Ep. 1144 - Bud Light, Nike, And Jack Daniels Bow Before The LGBT Altar
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Summary
It s been a woke bonanza this week in the corporate world, as Bud Light, Nike, Jack Daniels, and Build-A-Bear all come out endorsing drag queens and transgenderism. But why are all these companies going woke? Why is it happening, and what can we realistically do about it?
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Today on The Matt Walsh Show, it's been a wokeness bonanza this week in the corporate world as Bud Light, Nike, Jack Daniels, and Build-A-Bear all come out endorsing drag queens and transgenderism.
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But why are all these companies going woke? Why is it happening? And what can we realistically do about it? I have a plan, and I'll lay it out for you today.
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Also, the White House refuses to endorse any age limits at all for gender surgeries for children. They say it's up to the child to choose.
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NPR gets devoured from within by its own left-wing employees, which is always fun.
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And the classic American novel Gone with the Wind will now come with a lengthy essay condemning the book for its racism.
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All of that and more today on The Matt Walsh Show.
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This week began with Anheuser-Busch, the makers of an alcoholic goat urine beverage who they call a Bud Light,
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signing an endorsement deal with the woman-faced minstrel show performer Dylan Mulvaney.
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Now, some conservatives, the ones who still somehow don't realize what time it is,
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refuse to believe that Bud Light would betray them like this.
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After all those many gallons of the beer-like substance they consumed out of red plastic cups in their younger days,
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how could the company stab them in the back now after all of that?
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It must be some kind of April Fool's prank, they insisted.
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But then Anheuser-Busch confirmed in a statement that it was no joke at all.
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They had indeed partnered with Mulvaney in an effort to, quote,
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authentically connect with the audiences across various demographics and passion points.
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they had succeeded in connecting with any men in their customer base
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whose greatest passion point is dressing up like an adolescent girl
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and passing out tampons in the women's restroom, as Mulvaney is known to do.
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On Wednesday, Mulvaney excitedly announced another major brand partnership,
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and in a series of posts, the male TikTok user modeled Nike leggings and a Nike sports bra.
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So if you're a woman shopping for leggings and sports bras,
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and you want to know what the product might look like on the female body,
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you know, like your body, unfortunately you're out of luck.
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But if on the other hand, you want to know what they look like on a flat-chested man
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with the physique of a large tropical flightless bird,
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But so far we've covered only two days of the week.
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Corporate America has seven days to cram as much wokeness in as they can,
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and as we've seen, they'll give it their best effort every single week.
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So also then this week, a Jack Daniels campaign went viral,
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a campaign which actually was first launched in 2021,
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The company teamed up with drag queens from the show RuPaul's Drag Race
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And actually, it appears that Jack Daniels produced an entire reality TV series
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that they released on their YouTube channel about drag queens called Summer Glamp.
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It sounds pretty gay, just based on the title and the description,
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but you have no idea just how gay it actually is.
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We got up in the morning, honey, it was just pouring.
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I'm so glad we're not in drag and heels and wigs right now.
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Can you imagine in, like, the weather being so bad and just makeup and hair?
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Let's go to the town square and get some party supplies.
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and every single one of you are dressed to the noise.
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This is going to be the fiercest party Lynchburg has ever seen.
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We invited all of Lynchburg, so I wonder who's going to show up.
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You know, Jack Daniel's whiskey was founded by a guy named Jasper Newton Daniel,
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and he first learned how to make moonshine whiskey
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from a local preacher in his town of Lynchburg.
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I can only imagine how that old Tennessee moonshiner must feel looking on from the grave
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and seeing what they've done to his beloved whiskey and his name.
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And yet, this was not the only drag queen corporate brand sponsorship to make the news this week.
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Build-A-Bear announced also, just in time for Easter, a new RuPaul drag bear.
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For the low price of $56, you can buy a stuffed bear dolled up in hideous makeup
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and a ridiculous wig, just like a real-life drag queen.
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Nike, Jack Daniel's, Bud Light, Build-A-Bear, all in one week.
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Hershey's is another recent one, of course, of companies that have not simply gone woke.
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Okay, it's not just that, but have in fact adopted and promoted
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the most extreme tenets of left-wing orthodoxy.
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We're talking about companies that, we're not talking about companies that simply issue
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shallow platitudes about diversity and inclusion or whatever.
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Hiring a man to model your sports bra, putting out a video series with flamboyant homosexual
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drag queens vomiting rainbow colors all over the screen.
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These companies are not cautiously dipping their toes into the progressive pool.
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They are diving headfirst into the deepest end.
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And they're doing it in spite of the fact that their customer base is, at best,
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You know, at the end of that Jack Daniel's clip, we see a burly old guy with a straw hat
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and overalls and a thick Tennessee accent showing up to a bar decorated with rainbow balloons
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Okay, that is not, to put it mildly, reflective of reality.
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Okay, that guy does look like a Jack Daniel's drinker and probably a Bud Light drinker, too,
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But I highly doubt that he represents the typical audience for LGBT inclusion propaganda.
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Rather, he represents the audience alienated by such propaganda.
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Well, to answer that, we have to understand two things.
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And they're both things that conservatives tend to miss.
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So, first, the brands are not trying to appeal to their customers with this kind of stuff.
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So, when we say, this doesn't appeal to the customers, well, it's not meant to.
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The goal is to make their customers or remake them.
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So, if you're a Jack Daniel's consumer, you probably have no interest in drag queens and gay pride.
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But the point is they want to make you interested in those things.
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Are the people in Jack Daniel's or Bud Light corporate offices,
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are they really passionate about spreading the LGBT gospel?
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This is where you have to understand the second point.
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The left has taken away all of the neutral cultural ground.
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You're not allowed to be neutral, according to the left.
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And this is why brands like Bud Light and Nike and Jack Daniel's and Bill LaBear
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are giving endorsement deals to dudes in dresses and hosting reality TV summer camps for drag queens.
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In the past, a beer company or a whiskey company or a shoe manufacturer,
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If they did any virtue signaling, and companies have always done that,
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but they would have been signaling universal or what used to be universal values,
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But now the left has declared that you're either with them or against them.
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And the left has ways of enforcing this principle.
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James Lindsay put out an important thread on Twitter explaining one of these ways.
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The far left group called the Human Rights Campaign.
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They put out a report every year called the Corporate Equality Index.
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And corporations are given a score, which is meant to measure their fidelity to left-wing doctrines.
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If these companies do not go out of their way, again, it's not good enough to just, you know, not say anything.
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If they don't go out of their way to wave the pride flag and display their wokeness bona fides,
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they will be judged socially irresponsible, quote-unquote, and they'll have points deducted.
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You know, and you don't want, if you're a corporation, you don't want to have a low score with the Human Rights Campaign.
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The HRC is just one of many well-funded left-wing advocacy groups whose sole purpose on this earth is to use these extortion techniques
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to extract ideological concessions from corporate America.
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There are many well-organized, well-funded, well-oiled machines that the left has at their disposal to do exactly this.
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They can be baptized into wokeism and openly worship at the LGBT altar.
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Or they can, by default, align themselves with conservatives, thereby failing the social responsibility test.
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In other words, they can be left-wing or they can be right-wing.
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And again, if your answer is, well, why can't they be neither?
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If you are not openly left-wing, you are right-wing.
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The left will do everything in their power, and they have a lot of it.
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To make any corporation pay dearly for disloyalty.
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Piss off the right, on the other hand, and you'll have to deal with some angry tweets.
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It's kind of a psychological coping mechanism on the right.
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We repeat it as a mantra in the mirror while we're doing our daily affirmations.
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We whisper it while we rock ourselves to sleep at night.
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But like most comforting thoughts, it's not true.
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So go woke, go broke, at least on the corporate level.
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Go woke, go broke really means, in practice, go woke and then continue along the same as you did before, suffering no consequences whatsoever.
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However, the consequences are ultimately suffered by us because the corporate wokeness has the desired effect.
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It commercializes it, which is the same thing as normalizing it.
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And it gradually makes it seem less radical and less left-wing to most people, even many on the right, who ostensibly oppose the wokeness.
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See, many of us still will see advertisements as merely reflecting the culture, right?
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That's why we're so surprised when we see Jack Daniels turn into Jacqueline Daniella.
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This doesn't reflect the Jack Daniels customer base, we shout indignantly.
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Again, they don't want to represent your values.
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Well, there's a lot we need to do and can do, but let's stay focused on this specific issue of corporate wokeness and one specific thing we can do.
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The first is we have to realize and accept that we are right now in the position of insurgents.
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So we are culturally, in effect, guerrilla fighters stationed in a camp out in the forest.
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We are not going to win a pitched battle against the entire system all at once.
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We're not going to take on all of corporate America and bring it to its knees.
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It's already on its knees, but for a different reason and not for us.
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Take a page from the left's old playbook, which is really just the playbook of cultural insurgency, and what we do is we pick one target, one victim.
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Every brand is kicking us in the shins and spitting on our faces.
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So we can throw up our hands and do nothing, which is surrender, or we can try to boycott them all at the same time, which is futile and doomed to failure.
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Or we can pick one, just one, and target it with a ruthless boycott campaign.
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And then you're going to have conservatives say, well, what about this one?
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I mean, why are you boycotting this one, that, that, and that?
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Well, because we're trying to do something here.
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Can you be strategic in your thinking for once in your life?
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Drag their name, drag the company's name through the mud.
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Make them anathema to the tens of millions of conservatives who still live in this country and whose financial support these companies still need in order to survive.
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Start with companies who have a high percentage of red state conservative customers.
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And companies that would be relatively easy to boycott.
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And companies who likely have a high percentage of employees who would be on our side and are going to give pressure from the inside.
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So, probably not, you know, something like Hershey's.
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But you also need one that's big enough to send a message.
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So, actually, Jack Daniels might be the perfect candidate for this.
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Whoever it is, you make an example out of someone.
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Force them to come crawling back to us and apologize.
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Just like the corporations have been doing for the left for decades.
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We can exert influence on the culture in this way.
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We can stand up for ourselves and show that if you insult and disrespect us, we will punch back.
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I know it works because the left has been doing it forever.
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Pick a hospital in a state where I know we have influence and cultural power.
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Direct attention and scrutiny at them specifically.
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Even though Vanderbilt was far from the only hospital mutilating kids.
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And the whole thing was made illegal statewide.
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And we can scale this up to target brands and corporations.
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We just need focus and strategic intelligence to do it.
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It's somewhat amazing, maybe not amazing at all, actually,
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that it's taken this long for this question to be directly asked during a White House press briefing.
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And finally, yesterday, a reporter asked Karen Jean-Pierre about child gender transition
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and what age she thinks people should be allowed to undergo these procedures.
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Actually, what age does Biden think children should be allowed to undergo these procedures?
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And that's when Karen Jean-Pierre stunned the entire nation by taking a firm, common sense,
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moral stand and declaring that obviously nobody under the age of 18 should be having their bodies
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Her answer was as ghastly and horrifying as you would already expect.
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Indiana just banned puberty blockers, hormone therapies, and gender transition surgeries for
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I'm wondering what the president's reaction is to the Indiana governor signing that bill
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And does the president have a position on at what age these kinds of therapies and surgeries
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That's something for a child and their parents to decide.
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It's not something we believe should be decided by legislators.
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Now, she throws the parent into, you know, she says a child and the parent can decide,
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She believes that children can consent and she isn't willing to put any age limit on it.
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Okay, so she isn't willing to even say, well, hey, obviously we shouldn't be doing sex
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Biden isn't willing to put any age limit on it because the child can choose.
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Now, if this sounds an awful lot like the building blocks for the normalization of pedophilia,
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There is, after all, one reason why we say that a quote unquote sexual relationship between
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And we say that, we know that, because children lack the mental and emotional development to
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Now, children are also smaller and weaker, and so there are those physical power dynamics
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But we would never say that, you know, a relationship between, you know, an adult and another adult
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who's shorter and undersized is rape because of the physical power dynamics.
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We correctly say that of children because they cannot consent.
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So, it does no good for the pedophile caught up in the Chris Hansen, you know, to catch
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Have you ever watched, you know, those reports?
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And they would always say some version of, oh, but the child said they wanted to.
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We were coy in disgust at that excuse because it is disgusting.
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A pedophile that argues that it's okay to have sex with children because the child said
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No, we say to that man, okay, you're going to prison.
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In fact, better yet, you should be going to the electric chair.
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Okay, well, if a child cannot consent, cannot consent, is incapable, then how is it that
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he suddenly develops that capacity when it comes to sterilization drugs, castration drugs,
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How does he go from an innocent child totally incapable of consent to somebody with the mental
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clarity and wherewithal to meaningfully consent to having things done to his body that will
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permanently and irrevocably change him in profound, life-altering, dramatic ways in the
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Now, we should address the common rejoinder here, which is that, well, this is different
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because on the one hand, we're talking about pedophilia, rape.
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And on the other hand, they would say, we're talking about a medical procedure.
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And so these gender transitions, a medical, it's a life-saving medical procedure, in fact,
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The first problem, of course, is that chemical castration and gender transition butchery are
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But the other problem is that there's a contradiction here.
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Because if these procedures are life-saving, if these are legitimate medical procedures
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and, in fact, are life-saving, as the left claims, then why are you talking about the
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Because in that case, in the case of actually saving a child's life, obviously their input
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I mean, if the doctor tells me that my son, God forbid, has a brain tumor, and it's obviously
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we need to take the brain tumor out or your son's going to die, I'm told.
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And then if my son were to tell me, well, he doesn't want to get it removed because he's
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afraid of the surgery or whatever else, well, he's still getting it removed.
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I'm going to force him to do it because I'm saving his life.
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I'm going to save his life, whether he likes it or not.
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He doesn't understand that he'll die if he doesn't get the surgery.
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He doesn't even really understand what death is at his age.
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His consent in the case of an actual life-saving medical procedure is just not relevant.
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In fact, even in a non-life-saving, legitimate medical procedure, when I was 12 years old and
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And she said, no, you're getting them because you're not going to have crooked teeth your
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Whether you like it or not, you're getting the braces.
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So going back to the gender transition stuff, the fact that these people always say, and
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they always say this, that it's a choice between the doctors, the parents, and the child, that
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means that they are tacitly admitting that these procedures certainly are not life-saving
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And they're not even valid, non-life-saving medical procedures, because if they really
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believed that these were necessary and life-saving measures, whenever they're asked about this,
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the age limit question, they would answer that, well, this will happen.
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And because we're saving the child's life, it's what needs to happen.
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Just like we would never ask, well, at what age can you have a, should a child have a tumor
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Well, this is, that's not relevant to this conversation.
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Because if they say that, then they've put themselves in the position of having to prove,
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having to defend that these are actually life-saving procedures.
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You see, they can't defend the merits of the procedures themselves, which means that
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they'll retreat to this kind of, hey, it's their choice, let them make a choice thing.
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They retreat to the kind of arguments that would never come up if these were actually
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So for the purposes of the age discussion, suddenly they talk about the procedures like
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That's only the sort of thing you say when it comes to elective and cosmetic procedures.
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It's the only way the child's preferences could possibly be relevant.
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But if you're claiming that children can consent to elective and cosmetic procedures, now we're
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Because being able to consent to an elective and cosmetic and body-altering procedure, significantly
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body-altering and life-changing, we're not talking about piercing your ear or something.
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Being able to consent to that, the ability to consent to that, means that you have the
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I mean, that shows a profound and total ability to consent.
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Anyone that can consent to that, to life-changing, body-altering, cosmetic and elective procedures,
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this is somebody who has the majority to consent.
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It really is logically impossible to argue that a person is mature enough to consent to
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an elective, cosmetic, life-altering, profoundly body-altering procedure, and yet not mature
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Which is why rational, decent people take all of that and push that all into adulthood.
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So you shouldn't be doing any of that into adulthood.
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When it comes to gender transition, you shouldn't be doing it at all, even in adulthood.
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But what we need to notice here is not only the slippery slope and what they're setting
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up in the future, but also in the way that they talk about this issue when it comes to
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Again, they are tacitly admitting that this is elective cosmetic procedure, that it is not
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Marjorie Taylor Greene upset some people with some comments that she made on Tucker last
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Really quick, since you were just there, but Mayor Adams described New York as, quote,
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They're covered with people basically dying on drugs.
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New York is the greatest garbage heap that the world has ever seen.
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And of course, the left, they were very upset about this.
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There were lots of arguments like this one that AOC made.
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She said, if anybody went on TV and talked about a rural area like this, it'd be gloves
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If she doesn't like the greatest city in the United States, that's her problem.
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Anyway, and so there was a lot of this sort of thing, people on the left saying, well,
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you know, if there was a Democrat politician who went out into the country and came back
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and made these kinds of comments about the folks living out in the country, that they
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would, that the right would be attacking them and everything else.
00:30:13.900
Well, yeah, but you see, you know, the difference is that if Marjorie Taylor Greene had gone out
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to the country and then come back and said, well, it's filthy, it's disgusting, it smells
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There's drug addicts hobbling around all over the street.
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If she had said all that after taking a drive through the country, it wouldn't be true.
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And so that's what would make it an outrageous statement.
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It's true of this city, of really almost every city in America, every, every large city, but
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Like it, it, it would be, it's not even, you know, if somebody said that about, uh, after
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visiting the countryside, a rural town, you know, it wouldn't offend me.
00:31:07.780
I would just think this person's mentally ill, but to go out to the country and then come
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back and be repulsed by it, to find it just to use a word like disgusting, but you got
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all this open space and green and trees and, you know, they're in farms and everything to
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That would just show that you are, that you have a, some kind of mental illness.
00:31:30.840
Whereas being disgusted by what you see in the city, that makes a lot of sense.
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Much of what you see, last time I've been to New York several, many times.
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And every time I've gone while we're there, we spend like the whole time talking about
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There are many things that would disgust any normal person.
00:32:00.260
You know, rodents, uh, human waste on the, like, of course that's gross.
00:32:13.880
It's grimy, grungy, you know, again, there's that, that smell to it.
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If you're not disgusted by that, if you're not grossed out, it's just because you are,
00:32:28.080
Um, it's like, it's a, it's like a Stockholm syndrome thing, but anybody who's accustomed
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to being out in space and having fresh air and having, you know, and seeing trees and
00:32:38.540
grass and, uh, where, where you don't have to worry about getting carjacked at every stop
00:32:44.260
Anyone who's been, who's used to that and then they go into the city.
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Yes, it's going, it's going to be repulsive to them.
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They haven't built up the, uh, kind of psychological immunity to this stuff that you have.
00:32:59.040
This is a interesting story from the Daily Wire and a funny one.
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National Public Radio NPR employees accused the network CEO of racism during a virtual
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all staff presentation last week, detailing financial metrics and diversity level updates
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following the organization slashing approximately 10% of its workforce.
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NPR officials laid off 84 employees last week and halted production on four seasonal podcasts,
00:33:21.640
including Invisibilia, Louder Than a Riot, and Rough Translation.
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Nobody's heard of any of those, which is probably why they got cut.
00:33:29.860
The Wall Street Journal reported the network officially would cut another 13 employees from
00:33:35.060
Following the exodus from ex-staffers Lansing and other executives reportedly tuned into a Zoom
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meeting to address the news department and the programming team.
00:33:42.460
Taking questions from employees that included how many employees of different races and
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identities were laid off compared to those who retained their job.
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Lansing said, we're here today to take your questions and see if we can move together through
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At one point during the meeting, the Wall Street Journal reported a laid off black employee
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grilled Lansing about why some podcasts lacked marketing support, called out by name the
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executives for repeating statements they made in the past concerning more accountability,
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and questioned how the network would make diversity essential.
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Lansing pointed to the network's mission statement and told the group to turn down the rhetoric
00:34:17.940
He said, you know, I would never do that to you.
00:34:21.900
Despite Lansing's remarks about making such decisions, a group of employees reportedly accused
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him of tone policing, causing them to feel offended and uncomfortable with the conversation,
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The left wants it around, and so it's going to stay around.
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But at least we can enjoy the schadenfreude of seeing individual people within the organization
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get eaten alive by the monster they helped to create.
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I think it would be rude and ungrateful to not enjoy it.
00:35:08.060
You know, if you're a white leftist in a position of power within any organization, you help
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to establish these rules, which clearly say that you can't do anything that a black person
00:35:27.880
You can't fire a black person as a white person without being automatically racist.
00:35:31.680
And you can't, and if they shout and scream at you, you can't object or you are tone policing.
00:35:41.220
And the left has a euphemism for everything, especially they have euphemisms to excuse their
00:35:47.360
So suddenly expecting somebody on the left to display a modicum of respect and maturity,
00:35:53.140
that is now tone policing, which is one of the many euphemisms that I sort of wish had existed
00:36:02.080
Maybe I could have tried that on, I don't know, I could have tried that on my dad or something.
00:36:07.960
If he told me to do something, I responded with a sarcastic remark.
00:36:19.920
Maybe I'm glad the euphemisms didn't exist, because I don't think that would have gone
00:36:25.780
Tennessee Republicans have moved to expel three Democratic state representatives from the
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House who joined protesters during their storming of the Capitol building last week, leading
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chants with a bullhorn and disrupting the floor session.
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Expulsion resolutions have been filed against Representative Gloria Johnson, Representative
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Justin Jones, and Representative Justin Pearson over their actions last Thursday after
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about 400 people rushed into the Tennessee State Capitol building in Nashville.
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And a final vote on whether to remove the Democrats will take place on Thursday.
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The fact that they're trying to pass these resolutions in the first place is a really
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And this is, I got to tell you, the Tennessee GOP has been really impressing me lately.
00:37:06.260
And they're impressing me because they are using the power that's been entrusted to them
00:37:13.020
They are operating on the mandate that the voters have given them by electing them to
00:37:18.140
use the power that the law gives them to enact the agenda that the people of this state want
00:37:30.280
When we see this from Republicans, we shouldn't be super impressed.
00:37:33.740
We should be pleased, kind of tip our cap and say, well done.
00:37:38.080
But we shouldn't be blown away, impressed by it, because we should be accustomed to Republicans
00:37:45.100
simply using the power at their disposal to enact the agenda that they ran on.
00:37:54.640
But we're not used to that because Republicans don't usually do that.
00:38:04.780
That is 100% what they would do if the shoe is on the other foot.
00:38:12.480
And in spite of what they would do, aside from that, it's the right thing to do.
00:38:17.380
You know, they, by their own standards, they participated in an insurrection right here
00:38:37.940
And they put out a, it's actually a lengthy report.
00:38:43.480
But let's just watch a little bit of this, about the traumatized tomato plants.
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Now, your house plants might be crying out for help, if only you could hear them.
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Researchers at Tel Aviv University found that plants make popping sounds undetectable to
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the human ear, and they get noisier if they need water or if their stems have been cut.
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The audio of the sounds made by a dry tomato plant have been sped up and edited so it can be heard.
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He's a senior lecturer at the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University and a co-author of the study.
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But, Professor, this blew us away in the newsroom.
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What made you even think to listen to plants, to try to listen?
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So, actually, the idea was of my colleagues originally, of my colleague Lila Hadani, who's a plant scientist working on evolution.
00:39:58.920
And we know that plants can communicate with each other using chemicals, volatiles.
00:40:10.160
I mean, the real answer when he's asked, what made you think to try to listen to the sounds plants make when you cut into them?
00:40:15.740
The real answer should have been, well, I have a mental illness, and that's what made me think to do that.
00:40:20.580
But this is, listen, this is a point that I've made to vegans.
00:40:28.120
And I think this is the problem you run into if you're a vegan.
00:40:30.200
When you start making the moral argument against eating meat, you end up having to defend your position based on this kind of species chauvinism.
00:40:41.060
Now, I don't have a problem with species chauvinism.
00:40:42.900
I am a speciesist, and proudly, I proudly engage in that sort of discrimination myself.
00:40:49.540
I absolutely believe that human beings are the superior species on planet Earth.
00:40:55.340
And while we should respect them as living creatures, as God's creatures, we do also have the moral right to utilize them for legitimate ends.
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And legitimate ends means food, labor, protection, even entertainment.
00:41:07.140
Like, animals, people always feel sorry for the animals at the zoo.
00:41:11.040
They are fulfilling, arguably, the highest vocation that any animal can possibly fulfill because they're bringing joy to human beings and especially to children.
00:41:25.780
But if you're a vegan, you would reject everything that I just said, and you would reject this kind of hierarchical view of life on the planet.
00:41:33.020
You would say, well, who are we to think that we can use other living creatures?
00:41:37.680
But the problem is you're only kicking the can down the road, right?
00:41:40.820
You're not getting rid of the species hierarchy.
00:41:42.780
You're adjusting it because plants are living things, too.
00:41:45.940
And you might say, well, plants don't have feelings.
00:41:49.140
To which I respond, first of all, the chicken that they killed to make the chicken wings I ate last night also doesn't have feelings or self-awareness.
00:41:56.920
But then I would say, secondarily, and maybe slightly contradicting myself, but whatever, how do you know that the plants don't have feelings and consciousness?
00:42:07.440
How can you say what the experience of a tomato is like?
00:42:11.700
I mean, for all we know, tomatoes have a rich inner life.
00:42:15.040
We don't, you know, for all we know, they have feelings and dreams and desires.
00:42:18.080
Maybe tomatoes are in the garden singing to each other and reciting poetry.
00:42:29.560
They're tapping out a message to us saying, please stop eating us.
00:42:32.480
They scream out in agony as you, the vegan, viciously slice into them and eat their flesh while they're still alive, watching as pieces of them are consumed.
00:42:44.960
And the other members of the vegetable community, you know, the lettuce and the cucumber and the carrot and Joe Biden and all of them, they sit in your salad watching in horror as their comrades are devoured.
00:42:55.200
And you people have the gumption and the gall to judge the rest of us for doing exactly what you're doing while you engage in this plant-based genocide.
00:43:07.940
So can't we all agree that we should be able to eat whatever non-human life forms we want?
00:43:17.340
I think that's the most simple thing, because if we can't agree on that, then we end up with this kind of self-contradictory mess, this arbitrary hierarchy.
00:43:27.160
Or you could take a more consistent position and just say, well, we should all starve to death and not eat anything.
00:43:31.700
But if we're not going to do that, then I think we're only left with eat whatever you want, eat any living thing you want, as long as it's not a human being.
00:43:40.860
That's where I would, I think that's where you have to lay the marker down.
00:43:51.680
If you're a man, it's required that you grow a beard.
00:44:01.780
Locutus says, if Dylan Mulvaney is indeed what he says he is, an adolescent girl, then Bud Light should be indicted for providing an underage girl with alcohol.
00:44:09.460
That would be holding them to their own standards, as Matt says.
00:44:13.820
Now, when you're dealing with this subject, the contradictions, the inherent self-contradictions are so rampant and rife that you can really choose your pick of the litter.
00:44:23.160
Basti says, Walsh, I remember a few years back asking you to leave a sinking ship.
00:44:30.800
Your voice alone is taking the Daily Wire in the right direction.
00:44:32.820
Watching your take from the car in the driveway was so relatable.
00:44:38.220
I was usually in a, like a parking lot, oftentimes a Walmart parking lot, sometimes a parking garage if the sun was shining too brightly.
00:44:47.040
And also, it's not, it's definitely not just my voice here at the Daily Wire at all.
00:44:57.400
Trump had sex with someone, then said to them, here's some money, don't tell anybody.
00:45:00.860
I'm not American, so there's obviously some nuances to the word felony that I don't get.
00:45:07.600
You get it more than the DA of Manhattan, Alvin Bragg, does.
00:45:25.000
It's also, well, the immorality was having the affair in the first place.
00:45:35.600
And, like, the first level being really, you know, the main reason is that Trump should have realized that, you know, in modern America, it's not actually going to hurt you politically for it to come out that you had an affair with a prostitute.
00:45:52.500
So there's no reason to even pay for her silence in the first place.
00:45:55.880
And even if you do, you obviously can't trust her to actually stay silent, so you're just wasting your money.
00:46:09.780
Unless we're making extramarital affairs illegal.
00:46:16.480
Let's have a law where it's illegal to have an extramarital affair in the first place?
00:46:19.620
If that's what you're advocating for, I'm listening.
00:46:22.340
But I don't think that is what they're advocating for.
00:46:26.260
And if that was against the law in Manhattan, then the entire city would be, you know, in a labor camp by now.
00:46:34.960
Which is just yet another reason why I would eagerly listen to such a proposal.
00:46:45.040
Grand Marshal Steve says, Matt is delusional if he thinks DeSantis would do better than Trump.
00:46:49.620
Look, DeSantis did win a purple state by 20 points.
00:46:54.220
He flipped cities that were blue, red, so we know that he can do that.
00:46:58.160
Yeah, it's on a state level, not a national level.
00:47:01.580
But the main thing with DeSantis for me is that he is an unknown entity on a national level.
00:47:05.920
He's basically, people know who he is, but how he would fare in a national election, that is unknown because he hasn't done it before.
00:47:13.000
Which means that there's the potential for a high ceiling.
00:47:19.240
The issue with Trump, okay, it's just we have to face reality.
00:47:23.940
The issue is that we kind of know where the ceiling is because we know that there's so much baked in and there's no one left to convince.
00:47:35.480
You can kind of look right now around the country and you can see, okay, well, how many people are there who would potentially vote for Donald Trump?
00:47:43.960
Whatever it is right now, it's not going to change in 2024.
00:47:46.660
And my worry is that the ceiling is almost high enough to get over the edge and win the election.
00:48:02.260
For DeSantis, it would be a real challenge, too.
00:48:05.420
But there I see, you know, it's like the Dumb and Dumber thing.
00:48:18.200
St. Pete Runner says, so your argument is you think Trump should be above the law because other rich and powerful people are, LOL.
00:48:25.560
No, I don't think anyone should be above the law.
00:48:28.760
But they're treating him like he's beneath the law.
00:48:31.460
Okay, they're treating him like they can make up laws to put him in jail.
00:48:36.140
Okay, they're treating him unequal in the other direction.
00:48:44.260
They haven't even officially accused him of an actual crime.
00:48:51.360
And then Dudley Buchanan says, it's very evident that your company has thrown their support behind DeSantis, which is fine.
00:48:57.180
But you were obviously alienating me or you were close to alienating me by pushing us constantly to be as rhino as you obviously are.
00:49:04.900
You don't like Trump and you're working on making sure that DeSantis is pushed forward.
00:49:07.880
You're making a terrible mistake because you're going to lose a lot of us.
00:49:10.460
Okay, first of all, the company isn't supporting anyone.
00:49:13.780
The company doesn't tell me who to support or not support.
00:49:16.640
It always makes me laugh when I hear this from people.
00:49:21.820
My entire time here, I've never had one conversation with anyone about we need you to take this position on this issue.
00:49:32.820
And if it ever did happen, I would walk right out the door.
00:49:38.320
And not only that, I would tell everyone it happened because that would be such a betrayal.
00:49:49.260
But look, if you think I'm a rhino, by which I assume you mean fake conservative,
00:49:54.260
you know, establishment squish or whatever, if you can listen to everything I say on this show every day
00:50:02.420
and you can see the things that I do to actually fight in real and tangible ways in the culture
00:50:07.880
and in ways that, you know, very few people on our side are willing to do.
00:50:13.740
If you can look at that and come away with the conclusion that I'm like a fake conservative
00:50:20.260
because I don't praise Trump enough by your standards, then you're, you know, I'm sorry,
00:50:26.980
It's been possessed by a personality cult and there's not a lot I can say to you.
00:50:30.640
Like if Trump is still your litmus test for true conservatism,
00:50:34.340
if that's the one thing you base it on is what a person says about Trump, about one guy, about a politician,
00:50:46.520
And one guy, one politician will never be the litmus test.
00:50:56.020
But I'm not sitting here saying, if you don't support DeSantis, you're not a true conservative.
00:51:05.040
Okay, you're not ever going to offend me for insulting a politician, even the ones that I like.
00:51:10.100
You know, he's also, he's not my, he's not my best friend.
00:51:14.700
He's not, he's not like a family member who I feel this intense loyalty to, or this, you know,
00:51:21.900
I like him conditionally because he supports, he enacts policies that I support.
00:51:25.940
I'm ready to withdraw that support at any time if he, you know, stops fulfilling his promises,
00:51:35.320
if he sells out, if he goes, you know, I withdraw that support in a heartbeat.
00:51:45.040
You know, if you want to know who the true conservatives are, yeah, listen to what they say,
00:51:49.380
listen to the, listen to the stances they take, and then watch what they actually do.
00:51:52.940
And I will say that, you know, I've, I put quite a lot on the line for this movement and, and we've
00:52:02.880
And so, yeah, I'm going to exercise my right to support or not support whoever the hell I want
00:52:09.880
We're coming up on nine months since I released the groundbreaking documentary,
00:52:16.120
Exposing radical gender ideology for what it is.
00:52:18.740
And you'd think that this would be ample enough time for people to come up with an actual answer
00:52:24.840
As I discovered at the Young America Foundation Q&A in New Mexico just two nights ago,
00:52:28.620
their answers are still just as confusing and nonsensical as they ever were.
00:52:32.280
After my speech, multiple critics of mine and critics of reality evidently stepped up to the mic
00:52:38.160
They cited the usual gender as a social construct type of stuff, other long-winded nonsense.
00:52:43.720
When talking to one self-identified trans woman, quote unquote, so a biological male,
00:52:48.460
I asked a simple, very predictable question that you'd think they'd have an answer for by now.
00:52:57.380
A woman is someone who is included and respected and seen and participates in society recognized
00:53:04.880
Which means that the definition is not only circular, but it also is dependent on other
00:53:11.700
If you haven't seen what is a woman yet, or if you still are on, if you're on the left
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00:53:44.460
If you listen to this show, then you know all about the recent epidemic to hit the publishing
00:53:49.520
It's a parasitic infestation known as sensitivity readers.
00:53:53.200
These are the woke hall monitors hired to read over and apply their sensitivities to both
00:54:00.840
And following the guidance of the sensitivity readers, books are rewritten, languages change,
00:54:04.860
characters, descriptions are edited or removed, so the story can more closely conform to the
00:54:12.500
Now, as we know, they've already subjected the works of Roald Dahl and Ian Fleming to this
00:54:19.400
Many other authors living and dead have fallen victim to it as well.
00:54:23.340
So when you hear that they have released a new edition of the 1936 novel Gone with the Wind,
00:54:28.880
you'll probably assume that this book was also vigorously harassed and assaulted by these
00:54:35.260
But that is not the direction that the publisher, Pan McMillan, decided to go.
00:54:39.480
Because apparently this classic novel set in the South during the Civil War era is so thoroughly
00:54:44.240
objectionable, so deeply shocking and problematic, that it's beyond the powers of the sensitivity
00:54:50.960
From what I understand, a group of sensitivity readers actually tried to make revisions, but
00:54:55.540
after reading just two pages of the book, they all spontaneously combusted, leaving behind
00:54:59.260
nothing but a rainbow-colored cloud and tufts of blue hair floating around.
00:55:05.940
So the publisher has decided to, instead of doing that, they can't lose any more sensitivity
00:55:10.460
readers, they're going to adopt a new strategy.
00:55:13.700
Rather than changing the book, they'll release it in its original form, prefaced with a lengthy
00:55:22.620
So they're still going to publish Margaret Mitchell's classic work, and they're going to profit
00:55:26.020
off of it, but they will scold her sternly for her bigotry in the process.
00:55:32.900
Pan McMillan, the publisher of Margaret Mitchell's classic 1936 American novel, Gone with the Wind,
00:55:38.220
has added a trigger warning in the preface of the book's most recent publication, telling
00:55:41.680
readers that the text is harmful and problematic because of its white supremacist qualities.
00:55:46.380
Telegraph reports that the publisher specifically hired a white writer, Philippa Gregory, to pen
00:55:51.060
an essay to accompany the trigger warning, and details the book's white supremacist elements
00:55:55.240
to avoid hiring a black writer and giving them the emotional labor of such a task.
00:56:05.720
So they hired a white writer to write this apology, not a black writer, because they didn't
00:56:11.300
want to give the black writer the emotional labor.
00:56:13.940
And I want to say this invention of this concept of emotional labor is perhaps the best evidence
00:56:21.020
that we have that human beings, by our nature, need some hardship in life, right?
00:56:31.180
A life devoid of any sort of resistance becomes boring and meaningless.
00:56:34.580
It's like playing ping pong against a blind guy with no arms.
00:56:37.260
You'll win every match, which is nice, but it's not going to be very fun because it isn't
00:56:41.980
So after a while, you'll start to wonder, why even bother?
00:56:47.660
There are drugs to numb every pain, screens to keep us distracted from every uncomfortable
00:56:51.760
thought or emotion, and drugs to numb those as well, machines to do most of our work for
00:56:59.360
We can have anything we want, any product, any meal delivered to our doorstep.
00:57:03.500
A life of relative ease and low resistance unfurls before us.
00:57:08.540
And many people, to ensure that no inconveniences intrude into this picture, elect also not to have
00:57:13.740
Because even with all these modern luxuries and workarounds, parenting is the one way to
00:57:18.420
introduce real high-stakes challenges into your life.
00:57:22.680
And many shy away from it for that exact reason.
00:57:25.760
But they're stuck with human nature regardless.
00:57:29.080
They let their laziness and weakness govern their lives, yet they still desire at least the
00:57:36.340
And this, I believe, is the real source of left-wing victim mentality.
00:57:39.380
It's why they come up with ideas like emotional labor.
00:57:41.420
They don't want to do anything that requires real labor.
00:57:44.360
So instead, they just tell themselves that by existing in their identity group, they are
00:57:48.500
constantly engaged in this kind of invisible, emotional labor.
00:57:52.800
These people love to talk about how exhausted they are, how stressed, how overwhelmed.
00:57:56.480
But they fetishize all of those emotions because they've never authentically experienced them.
00:58:04.180
Like I said, that was a sidebar, but worth noting.
00:58:06.960
So Gone with the Wind is set before and during the American Civil War and tracks protagonist
00:58:11.380
Scarlett O'Hara, the daughter of a southern plantation owner, as she navigates the tumult
00:58:15.920
The story begins with O'Hara living in relative comfort and excess as she considers a variety
00:58:19.100
of men to be her suitors, but her lifestyle radically changes through the course of the
00:58:22.840
The book's publisher now warns readers that they could find the way Mitchell depicted the
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South as racist and hurtful or indeed harmful, that the reader will encounter shocking
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Gone with the Wind is a novel which includes problematic elements, including the romanticism
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of a shocking era in our history and the horrors of slavery.
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This novel includes the representation of unacceptable practices, racist and stereotypical depictions
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and troubling themes, characterization, language and imagery.
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The publisher notes that the book remains true to the original in every way and is reflective
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of the language and period in which it was originally written.
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And they believe changing the text to reflect today's world would undermine the authenticity
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of the original, so as they've chosen instead to leave the text in its entirety.
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This does not, however, constitute an endorsement of the characterization, content, or language
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It's only after the trigger warning that we get the essay from Philippa Gregory condemning
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the author of the book for endorsing the, quote, lost cause and, quote, defending racism
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and, quote, glamorizing and preaching white supremacy.
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So really there are two prefaces and apologies.
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The first is a trigger warning from the publisher.
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The second is a lecture condemning the very book that the reader has presumably purchased
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I am extremely sick and tired of this pompous, self-inflated attitude which retroactively condemns
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people from other eras for failing to have adopted the beliefs and presuppositions of people
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So, will you find, quote, unquote, racism in the words and writings and actions of lots
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of people who lived 90 years ago or 150 years ago or at any other point in history before
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By our standards today, you'll find a ton of racism.
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That's because, by our standards today, virtually everybody in the world of every race was racist
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The idea of full racial equality is extremely new, extremely modern, and extremely Western.
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Still today, it is a conviction and value system not shared by most people outside of the Western
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And even within the Western world, it doesn't take long to discover that the people who call
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themselves anti-racist are, in fact, deeply racist.
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So, still, in theory, in theory, we are a culture which believes in racial equality.
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And that is something that, in theory, distinguishes us from all other cultures on the planet and
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So, it becomes totally absurd, then, to waste time condemning the, quote-unquote, white supremacy,
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the alleged white supremacy of a woman like Margaret Mitchell, who was born before the invention
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All of the people who are issuing these condemnations, all of the people who spend time apologizing for
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or virtue signaling based on the, quote, racism of people who've been dead for many decades,
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all these people, the sensitivity readers, the people putting these disclaimers on books,
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all of these people, all of them, would hold all of those same kinds of beliefs if they lived
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Now, as I said, most of them do today, just it's directed at a different race of people.
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But putting that aside, all of these people would be guilty of these historical sins if they
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happened to have been born slightly earlier on the timeline.
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I know this because these people have completely and unquestionably adopted all of the prevailing
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Okay, they have shown a willingness to say whatever the culture says they should say and
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believe whatever the culture says they should believe.
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The culture tells them that whites are inherently racist.
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They believe that whites are inherently racist.
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The culture tells them that women have penises.
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The culture tells them to wave a Ukrainian flag.
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If they happened to live in 1920, the current things would be very different.
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And so these people would accept and believe all of those things.
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See, it requires moral courage and independent thought and finely tuned critical thinking skills
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to fundamentally question the most ubiquitous beliefs and practices of the age you live in.
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In fact, like we talked about yesterday, very few people prior to the 18th and 19th centuries
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And even the people who did during that time, most of them, the one that were abolitionists,
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would still be considered wildly racist by our modern standards.
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You don't have to go back much farther than the 18th and 19th century to get to a point in the world
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where literally nobody was opposed to slavery or racism.
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Where abolitionism and racial equality didn't exist as concepts.
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In fact, some of the most brilliant human beings in human history lived during this time of many millennia.
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Well, because abolitionism, racial equality, these were movements, our movements,
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resting upon an ideological and intellectual and spiritual framework
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that had to be built slowly over the centuries.
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Someone living in the year 300 couldn't have opposed slavery,
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certainly couldn't have opposed it for the reasons that we do today at any rate,
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because they didn't have the language or foundation to formulate and express that opposition.
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Not because they were dumb, but just because it didn't exist.
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The point here is that we live at the end of that process, okay?
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We happen to be born into a culture where slavery is universally condemned
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Okay, it's not by any virtue of ours that we were born during this time.
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So who the hell are we to condemn or lecture or censor or edit or add trigger warnings
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Who are you, the woke skull, to think that you have any moral high ground to stand on at all?
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You mindless zombies, you conformist drones, you hive-mined insects.
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You have absolutely no capacity to think outside the contemporary box.
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You are guilty of promoting and celebrating all of ours.
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And so you would have promoted and celebrated all of theirs.
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And that is why you are, today, finally canceled.
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