Ep. 1195 - NBC News Totally Obliterates Trans Ideology By Accident
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Summary
In a shocking turn of events, NBC News has published a lengthy article completely obliterating trans ideology. Of course, it was entirely an accident, but still. Also, despite his lies to the contrary, we now know that Joe Biden did get on the phone many times with his son's business partners while he was Vice President. And a new poll claims that 40% of Black women are quitting jobs for the sake of their mental health.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, in a shocking turn of events, NBC News has published a lengthy article
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completely obliterating trans ideology. Of course, it was entirely an accident, but still. Also,
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despite his lies to the contrary, we now know that Joe Biden did get on the phone many times
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with his son's business partners while he was vice president, but we're told they were only
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talking about the weather, sure. CNN says that more women are taking leadership positions in
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churches. I'll explain why this is not a new development or a good one. In our Daily Cancellation,
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a new poll claims that 40 percent of black women are quitting jobs for the sake of their mental
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health. There's yet more proof that our society's focus on mental health is doing more harm than
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good. We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh Show.
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It's not every day that a news article from a mainstream media outlet truly shocks you. We're
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all used to predictable narratives at this point. Most of it's just sort of noise. But the other day,
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there was a very notable exception to this general rule. An article published by NBC News of all places
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just blew up the entire narrative of transgenderism out of nowhere. NBC News came out with a well-researched
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in-depth piece that completely debunks the entire concept. Eradicates the whole ideology,
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you might even say. They even quote several all-important experts at prestigious universities
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who concur that the madness needs to end. That's right. After years of insisting that anyone can
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change their gender at will simply by wishing it, they've given up. The sanity has prevailed,
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not since NBC News aired Katie Couric's colonoscopy live on air has the network produced content so
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unexpected and jarring. Yet it is a very welcome departure from the norm. I mean, this article is
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welcome, not the colonoscopy, just to be clear. But as you may have guessed by now, NBC News published
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this in-depth analysis without realizing what they were doing. Self-awareness, as ever, is in short supply
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in the mainstream media. But there's no denying that's what they did. They obliterated,
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point by point, any logical argument in favor of transgenderism. How did they do it? Well,
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the piece in question is on NBC News' website right now. You can go check it out. It's headlined
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Inside the Online World of People Who Think They Can Change Their Race. Now, the article is
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apparently intended to disprove the idea that you can opt into another racial category. And along the way,
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accidentally, every argument from NBC News and their thought leaders ends up refuting the idea that
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people can change their gender too. The piece begins by describing a teenager who lives in Maryland
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and thinks that she's transforming into a Japanese woman. She's changed her name. She also thinks that
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just by wishing it, her hair is getting darker, her eyelids are getting smaller, etc. Now, right away,
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the keen observer might note that it sounds exactly like the lingo that trans activists use.
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According to NBC, this girl also watches videos like the one that we're going to play for you in a
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second, apparently to help her transition and help her help this proceed. It's sort of like a mental
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thing. And I'll show you a piece of this video. Again, this is a video that helps, I think it helps you
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transition into an Asian person. But just be forewarned that, you know, upon watching this video,
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Hmm. Well, I don't know about you, but I'm feeling more Japanese already. Now, any sane person
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might look at that clip and conclude that this is all crazy and that anyone who watches that video
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thinking that it changes their race is delusional. Case closed. But at NBC News, they weren't ready to
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move on so quickly. This is something of a sensitive subject for them and for anyone on the left,
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because they spent the last few years telling us that anyone can change their gender at will,
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that your identity is entirely up to you. It's a fluid thing that you determined for yourself.
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So they understand that they have to respond to the obvious question, which is why shouldn't we
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affirm the identity of this teenage trans Japanese girl? She says she's Japanese. She watched a few
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YouTube videos, maybe bought a kimono or two. She feels more at home, more herself in her Japanese
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identity. She recognizes inside herself her innate Japanese-ness. Why isn't that good enough? Who are we to
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deny her lived experience? Who are we to reject her truth? Well, here's the crux of NBC News's
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argument. Quote, experts agree race is not genetic, but they contend that even though race is a cultural
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construct, it is impossible to change your race because of the systemic inequalities inherent
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to being born into a certain race. Now, think about what they wrote for more than two seconds,
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and the logic falls apart. In fact, it doesn't really take two seconds even for it to fall apart.
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They're saying that you can't change your race because there are systemic inequalities inherent
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to being born into certain races. But wait a minute. Aren't these the same experts who tell us that
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women live under the thumb of the patriarchy? That they can't even earn an honest living because of
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how sexist our society is? That if you go and you get a job as a woman, you automatically make
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77 cents on the dollar or whatever the made-up figure is now? So that sounds a lot like systemic
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inequality, if it was true, which it isn't. And yet they have no problem with men deciding to identify
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as women. Despite all the systemic inequality, women have allegedly endured. Why is that? Well,
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the NBC piece doesn't say, doesn't really linger on that point, which is strange because they've had a
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lot of time to prepare for this question. Remember when they destroyed Rachel Dolezal a few years ago?
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She claimed to be black, and she drove them absolutely crazy because they had no way of
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refuting what she was saying. So let's just, just to remind ourselves, here's Matt Lauer and his
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attempt a few years ago to take down Rachel Dolezal. Let me just ask you the question in simple terms
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again because you've sent mixed signals over the years. Are you an African-American woman?
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Identify as black. You identify as black. Let me put a picture up of you in your early 20s,
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though. And when you see this picture, is this an African-American woman or is that a Caucasian
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woman? That's not in my early 20s, but... That's a little younger, I guess.
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I think I was 16 in that picture. Is she a Caucasian woman or an African-American woman?
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I would say that visibly she would be identified as white by people who see her.
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But at the time, were you identifying yourself as African-American?
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In that picture, during that time, no. Your parents were asked this question this week,
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and they didn't have any trouble answering it. Here's what they said. She's clearly our birth
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daughter, and we're clearly Caucasian. That's just a fact. Your father went on to say she's a very
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talented woman doing work she believes in. Why can't she do that as a Caucasian woman, which is
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what she is? Now, you notice, and that's very traumatizing to go back and watch that again,
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because Matt Lauer uses all of these transphobic arguments to disprove Rachel Dolezal's claim that
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she's black. First, he confronts her with a photo of her in her teenage years. He suggests that because
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she was white then, she can't possibly be black now. Then Matt Lauer calls in Dolezal's parents,
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who deny her lived experience as a black woman. And we're meant to take that as proof that Dolezal
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is lying. So why exactly aren't we allowed to refute transgenderism on the same basis? Why exactly
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can't we show photos of William Thomas, who goes by Leo Thomas now, before he started pretending to be
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a female swimmer, as proof that he's really a man? Why are we supposed to call the parents of trans
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activists and ask them what gender their kid really is? Now, at the time, Matt Lauer and NBC News didn't
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resolve that question, but now NBC is intent on addressing it, because there are a lot more Rachel
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Dolezal's coming out of the woodwork all of a sudden. I wonder why that is. That's a big problem
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for the trans movement. They desperately don't want you to apply the incoherent logic of transgenderism
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in order to justify transracialism. It's clear why that is, and in a moment, we'll get to that. But for now,
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let's focus on NBC's argument, such as it is. NBC News called in a series of experts for this
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article. Unfortunately for NBC, every single one of them managed to undercut the trans argument even
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further accidentally. They quoted a trans activist named Teek Milan, for example, who objects to
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transracialism on the grounds that people with fetishes are into it. Can you imagine? Quote,
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it's not just putting on the hair and the makeup and talking and walking in a kind of way. That is
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fetishizing, and it's objectifying, and it reduces the beautiful and complicated cultures of people of
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color. In other words, going full Trudeau and layering on the blackface doesn't make you black.
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In fact, it fetishizes and targets black people in a way that's totally inappropriate,
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which seems intuitive enough. But strangely enough, the expert did not condemn autogynophiles,
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who dress up as women for the sole purpose of arousal and of debasing women, which they get a
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sexual thrill out of. So you can't fetishize another race, but you can fetishize women if
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you're a man by dressing up as one. Why is that? Now, NBC News was again silent on that point.
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Well, let's pause for a second. You might be wondering whether this article was a kind of cry
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for help from deep within the bowels of NBC News. And honestly, it might be. The author of the piece
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is a college student at the University of Pennsylvania who's currently interning at the
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network. This intern is majoring in philosophy. So why would NBC News assign a college kid to write
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their big takedown of transracialism? Who knows? Maybe they got played. I don't know. Either way,
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it's certainly entertaining. So let's keep on reading the article because the more you read,
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the better it gets. At one point, the piece tries to rebut the idea of transracialism and
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transgenderism, that the idea that they're comparable. And they quote that same activist,
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Tique Milan, with this line, which may be the single dumbest statement ever uttered by a trans
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activist, as mighty a hurdle as that is to get over. But here's the line, quote,
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race historically emerged as a social construct to establish a racial hierarchy with the right
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white race at the top, whereas variances in gender identity have existed for thousands of years.
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Now, it's hard to know where to begin. The first line is simply false. For one,
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the concept of race did not begin with colonialism. It began in antiquity. The Roman poet Virgil called
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his people the Toged race, for example. And many cultures like in Asia established racial hierarchies
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that had nothing to do with whites one way or another. Other cultures created racial hierarchies that
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put the white race at the bottom. In fact, they're calling for a white genocide in South Africa
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right now. In case you missed it, here's footage of a leading political figure in the country,
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right now, chanting, kill the white farmer, as a massive crowd cheers him on. Watch.
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Kill the poor, the farmer, kill the poor, the farmer.
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Hmm. There's a lot of people in that stadium, all very excited about killing white farmers.
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Now, that doesn't seem like a racial hierarchy with the white race at the top.
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So we're left with the trans activist claim that variances in gender identity,
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the ones that we're seeing today, have been around for thousands of years.
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Because, yeah, we all know that there were a bunch of pansexual, aromantic, non-binaries walking around in the 1600s.
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We have to believe that they existed on faith, I suppose.
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It takes faith because, in fact, as it turns out, there is no recorded history anywhere in the world,
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in any culture, of people believing that men could actually be women or that women could actually be men.
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This concept did not exist anywhere in the world until it was invented by gender ideologues in the 20th century.
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So everything you heard from that expert, quote-unquote, was completely false.
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But even putting all the factual issues to the side,
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what that expert said doesn't begin to explain why people can't change their race.
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This is how wrong these people are all the time.
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You know, they're so wrong that even if their initial arguments are correct,
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So they build their arguments on these false premises.
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But even if you agree with the premise, even if you ignore the fact that the premise is completely false,
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it still doesn't lead to the conclusion that they want it to lead to.
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So if you assume it's true that gender identity has been around for longer than racial distinctions,
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there's still no answer to this basic question.
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Do we have to wait a thousand years or so and then we can do it?
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Besides, if race is a new concept, then doesn't that make it even more fluid and negotiable?
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Doesn't that make it even more valid to reject the social construct of race entirely?
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They flail a little bit and then they cite Jamie Cohen, a random Queens College professor,
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He says, people can't change their race because, and I'm quoting,
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It doesn't ever really work because it's not doing anything.
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But they've convinced themselves that it works because there's other people who have convinced themselves as well.
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Oh, so like a social contagion sounds like that's what you're talking about.
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By the way, Jamie Cohen, like the author of this piece, is not a scientist.
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On his website, he says that he specializes in memes
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and also something called advertising inequalities and social media.
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Now, that's not to say that he can't comment on this topic, obviously,
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but it's notable that the very same people who yell things like,
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you can't comment on transgenderism, you're not a member of the American Medical Association,
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those same people are now quoting meme professors to explain away transracialism.
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It's worth pausing to note something that's curiously absent from this NBC bombshell,
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Nowhere in this five-page article does the word sex come up.
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They talk about gender and social constructs throughout the piece, but never sex.
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Maybe it's because they know that sex has a clear biological component.
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And at a biological level, there's an objective genetic explanation
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for why some people are men and some people are women.
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And these genetic differences between men and women, first of all, exist,
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no matter what you call them and what you label them,
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And they're far more substantial than any conceivable genetic differences between racial categories.
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Men have a completely different set of chromosomes than women do.
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That affects the entire body and how it functions.
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What that means is that transracialism, while completely crazy,
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The transracial Japanese girl has a much more valid claim to her Japanese identity
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than any man has to a female identity or vice versa.
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So why do they want to avoid talking about genetics and objective reality?
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Why can't they just come out and admit that, yeah, if you support transgenderism,
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I mean, why not just let people be whoever they want to be?
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Well, the truth is, they embrace transgenderism while rejecting transracialism for a simple reason.
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One that has nothing to do with logic or science or anything else.
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The left has constructed a race-based spoil system that punishes their political opponents
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They don't want that system to come crashing down on them.
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Now, self-identified transgender people are the left's dependable political allies.
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Like, they can assume, they own the entire LGBT alphabet.
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And so they can just assume that anybody who identify, any man who identifies as a woman,
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is almost certainly going to vote Democrat and be a leftist, with only very rare exceptions.
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But the people who could take advantage of a transracial system would not be so dependable.
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If Asians and white people could instantly claim to be oppressed black men,
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then all of their cynical racial politics would collapse overnight on the left.
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The pseudoscience is a cover and not a particularly effective one.
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Now, a lot of people have tried to make that case over the years,
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But few of them have done it better than NBC News and their intrepid philosophy in turn.
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In their attempts to shut down transracialism, they have exposed transgenderism.
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Now, to be sure, like a confused teenager in Maryland who thinks she's Japanese, NBC has no idea what it's doing.
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But in this case, they accidentally did some journalism, one way or another.
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The Daily Wire reports, Hunter Biden's former business partner reportedly confirmed to the House Oversight Committee
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that President Joe Biden was on more than 20 calls with his son during a closed-door meeting on Monday.
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Republican members pressed for details about alleged foreign business dealings involving the president during his time in the Obama administration.
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Devin Archer, who served as the director of Ukrainian energy company Burisma alongside Hunter Biden,
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reportedly ignored questions from the press as he walked into the O'Neill House building.
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Yesterday, the committee was expected to interview Archer for approximately five hours,
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where Republican and Democrat members rotate between our blocks to investigate the key witness,
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who has alleged Hunter put then-Vice President Joe Biden on speakerphone roughly two dozen times
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as Hunter spoke to his foreign business partners or investors beginning in 2014.
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Representative Dan Goldman, who was reportedly the only left-wing politician present in the room during Archer's testimony,
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said that Archer, quote, indicated that Hunter spoke to his father every day and approximately 20 times over the course of a 10-year relationship,
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Now, so he's reporting over 20 occasions where Joe Biden, again, this is Joe Biden while he is vice president,
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while he's in the White House, on the phone with Hunter Biden's foreign business partners and investors.
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But what were they talking about, okay, is a question.
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And, you know, it's interesting to hear what he says and also just how he looks, everything.
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He doesn't know what to say because he's just come out of this five-hour investigation, interrogation.
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He's heard all of this and he knows that it's bad.
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But he's trying to find some kind of way to let Biden off the hook.
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So to confirm, you're saying that the speakerphone conversations, they don't seem concerning to you
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because there is no specifics about business and it just seemed like they were talking about it.
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It was clear that it was part of the daily conversations that Hunter Biden had with his father.
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And it was, and it sounded like most of the time, now President Biden didn't even know who the people he was at dinner.
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And he would, you know, talk about the way he described it several times.
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He described what the weather was, how, what's going on on your end.
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He, the witness was very, very consistent that none of those conversations ever had to do with any business dealings or transactions.
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They were purely what he called casual conversation.
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Which, first of all, who, like, like Joe Biden would even know the weather.
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Like, that's, that's a conversation you could even have as if he's aware enough.
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Now, this was back in 2014, 15, was slightly less senile back then.
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But, you know, they're just talking about the weather.
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The fact that his, his dad is, happens to be vice president, total, you know, this has got nothing to do with it.
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Hey, business partner, let me put you on the phone with my dad who happens to be vice president.
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So, we're, we are supposed to believe that Joe Biden, at this point, was operating in his capacity simply as a proud father of his crackhead son.
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And that the fact that he was vice president had nothing to do with the conversation.
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Well, if that's the case, why, why would you put, like, if your dad is not the vice president,
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why would you put him on the phone randomly with your, with business partners or investors who you claim he doesn't even know?
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Now, let me call my daddy up so you can talk to him.
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Well, you would do it if your dad's the vice president and you're trying to use his influence in your business, in your corrupt business dealings.
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That's the only reason you would do that, right?
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Okay, if, if, if Hunter Biden's dad, if Joe Biden was a plumber, well, the world would be, world would be a much better place right now if Joe Biden was a plumber.
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Now, maybe the houses that he worked on as a plumber would not be in such great shape, but certainly the world would.
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But if his dad's a plumber or something or works at, you know, the deli down the street, if he's the manager of, of the local Walmart,
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is Hunter Biden going to put his dad on the phone with his business partners?
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Now, of course, the idea that they didn't talk about business at all and they only talked about the weather is absurd.
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But even if it's true, which it isn't, it still wouldn't exonerate Joe Biden, because after all, this is how influence peddling works.
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So in some ways, it doesn't really matter what Joe said on those calls.
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The fact that he got on the calls in the first place as vice president, inserting himself into these business dealings with his son overseas, that's all that matters.
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Because the only reason, again, to get on the calls is to establish the connection, to use his influence to help his son in his corrupt business dealings.
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So it might be true that in some of these conversations, the weather, they pretended to make small talk and the weather came up.
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Joe doesn't need to get on the phone and say, listen, I'm going to use my political position of vice president of the United States and my position of power to help you with this thing.
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But that's if you buy the whole they talked about the weather bit, which obviously I don't and you shouldn't.
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And maybe you get tired of hearing me go on about this.
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But for me, it all comes back to once we've established that, and I think we have established that for any reasonable person, it all comes back to Republicans.
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And the same question I'm always asking, which is, what are you going to do about it?
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That's the only conversation I'm interested in having at this point.
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Now, some people get upset at me because I don't spend more time talking about Biden on the show and his corruption and all that.
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There aren't very many shows of mine that the lead topic is, here's the latest with Joe Biden.
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Here's all the terrible things Joe Biden's doing.
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And the reason I don't do that is, well, for one thing, I don't focus as much on politics.
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I'm not interested in continually repeating the mantra about how Biden is a criminal if Republicans aren't going to do anything about it.
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And they can't really right now, except all they can do right now is basically symbolic.
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But will they do something if they have the power to do so?
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And like anyone else in right-wing media at the time, I didn't have a podcast back then, but I was writing a lot.
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And I was hammering on the point that Hillary was a criminal and a crook and the emails and all that.
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Like, anybody else in conservative media, a lot of ink was spilled from me on that subject.
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And then Republicans take the White House and the Senate and the House, and they do nothing.
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And I think most of the people that were chanting it didn't believe it would even happen, didn't care if it did.
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If you'd asked most of them, they'd say, well, we're not really going to put Hillary Clinton in prison.
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Well, for some of us, no, we actually wanted you to do it.
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It was not just, we're not here talking about how corrupt Hillary Clinton is for our own health.
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We're not saying it because we enjoy talking about it.
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They are actually trying to throw Trump in prison.
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I think it's an actual attack on our democratic system.
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And all the norms they pretend to care so much about.
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And while he was in office, you know, people on the left were saying, when he gets out of office, we're going to go after this guy.
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And, and then, and now they're, they're trying to do it.
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And then they actually proceed to arrest their political enemies and try to throw them in prison.
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Whereas we yell, lock them up and then do nothing.
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We don't need to repeat over and over again what we all know to be true.
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The fact is that, you know, Republicans aren't throwing corrupt Democrats in jail anywhere.
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Even right now, where they might have the power to do so.
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That should have been the first response to what they're doing to Trump.
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There are, there are, there are areas of the country that are controlled by Republicans.
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Why aren't they frog marching some corrupt Democrats into prison to make an example out of them?
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The last time Republicans were in charge, corrupt Democrats got pardons.
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Kwame Kilpatrick, the absurdly corrupt Democrat, former mayor of Detroit.
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The guy had been convicted of perjury, mail fraud, wire fraud, racketeering.
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So that's, that's what we do with corrupt Democrats.
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So it doesn't excite me as much as it does maybe some people who say, oh, we got him dead to rights this time.
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Doesn't excite me though, because I have no faith at all that Republicans will do a damn thing about it if they ever have the power to.
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It's not like I'm only applying that to this topic.
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That's why I spent the last two years of my life pushing for laws and legislation against child mutilation.
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I'm afraid for a lot of people on the right, especially a lot of people in the right-wing media, that's all it really is.
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And so, and, and, you know, you'll know who those people are because if Republicans manage to take the White House in, in 2024,
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and then are in a position to actually hold Biden accountable, how many of the right-wing commentators and pundits right now who are going on about Biden's corruption,
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how many of them are going to push that Republican president, whoever it may be, how many are going to push him and say, okay, follow through now, do it.
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How many of them followed up once Trump took office in 2016 and said, what about all the locking her up stuff?
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It's a slogan precisely in the moments when Republicans don't have the power to do it.
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That has been the theme with Republicans forever.
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They're very excited about doing things when they don't have the power to do it.
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And then when they have the power to do it, it's like, it never happened.
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A self-described transsexual male who had surgery in 2009 to invert his penis into an imitation vagina has experienced such constant pain
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that he asked Canada's MAID, which is the Medical Assistance in Dying program, for permission to be euthanized and was rejected.
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Lewis Cardinal, 35, who describes himself as a sterilized First Nations post-op transsexual,
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petitioned the MAID program with his doctor writing that his problem was pain and anxiety related to neo-vagina for gender affirmation.
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The doctor then referred Cardinal to another doctor who wrote, quote,
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based on current clinical information and consultation, the patient does not meet current MAID criteria,
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adding that the patient could be reassessed in the future if change in clinical status.
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Canadian law does not require those who want to be killed to access such care.
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To the contrary, irremediable suffering is based on the patient's perspective,
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not the unavailability of treatment or interventions.
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If I'm not able to access proper medical care, I don't want to continue to do this.
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I'm not getting any better and nor am I experiencing better medical care or any medical care.
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It's so captured by gender ideologies that they care more about my pronouns.
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I call on all levels of governments and offices to reconsider their stance on gender affirming care.
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Okay, so, first of all, should go without saying that I absolutely reject the idea of medical assistance and dying and euthanasia.
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So, I don't think that anybody should be euthanized.
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And I don't think that this guy should be euthanized either.
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But the fact that they won't approve it shows a glaring inconsistency in Canada when it comes to how they approach euthanasia.
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Medical assistance and dying, quote, unquote, as they euphemistically call it.
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Because, as the National Review correctly noted, they don't have any, you know, there are no, there are no policies.
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There are no requirements right now in place that should, by all rights, prevent this individual from accessing this, quote, unquote, care.
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All that is required now to be euthanized, to be put down like a dog, is that if you have suffering that is not going away.
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If you are suffering in a way and it's not going away and you don't see any end to the suffering in sight,
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does not need to be a terminal illness that long since passed for, that's long in the past now in Canada.
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Now, if you're suffering and it cannot be remediated, it cannot be helped, and who determines that?
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Well, again, the policies for MAID in Canada stipulate that that's up to the patient to determine.
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And certainly in this person's case, like, it is actually true that there is immense suffering he's experiencing right now that really can't be remediated.
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Which isn't to say that, again, it's not to say that he should be euthanized, that he should commit suicide.
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Like, this is intense, very real suffering he's experiencing.
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And there's ways that you can find happiness and joy in life, no matter what you're going through.
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But there's no solution for what he's suffering from.
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And the mental and physical anguish, therefore, is also, at some level, permanent.
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Like, I don't think you'll ever get to the point where you're just okay with the fact that this was done to you.
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So now, you know, and this is the case of, there are other people in other categories who are dealing with immense suffering that is not going to go away.
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But that is not Canada's message to most people who are suffering in a way that cannot be cured completely.
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Well, the real reason, of course, is that this man's case is politically inconvenient.
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There's nothing to be gained politically by admitting trans-identified people with regret into the program.
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It starts a whole conversation that they don't want to have.
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His whole case, his existence, is an inconvenience to them.
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Only they don't want to help him not exist anymore because that calls attention to it.
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Because euthanasia, one of the many, many great problems with euthanasia that everyone should understand,
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and this doesn't matter what your euthanasia policy is, doesn't matter if you are only, quote unquote, only allowing euthanasia for the terminally ill.
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The moment the government gets involved in suicide, by coming up with laws and policies and regulations for it,
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Anything the government is involved in is politicized inherently.
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So if they're coming up with regulations for anything, there's going to be a political element to it.
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So you have to ask yourself, do you want any kind of politicization of suicide?
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Which is why, one of the many reasons, again, why euthanasia should, there should be no legal euthanasia at all.
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Because that means the government's getting involved.
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Now you have the government involved in regulating suicide and deciding who is eligible for suicide and who isn't,
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Essentially, it's like the two last institutions you would ever want to be involved in suicide,
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But really, you don't want anything or anyone involved in suicide.
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Because anytime somebody is suicidal, our message should be a message of hope to them.
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And we should be finding ways to help them live with whatever they're going through.
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Christian leadership in the U.S. has typically been seen as a male occupation.
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The right for women to be ordained and serve as faith leaders has been hard won over decades.
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And in several major factions, like the Roman Catholic and Southern Baptist churches,
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women are barred from the highest levels of leadership.
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However, among mainstream denominations that do ordain women, a sea change is occurring.
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More women are entering seminary and other theological programs with the intent of becoming priests.
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As it follows, more women are also occupying these roles after being ordained.
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Experts say one of the main reasons for the increase is that women of faith are looking at their religious traditions
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Alexis Abernethy, the chief academic officer at Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California, says,
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women and men in the church have seen abuse and suffering.
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They've seen the role of the patriarchy in the church.
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They want to address constructively some of these challenges that have been facing both the church and our society.
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So I think a lot of these women are marshaling energy in that direction.
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And so it's an article all about this alleged change that's happening
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where women are finally assuming leadership positions in the church, in churches all across America.
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That churches in America have been run by men up to this point.
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So if more women are getting involved in churches, that's not a sea change at all.
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Most churches have been run by women for the past several decades.
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Maybe not in an official capacity or as pastors or priests in all these cases,
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but women have been running the show in most churches for a long time.
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Anyone who's been going to church for any period of time knows that.
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I mean, even in the Catholic Church, where women cannot become priests, still, your average Catholic parish is not going to have a female priest.
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But there will be, in almost every case, a gaggle of women who basically run things.
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You know, one of those nuns that wears regular clothes, doesn't wear the habit.
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Maybe there's like a female music director or something.
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But whatever the position the women have in the church, or maybe they have none at all,
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there are also going to be a lot of women who don't have an official position.
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You know, they are just part of the congregation, and yet they have inserted themselves into all these different aspects of what goes on in the church.
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And they're very vocal, and they're very, you know, if there's anything that happens that upsets them,
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it's whoever actually is supposed to be running the church, the pastor, the priest, knows.
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It's like, okay, I want to hear from them about this.
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So, and that is why, you know, for years now, most churches have catered to women,
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Churches in America are already female-led, okay, much to their detriment.
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That's because the last thing that we need here is more women in church leadership positions.
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That the church is already too feminized, too soft, too focused on feelings and emotions and being welcoming and inclusive.
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All of that is coming from liberal women in these churches, or most of it anyway.
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The church, Christendom in America is what I, you know, I'm talking about all of Christianity, basically,
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with rare exception, is far too soft and feminine.
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So, adding more women into leadership, it's just going to drive that problem even more,
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The more feminine the church is, the less men want to go.
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And the less that men want to go, the more women are in charge, because there's no one else there.
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And the more they're in charge, the more feminine it gets, and the less men want to go.
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So, the more women are in charge, the more feminine it gets, the less men want to go.
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And it's really more of a death spiral, self-perpetuating death spiral for the church.
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You know, C.S. Lewis, and I'm going to butcher the quote, I don't remember the exact quote,
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but he talks about how going to church, it should have the feeling of, you know, of getting battle plans,
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of like, you're in the middle of a war, and you're meeting, and you're going over your battle plans for the battle ahead.
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And you should have very much that feeling of like spiritual warfare, and you're all soldiers,
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and you're meeting together, and you're discussing what your battle strategy is going to be.
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That's what church should feel like, because that's what it is.
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We're in the middle of a spiritual warfare, and that's what church is,
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and church is supposed to equip us for that spiritual warfare.
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And one of the advantages that we're supposed to have in going to church every week
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is that it equips us for the battle ahead for the next week.
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Like, we're coming off of the battlefield, and battered, and bruised,
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and from the past week of fighting it, and now we're collecting ourselves,
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and we're getting ready to go back out into that battlefield again.
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And if churches have that feeling, then you're going to have a lot more men showing up,
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That's not the, to use the, as the kids would say, that's not the vibe, okay?
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That's not the vibe you get from most churches.
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Rare exception, again, and I'm always going to hear from people say,
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It does not have the feeling of, like, spiritual warfare, battle plans,
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you're going to war, you're fighting the forces of evil.
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Everything from the way that the churches are built now,
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either they look like kind of these nondescript office building types,
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they look like just a concert venue and, you know, an auditorium of some kind.
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And then you go in and the music is very feminine music
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always about welcoming and being nice and being friends.
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And men sit in there and they are bored to death by it.
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So this CNN is not reporting on a new development in churches,
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but rather just more of the same, unfortunately.
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or if this is all just a masterfully comedic performance.
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These comments every single time I talk about this issue.
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and you never know if he's making joke or being serious.
00:47:50.140
seems like a joke and serious at the same time.
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I don't know what part of our discussion yesterday
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it's great that Matt can attack his boss like this