. And there are other concerns that you could have by having
00:37:26.740
cameras in the classroom, internet access to the cameras. You worry about the privacy and security
00:37:31.520
of the kids. Um, but it's not, instead not a perfect solution, but then you have to, you have to think
00:37:42.280
about what, well, what's the consequence of not having this kind of, uh, monitoring ability of the
00:37:46.480
teachers. Well, we see the consequences of that. And so we're stuck with imperfect solutions and
00:37:51.160
there are ways around it. I mean, you could do this and you could, for example, I mean, obviously
00:37:55.120
if you were to have cameras in the classroom with the, and they're accessible by the parents and
00:38:00.500
yeah, the parents should be able to, you know, if my kid was in a public school classroom, which
00:38:03.980
they never will be, but if they were, I should be able to go somewhere online and wherever they are,
00:38:08.760
I should be able to pull it up and see what's happening. See, you know, see what they're being
00:38:12.260
taught, what's, what's happening in class. I should be able to see that at any time. Um,
00:38:17.160
and there are ways to mitigate the privacy and security concerns for the, uh, kids. Now there's
00:38:24.140
no privacy concern for the teacher. Okay. Because when you're in the, the context of being a teacher,
00:38:31.880
when you're, when you're in that role of, of a teacher in a public school setting, government
00:38:36.540
employee, there's no privacy there when you're actively teaching. Okay. Now, if you're in the
00:38:43.520
faculty lounge or you're going to the bathroom or something, then obviously that's different. But
00:38:46.540
when you're in the classroom and you are actively teaching, there shouldn't be any privacy. There
00:38:51.520
shouldn't be a moment when you're actually teaching, when you would say, no, I don't want
00:38:54.460
anyone on the outside seeing this. Because if you're thinking that to yourself, then whatever
00:38:58.640
you're doing or saying, you shouldn't be doing or saying. Pretty simple. Ways around it, like,
00:39:03.660
uh, well, obviously you, you know, you wouldn't just put the internet feed on YouTube or something.
00:39:07.520
It'd be on school website. You could only be accessed through a password that the parents
00:39:11.480
have. Uh, so that gives you certain measure of security. Uh, the cameras would, you know,
00:39:17.360
be focused on the front of the classroom with the teacher standing. It wouldn't be like over the
00:39:21.560
entire class, uh, and that sort of thing. So there are ways to mitigate the security concerns,
00:39:25.700
but I think, you know, we have the capability of doing that these days. We've long had the
00:39:31.500
capability and it is a long past time. Jackie says, my husband and I were watching the show
00:39:37.980
1883 recently, and there was a scene where a pickpocket was beaten and hung in the street
00:39:42.120
when caught. I told my husband, if we had something like that in place, there'd be little
00:39:45.660
to no crime. Um, yeah, well, certainly, certainly a better system than what we do, which is just,
00:39:54.540
uh, you know, we say to criminals, okay, well be better next time.
00:39:58.180
And then they do it again next time and say, well, this, this is the last chance I'm warning
00:40:03.200
you. And then they do it again. Oh yeah. On and on and on. I don't, I watched 1883. I don't
00:40:09.360
remember. I guess that I I'm assuming a scene like that must've been, I barely remember it,
00:40:14.840
but it must've been at the close to the beginning of the show. Right. Because, uh, and if you're just
00:40:18.960
starting the show, I hate to warn you this. I know this wasn't really your point, but I have to
00:40:21.880
warn you that, uh, there's, there's going to be a, you know, there's, it's a, it's a good show for
00:40:26.900
about two, maybe three episodes. And then it hits some kind of threshold where it becomes a woke
00:40:33.480
teenage soap opera. Okay. Where the, this teenager is having love affairs with like
00:40:41.420
Comanche warriors who come and they're all very kind and nice. And, and the main, you know,
00:40:47.260
Sam Elliott is like constantly crying all the time and it's just, it's terrible. So if you watch three
00:40:52.380
episodes, I would just stop there. That's the end of the show as far as you should be concerned.
00:40:56.900
David says, nip isn't really a slur. It's just short for Nippon or Nippanese, which is how the
00:41:03.800
Japanese refer to themselves. It's no more slower than slur than Jap, or for that matter, Jerry for
00:41:08.400
the Germans or Yvonne for the Russians or Tommy's for the British, all of which were used during World
00:41:13.420
War II in equivalent contexts. Yeah. But the, the main point there is used during World War II,
00:41:20.780
which is why I, I have been told since we talked about this on Friday, some people have told me
00:41:27.960
that, oh yeah, I'm really familiar with that term. People use it all the time. Maybe there were some
00:41:32.740
places where that term was used for Japanese people, uh, where you maybe grew up and you were familiar
00:41:37.100
with it. I never heard it in my entire life. Not one time. Uh, I never encountered it on the internet,
00:41:44.660
nowhere. So I think it's, it's probably fair to say many more people in modern America had never
00:41:53.560
heard the term as, as it applies to Japanese people than had heard it, which makes the plausible
00:41:59.140
deniability of that, uh, you know, sports radio host all the more plausible. It doesn't matter
00:42:05.880
anyway, because he didn't defend himself. So I can't defend him. Honey says, I firmly believe
00:42:12.780
in disassociative identity disorder, but it's extremely rare and only comes about through
00:42:16.940
repeated trauma before a child's default personality is solidified, so to speak, typically before the
00:42:22.000
age of six, the brain fractures in order to protect itself. There are markers for this diagnosis that
00:42:26.960
are not able to be faked successfully, but that's why people online, um, people pop online and hit
00:42:33.300
record instead of seeking professional help. Most who have DID had no clue due to the amnesia that
00:42:39.580
comes with it. It's a horrible diagnosis and not something anyone should wish to have.
00:42:44.320
Yeah. I still don't buy it. I mean, I don't buy the disorder at all. So, so we would agree that
00:42:50.280
most of what you see on Tik TOK, the people that are probably all of it, but what you see on Tik
00:42:55.380
TOK of people claiming to have this disorder is made up. Um, and we already know that it's made up
00:42:59.900
because even on the, the terms of this, of this supposed illness is that, you know, you have these
00:43:05.800
other personalities, but you don't know that they're there because your brain is, as you say,
00:43:08.720
fracturing. So if you're aware of the other personalities and you can even like introduce
00:43:12.860
them and call upon them to like come to the surface and introduce themselves, um, that's not
00:43:18.040
how that works. That's a movie plot. And that's all that you see on Tik TOK. So I guess you would
00:43:22.780
agree with me there. And what you're saying is overdiagnosed, but it's real. I don't think that
00:43:27.840
it's real at all. I just think it's, I think it's completely made up. I have done some reading
00:43:32.340
into this and, um, you know, it's, there's a debate about it in the psychiatric community,
00:43:37.580
but there is definitely, you know, a preponderance of people who would say it's, it, it's not real.
00:43:44.800
It doesn't actually exist at all, which is why almost all the famous cases that come to mind.
00:43:49.620
And there have been famous cases of it have all turned out to be frauds. I don't even, I don't,
00:43:53.840
I don't think it makes any sense logically. I just don't think that the human consciousness
00:43:59.340
even works like that. So what, so what are we saying that you're a person's mind contains
00:44:04.080
multiple conscious. So it's like essentially multiple, actual distinct human consciousness,
00:44:10.080
distinct people inside one brain. I think that's the kind of thing that only makes sense.
00:44:16.860
It only seems to make sense to us because we've seen it in movies. It's only because of the influence
00:44:23.700
of movies that that kind of thing that we think, oh yeah, sure. The brain splits into different pieces
00:44:28.140
and each piece contains its own consciousness. But then when you actually think about it,
00:44:32.540
you realize that, well, that doesn't make any sense. All right. Leighton Pierce says,
00:44:38.240
moral midgets, LMAO, another Walsh quote I'm adding to my arsenal. Actually, I think I said
00:44:42.580
mental midgets, but moral midgets is even better. And I think I'll start using that. And finally,
00:44:48.660
Daniel says, Matt, I've started following your content last year, following your Dr. Phil episode. And a few
00:44:54.060
months after I realized I'm in the dark on too much inside jokes, especially a particular one.
00:44:58.740
So I decided to embark on a journey to watch your content from the beginning. I've had the pleasure
00:45:03.280
of watching your car videos and learn of your beekeeping journey, but this one is especially
00:45:07.280
important. I've just watched the video that brought the birth of the SPG. Don't worry,
00:45:12.580
your secret is safe with me. I won't tell anybody about episode 737. P.S. fellow members of the SPG,
00:45:17.780
please help make sure Matt reads this on Monday. Well, Daniel, you watched all those episodes and
00:45:24.300
did all that research, which is commendable. And you've done all of that only to now get banned
00:45:29.120
from the show because you are banned. We don't speak of the origins of the SPG. And if you've
00:45:34.480
been watching all the episodes, you know that and you defied that one rule. Well, it's not the one rule.
00:45:40.340
There are a lot of rules, but that's the first one. We don't speak of the origins. We especially
00:45:44.820
don't speak of episode 737. We don't speak of it. Episode 737 does not exist. For the SPG, episode
00:45:52.300
737, it's like the 13th floor of a hotel. We just skipped that. It doesn't exist. It's not there.
00:45:57.660
We go from episode 736 to 738. There's no 737. And so you, sir, are banned. But thanks for
00:46:05.140
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Now let's get to our Daily Cancellation. Today for our Daily Cancellation, we move from
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problematic gifts to something a bit more familiar, which is problematic team mascots,
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or in this case, team nicknames. The New York Times reports, quote,
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George Washington University will soon choose a new nickname for its athletic teams dropping
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colonials after a year of pressure from students who said the name was entangled with violence toward
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Native Americans and other colonized people. The campus community in the heart of the nation's
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capital has narrowed a list of 10 replacement candidates to four finalists, which are Ambassadors,
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Blue Fog, Revolutionaries, and Sentinels. Well, just a side note here. It's a good thing
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that names like Revolutionaries and Sentinels don't have anything to do with violence. You know,
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that's really good. Personally, I think Blue Fog is the best option. It would be quite appropriate to
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take away the name colonials, which is something solid and meaningful, and replace it literally
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with fog. You know, something hazy, amorphous, undefined. It's the only way to avoid offending
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people. If you choose anything distinct, anything that exists as a definable entity,
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somebody will find a reason to be upset. Fog is your only choice. But then again, even fog brings
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to mind a history of racial trauma. After all, the media has been reporting in recent years that fog around
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the world is declining due to climate change. The website Inside Climate News reported in 2021,
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quote, with a warming climate, coastal fog around the world is declining. But as we know,
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climate change somehow impacts racially marginalized communities the most. And nobody knows how that's
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the case, but that's what they say. And so this makes any mention of fog potentially triggering and
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problematic. There's really no way out of this bind in a world where everything is racist. The only choice
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is to choose a team name that doesn't mean anything at all. Just mix up a bunch of like
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Scrabble tiles and go with whatever gibberish it spells out. So you could be the George Washington
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Fifth Eternals or the George Washington Ziglabots or whatever. I think this is the only way forward.
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More from the article. Quote, the university will hear feedback until April 28th through what it is
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calling Moniker Madness. And a new nickname will be announced by the end of the semester,
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said Ellen Morin, the university's vice president for communications and marketing.
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The school's mascot will remain George I, George Washington's head, which a uniform student wears.
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The change comes amid a reckoning of the fraught history of team names across the American sports
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landscape. It comes after a push by students and a victory for Native American activists last year
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when the National Football League team in Washington became the commanders, shedding a team name that was
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a slur against indigenous people. Notice how the old name of the Washington football team
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now can't even be mentioned in news articles. And this is the case with like any, you know,
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if you read any article on ESPN that mentions the, you know, something that happened on that team
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years ago, they won't even say the name. They won't print the name. But a couple of years ago,
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they were putting the name on merchandise and selling hundreds of millions of dollars worth of it
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every year. Now you can't even say the name anymore. Or at least I can't. They can't. I mean,
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I will. The team was called the Washington Redskins for the record and still is called the Washington
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Redskins as far as, you know, I'm concerned. A little more from the Times, it says, the more we
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engage and the more we help the community envision what the new moniker options might look like
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and give the community a chance to try out what the future might look like, we're getting a lot of
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positive engagement, Ms. Morin said. The Colonial's name has been part of the university's identity
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since 1926, replacing the Hatchet Heights, Hatchet Men, Axemen, and Crummen for Henry Crum,
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a football coach. Opposition to the Colonial's nickname erupted in 2019 when the student body
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voted to remove it and the Anything But Colonials Coalition was formed, according to a report
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a university moniker committee released in 2021. The next year, student organizations delivered a
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petition to the university president's office seeking a name change, quote, colonials were active
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purveyors of colonialism and were complicit in militarized and racialized violence, oppression,
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and hierarchy, the petition said. Colonialism has been historically and contemporaneously built
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upon usurping land, labor, and autonomy from racialized communities through dehumanizing violence
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and suppression. Well, they're right about one thing. Colonials were indeed active purveyors of
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colonialism. The colonists did live in colonies. Very important insight and observation. The rest of
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what they said is nonsense. Well, that's not the really disturbing thing here. The part that
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disturbs me, disturbs me the most anyway, is when we hear from the defenders of the colonial moniker,
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the people that want to keep it. This is what they say, quote, some alumni, however, remain attached to
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the university's old name, Ms. Morin said. Survey respondents with an affinity for the colonials
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associated with revolutionary spirit and fighting tyranny, according to a report. Proponents, especially
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older alumni, have argued that it defines Americans during the British colonial era, said Denver
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Brunsman, an associate professor of history at the university, who's a member of a committee that was
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formed to discuss the name. Opponents view it as a synonymous with violent colonizers, said Dr. Brunsman,
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a George Washington scholar. Now, this is the kind of reasoning that we hear a lot, and not just in relation
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to George Washington University's nickname. From people who are ostensibly taking the rational and correct
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side of the overall debate, will often hear this sort of thing. They'll say, well, you know, when we
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celebrate and honor the colonists, we're not celebrating colonization. We're celebrating their
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independent spirit and their toughness. That's all. Both sides of the argument seem to have conceded
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that colonization was in itself a bad thing. We cannot defend colonization in its own right, and so we must
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defend the people of that era by pointing to the good things they did. But here's the thing. Colonization
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was a good thing they did. The conquest and colonization and settling of this land was overall a good and
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noble and courageous thing. It is good that it happened, and we should be grateful for it. The people who
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came here and claimed this land were heroes. It was heroic, and they were heroes not because of the
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other good stuff, but because they came and claimed it. For hundreds of years, this would not have been
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controversial to say. It would have been perhaps the least controversial thing to say, and now you're
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not allowed to say it at all, but I will anyway. Now, not all colonization is good. There are evil forms
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of the practice. For example, the cultural colonization that the left engages in today when Western
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governments fly the pride flag on their embassies and try to export, you know, the LGBT agenda and gender
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ideology into Africa and other regions of the world that don't want it. That is a form of ideological
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colonization, and it's evil. But the colonization that brought Europeans to this part of the world hundreds
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of years ago, that was good. Not everything that happened during those many centuries was good, obviously.
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History is not that simple. People can commit evil in the pursuit of a worthwhile goal. That happens
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all the time, and nobody would ever say that the conquerors and colonizers of this land were perfect
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angels. But we should celebrate them, and we should celebrate what they achieved. This was all happening
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at a time when much of the world was undiscovered, unsettled, uncivilized, and it fell to brave and determined
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men, most of them living, of course, long before George Washington, to get into ships and sail into
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unknown sea to discover unknown lands. And then to those after them, men and women, just as brave,
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to settle that wilderness and spread civilization. They had every right to do it according to the law
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of conquest, which was the law that governed the entire globe, and the law that every native tribe
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lived and killed and died by. Despite what you may be told, a scattered assortment of primitive tribes
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did not own this entire hemisphere. These tribes, which were about 3,000 years behind much of the rest
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of the world, if not 4,000 years, did not have some kind of divine right to keep this entire half of the
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globe to themselves forever. They conquered whatever land they occupied, conquered it by brutality and
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bloodshed every time. And then they claimed thousands of square miles of wilderness as their
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own, even though they weren't using almost any of it and couldn't defend almost any of it.
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And so a far more advanced civilization came along and claimed it. That's the way of the world.
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And it's good that it happened. What was the other option anyway? I mean, let's imagine history the
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way that these leftist idiots think that it ought to have played out. The early explorers came to the
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Americas. They find primitive people living here. Then they go home and say, never mind, guys, call
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off the whole age of discovery thing. That entire part of the earth is owned by people who haven't
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discovered the wheel yet. It's all theirs. The whole thing. We can't go there. What happens next?
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The tide of civilization comes to a crashing halt and the earth forever remains divided by some kind of
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time warp where one half of it lives 3,000 years in the past. Forget about how absurdly impossible
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such a scenario is. Would it even be preferable if it could have happened? I mean, it could not have
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happened. It could not have happened that way. It just couldn't. But even if it could have, would it
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have been preferable? Would that have been a better thing? Obviously not. If this land had never been
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colonized and conquered, forget about the technological advancements that never would
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have been made. Certainly never would have happened here and possibly never developed at all.
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Forget about the absence of modern medicine. Forget about the fact that people would still be dying by
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diseases that don't even put us out of work these days. Consider that instead that slavery would still
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exist here, just as it always did among native tribes. It still would. There would still be slavery
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across this entire hemisphere. There would still be constant warfare where defeated combatants were
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tortured and killed. Women were captured as sex slaves. Children were either killed or kidnapped.
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Just as was routine among native tribes. There would certainly be no human rights here. No democracy.
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None of that. Now I'm not saying that the early settlers came here to spread democracy, obviously.
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I'm saying that the people who lament the settling of this land are lamenting the existence of everything
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they pretend to cherish. They are pining for a version of this part of the world where nothing that
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they value or pretend to value exists. And that is why they, the anti-colonialists, are once again today
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canceled. That'll do it for this portion of the show as we move over to the members block. Hope to see you
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