Ep. 1154 - How Public Schools Became LGBT Brainwashing Factories
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The groomers have flocked to Louisiana to speak out against a bill that would prohibit the sexualization of children in public school. At the same time, a new report says that 25% of current high school students identify as LGBT. Also, the Netherlands legalized euthanasia or post-birth abortion relief for toddlers. Brittany Greiner speaks out in favor of men playing women s sports, and Whoopi Goldberg claims that the Bible endorses sex change surgeries for children. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the groomers have flocked to Louisiana to speak out against a bill
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that would prohibit the sexualization of children in public school. At the same time, and on a very
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much related note, a new report says that 25% of current high school students identify as LGBT.
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It's all part of the plan, which we'll talk about today. Also, the Netherlands legalized euthanasia
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or post-birth abortion relief for toddlers. Brittany Greiner speaks out in favor of men
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playing women's sports, and Whoopi Goldberg claims that the Bible endorses sex change surgeries for
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children. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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sexualization of children in school took far too long to materialize, but better late than never
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when it comes to something like this. And now, as we've seen, states across the country, the sane
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ones anyway, have started to pass laws legally protecting kids from this kind of abuse. The latest
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to wade into these waters is Louisiana, where a couple of pieces of legislation were just advanced
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out of the state's House Education Committee and are now headed to the floor of the House. So they
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certainly have a while to go before they are made into law, but they're on the way. The Daily Signal
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has the details on this. It says, new Louisiana legislation would ban public school teachers and
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personnel from discussing sexual orientation and gender identity with students from kindergarten
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through the end of high school. That's not all. Republican Louisiana State Representative
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Dodie Horton's HB-466 would also prevent teachers from discussing their own sexual orientation or
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gender identity with students or using pronouns for a student that differ from the pronouns that
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reflect the sex indicated on the student's birth certificate. If the parents provide written
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permission, school employees could use pronouns for a student that differ from the pronouns on their
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birth certificate. So take note of that last part, right? The bill still allows kids to be
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identified by preferred pronouns, quote unquote, merely stipulating that the parents have to be
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involved in that decision. This is a major concession the Republicans in that state have
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made and one that never should have been made. Schools should not be lying to kids about their
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identity or participating in the lie, even if the parents want them to. Whether the parents want it
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or don't want it, the school shouldn't do it. Also, there's no point in a compromise of this sort.
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The left will shriek in horror anyway. They will be sent into convulsions of demonic rage,
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vomiting and crawling up the walls like Linda Blair and the exorcist, no matter what. Anything less
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than a full capitulation, anything short of fully sacrificing our children on the LGBT altar with no
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conditions, a full sacrifice, anything less than that will be considered a genocidal act of homophobia
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and transphobia. So you might as well just draw a hard line, right? You might as well, you know, deal in,
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in, in, uh, you understand that this is good and evil, black and white, and that there's no gray area here
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because anything less again than full capitulation, this is how they're going to react. Case in point,
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here was the reaction when the education committee voted to advance the pronouns bill. Um, listen to the,
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the, the, the crowd in the background. As amended favorably to the house floor by a seven to five
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vote. Do I have a, is there a motion to adjourn? Thank you. Now to be clear again, they are wailing
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in horror like the souls of the damned in hell because of a bill that simply prohibits teachers
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from secretly referring to children by preferred pronouns. The law only makes it illegal for schools
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to hide a child's gender transition. And that's what they're screaming about. Of course, before the
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legislation advanced through the committee, there was a whole parade of circus freaks who showed up to
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voice their disapproval. Here's a, an apparent reject from the blue man group, a, a, they, them drag queen
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testifying against HB 466, which prevents teachers from discussing gender identity and sexual sexuality,
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uh, sexual orientation with children. Um, here he is. Listen, thank you all for letting me speak.
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I believe we are all here for the same reason, which is to make schools a safe space, safe place
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for students and for faculty to thrive. So I'm excited to share this space with you. But like I said,
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I am Maxwell. I am trans. I am big gay baby. My pronouns are they them. What are yours?
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I'm here to ask you to vote no on HB 466. Speaking before you today is a 27 year old drag artist that
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lives every day to secure kindness, validation, love, and acceptance for the wounded child that
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still feels closeted inside me. For the inner child that remembers feeling alone and alien in school.
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Well, America, it's up to you to decide whose side are you on? Are you on the side of parents
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who don't want their kids to be sexualized in school? Or are you on the side of a grown adult
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in blue face paint who refers to himself as big gay baby? Which way will it be Western man? Which path
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will lead us to flourishing and prosperity? But it wasn't just the drag queens who came out to defend
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grooming. We know that the, you know, the drag queen community, these are the, the nation's loudest and
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most prominent advocates for child abuse, but they're not alone. Certainly. Teachers also came
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to testify. Here's one woman describing a recent conversation she had with her students. Listen.
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Mrs. T, which is what they called me. Mrs. T, are you a boy or are you a girl? Should I really have
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shut that conversation down? Should I have shut it down so that the students, the five students that
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after that conversation came out to me didn't know that it was okay, should I have been punished for
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having that conversation? Those are not my kids. Those are your kids. And they knew that they could
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come to me for that acceptance and that love. Uh, yes, exactly. You're damn right. Those are not
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your kids, Mrs. T. But to answer your question, Mrs. T, no, you don't need to shut down any conversation
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where students ask if you're a boy or a girl. You don't need to shut down that conversation. No one
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is saying that you need to shut down that conversation. The legislation that you're tearfully
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protesting wouldn't require you to shut down that conversation. When you're asked that kind of
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question by the young kids in your class, you can simply say, uh, I'm a girl. Very easy. It's not
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difficult. Now, if you, despite being female, assuming that you are female, that's what it
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appears, uh, if you, despite being female, self-identify as male or as some nonsense like non-binary,
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then you should not be able to talk to the kids about that, right? You should be able to tell them
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your biological identity. Yes, I'm a girl. If you identify something else, you should not be able to tell
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them that. Why is that? Well, because your actual biological identity as female is a fact of
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nature. It's a reality. Facts and reality are the kinds of things we want to teach to our kids in
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school. That's, that's why schools exist. Okay. They exist to teach kids facts about the world. They
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don't teach, uh, they don't exist as a, as a forum for you to express yourself individually and talk to
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kids about your own self-expression and self-perceptions. That's not why the, the students
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are sent to school. Your self-identity as something apart from your biological sex is not a fact. It is
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not a reality. It is ideological. It is fantastical. So therefore it doesn't belong in the classroom.
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Separation of church and state. Isn't that what you people always say? Well, your religious belief
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that the spirit of a man or of a, they, them can somehow be mysteriously trapped within the physical
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frame of a woman or vice versa must be separated from, from your job as an educator employed by the
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state. She claims that five students came out to her after they had this conversation. A journalist,
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Greg Price, who posted all these clips from, from the hearing and you should follow him on Twitter,
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by the way, he's got a lot of good stuff. He reports that this woman is a fourth grade teacher.
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So five fourth graders came out of the closet to her on the spot, according to her.
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You might assume that she's making this up, which is usually a safe assumption. These people lie about
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everything. But the scary thing is that in this case, she's very likely telling the truth.
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This is actually what's going on in elementary schools. And it's all by design. It's the result
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that the groomers have engineered. Their LGBT indoctrination campaign has been so effective
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that now by their own testimony, young prepubescent children are coming out of the closet in mass
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in the middle of class. There are many other teachers and LGBT activists speaking out,
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often howling and screeching like the sounds you might hear if you were lost in the jungle at night.
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We'll play one other clip. This is a self-identified they, them, or no, no, I'm sorry. A self-identified he,
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they, he, they, who, so this is a he, but then also a they, who insists that the failure to groom
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children will lead to suicide. We're used to this claim. We've heard it many times. And here it is
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I identify as a trans male. And I moved to, I'm not a Louisiana native. I moved here five short years ago.
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And in that five short years, this place has become my home. I love this state. I moved here for
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the culture and the people. But this bill fosters an unsafe environment for all children. I keep
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hearing that we're trying to protect children, but instead we're trying to harm them. This bill
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will, as we've heard from other people on suicide rates, this bill will directly impact children
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and cause them suicidality. The blood of trans youth will be on your hands.
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Oh, really? Is that the case, he, they? Well, so you're saying we need to have preferred pronouns
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in school and constant conversations about gender identity and sexual orientation, or
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there will be mass suicides, you say. Okay, then. That's certainly a theory. That's a theory.
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And like any theory, it makes predictions. This is how you test a theory. A theory is going to make
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predictions about the world where we could say, well, if this theory is correct, then we should be able
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to observe XYZ out in the world if this theory is correct. And then you can go and see, do I observe
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that? And if I don't observe it, there's something wrong with the theory. The prediction that this
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theory makes is that as schools become more open and accepting of preferred pronouns and of gender
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identities and so on, the suicide rate goes down. And since school and society in general are certainly
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more open and accepting of these things now than they were 10 years ago or at any other point in
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history, we should find that the suicide rate has gone down over time as acceptance and openness of
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these things has gone up. But is that what we find? Well, let's check with Pew. Pew has this report.
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The share of high school students who experienced what is known as suicidality, which includes suicidal
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thoughts, plans, and attempts, increased from 2011 to 2021, according to new data from the CDC.
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Separately, the CDC also found that after a brief two-year decline in 2019 and 2020, the total number of
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suicide deaths increased in 2021, especially among people of color. Overall, 22% of high school
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students in the recent survey, 22% said they had seriously considered suicide within the past year,
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up from 16% in 2011. 18% said that they made a suicide plan and 10% said they attempted suicide
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at least once compared with 13% and 8% respectively 10 years earlier. All demographic groups across race,
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ethnicity, and sex experienced increases in suicide risk since 2011. That is a very significant
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6% increase from 2011. But in 2011, nobody was talking about preferred pronouns. Nobody was talking
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about that in 2011. There was very little discussion of gender identity or transgenderism.
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It is simply undeniable that schools especially are far more welcoming and accepting of these kinds of
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things and these ideas today than they were 13 years ago. And yet suicide has gone up significantly
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from 13 years ago. Your theory makes a false prediction. Your theory is therefore false.
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But truth, obviously, is not the point. The point is more this. Here's a report published just yesterday
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in The Hill. It says, quote, about one in four high school students identify as LGBTQ, according to other
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data from the CDC. One in four. This was released on Thursday using data from 2021. In 2021, 75.5% of high
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students identified as heterosexual. The CDC's youth risk behavior surveillance system found among high
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school students, 12.2% identified as bisexual, 5.2% as questioning, 3.9% as other, 3.2% as gay or
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lesbian, and 1.8% said they didn't understand the question. The CDC says the number of LGBTQ students went
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from 11% in 2015 to 26% in 2021. 25% of current high school students identify as LGBT. An 11% increase from the high
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school demographics just eight years ago. It is a 150% increase over the millennial generation. It's 10 times the
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number of self-identified LGBT people in the baby boomer generation, and 20 times the number in the generation before that.
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This is the result they're after. It's why they so passionately defend their right to groom and
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sexualize children. This is all part of the most widespread and systematic brainwashing campaign the
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world has ever seen. They are not interested in merely, you know, giving LGBT kids, quote, unquote,
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space to express themselves. They are creating the LGBT kids. That's what they're upset about. That's why
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they show up and they protest these bills, because it's going to interfere with their ability to create
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another generation, another crop of LGBT kids. The school system has become a factory assembly line
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where new LGBT members are manufactured. Perhaps the more accurate illustration is a massive
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cult commune with hundreds of satellites all over the country where children are systematically
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indoctrinated and then inducted into the LGBT cult. It's happening right in front of our eyes right
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now. And the results will be and have been catastrophic for the country and the human race.
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In conclusion, get your kids out of the public school system. Just get them the hell out,
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I often say that you can't be canceled unless you consent to it, that they can't cancel me unless I go
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along with it. And that's true, but there's another part of that equation that I should acknowledge
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because, and that's the reason, right? The reason why they can't cancel me without my consent.
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And the reason is you, as long as I have your support, there's nothing these people can really
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do because they can't force you to stop supporting me or anybody else. They can't, they might try,
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this is part of the game. And that's really what the canceling is all about. At least if you're
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someone in the public eye with a platform, canceling is all about trying to, it's taking
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platforms away, but it's also trying to convince the audience, like, well, don't listen to this
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person. It's a horrible person. And that's what, and that's when the canceling actually works,
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when they can convince you to go, to go, to stop listening, to go somewhere else, to stop supporting.
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That's when the canceling actually happens, but they can't force that. They can't force as much
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as they would like to, they can't force it. So as long as I have that, you know, we're a team and,
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and, and they can't stop it. And the reason why I can, I could be canceled if I went along with
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the cancellation. The reason why I could be canceled if I apologized and backpedaled is that
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I would lose your support. And I should, you know, if I were to, to sit here and, uh, because I can't
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take the pressure anymore and I don't want to be attacked anymore and all the rest of it and, uh,
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whatever. And I were to sit here and apologize, uh, and pledge to reform my ways so that I'm, so that
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I'm more in line with what the left wants me to be. If I were to do that, um, then you guys should
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abandon me because I will have betrayed you. I won't be worth listening to anymore. Um, or
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following. And that's the case for anyone. Once, once the apology happens, the apology, you know,
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cow, uh, uh, cowering before the cancellation mob and apologizing. And we've seen it so many times.
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And what makes it so tragic is that when the person does that, this is why I I've said many times,
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like, I can't defend you anymore. I want to defend you. But now that you've done that, I can't.
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Because I'm defending, how am I going to defend you and the things that you say and the positions
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you take if you won't even do it? Um, and if I were to do the same thing, which would never happen,
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but if it did, then, uh, then you'd have no choice but to say, well, that's, that's unfortunate,
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but we can't listen to that guy anymore. So anyway, I don't want to make this sound like an Oscar
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speech. I want to thank the fans and God, but, uh, but anyway, I do want to thank the fans and God.
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Um, all right. This is from the Daily Wire. Officials in the Netherlands are expanding the
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availability of life termination for children between one and 12 years of age. I told you we're
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getting into something upsetting and it's about as upsetting as it gets. The European nation will
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soon permit doctors to euthanize children deemed to have conditions which will lead to hopeless and
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unbearable suffering. According to an announcement from the Dutch government released earlier this
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month. Officials claim that the, uh, new policy only concerns a small group of terminally ill children
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whose, uh, palliative care options are not sufficient to relieve their suffering and who
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are expected to die in the foreseeable future. This is a very complex subject that deals with
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very harrowing situations, situations you wouldn't wish on anyone. Dutch health minister Ernst
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Coopers said in the, said in the announcement, I am pleased that after intensive consultation with all
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parties involved, we have come to a solution with which we can help these terminally ill children,
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their parents, and also their practitioners, um, help the terminally ill children by killing them
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is what he's saying and killing them against their will. Okay. Now consent does not make
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euthanasia. Okay. That's why I'm 100% absolutely opposed to euthanasia across the board for adults
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also, but at least with, with adults, there is, uh, there is the possibility that they can consent to
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it with a, a one-year-old. It's obviously no consent. So this is something that you're doing
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against the child's will, killing a child, um, and doing it for their own sake. Now
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of course they say, they say that, well, this is only for terminally ill children and, uh, unbearable
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suffering. Death is forced is in the foreseeable future. Even if it, it was relegated only to the
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most extreme cases of terminal illness, it would still be unfathomably horrifying. But we also know
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that, uh, it, it's, it's never relegated to the area that, that they first claim. It never works
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that way. As I've said many times on the left, the left, leftism, progressivism, it's, it is like a
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cancer. It progresses like cancer. It might start small in this area, but it spreads and it grows.
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And, and that always happens. Um, the slippery slope fallacy is not a fallacy. It is a, it is an
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observation of reality. And this is the way that it works. You know, we know in like, like in Canada,
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there was a time in Canada when, uh, euthanasia was only an option for terminally ill people.
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Well, it's not the case anymore. Keeps getting expanded, expanded, and you can already see
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them setting the stage for that. Now death is in the foreseeable future. Well, death is in the
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foreseeable future for everybody. Okay. Like we can foresee death for everyone because we're all mortal
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beings. And, uh, and when, when you, when you compare our lifespan to the, um, entire history
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of the human race and of the earth, you know, our, our lifespans are like the blink of an eye. So
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death is in the foreseeable future, even like comparatively the near future for all of us.
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Unbearable suffering. Well, what is that hopeless and unbearable suffering? That's the standard they're
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putting in place. Well, how do you, how do you qualify unbearable? What is unbearable?
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Unbearable. Especially when we're talking about children. So you're making that determination for
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them. Hopeless. Well, that's the most subjective standard you could possibly put in place. Hopeless
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according to you. But that's, that's precisely the point that if you are an advocate of euthanasia,
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it's because you don't see any point or hope in life, period. This is nihilism.
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But there's always hope. I mean, what, what, what are we claiming? That,
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that it's hopeless. There is no hope so long as death is in the future. Well, then there's no hope
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for any of us. Then we should all get, you know, we should all take the, uh, take the ticket and,
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and, and, and head out of town. There's no hope for any of us. And that is, that is where this heads
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eventually. Like eventually this is, this is nihilism. This is eugenics. This is, uh, the anti-human
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agenda, the anti-life agenda. And ultimately that's what they would like to. They'd like to have
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euthanasia, uh, available for everybody of all ages. Um, that, and it's an option that can be
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taken casually for no real specific reason. As I said, it's already basically what's happening in
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Canada. I think there was a, what was it? Futurama had, uh, one episode where they, the vision of the,
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you know, the future where there was suicide booths that you could just walk in, go to a, like a
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telephone booth and it commits and, you know, be killed. That's, that's basically where we're headed.
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Um, hopeless because they say that it's hopeless. Yeah. That's what they say, but it doesn't make
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it true. There's always hope in life. As long as you have life, there's, there's hope, there's purpose.
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And even when they're suffering, like there's always suffering in life. We all, we all suffer.
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Uh, people that have serious illnesses are suffering to a much greater degree,
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but the fact of suffering does not remove hope. It doesn't mean that there's no point to living
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anymore. Now, you know, we often assume that say this is the anti-life agenda. It's also the anti-God
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agenda. And those two things go hand in hand. Um, you know, you're in favor of euthanasia because you
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don't believe in God, you don't see any purpose to life. And that's true. Like that is what,
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what this is rooted in, but it doesn't even make sense from that perspective. Like I, it's,
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it's hard for me to imagine and put myself in the mindset of an atheist. But I think that if I was
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an atheist, I might be even more opposed to euthanasia. Well, I couldn't be possibly more
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opposed to it. I'm as opposed to it as you could possibly be. But, but in that case, then what's
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afterlife? There's nothing, it's nothingness afterlife. After this, there's just, you, you
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are going into the abyss. This is all you have really. The idea of giving up on that. And that's
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even, that's, that's also an argument for continuing to live as long as you have it and making use of,
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of all the time that you have life, even if they're suffering. So really no matter what angle
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you inspect this from, it's horrifying. Um, but it's also, as I said, to be, to be expected.
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And in a culture all across the Western world and across the world generally, where there's
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abortion, abortion is legalized. Um, this is essentially a version of post, this is post birth
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abortion, which many conservatives have been, have been warning about that as well. We've been
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telling you that's where this is headed. Just like we've been saying, um, much of what's happening
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with the, with the, uh, with the left's agenda, with sexuality and gender, you know, it's headed
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towards and has now become this open campaign to sexualize children. And we were told for years that
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that that's crazy. It's slippery slope. It's not going to happen. We'll look. And we've also been
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saying that the pro abortion agenda will lead eventually to, to actual post birth abortion.
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And why does it lead to that? Well, because the, the, the pro abortion agenda rests on the
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assumption that human life has no value. There's no real, there's no real inherent value to it,
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that the value of human life is contingent on other factors, um, that other people can decide
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whether a child's life is, is, is worthwhile. That's what, that's what the pro abortion agenda is.
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This is a logical extension of that. There's not any logical reason. If abortion is permissible
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morally and legally up to the moment of birth, there's actually not any moral or logical or
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legal reason, not any coherent reason anyway, why that should be the cutoff. Why is birth the cutoff?
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Totally arbitrary. Birth is a birth is not the creation of a person. Person doesn't come into
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being in that moment. It's just that the person changes locations, goes from one location to
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another. That's all that happens. And so if that child's life, a second before emerging from the
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birth canal is fundamentally worthless and hopeless, which anyone who supports abortion, that's what
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they think. Um, then it remains so after birth and for the entirety of a person's life.
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And, um, and then youth, euthanasia becomes permissible. So this is where it's headed.
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Uh, a lawmaker in Montana who has been leading the charge against gender mutilation in, in the state,
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um, stood up to address the claim that we talked about in the opening monologue that, you know, we,
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we have to have gender transitions for children so that they don't kill themselves.
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And this lawmaker's Republican was addressing that claim, talking about her own experiences
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as a parent. And she has some direct experience with this kind of thing. Uh, this clip has been
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circulating online with leftists talking about how terrible and horrifying it is. And it's the
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worst thing ever. This woman is a monster. Chris Hayes from MSNBC, uh, posted it. And there's wide
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agreement on the left anyway, that what you're about to witness from this woman is terrible. She's an
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evil, terrible person, but we'll play the clip and, uh, you decide. Here it is.
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One of the big issues that we have heard today and we've talked about lately is that, that without
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surgery, the risk of suicide goes way up. Well, I am one of those parents who lived with a daughter
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who was suicidal for three years. Someone once asked me, wouldn't I just do anything to help save her?
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And I really had to think. And the answer was no, I was not going to give into her emotional
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manipulation because she was incapable of making those decisions. And I had to make those decisions
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for her. I was not going to let her tear apart my family. And I was not going to let her tear apart
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me because I had to be strong for her. I had to have a vision for her life when she had none, was incapable
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of having none. I was lost. I was scared. I spent hours on the floor in prayer because I didn't know
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that when I woke up, if my daughter was going to be alive or not.
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But I knew that I had to make those right decisions for her so that she would have a precious,
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We're supposed to hear that and think that she's a terrible mother. And when actually what she's
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describing is obviously the correct response in the situation that she was in, clearly. I mean,
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you know, the key line there is she says, as a mother, I had to have a vision for her life
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when she had none. And that's exactly correct. That is that as parents, that is our job. Our kids are
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confused. They don't understand. They do. They become emotional. They get lost. And in this case,
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worst case scenario, they get sucked into this cult. They have no vision. They have no idea
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what's going on. A child who's lost in the cult has no clue what's going on. Totally lost in the
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dark. And so you are the guiding light. Okay. And what you have to say to your child is, here's the
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light over here. Follow me. And what your child is going to say, especially when they're very lost,
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is they're going to say, no, I don't want to go there. Okay. You only want me to go there because
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you hate me. Follow me instead and deeper into the darkness. You can't do that. That's not how
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you save your child. You don't say, well, okay, you know what's best. Let's just, here, I'll turn
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the light off and we'll wander around in the dark together, getting more lost and more lost.
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That's what apparently the one people criticizing here, that's what they think is the correct
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response. No, you have to be strong. And you also cannot, as a parent, that's correct. You cannot
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give in to the emotional manipulations of your children. And when they, and so many parents have
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gone through this. And I can't even imagine. It's one of the worst things you can experience as a
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parent. But when you have a child who is saying, you know, a daughter who's saying, I'm a boy.
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I want to transition. Get me the drugs. Get me the surgery. Okay. Call me by this name that I made up,
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not the name you gave me and have called me since I was a baby. You know, don't call me by that. Call
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me by this new name, this ridiculous name I've come up with. You know, your daughter's gone now.
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I'm a son. Embrace me as a son. And if you don't do that, I'm going to hurt myself. I'm going to run
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away from home. No, what the left says is that, is that when your child says it to you, you're supposed
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to say, okay, whatever you want, I'll do anything you want. Even if it hurts you, I will do it.
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Well, no, because these people don't know anything about being a parent. They don't
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know anything about being a good, loving parent. These people are just monsters.
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They're either, they're either insane or monsters. If you think that that is what parents are really
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supposed to do in that situation. I can understand why parents do it as they, they, they give into the
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pressure. They don't know how to handle it. They're, they're confused themselves. They're scared.
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So I, I, I understand how parents can, um, and then they, and then they, they go, maybe they take
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their child to a counselor and they go to a counselor themselves. And then they don't realize
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that many of these counselors are not on their side. And then the counselors even start saying
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to them, well, yeah, you have to go along with this or your child's going to kill herself and that
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blood, blood's going to be on your hands. I mean, that's, if you're not prepared to hear something
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like that, and you don't really understand what's going on yourself and you hear that it's, uh,
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it's quite an incentive to do what you know is wrong. Um, but in truth, as the parent,
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you have to be, even when it's difficult, especially when it's difficult, you, you have to be the,
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the lighthouse, right? You have to be the lighthouse in the, in the raging storm. You, you stand there
00:35:42.720
in the light saying, here, here's the way, come here. You have to be that. If, if you won't, then,
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then, then all is lost. I mean, your only hope, the only hope for your child is for you to be
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firm and steady. And that's clearly what she was trying to express. All right. Lighten the mood a
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little bit. I haven't followed the NBA in a long time. You know, I, I gave up, uh, on the NBA when
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they went full BLM. Um, and that's also when I gave up on LeBron James. People maybe will be
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surprised by this, but I was actually a big LeBron James fan for a long time. Uh, I just, as an athlete,
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I was a big fan of his to my shame. I was up until about three years ago, uh, when he really went full BLM
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So anyway, I don't watch anymore, but this one moment jumped out at me as it's gone viral. The,
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um, the playoffs have started, I guess, and the Milwaukee Bucks were just eliminated and their
00:36:36.800
star player Giannis with the last name, I won't even attempt was asked about whether the season
00:36:41.940
was a failure because they got eliminated from the playoffs. And, uh, and this is one of the very
00:36:47.420
rare moments when an athlete in a post game press conference says something worthwhile and
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interesting, but, uh, here it is. Let's watch. Do you view this season as a failure?
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Oh my God. Uh, okay. Because I'm not, uh, you asked me the same question last year, Eric.
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Okay. Uh, do you get, do you get a promotion every year on your job? No, right? So every
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year you work is a failure. Yes or no? No. Every, every year you work, you work towards something,
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towards a goal, right? Which is to get a promotion, to be able to, uh, take care of your family,
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to be able, I don't know, um, provide the house for them or take care of your parents. You work
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towards a goal. It's not a failure. It's steps to success. You know, and if you've never, I don't
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know, I don't want to, I don't want to make it personal. So there's always steps to it. You
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know, um, Michael Jordan played 15 years, won six championship. The other nine years
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was a failure. That's what you're telling me. No, I'm actually a question. Yes or no?
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No. Okay. Exactly. So why are you asking me that question? It's a wrong question. There's
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no failure in sports. You know, there's good days, bad days, some days, some days you are
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able to, uh, be successful, some days you're not. Some days it's your turn, some days it's
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not your turn. And that's what sports is about. You don't always win. Some other, other people
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is going to win. And this year, somebody else is going to win. Similar to that. We're going
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to come back next year, try to be better, try to build good habits, try to, um, play better,
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not have a 10 day stretch with, uh, play bad basketball, you know, and hopefully we can
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win a championship. So 50 years from 1971 to 2021 that we didn't win a championship, it
00:38:33.180
was 50 years of failures. No, it was not. It was steps to it, you know, and we were able
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to win one. Hopefully we can win another one. You know, I, sorry that I didn't want to make
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it personal because you asked me the same question last year. And last year I was in the,
00:38:50.460
in the, that's a, that's good stuff. I like that. It's a very, it's a dad speech. That
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is, uh, and that's what I do. It's like my entire show, but it's, it's, uh, that is,
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I can imagine, I don't know if he's a father or not, but he'll, he'll make a very good father
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if he's not, because that's, uh, that's like the speeds. It sounded like a father talking
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to his son, just lost, you know, uh, coming home from, from little league and he's given
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the speech to him. And I think it's very good. And also it's, as I said, it rare to hear
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something eloquent and interesting from an athlete in a post-game press. Usually all
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they do is mumble cliches. You know, they were out playing with all this energy. And
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then for some reason, they get in front of cameras, they can barely speak. And it's, then
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it's just, yeah, you know, uh, we fought hard out there and, uh, the other team fought hard
00:39:30.500
and, um, take my hat off to him, tip my cap, got to tip my cap, just taking my hat off to
00:39:36.460
him, take my hat off to the other guys, really taking my hat off. For some reason, every athlete
00:39:40.460
in every major sport has glommed on to this one cliche about taking their hat off. I'm
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not really sure. It's, it's funny. It's a funny one too, because it harkens back to
00:39:48.580
Victorian era chivalry where men tip their top hats when a lady walks by. And this is
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what we're supposed to imagine these seven foot lumbering dudes are doing. But anyway,
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um, I think it's, uh, it's an important lesson and it's really what we were, what we were
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talking about earlier in the week about the, uh, the rocket explosion for SpaceX, that if
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you're pursuing a goal and you don't achieve it, but you learn from the failure and you
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get better and you keep up the pursuit, then it's not a failure. The only true failure is
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the failure to try at all. And I know that that sounds like a cliche too, but, and maybe
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it is, but it's true. Um, there are people out there who we could unfortunately describe
00:40:28.260
as failures. There are a lot of people out there these days, sadly, who we could say are
00:40:33.900
failures. These are failures of human beings. Um, but we only can label them failures because
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they didn't try to do anything. They didn't try anything. They didn't pursue anything.
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They didn't have any goals that they went out and chased. Um, they didn't do that. They
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didn't do anything because they were afraid and because it takes too much effort. And, um,
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and they took the path of least resistance and that's a failure. That's a failure of a person.
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So that's a person who's failing, failing every day to try. But if you're pursuing your
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goals, even if you don't reach them every single time, not a failure overall. So going
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from an admirable sports star to someone who is a not that Brittany Griner did a press
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conference also yesterday and she was asked a bunch of questions. She was also asked about
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men playing against women in a women's sports. I'm not sure if she's, this is the first time
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she's chimed in on this subject of trans and sports and all that. Her answer will
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not surprise you though. Uh, let's listen to that.
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Brittany, I'm a Bill Roden from ESPN Anscape. It's really great to see you. It's good to
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know the prayers have been answered. Um, the question, um, you've always represented so
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much throughout your entire career about access and, you know, being able to do stuff. And
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I hate to put one more thing on your plate, but there are a number of states who are aggressively
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moving to prevent transgender athletes playing. And I was wondering, again, I hate to put one
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more thing on your plate, but in terms of your, on your radar, where is that? Um, you're going
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to have a tremendous platform, but where is that going to be on your radar in terms of advocating
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for, um, you know, athletes, all athletes, transgender to be able to play?
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Oh, I mean, that, that ranks high on the, on the list of things that I'll be fighting for
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and speaking up against, you know, everyone has, everyone deserves the right to play. Everyone
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deserves the right to, to come here, sit in these seats and feel safe and not feel, um,
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like there's a threat or they can't be who they are or, um, like, like it's just all eyes
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on them. Uh, so, um, I think it's a crime, honestly, to, to separate, um, someone for any
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reason. Um, so I definitely will be speaking up against, against those that legislation and
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those laws that are trying to be passed for sure.
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That's the first time I've heard her speak. Um, I think I, well, I'm not surprised that
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she's in favor of men playing women's sports, but the, even before the, the answer is, that's
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actually the first time I listened to that clip. I didn't, I didn't even listen to this
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clip. I assumed, I knew that it was, this is her chiming in on the trans sports thing.
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And I knew that she would be in favor of it. Of course she is. Uh, but the, the question,
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could you grovel any more to this person? My God, a little bit of self-respect.
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You can't simply ask the question as an ESPN, ESPN reporters, they're so terrified.
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Okay. Especially now talking to Brittany Griner, you gotta be, they're terrified that they might
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say anything that seems disrespectful somehow. So we couldn't simply say, uh, what do you make
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of the trans, trans and sports issue? What's your take on that? Instead it's, well, listen,
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Brittany, I, I, I don't want to put more on your plate. I understand that there's so much
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going on in your life and, and you're, you're very, very important and you've done so many
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things and you, and you've, and you've suffered and you've overcome them and you're very heroic.
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I just was wondering if I could possibly ask you this one question, uh, about trans people
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in sports, but if you don't want to answer it, that's totally fine. I know there's a lot on your
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plate, but if you wouldn't mind maybe answering it, please, I just wanted to know. And, but I could
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also leave if you don't want to answer it. That's also fine too. I could leave. I could quit my job
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if that, if you want me to, I could also do that. My God, man, no self-respect, but I guess that's a,
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that is right now a prerequisite at this point to work at ESPN. You cannot be a self-respecting
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journalist or person, uh, to, to work there. And Bernie Griner says it's yes to keep,
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to say that, um, males should compete in their category and women in their own is a,
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it's a criminal. It's a crime. In fact, not a surprising answer there. Let's get to our comment
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Well, that's a goal. That's a goal. We were just talking about, you got to set goals for yourself
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and pursue them. You know, lay down your marker, call your shot, go for it. You don't make it. It's not a
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failure because you tried. And, uh, that is a title. I would like to add that. I'd like to add that to
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my, uh, that's another plaque I would like to put on the wall. Fat phobe of the year. That would be
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great. Um, Luke says you can make judgments about a person without judging them almost as if MF
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haven't been to court. Case in point, a drug addict will most likely be unreliable, but that doesn't
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mean that's who they are as a person, especially when they find the help they need. Stop being whiny
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babies, make judgments. And if people take them to heart, perhaps they'll change themselves.
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Right. I think you're, you're drawing the distinction here between you can make judgments
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about a person's behavior and their character and, and all of that without judging them as a person,
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which is true. But it's also true that, you know, maybe the distinction between making a judgment about
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a person's character and behavior and making a judgment of them personally, that distinction is,
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that's a very fine distinction. And maybe, you know, in practice, it's sort of irrelevant.
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You know, there's this, we often hear that, well, the Bible says, love the sin, uh, or sorry,
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hate the sin, love the sinner is what the Bible says it's claimed. And then that, that sometimes
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will turn into, um, judge the sin, not the sinner. The thing is that neither of those verses are
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actually in the Bible. That's those are not biblical verses that that's a kind of an interpretation
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people have come up with. And now they assume that it's directly in the Bible when it's not.
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Um, it is true that we are not the ultimate judge over anyone, anyone's life or over their soul.
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We can't judge somebody's soul. We can't see inside their soul, inside their minds. Only God can do
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that. So we cannot judge in the way that God judges, obviously, but we can still make judgments.
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Uh, we have to be able to make judgment, as we talked about yesterday, that every second of the
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day, you're making some kind of judgment. Anytime you make a choice, you're judging, you made that
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choice because you judged that to be the best choice. You might've judged wrongly. Very often
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we judge wrongly when we make choices, but you're still making a judgment. And that can relate to
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people too. Um, you can make judgments about, again, the things that they do. And we can say,
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well, that was the wrong thing. You shouldn't do that. But you can go deeper and you can make a
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judgment about a person's character, about the sort of person that they are. And we all make those
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judgments also, all the time. So any, I, any, any notion that we can't judge at all or that we
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shouldn't judge is just, uh, it's not only biblically false if anyone claims that it's rooted in the Bible.
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It's also, it's, it's incoherent. It's not possible. It's not possible to live that way.
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Um, L Boogie Daman says, she's right. I'm actively losing weight through diet and exercise. I'm afraid
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of dying from complications from obesity at an early age. At my largest, I was 245 pounds and I'm
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currently down to 203 pounds. My goal is 180 pounds and I'm five foot, 10 inches tall. Since cutting
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weight, more women approach me and my friends and family compliment my looks. I am very fat phobic
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and proud of it. Well, we know from the weight neutral wellness advisor yesterday that that's,
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uh, that's, that is a, that is an internalized kind of self fat phobia. That is an internal fat
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phobia that you're struggling from. But you also are a perfect example of why
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they have this fat acceptance agenda in the first place.
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Because when they see someone like yourself taking steps to improve your life, uh, feeling
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better, looking better, and they see that it makes them feel bad about themselves. And we can all
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relate to that on some level. Like I, I have, have gone through a little bit of a lazy stretch
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right now. Personally, I have the, you know, we just had twins and it's like a lot going on in life.
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I have that as my excuse. Um, but it's an excuse and excuses are excuses, but, uh, I haven't been
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in the gym in a little while. I'm feeling kind of, you know, like I got, I got to get back into it.
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And so when I see someone on Twitter or on social media, who's talking about, I just started to die
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and I'm back in the gym. It makes me feel a little bit bad about myself. I have a moment of, oh man,
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that makes me feel kind of bad, but that's, that's good. That's, that's, that is a judgment of
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myself that I should be making. And I can, I can either say, well, that makes me feel bad about
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myself. So you shouldn't say that anymore. And you shouldn't live that way because of how it makes
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me feel. Or I can take that as motivation to self-improvement. Um, and I think I know which
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It's always going to be somewhat redundant and maybe a bit cheap to use the howling banshees of
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The View as fodder for the daily cancellation. That show could be harvested for this segment every
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day if I wanted to, but then nobody else would ever get a chance to be canceled, and that simply
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wouldn't be fair. Today, though, I must revoke the usual cancellation pass I give to The View
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because this one is too cancellation worthy to pass up. From The Daily Wire, quote,
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Whoopi Goldberg suggested on Thursday that the Bible would support parents having the right to
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subject their minor children to sex reassignment surgeries. Goldberg made the comments during
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Thursday's broadcast of ABC Midday talk show The View following a conversation about a trans-identifying
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Montana lawmaker who faced disciplinary action for breaking the rules of decorum. Representative
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Zoe Zaffire, which we can guarantee is not his actual name, a biological male who identifies as female,
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lashed out of Republican colleagues who oppose transgender surgeries for minors. Quote,
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I hope the next time that there's an invocation when you bow your heads in prayer, you see the
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blood on your hands. The GOP-controlled House voted to censure Zaffire, Zaffire is the name,
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barring the lawmaker from appearing in the House but allowing votes by remote through the end of the
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current legislative session. Goldberg and co-host Sonny Hostin criticized the move, however,
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claiming it was proof that Republicans were banning speech. Whoopi then turned to the argument that had
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gotten Zaffire banned over a bill that would ban transgender surgeries for minors and claimed that if
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the GOP believed in parental rights, then parents should be able to consent to life-altering and
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irreversible procedures for their children. Here's what Whoopi had to say. Watch.
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My God, this is a party that says we believe in parents' rights. You're telling me that as a parent,
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I don't, I'm not smart enough to decide if my child and I need to have gender affirming,
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our doctors are not involved. So I can't decide what my kid reads. I can't decide for my child,
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what my child says is going on. You're telling me your beliefs, and they keep saying it,
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and I keep saying, what Bible are you reading? Because God was really clear.
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Yes, Whoopi, you're exactly right. God was really clear. This could not have been more clear.
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From the book of Genesis, so God created mankind in his own image. In the image of God,
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he created them. Male and female, he created them. God blessed them and said to them,
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be fruitful and multiply, fill the earth and subdue it. At the very beginning of the book,
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we are given three essential facts about the human race. These are the first three things that we are
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told. First, that God made us and determined our sex for us. There's nothing here about choosing our
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identity for ourselves sometime after we're born. God gives us our identity. It wasn't that Adam was
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created, and then God said, Adam, how do you identify? Oh, non-binary. That didn't happen.
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God gives us our identity, and there are two broad identity groups, male and female,
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a binary system. No other options are mentioned. Finally, third, we're told that males and females
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are meant to pair up and reproduce. The first commandment, the very first commandment given
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by God is not the first commandment in the Ten Commandments. The first commandment given by God
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to human beings, the very first instruction is to be fruitful and multiply. You brought up the Bible.
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I'm telling you what it says. And there is, it turns out, nothing in the Bible, not one passage in
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the Old and New Testament that even hints at the possibility of changing or choosing our sex.
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There is no mention of anything resembling the modern day notion of gender identity,
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and that's because the notion of gender identity wouldn't be invented until about 1900 years after
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the last book in the Bible was written. It doesn't matter how creative you are or how heretical you're
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willing to be. You cannot proof text your way into a biblical defense of transgenderism and gender
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transition. It's not possible. And this is the part where if you're a leftist, you drastically switch
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course, accusing me of being a Bible thumper, imposing my religious worldview on you. I know
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how the game is played. This is how it's played. You want to pretend that recognition of the binary,
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the biological nature of sex is somehow religious. You want to believe that our recognition of this
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reality is rooted in blind faith. And so you bring up the Bible and make erroneous claims about what it
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says. We correct you. And then you accuse us of trying to use the Bible to prove our point,
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even though you're the one who brought it up. Every argument from the left, especially on this
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topic, is a sleight of hand trick. And this one is their favorite trick to pull. Now, what about
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Whoopi's claim that child mutilation is a matter of parental rights? Needless to say, she doesn't
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actually care about parental rights and opposes such rights in almost all other circumstances.
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Her concern for parental rights is about as genuine as her concern for fidelity to scripture.
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But she does inadvertently raise an interesting and important point. And I believe in parental
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rights. I've always been a strong advocate for such rights. But as conservatives, we make a mistake
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when we root our entire argument on this topic in parental rights. When we do what the Louisiana GOP
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has done by insisting that children should be referred to as their biological sex, unless their parents say
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it's okay for them to identify as something other than their biological sex. That is not the right
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approach. Because the problem with pretending that a boy is a girl isn't just that his parents don't
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approve. It's that it isn't true. Our position should be rooted in truth. The question of rights is farther
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downstream. And that's also why, though I believe in parental rights, I don't believe that parents have the
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right to transition their children. I think you have parental rights, but you don't have the right to do that.
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No 14-year-old girl should be getting cosmetic double mastectomies, no matter what the girl's
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parents might say. It's not our position that physical and sexual abuse of a child is wrong
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unless the parents consent. Our position is that it's wrong, period. And everybody who participates
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in such evil should go to prison, including and especially the parents. Parental rights, like all
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rights, are not absolute. We have rights as parents, but we don't have the right to do anything we
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want as parents. And we can lose our parental rights. They can be revoked if we prove ourselves
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to be dangerously incompetent, neglectful, or abusive. Therefore, reducing this whole conversation
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down to parental rights can ultimately end up creating more confusion than clarity, I think.
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And that's why I think we might want to start using a different R word. There's another side to
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the rights coin. And on the other side of it is responsibility. With rights come responsibilities.
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With responsibilities come rights. You can't have one without the other. Though in our culture,
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we usually just talk about one and hardly ever the other. We clamor for our rights. We don't like to
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acknowledge our responsibilities. But that could be clarifying on this issue in particular. Do I have
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the right to raise my boy as a boy and prevent other adults from trying to groom him into identifying
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as a girl? Yes, I have that right. Do I have the right to raise my boy as a girl and groom him into
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that lifestyle myself? No, I don't have that right. I don't have the moral right. I don't have the
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natural right. I shouldn't have the legal right. So how can I have the right to do the first thing,
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but not the second? Well, because of responsibility. Okay, because the first thing lines up with my
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responsibility as a parent and the second doesn't. So let's just drop the rights talk and go right to
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that. I have the responsibility to raise my boy. I have the responsibility to raise my boy as a boy,
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to help him accept himself for who he really is, to guide him towards manhood, and to protect him from
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anyone who would want to sow confusion or dysfunction into his mind. I have the responsibility to do that.
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I am called to do that. I am commanded by God and conscience to do that. And because I have that
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responsibility, I must also have that right. In other words, I have the right as a parent to fulfill
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my responsibilities as a parent. I have the right to be a good father to my children. I don't have the
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right to be an abusive and neglectful father. Those are my rights, but more importantly, my
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responsibilities. And that's how we should be talking about this issue, I think. And it might help
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alleviate some of this confusion, though I suspect there is no saving Whoopi Goldberg from her
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confusion, which is why she is today canceled. Talk to you on Monday. Godspeed.