The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1263 - Lowering The Standards In Every Industry In The Name Of Diversity

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, standards are being lowered in nearly every industry in the name of diversity.

00:00:04.720 And now this disease has spread to social work, where one major U.S. city is thinking about throwing out the social worker exam entirely in order to make the field less white. 0.65

00:00:12.380 Also, a fistfight almost breaks out during a Senate hearing.

00:00:15.220 We'll play the video for you today, and it's a hilarious video.

00:00:18.340 And another Hollywood actor pretends to be happy after his child comes out as quote-unquote trans. 0.99

00:00:22.680 Finally, Nikki Haley announces her plan to forcibly unmask and monitor every anonymous social media account in the country.

00:00:28.860 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:02:04.460 One of the many remarkable things about activists who want to remake society and invert every hierarchy that civilization has ever had in the name of equity

00:02:12.480 is how aggressive and totally unflinching they are.

00:02:15.960 They don't ask permission. They just do it.

00:02:18.120 And they do it in such great numbers in so many different ways that it's impossible to even keep track of everything.

00:02:24.420 Even if you object to their project, as most people do, there's no way to keep yourself fully informed about what's happening

00:02:30.160 simply because of the scale of the whole operation.

00:02:32.500 So here's a recap, which is nowhere near exhaustive, but here's some of it.

00:02:37.800 In just the last couple of months, we've learned that the LAPD is relaxing its standards for new officers

00:02:43.560 in order to recruit fewer white males.

00:02:46.160 We've heard that the San Francisco School Board will lower entrance requirements

00:02:49.620 and that the regents exam in New York will soon be optional for high school graduates.

00:02:53.840 As the New York Times put it, quote,

00:02:55.500 the test had once been seen as a hallmark of academic rigor,

00:02:58.600 but high-stakes graduation tests have fallen out of favor nationally.

00:03:02.720 We've also been informed that the law school admission test, the LSAT,

00:03:05.740 will drop its challenging logic game section, supposedly to help blind applicants.

00:03:10.240 Meanwhile, some medical schools like UC Davis have started ranking applicants not based on merit,

00:03:15.440 but on the supposed hardships they've faced.

00:03:18.220 Pretty much everywhere you look, whether it's air traffic control or airline piloting or Silicon Valley

00:03:23.760 or even the National Association of Zoos and Aquariums,

00:03:27.940 standards are dropping in order to increase diversity,

00:03:31.740 meaning to make everything less white, less male, and also less Asian.

00:03:36.140 So you might think, with all that in mind, that it would be impossible to be shocked anymore

00:03:40.840 by any industry that decides to lower its standards in the name of diversity.

00:03:44.920 After all, if everybody's doing it, how surprising can any of these initiatives really be individually?

00:03:50.920 And that's what I thought until a couple of days ago when I learned about a new plan

00:03:53.960 to diversify what is, frankly, one of the least rigorous and least demanding professional fields of all.

00:04:00.940 And this is a field that I genuinely didn't think could possibly lower its standards anymore,

00:04:07.720 given how low that they already are.

00:04:10.120 And here's NBC News Washington explaining it. Watch.

00:04:13.400 Social workers address the needs of our city's most vulnerable neighbors.

00:04:17.540 And everyone we spoke with agrees it's important to make sure they are qualified to do that.

00:04:22.840 But critics and now a D.C. council member say the test that's long been used to determine that readiness

00:04:27.620 is holding too many people of color back from the communities that need the help the most.

00:04:32.680 On Catholic University's campus...

00:04:40.400 And I want to hear from each group.

00:04:42.420 Graduate students like Sarah Ann Nestor are preparing for a career helping others.

00:04:47.460 You're going to be a social worker.

00:04:49.320 Sarah is from southeast D.C. and wants to fill a gap she discovered when she was the one who needed help.

00:04:55.820 When I searched for therapists in D.C., finding a black therapist as a woman who would see the same worldviews as me was almost nil to none.

00:05:06.840 Okay, so they're now lowering the standards for social workers because not enough people with darker skin are passing the tests, apparently.

00:05:15.220 And it's important to... We'll continue in a moment, but it's important to stop the clip there for a second

00:05:19.240 just to underscore how insane this segment actually is already, just a minute in. 0.83

00:05:24.460 This black woman, Sarah, is saying that she desperately needed to find a black therapist for treatment 1.00

00:05:29.860 because she needed a therapist with the same views that she has. 0.64

00:05:34.540 And for that reason, she couldn't tolerate having a white therapist or a Hispanic therapist or an Asian therapist.

00:05:41.020 NBC News never challenges this reasoning or the implications of it or asks any questions about it.

00:05:45.900 They just charge forward.

00:05:48.440 So let's consider those implications for a second.

00:05:50.880 The first assumption, of course, is that you can only benefit from having a therapist who sees the world exactly like you do.

00:05:58.700 Like, the assumption is that you need a therapist who has your same views.

00:06:03.660 And that's just a given in this segment because, indeed, the vast majority of therapy is really just paying someone to agree with you.

00:06:11.140 That's all it is.

00:06:11.840 There's no science behind it.

00:06:13.500 Patients self-select doctors who tell them, or therapists or counselors, who will tell them what they want to hear.

00:06:19.020 And everybody knows this.

00:06:21.560 In fact, they have a word for this now.

00:06:22.800 They call this affirmative care.

00:06:25.380 That's why doctors tell children they're, quote-unquote, transgender, or they tell the parents that the kids have ADHD. 0.73

00:06:31.000 Like, they're just being told exactly what they want to be told.

00:06:33.500 And their job is not to offer pushback or conduct any kind of independent diagnosis of symptoms.

00:06:39.520 If they try anything like that, they'll probably get fired for bigotry on the spot.

00:06:43.040 This is how therapy and counseling works these days, but it's not how it's supposed to work.

00:06:47.220 Because, in theory, the person counseling you should be someone who, quite specifically, does not see the world the way that you do.

00:06:56.940 Someone who, quite specifically, does not have the same views as you.

00:07:00.280 The whole reason you are in counseling, in theory, is that there's a problem with the way you see yourself and the world.

00:07:07.040 If there's no problem at all, then you shouldn't be there.

00:07:09.740 So, you want, or you should want, someone from the outside, someone who sees it differently, to offer guidance.

00:07:19.700 But the more interesting part of that clip is how Sarah asserts that the only way to find a therapist who thinks the way that she does,

00:07:26.140 I mean, even if we assume that that's the right goal, that you need to find a therapist who has the same views as you,

00:07:31.900 well, even if we go along with that, then we run into the problem that what we're being told is that the only way to find someone like that is if they have the same skin color.

00:07:43.140 Now, the term racism gets thrown around a lot, obviously, so I'm not going to use that term here.

00:07:47.380 I think a better or at least mildly more creative term for this is race essentialism.

00:07:51.600 And at its most extreme, race essentialism is the belief that your race determines your abilities, your personality, all of your other characteristics.

00:07:59.880 This is a perspective that, if it's endorsed by a white person, will result in, you know, Merrick Garland sending a SWAT team to that person's door at 6 a.m.

00:08:07.400 That person will be branded a domestic terrorist, banned from school board meetings. 0.84

00:08:11.140 But if a black person endorses race essentialism live on NBC News, then everything's fine. 1.00

00:08:16.100 In fact, NBC News will endorse what she's saying, which is what they're doing here.

00:08:20.940 Let's continue with the clip so that we can get to the argument from these activists, these racists, these race essentialists, whatever you want to call them, for why the social worker exam needs to change.

00:08:31.700 Watch.

00:08:32.780 The News 4i team sat down with the students, Sarah, Carla Abney, Emily Fortes and Raquel Ruiz, as D.C. contemplates changing what it takes to become a social worker.

00:08:42.560 Only one of them, Ph.D. candidate Carla, has taken the exam, needed to become what's called a licensed graduate social worker. 0.91

00:08:49.740 It was one of the toughest things I've ever done.

00:08:52.080 She passed, but the I-team found there's growing concern that too few people who look like her are passing too.

00:08:59.560 What the exam is doing is de-diversifying the profession.

00:09:05.720 Catholic University professor Michael Massey says for years he's seen too many students of color succeed in class but fail the multiple-choice licensor exam, which he says fails to capture cultural nuances.

00:09:19.280 And so we have great social workers of color who came to social work schools to serve their communities, and they're not being allowed to do it, despite rigorous preparation at school.

00:09:31.820 Massey's among those who have pushed the Association of Social Work Boards, which for decades has administered the exam to release pass rate data, and the results were stark.

00:09:42.440 Between 2018 and 2021, 76% of white test takers passed the bachelor's level exam the first time.

00:09:50.060 But only 60% of Asian test takers did, followed by 53% of Hispanic applicants, and only 33% of black test takers passed that first time.

00:10:03.820 It's easy to say, like, you could possibly blame the test takers, but I think accountability has to be taken of how the exam is structured.

00:10:10.500 Yes, you don't want to, I mean, if someone fails a test, you could, you know, this is, yet again, one of those excuses I wish I had thought of when I was in school that I could have told my parents,

00:10:20.480 hey, mom and dad, you know, I see, look at the test results, and it's tempting, it's tempting to blame the test taker for failing the test.

00:10:28.440 But I think we need to have a real dialogue about the way the test is structured.

00:10:31.460 I think that's what we need.

00:10:32.240 You know, of course, we hear from the professor there that the test is de-diversifying the field, and he finds that to be a problem because he thinks that tests are supposed to diversify,

00:10:42.400 when, of course, testing, you know, exams are supposed to have the exact opposite effect.

00:10:47.280 A test, it's, exams don't exist to diversify, they don't exist to be more, to be inclusive, they don't exist to be welcoming,

00:10:54.400 they exist specifically to narrow.

00:10:56.800 They are supposed to have a narrowing effect, because we're trying to find out through the exam who gets it, who understands, who's qualified.

00:11:04.640 So it should have a narrowing effect, that's what an exam is supposed to do.

00:11:09.140 But let's go over those statistics one more time that we just heard there.

00:11:11.880 So between 2018 and 2021, they say roughly 76% of whites passed the bachelor's level test the first time for social work,

00:11:18.140 60% of Asians passed, followed by 53% of Hispanics, and 33% of blacks.

00:11:23.300 Now, for the most part, those rankings mirror the normal distribution of SAT scores, with one very notable exception.

00:11:30.800 This social worker exam is one of the few tests you will find in which Asian test takers perform so poorly relative to the overall pool.

00:11:40.180 Like, there is no other test where Asians will perform poorly, except maybe the driving test, I don't know. 0.92

00:11:45.560 Normally, as with SATs, Asians are in the lead, but in this case, they're in a distant second place. 0.99

00:11:51.180 Now, there could be a number of reasons for that.

00:11:54.480 Most likely, all the talented Asian test takers are busy with the MCAT or the LSAT or the GRE or some other test,

00:12:01.800 which could get you a better job than being a social worker.

00:12:04.740 But in any event, the point is that no one on NBC News even pretends to care about the relatively poor Asian performance on this test.

00:12:12.320 Instead, they're laser-focused on the low number of black students who pass.

00:12:16.020 That's really their only focus.

00:12:18.340 Now, for my part, I'll admit that I do take some pride in the fact that white people are beating Asians in at least one category. 0.97

00:12:25.320 So we have to take our wins where we can get them.

00:12:27.180 So we've got one here.

00:12:28.920 It's social work, but still, I think that's something.

00:12:32.320 Now, we're led to believe that the 33% pass rate among black test takers is de facto evidence that the test is the problem. 0.75

00:12:43.260 Somehow, these tests are racist.

00:12:45.500 But how is that the case?

00:12:48.180 That's the question.

00:12:49.220 What is racist about these tests?

00:12:51.480 So I decided to look into this test by going on YouTube and checking out some study sessions

00:12:56.440 to see if I could identify any racist social worker questions.

00:13:01.780 And I was looking for, you know, dog whistles and microaggressions and, I don't know, slut shaming. 0.69

00:13:07.400 Everything you could think of, I was looking for.

00:13:09.640 I didn't find any of that.

00:13:11.000 Instead, as predicted, I was bored to tears.

00:13:13.840 I won't subject you to all of it or even a large chunk of it.

00:13:18.300 A very small sample will suffice.

00:13:20.480 Here it is.

00:13:20.840 A social worker is working with a family whose home was recently burglarized and the family was held at gunpoint.

00:13:28.120 The 12-year-old son has begun wetting the bed and sucking his thumb.

00:13:32.480 Behaviors that were not present before the home invasion.

00:13:35.420 The mother reports that the daughter now always wants to sleep in bed with her.

00:13:39.900 The son is most likely using the defense mechanism of...

00:13:45.840 Okay, so, of course, this is another recall question about defense mechanisms.

00:13:53.660 So you would definitely have to know the defense mechanisms and what takes place with each one of them.

00:14:01.440 So right now, we are just going to deal with the ones that are listed here.

00:14:05.780 Okay, by the way, the answer to that particular question is regression.

00:14:13.000 And the video goes on like that for an hour.

00:14:14.880 And a lot of these questions, by the way, like you saw that question.

00:14:17.740 You're looking at the multiple choice answers.

00:14:20.260 If you have never taken any social work class in your life, you probably can guess what the answer is.

00:14:26.540 And a lot of the questions are that way.

00:14:27.660 A lot of the questions are so easy that you don't need to have any foundational knowledge of the social work industry.

00:14:34.680 And you could probably pass it, actually.

00:14:39.100 Now, incidentally, the training session you just saw was run by a black woman. 1.00

00:14:42.660 At no point does she say the test is invalid because it's racist.

00:14:45.500 Nor is there any way a reasonable person could find the test racist.

00:14:49.460 Nor could you really point to any of the questions where you would say,

00:14:53.400 well, a black person would never be able to get that right. 0.99

00:14:55.740 I mean, that would be the kind of assumption. 0.96

00:14:57.060 It would be a very racist thing to say.

00:14:58.860 If you're not a racist person, you look at all those questions, you say,

00:15:01.280 yeah, anyone of any race could get all those questions correct.

00:15:04.680 The questions are just anodyne, basically, to the point of inducing death by boredom.

00:15:08.860 But other than that, they're fine.

00:15:09.900 So after looking to the questions that social workers are asked, I have to admit, I didn't detect any racism.

00:15:15.840 But maybe that's just because I have a very untrained eye.

00:15:18.380 So NBC News, as you saw, quotes an expert.

00:15:20.420 They cite a college professor named Michael Massey,

00:15:22.520 who tells us that the test isn't capturing cultural nuances and is making the profession less diverse.

00:15:28.500 Quote, we have great social workers of color who came to social work schools to serve their communities,

00:15:33.420 and they're not being allowed to do it despite rigorous preparation at school, he says.

00:15:38.440 Now, of course, it's not clear why preparation in schools should matter more than a standardized test,

00:15:42.900 especially in a field like social work, where there's a glut of for-profit diploma mills

00:15:47.260 that specifically advertise to black and Hispanic populations.

00:15:50.920 At major institutions like Tulane School of Social Work,

00:15:53.600 the pass rates are much higher for every demographic group.

00:15:57.080 But putting that aside for a second, the implication is that the test is somehow flawed.

00:16:01.880 But nowhere in this NBC report does anyone, including Michael Massey,

00:16:05.440 explain specifically what's wrong with the test,

00:16:08.360 nor are we given any examples of questions that would be racist

00:16:12.280 or would be more difficult for people of certain races to answer.

00:16:15.640 So let's take stock of where we're at.

00:16:17.820 On the basis of no evidence whatsoever, activists and elected officials in D.C.

00:16:21.480 are now trying to pass a law eliminating the testing requirement for social workers entirely.

00:16:28.580 Watch.

00:16:30.180 Now Councilman Robert White is behind a bill that would eliminate the exam

00:16:33.940 for entry and master's level licensure applicants

00:16:36.580 whose work would still have to be supervised by more experienced social workers.

00:16:40.500 We will not sort of release unqualified people onto the masses,

00:16:45.460 but this exam is not a proven method of qualification.

00:16:49.960 After Illinois eliminated their test two years ago,

00:16:53.580 that state saw nearly 3,000 social workers licensed the following year.

00:16:57.920 White says he hopes doing so here will help fill widespread vacancies in schools and social services.

00:17:04.100 Why not fix the exam?

00:17:05.760 There is no evidence that this exam, passing this exam, results in better practitioners.

00:17:11.680 Anna Globo Boone, executive director of the Consortium for Child Welfare and head of the Social Workers Unite D.C. coalition,

00:17:18.700 says more research is needed before tossing out this exam.

00:17:22.640 She notes 85 percent of D.C. graduate applicants eventually pass it.

00:17:27.300 The exam, the social work exam, is not a problem.

00:17:30.240 Boone says D.C. could allow social workers to work with a provisional license while they take the test again.

00:17:35.880 And she says city leaders should focus on retaining current social workers instead of weakening the requirements to become one.

00:17:43.700 We won't know if these folk who get licensed without having a passing or demonstrating basic competencies,

00:17:50.300 if they will engage in safe, competent, ethical, responsible practice.

00:17:55.780 I mean, if someone if someone shows that they're a risk to a patient, we can get rid of them.

00:17:59.960 Maybe, but we won't know that until after the fact.

00:18:02.920 So it's a pretty interesting clip.

00:18:05.960 This woman with the Consortium for Child Welfare has to tell the reporter that the whole purpose of licensing requirements, 1.00

00:18:11.060 whether it's in medicine or law or any other profession, is to ensure that you have competent people in the profession.

00:18:16.220 That's how you protect the public and maintain standards.

00:18:19.140 You don't admit everyone and then when an incompetent person gets someone killed, decide to start culling the herd.

00:18:24.540 That's not the way it generally works.

00:18:26.200 But now the script is completely flipped. 0.99

00:18:27.780 We're deliberately hiring morons in every conceivable profession. 0.99

00:18:30.800 And this is a terrible idea regardless of the profession, of course. 0.99

00:18:35.060 But in the field of social work, it's especially ironic because the left is lowering the bar for social workers

00:18:40.620 after they spent the last few years insisting that social workers should replace law enforcement in a wide array of situations. 0.89

00:18:47.900 So they're trying to expand the power and scope of social work while at the same time lowering the standards.

00:18:53.140 That's what's happening.

00:18:53.780 The only good news here, if you can call it that, is that for the most part, social workers are, you know, very often functionally useless anyway.

00:19:00.720 So it's not clear what the practical implications of lowering the bar will be given how low it already is.

00:19:06.120 But as a symbol for a much larger problem, for the regression we're seeing in virtually every major industry,

00:19:11.720 what's happening in the field of social work is actually notable.

00:19:14.120 Well, what they're doing makes it very clear that they're trying to remake all of society

00:19:18.440 from the most important and demanding professions to jobs that are neither important nor demanding.

00:19:23.620 But it's the same thing across the gamut.

00:19:26.720 Yesterday it was the police.

00:19:27.900 Today it's social workers.

00:19:28.840 Tomorrow it'll be dog walkers, whatever.

00:19:30.660 They won't stop until they have eliminated the legitimacy of every conceivable job in the country.

00:19:36.780 Well, maybe that's not entirely true.

00:19:40.020 And the left won't implement any kind of diversity initiative for, like, the NBA or the NFL or any other major sports league

00:19:46.240 because their preferred demographics in that case are already dominant in those professions.

00:19:50.620 But in any field where that is not the case, this is what they're planning.

00:19:55.000 This is an effort to reduce standards across the board to the point that they are nonexistent.

00:20:00.000 If even social workers don't have to endure the indignity of taking a simple, straightforward test,

00:20:05.100 then that proves they truly can eliminate the standards for everything else.

00:20:11.320 And we can choose.

00:20:12.460 We can either have a functioning society or we can allow them to succeed in this agenda.

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00:21:29.340 I want to start with this because I enjoyed it.

00:21:31.980 A fight almost broke out yesterday during a Senate hearing,

00:21:35.060 and this is Republican Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.

00:21:38.520 Mark Wayne is his first name.

00:21:39.820 Mark Wayne, one word, two first names.

00:21:42.740 Anyway, he challenged a Teamster leader named Sean O'Brien to a fight

00:21:49.040 based on things that Sean O'Brien had been posting on Twitter,

00:21:53.260 and then they almost got into a fight right there in the middle of the Senate hearing.

00:21:57.040 Pretty great stuff.

00:21:57.920 Let's watch.

00:21:59.480 Everybody knows this.

00:22:00.300 Hearing the last time, him and I kind of had a back and forth.

00:22:03.300 I appreciate your demeanor today.

00:22:04.620 It's quite different.

00:22:05.740 But after you left here, you got pretty excited about the keyboard.

00:22:08.400 In fact, you tweeted at me one, two, three, four, five times.

00:22:17.840 And let me read what the last one said.

00:22:19.660 It said, greedy CEO who pretends like he's self-made.

00:22:25.400 Sir, I wish he was in the truck with me when I was building my plumbing company myself

00:22:28.640 and my wife was running the office because I sure remember working pretty hard in long hours. 0.97

00:22:36.380 Pretends like he's self-made. 0.99

00:22:37.760 What a clown. 1.00

00:22:39.920 Fraud. 1.00

00:22:40.820 Always has been.

00:22:42.580 Always will be.

00:22:44.360 Quit the Tough Guy Act and these Senate hearings.

00:22:47.620 You know where to find me.

00:22:49.180 Any place, any time, cowboy.

00:22:53.300 Sir, this is a time.

00:22:54.340 This is a place.

00:22:55.640 If you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults.

00:22:58.280 We can finish it here.

00:22:59.480 Okay, that's fine.

00:23:00.280 Perfect.

00:23:00.880 You want to do it now?

00:23:01.640 I'd love to do it right now. 0.98

00:23:02.660 Well, stand your butt up then. 0.99

00:23:03.840 You stand your butt up. 0.99

00:23:04.920 Oh, hold on. 0.99

00:23:05.380 Oh, stop it.

00:23:06.320 Is that your solution?

00:23:07.300 No, no.

00:23:08.680 Sit down.

00:23:09.460 Sit down.

00:23:10.200 No, no.

00:23:10.780 You're a United States Senator.

00:23:12.280 Sit down.

00:23:12.680 Actively.

00:23:12.960 Okay.

00:23:13.460 Sit down, please.

00:23:14.380 All right.

00:23:14.740 Can I respond?

00:23:15.640 Hold it.

00:23:16.340 Hold it.

00:23:18.280 If we can't.

00:23:19.320 No, I have the mic.

00:23:20.260 I'm sorry.

00:23:20.860 This is what he said.

00:23:21.860 You'll have your time.

00:23:23.080 Okay.

00:23:23.520 Can I respond?

00:23:24.140 No, you can't.

00:23:24.940 This is a hearing.

00:23:27.560 And God knows the American people have enough contempt for Congress. 0.82

00:23:31.760 Let's not make it worse. 0.88

00:23:32.680 I don't like thugs and bullies. 0.98

00:23:34.100 I don't like you because you just described yourself.

00:23:38.540 It's great.

00:23:39.260 I love it.

00:23:39.600 I mean, I don't know what my favorite part of that video is.

00:23:42.980 Maybe my favorite part is the fact that the senator printed out these tweets.

00:23:48.020 They had them all printed out.

00:23:49.360 So, which tells me that, like, this was not, when I saw the, you know, kind of the description

00:23:54.400 of the thumbnail of this video is going viral on Twitter, I thought it was, like, a heat

00:23:59.300 of the moment.

00:24:00.260 They're arguing back and forth in the center.

00:24:02.180 Like, you want to take this outside?

00:24:03.460 Which would already be really funny and great.

00:24:05.480 But, no, this was planned.

00:24:07.160 Like, he printed out the tweets and he was ready.

00:24:09.460 So, I don't know.

00:24:10.240 He had his aides print out the tweets for him.

00:24:12.820 I don't know if he told them.

00:24:14.460 He said, hey, print out these tweets because I'm going to do a presentation in the hearing.

00:24:18.740 Like, what's the presentation going to be?

00:24:19.980 Oh, I'm going to challenge him to a fight right there in the middle of the hearing.

00:24:22.880 And did his aides go along with that?

00:24:24.160 I'd say, well, that's a good idea, Senator.

00:24:27.140 Either way, I totally unironically think that we would be a better, healthier country if

00:24:31.820 physical fights broke out in Congress every once in a while.

00:24:34.320 It would certainly make C-SPAN a lot more interesting to watch.

00:24:37.280 And, look, this used to be pretty common back in the day.

00:24:40.060 I mean, these guys used to come to blows kind of frequently.

00:24:43.580 Even all the way back in, like, the 1790s, there was a fight between two representatives.

00:24:48.180 I don't remember all the details.

00:24:49.060 But one of the guys, like, spit tobacco juice on the other.

00:24:53.100 And then he grabs his cane and goes after him.

00:24:55.460 And then the other guy grabs a fireplace poker.

00:24:58.580 And the next thing you know, they're having a full-on, like, Jedi lightsaber battle with a cane and a fireplace poker

00:25:04.760 right on the floor of the house.

00:25:07.280 And stuff like this happened before the Civil War.

00:25:09.600 There was an infamous case where a guy was, a senator was, I believe it was, was beat unconscious with a cane.

00:25:17.100 And, you know, that didn't work out particularly well in the end because there was a Civil War.

00:25:22.360 But still, it's the way disputes were settled back in those days.

00:25:27.060 And here's why I think it's healthy.

00:25:29.160 Because, first of all, it shows that they actually care, that they're really passionate, like they're getting angry.

00:25:36.000 Politicians don't fight like this anymore because they agree too much on everything.

00:25:40.640 They pretend that they don't agree, but they actually agree.

00:25:42.820 And they don't take the issues that seriously anyway, so they don't really take it personally.

00:25:46.860 You know, it's all a show.

00:25:49.040 People always complain.

00:25:50.880 People who are very oblivious complain that there's too much, you know, contention in Washington.

00:25:58.120 It's too divisive.

00:25:59.980 It's too partisan.

00:26:00.980 But I've always said the problem is the opposite.

00:26:04.440 There's not nearly enough contention.

00:26:07.060 The problem is not that these people agree, or rather, it's not that they disagree with each other too much.

00:26:11.700 It's that they agree far too much.

00:26:15.200 And so I think that's one advantage of a fistfight.

00:26:19.040 It's on top of the sheer entertainment factor.

00:26:21.340 It shows that they care.

00:26:23.480 And also, look, historically, it's always been understood that men should have outlets to settle a beef physically in a fair and honorable way.

00:26:36.080 That's why dueling was common and acceptable for hundreds of years, both in this country.

00:26:43.560 Well, in this country, not for hundreds of years, but hundreds of years across the Western world and beyond, and for a brief time in this country as well.

00:26:51.760 You know, it kept people a bit more honest, I think.

00:26:53.640 People were a little bit more polite back when dueling was, you know, if you were insulted, another man would, if you insulted another man, he'd walk up to you and say, I challenge you to a duel.

00:27:02.100 And now you really, it's like, you don't want to turn it down because then you're shamed and embarrassed for the rest of your life.

00:27:11.440 And it gives an outlet for male aggression.

00:27:13.960 But then dueling fell out of fashion.

00:27:15.500 And for a while, though, men could still kind of fight it out, go toe to toe without going to jail for assault.

00:27:21.040 This was even the case, you know, this is what boomers always talk about when they were in school, the kids would fight and you just let them fight it out.

00:27:28.360 And they didn't immediately expel everybody involved.

00:27:30.460 They didn't have the zero tolerance policy sort of thing.

00:27:34.200 Now all that has gone away, but has it made society less violent?

00:27:40.680 Has it made society more civil?

00:27:42.660 Of course not.

00:27:43.940 If anything, the opposite.

00:27:48.780 Because you still have violence, but instead of fistfights between two people, you get these sudden violent outbursts targeting innocent people.

00:27:57.440 You get that. You get fights that are not really fights at all.

00:28:01.180 Like 20 people ganging up on one, beating him to a pulp, kicking him while he's down.

00:28:05.340 You get a lot of that. Killing him. 1.00

00:28:06.880 You know, there was what happened to the high schooler in Las Vegas who was jumped and beaten to death by 15 people just a few days ago.

00:28:15.280 And this kind of thing is pretty common now, fighting in this really dishonorable, cowardly way, 15 against one, which, as I said, is not a fight.

00:28:22.660 I mean, in that case, it was murder.

00:28:24.660 So the plan to make the world less violent hasn't really panned out.

00:28:27.760 That's probably because you can't actually get rid of violence.

00:28:31.680 It's not possible, you know, but what you can do is channel it, give it outlets.

00:28:40.260 And if you don't have those, then you get this kind of unchanneled, unrestrained, oftentimes very dishonorable, unmanly form of violence.

00:28:50.960 That's what we end up with.

00:28:54.100 So, I don't know.

00:28:56.800 In conclusion, I wish that Bernie Sanders just kept his mouth shut and let these two men handle it.

00:29:03.040 Would have been a great, I think it would have been a great example for everybody.

00:29:07.360 All right.

00:29:08.260 This kind of relates to the opening monologue.

00:29:10.180 I think it's, certainly there's a lot of crossover here.

00:29:13.960 Daily Wire has this report.

00:29:14.840 Prominent mental health organizations have come out in support of transgender ideology,

00:29:18.760 demanding that counselors affirm feelings of gender dysphoria in patients and advocates for policy

00:29:24.340 and advocates for policies that push transgenderism in school.

00:29:27.080 The American School Counselor Association, ASCA, which reports a membership of 43,000 counselors

00:29:34.020 and has certified trainers across the country, is demanding that school counselors promote affirmation

00:29:39.520 for those who identify as transgender.

00:29:42.940 A statement from the organization reads, quote,

00:29:44.620 The organization, which hosts professional development events attended by thousands of counselors,

00:29:58.240 goes on to push for policies that allow boys to have access to girls' bathrooms and locker rooms.

00:30:03.200 Statement reads, quote,

00:30:04.120 Another document from the organization, titled School Counselors and LGBTQ Plus Youth,

00:30:13.240 tells counselors to support an inclusive curriculum at all grade levels

00:30:16.340 and promote policies that effectively reduce the use of offensive language.

00:30:22.760 January Little John, a parent advocate for Do No Harm, told The Daily Wire, quote,

00:30:26.480 School counselors are being trained to only affirm students' transgender identities regardless of co-occurring mental health issues

00:30:32.880 and often behind the backs of loving parents.

00:30:35.260 This is not in the best interest of the child or the parent-child relationship.

00:30:41.040 So as I said, this really underscores the point in the opening monologue about what the real objective of counseling is supposed to be.

00:30:49.460 You know, if in an ideal world, counselors, whether they're working in the private sector,

00:31:03.100 whether they have their own practice, or they're working in the school,

00:31:07.380 whatever the case may be, you go to the counselor not to be affirmed in whatever you're already thinking,

00:31:16.980 because the whole reason why you're there is because you're not thinking clearly about something or maybe about a lot of things.

00:31:24.540 And if that is not the point of counseling anymore,

00:31:29.860 if the point of counseling is not to be given some clarity and some help

00:31:36.620 and like navigating through the things that you're confused about or conflicted about,

00:31:40.560 if that's not the point of counseling anymore, then there is no point of counseling.

00:31:44.420 Then what you end up with is, it's not just that it's not counseling,

00:31:49.540 it's kind of this anti-counseling.

00:31:54.400 It is counseling that deliberately takes confused people,

00:31:59.820 and in this case, since it's in a school, worst of all,

00:32:01.900 confused children and leads them deeper into that confusion.

00:32:06.420 And this is the entire industry.

00:32:12.940 The entire therapy slash counseling industry is basically this, with rare exception.

00:32:17.640 And it's why, as I've been warning for a long time,

00:32:26.020 you just, you shouldn't send your kid to a counselor.

00:32:30.480 You cannot trust.

00:32:33.900 You certainly cannot trust a counselor or therapist.

00:32:38.440 And so, if you really feel like, and it should be like last resort.

00:32:44.780 Again, going back to the ideal scenario,

00:32:47.260 a kid going to counseling or therapy would not necessarily have to be a last resort situation.

00:32:53.960 But given how potentially dangerous it can be,

00:32:58.120 and given that so many, I mean, the majority of these people that work in this industry

00:33:02.000 are going to be working against your child's interests.

00:33:06.480 That means that to go that route has to be an absolute last resort.

00:33:11.920 And then when you do it, you have to be so careful.

00:33:15.140 You need to really do your due diligence about who this person is,

00:33:19.860 what their approach is.

00:33:22.660 And the good news is that the due diligence part of it is actually kind of easy,

00:33:27.060 because you know what questions to ask.

00:33:28.400 Like, if I was ever considering sending a child to a therapist or a counselor,

00:33:33.820 I'm going to meet with that person ahead of time, obviously.

00:33:37.560 And first thing I'm going to ask is,

00:33:41.980 do you practice gender affirmative care in this?

00:33:46.460 Do you believe in that?

00:33:49.080 And if the answer is anything but, hell no.

00:33:52.580 We don't do that here.

00:33:54.140 Anything but that.

00:33:55.160 You would be crazy to send your kid there.

00:33:59.620 Now, I'm talking about sending your kid to counseling,

00:34:01.700 but of course the reality is that because this,

00:34:04.620 in this case we're talking about school counselors,

00:34:06.640 many of these parents, as referenced in the article,

00:34:09.480 you know, this is happening behind the parents' backs,

00:34:10.820 so they might not even know that the kid is seeing a counselor in the first place.

00:34:15.540 And that just makes it all the worse.

00:34:19.700 Also kind of in the same vein, here's the Daily Wire report.

00:34:21.920 Comedian Marlon Wayne said his child now identifies as transgender,

00:34:25.740 a change which he plans to incorporate into his comedy routine.

00:34:29.180 The 51-year-old performer made the comments during an appearance on The Breakfast Club on Friday.

00:34:33.760 He said a future comedy special on the topic could be called Rainbow Child.

00:34:37.700 Here's the clip.

00:34:38.380 I have a daughter that transitioned into a son.

00:34:44.200 My daughter, Amai, is now Kai.

00:34:47.260 Truthful.

00:34:47.600 Yeah.

00:34:48.340 And so I talk about the transition.

00:34:50.720 Not her transition, his, their transition,

00:34:53.680 but my transition as a parent going from ignorance and denial

00:34:58.880 to complete unconditional love and acceptance.

00:35:02.380 And I'm just so proud of them for being them.

00:35:04.800 So, I have to be honest, every time I see one of these videos

00:35:10.180 of one of these celebrities talking about their trans child,

00:35:13.820 I can't help but feel sorry for, for the parent.

00:35:17.900 Like, I watched that video and I, and I can't help but feel sorry,

00:35:21.340 kind of sorry for Marlon Wayans.

00:35:22.620 Now, if we're talking about a young trans child,

00:35:26.240 quote unquote trans child,

00:35:27.880 talking about like a six-year-old kid or something,

00:35:30.960 then, no, I'm not going to feel any sympathy for the parent

00:35:33.980 because, as we know, that means that they, as the adult,

00:35:36.520 are imposing that identity on the child.

00:35:38.940 They are abusing their child,

00:35:40.660 Munchausen by proxy.

00:35:42.380 Obviously, in that case, I feel no sympathy for the parent.

00:35:45.840 But Marlon Wayans' kid is, I believe, in her 20s.

00:35:49.600 So, this is an adult who has fallen into the gender cult 1.00

00:35:56.840 and Marlon Wayans is trying to rationalize it.

00:36:01.100 He's trying to convince himself that he's okay with it.

00:36:07.680 And you can tell that he obviously is not okay with it.

00:36:12.380 It's all, you can, you can, in all of, almost all of these cases

00:36:18.420 where you've got one of these parents coming out and talking about,

00:36:21.000 oh, my adult child recently announced that they're the opposite gender.

00:36:26.620 And you can hear it in their voice.

00:36:28.180 You can see it in their eyes.

00:36:29.140 Like, they are not, they are not okay with this.

00:36:33.580 They do not like this.

00:36:35.400 That's why they always talk about, well, they could come to terms with it.

00:36:38.480 And, you know, using the kind of language that you would never use

00:36:43.440 if you really viewed this as a positive development in your child's life, right?

00:36:50.700 Like, if you have a kid who graduates from medical school,

00:36:55.180 you're not going to say, well, I really had to come to terms with it.

00:36:58.580 It took some time.

00:37:00.740 If it's an obviously positive development,

00:37:02.980 that's not how you talk about it as a parent.

00:37:05.320 No, he's talking about it.

00:37:10.320 The way that you talk about, like,

00:37:13.240 if your child gets some sort of horrible medical diagnosis.

00:37:19.560 He's talking about it like that.

00:37:22.360 Coping with a tragedy.

00:37:23.520 Because that's what it is.

00:37:24.580 This is a tragedy for a parent.

00:37:26.420 And I just can't imagine, as a father,

00:37:31.340 having either of my daughters announce one day

00:37:33.820 that they want to pretend to be my son.

00:37:38.140 Can't imagine watching them destroy themselves.

00:37:40.380 Watching basically helplessly if they're adults

00:37:42.340 and you have no immediate control over their actions.

00:37:45.160 It's a tragedy.

00:37:46.700 And it is very much like suffering the death of a child.

00:37:49.240 It's a very similar emotion.

00:37:50.420 And that's what these parents are being told

00:37:54.660 that they should accept.

00:37:56.780 Well, so I found out that my daughter is really my son.

00:38:02.780 Trying desperately to smile as he says it.

00:38:05.080 You can tell he doesn't buy it.

00:38:07.140 So what?

00:38:07.600 So what happened to your daughter?

00:38:09.000 So your daughter has disappeared.

00:38:11.300 Your daughter is dead.

00:38:13.160 By that logic.

00:38:16.080 And you're supposed to be happy about that?

00:38:17.560 Of course you aren't.

00:38:18.120 Of course, Marlon Wayans loses sympathy in the end

00:38:23.500 because he has decided to not only affirm

00:38:27.200 and endorse his daughter's self-destruction,

00:38:29.940 which as a parent you can never do

00:38:32.520 under any circumstance.

00:38:35.360 No matter how determined your child is

00:38:37.040 to destroy themselves, you never affirm it.

00:38:40.220 And the more determined they are to destroy themselves,

00:38:42.120 the more determined you should be to...

00:38:45.120 stand in the way of that.

00:38:51.620 But not only is he affirming and endorsing it,

00:38:53.620 but now he's out bragging about it

00:38:55.080 and effectively promoting it

00:38:56.600 in order to try to make himself feel better.

00:39:00.160 So all the sympathy goes out the window.

00:39:03.800 Doesn't change the fact that he knows this is wrong, of course.

00:39:05.980 And also, obviously,

00:39:10.360 as a parent,

00:39:13.940 unconditional acceptance

00:39:15.300 is obviously

00:39:17.480 not the correct approach.

00:39:20.660 And it also has nothing to do with

00:39:22.360 unconditional love.

00:39:24.500 Yes.

00:39:26.360 As a parent,

00:39:27.400 you always love your child.

00:39:28.640 So,

00:39:31.100 yes, that's true.

00:39:33.920 But unconditional love

00:39:35.200 does not mean

00:39:36.260 unconditional acceptance.

00:39:38.920 In fact,

00:39:39.800 unconditional love

00:39:40.860 can sometimes mean

00:39:43.300 not accepting

00:39:46.040 things that your child is doing.

00:39:49.080 And then enduring

00:39:50.420 the wrath,

00:39:52.180 you know,

00:39:52.980 of the...

00:39:53.680 Enduring the wrath...

00:39:56.020 Enduring the...

00:39:57.080 Enduring the resentment

00:39:58.400 of your child

00:39:59.500 because you are refusing

00:40:01.100 to accept

00:40:01.940 their self-destructive actions.

00:40:03.820 Like, that is...

00:40:04.840 As a responsible parent,

00:40:06.900 that's part of it.

00:40:07.860 As an actually

00:40:08.760 loving and responsible parent,

00:40:10.380 that's part of it.

00:40:11.400 And every parent,

00:40:12.840 to some degree,

00:40:13.560 will have to deal with that.

00:40:14.380 Hopefully not to this degree.

00:40:17.040 Even when your kids are young.

00:40:19.100 Like, they want to do something.

00:40:20.120 They really want to do something.

00:40:21.080 You stop them

00:40:21.600 because it's not a good thing to do.

00:40:22.980 And they're going to be resentful

00:40:24.080 and angry about it.

00:40:24.860 Like, not for very long,

00:40:25.780 but they're going to be upset

00:40:27.580 at you.

00:40:32.740 And they're not going to understand.

00:40:35.780 They're going to think

00:40:36.580 from a young age,

00:40:37.700 this is how children act.

00:40:39.500 When you know

00:40:40.740 what's best for them

00:40:41.520 and so you try to

00:40:42.360 do what's best for them

00:40:43.680 but they don't understand that

00:40:45.200 because all they want

00:40:45.960 is what they want

00:40:46.780 and if you don't give them

00:40:47.860 exactly what they want

00:40:48.760 then they don't

00:40:49.320 immediately understand

00:40:50.460 that you're looking out

00:40:52.580 for them,

00:40:53.200 doing what's best for them.

00:40:55.780 So to be really loving

00:40:57.000 is to be,

00:40:58.400 this is

00:40:59.180 in many ways

00:41:01.060 the true test

00:41:01.980 of love

00:41:03.680 is if you really love someone

00:41:05.740 are you willing

00:41:06.620 to allow them

00:41:09.860 to be angry at you

00:41:12.580 and even to resent you?

00:41:14.160 And when it comes

00:41:16.720 to something like this

00:41:17.740 with an adult child

00:41:19.120 going through something

00:41:20.440 like this,

00:41:21.760 do you love them

00:41:22.800 so much

00:41:23.660 that you are willing

00:41:24.880 to take a stance

00:41:28.580 to say something,

00:41:29.860 to do something

00:41:30.500 that may

00:41:31.700 for a time,

00:41:33.840 hopefully not forever,

00:41:34.800 even sever that relationship?

00:41:36.240 Do you love them

00:41:39.880 so much

00:41:40.120 that you're willing

00:41:40.440 to put the relationship

00:41:41.200 itself in jeopardy?

00:41:43.640 That is true

00:41:44.540 parental love.

00:41:46.060 That's the ultimate sacrifice.

00:41:48.600 He wasn't willing

00:41:49.280 to make it

00:41:49.860 and many parents aren't.

00:41:53.460 Alright,

00:41:54.020 one other thing

00:41:54.620 before we get

00:41:54.900 to the next segment,

00:41:56.120 maybe not as important

00:41:58.120 but still important.

00:41:59.600 USA Today,

00:42:00.300 here's the headline,

00:42:02.120 move over LOL,

00:42:03.380 there's a new way

00:42:04.000 to laugh online.

00:42:05.860 What does

00:42:06.420 IJBOL mean? 0.82

00:42:09.880 So it says,

00:42:10.640 online communication

00:42:11.320 has certainly changed

00:42:12.040 over the last several decades.

00:42:13.020 There seems to be

00:42:13.380 new phrases

00:42:13.860 popping up every day

00:42:14.780 and sometimes

00:42:15.160 these terms

00:42:15.700 changing

00:42:16.500 change meaning

00:42:17.900 over time.

00:42:18.520 For certain users,

00:42:19.220 the laughing and crying

00:42:20.000 face emoji

00:42:20.600 is used to denote

00:42:21.600 amusement.

00:42:22.200 For others,

00:42:22.580 it's out of style

00:42:23.380 and using it

00:42:24.640 signals you may have

00:42:25.360 fallen behind the times.

00:42:27.220 Some slang

00:42:27.820 has even seen

00:42:28.820 different iterations

00:42:29.600 through the years.

00:42:30.700 Gone are the days

00:42:31.260 of LOL and ROFL.

00:42:33.780 Those days are gone,

00:42:34.560 really?

00:42:35.840 The hot new replacement

00:42:36.760 is IJBOL,

00:42:38.840 IJBOL.

00:42:40.460 Here's what it stands for

00:42:41.700 and how to use it

00:42:42.460 in your conversations.

00:42:44.560 IJBOL stands for 0.97

00:42:45.720 I just burst out laughing,

00:42:47.220 according to dictionary.com.

00:42:48.740 Similar to LOL,

00:42:49.580 the slang is used

00:42:50.140 to express laughter

00:42:50.980 and delight.

00:42:52.380 The term was first used

00:42:53.560 around the late 2000s

00:42:54.520 to early 2010s

00:42:55.220 but didn't gain popularity

00:42:56.100 until recently.

00:42:58.220 IJBOL was popularized

00:42:59.340 around 2021

00:43:00.020 by TikTok and Twitter.

00:43:01.760 Here are some examples

00:43:03.460 of how to use IJBOL.

00:43:07.040 Did you listen

00:43:07.760 to the new TMG podcast?

00:43:09.600 Yeah, IJBOL. 0.95

00:43:11.660 IJBOL,

00:43:12.200 she's in her flop era.

00:43:14.560 TikTok fights 0.95

00:43:15.340 are so silly, 0.94

00:43:16.280 IJBOL. 0.99

00:43:17.820 Anyway,

00:43:18.260 there it is.

00:43:18.820 That's the slang.

00:43:20.600 It might actually be

00:43:22.520 the worst internet slang

00:43:23.460 I've ever heard

00:43:23.960 in my life

00:43:24.360 and I refuse

00:43:25.800 to allow this

00:43:26.440 to be a thing.

00:43:27.200 I haven't seen it yet

00:43:27.900 in the wild,

00:43:28.720 so to speak,

00:43:29.660 but I'm not going

00:43:31.980 to allow it.

00:43:32.680 You're not allowed

00:43:33.360 to use this phrase.

00:43:34.080 You are not permitted.

00:43:34.740 It's illegal.

00:43:35.460 We aren't going

00:43:35.940 to do this, period.

00:43:38.100 That's it.

00:43:39.100 The issue's settled.

00:43:41.640 IJBOL doesn't even 1.00

00:43:42.540 roll off the tongue. 0.99

00:43:43.640 It isn't easier

00:43:44.440 or quicker to say.

00:43:45.740 It looks clunky

00:43:46.840 and weird

00:43:47.240 when you put it

00:43:47.660 in writing.

00:43:48.740 At least LOL

00:43:49.360 is short to the point.

00:43:51.360 Looks kind of clean

00:43:52.180 and simple.

00:43:52.820 You can even say it

00:43:53.720 and it sounds smooth.

00:43:55.100 I mean,

00:43:55.380 you shouldn't say it

00:43:56.120 or use it.

00:43:56.680 Don't get me wrong.

00:43:57.480 I'm not endorsing that

00:43:58.360 or allowing it,

00:43:59.080 but IJBOL is,

00:44:00.660 it's just,

00:44:01.080 it's not an improvement.

00:44:03.220 IJBOL.

00:44:04.940 It sounds like the name

00:44:05.980 of a,

00:44:06.740 I don't know,

00:44:07.620 an Arab pirate 0.99

00:44:10.460 or something. 0.65

00:44:11.540 That's what I'm going

00:44:12.260 with. 0.97

00:44:12.520 Arab pirate. 0.88

00:44:13.420 IJBOL. 0.88

00:44:14.300 Here's an idea.

00:44:15.500 I have an idea.

00:44:17.780 Rather than,

00:44:18.840 it's a crazy idea,

00:44:20.420 but rather than IJBOL

00:44:22.740 or LOL

00:44:23.880 or LMAO

00:44:26.100 or anything else,

00:44:28.180 what you could do,

00:44:29.800 it's crazy,

00:44:30.780 but you could just

00:44:31.920 write out,

00:44:34.800 write a phrase

00:44:36.400 that expresses

00:44:37.320 how you feel.

00:44:39.520 So if you really

00:44:40.400 burst out laughing,

00:44:42.220 if you actually,

00:44:43.100 if someone really

00:44:43.680 said something online

00:44:44.560 that,

00:44:44.800 that where you,

00:44:45.480 you are reading it

00:44:47.280 and then you burst out

00:44:48.560 audibly laughing,

00:44:50.140 then communicate that.

00:44:53.120 You could just,

00:44:53.580 you could write that.

00:44:54.220 It doesn't take long.

00:44:54.980 I just burst out laughing.

00:44:57.300 That it doesn't,

00:44:57.860 you don't have to be

00:44:58.280 a trained typist

00:44:59.220 to type that out

00:45:00.080 in like less than

00:45:01.060 two seconds.

00:45:02.000 It doesn't take long

00:45:02.700 to do.

00:45:04.980 You could even say,

00:45:06.360 that's funny.

00:45:10.660 You know,

00:45:11.300 there's like many ways

00:45:12.400 to communicate.

00:45:12.840 Did you know this?

00:45:14.140 There are

00:45:14.960 170,000 words

00:45:16.980 in the English language.

00:45:18.220 That's a lot of words.

00:45:19.560 Now,

00:45:19.900 most people's vocabulary

00:45:20.820 is like,

00:45:21.640 it's not even

00:45:22.240 a tenth of that.

00:45:24.080 It's not even

00:45:24.580 close to a tenth.

00:45:26.640 Most people,

00:45:27.300 their vocabulary

00:45:27.740 is not 170,000 words,

00:45:29.480 but 170 words

00:45:30.540 more like it.

00:45:31.120 But even so,

00:45:32.120 there are many words

00:45:33.060 to choose from.

00:45:34.120 If you want to convey

00:45:35.160 a point,

00:45:36.560 you know,

00:45:37.000 if you found something funny,

00:45:38.040 there are so many words

00:45:39.440 and so many word combinations.

00:45:41.560 Because that's the great thing

00:45:42.220 about language

00:45:42.800 is that you've got

00:45:43.700 individual words

00:45:44.700 and then what you could do,

00:45:45.320 it's a lot of fun.

00:45:45.940 It's really interesting.

00:45:46.660 I'm actually,

00:45:47.140 I'm doing it right now.

00:45:48.300 And what you do is

00:45:48.780 you can take

00:45:49.360 individual words,

00:45:50.160 you can put them together

00:45:51.000 in these things

00:45:51.500 that we call sentences

00:45:52.360 where you can express

00:45:53.700 an entire idea,

00:45:55.100 an entire thought

00:45:55.920 in a way that allows

00:45:57.340 another person

00:45:57.860 to understand

00:45:58.660 how you're thinking

00:46:00.060 and feeling.

00:46:01.000 So you can do that.

00:46:02.060 It's called communication.

00:46:03.100 It's an actual thing

00:46:03.800 that you are able to do

00:46:04.940 even online.

00:46:06.360 And so,

00:46:06.980 use your words.

00:46:07.880 You can do that.

00:46:08.400 That's why I tell my kids

00:46:09.080 this all the time

00:46:09.600 when they're having

00:46:09.920 a temper tantrum.

00:46:10.860 Use your words.

00:46:12.040 Use your words.

00:46:12.760 So you could do that.

00:46:17.280 You know.

00:46:19.380 Or you could just

00:46:20.060 blurt out

00:46:20.520 each bowl.

00:46:23.980 I guess either one

00:46:24.840 works in the end.

00:46:26.920 Let's get to

00:46:27.520 Was Walsh Wrong?

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00:47:31.460 Mr. Reality says,

00:47:32.660 many vagrants 0.98

00:47:33.420 actually do have it better

00:47:34.760 living on the street

00:47:35.620 than working at McDonald's.

00:47:36.640 Where I live,

00:47:37.140 they actually work

00:47:37.720 as a group

00:47:38.280 to beg on corners.

00:47:39.400 They show up

00:47:39.800 to various corners

00:47:40.540 every day

00:47:40.920 like it's a job,

00:47:41.780 beg for money all day,

00:47:43.180 then go,

00:47:43.960 quote unquote,

00:47:44.360 home and split it.

00:47:45.980 I've heard they make

00:47:46.900 close to $70,000

00:47:47.840 per year tax-free.

00:47:49.620 It's not enough

00:47:50.200 to just make

00:47:50.820 vagrancy illegal.

00:47:52.240 Panhandling needs 0.64

00:47:52.980 to be too.

00:47:55.360 Yeah,

00:47:56.000 that is part of the issue.

00:47:59.400 I don't think

00:47:59.680 that that's,

00:48:00.320 certainly not the majority

00:48:01.200 of cases

00:48:01.760 where this is like

00:48:03.060 the vagrant

00:48:04.960 is choosing that

00:48:06.380 because it's like

00:48:07.340 more financially profitable.

00:48:09.520 I do think

00:48:09.960 the majority of cases

00:48:10.660 these are just

00:48:11.380 self-destructive drug addicts 0.94

00:48:13.100 and, you know,

00:48:14.800 schizophrenics and so on.

00:48:16.480 But, yeah,

00:48:18.320 it goes back

00:48:18.680 to what I said.

00:48:19.280 It's like either

00:48:20.100 someone's homeless

00:48:20.780 because they are actually

00:48:21.840 choosing that lifestyle

00:48:22.920 or they're so lacking

00:48:26.560 in basic mental competency

00:48:28.520 that they can't choose

00:48:29.420 anything for themselves.

00:48:30.640 Either way,

00:48:31.920 vagrancy should be illegal

00:48:33.100 and either you should be

00:48:35.780 required to get off the street

00:48:36.900 or if,

00:48:38.820 if that is a requirement

00:48:40.640 you can't fulfill,

00:48:41.440 then you should be put

00:48:42.400 in an institution.

00:48:43.760 So, I think that only,

00:48:47.160 I think you're helping

00:48:48.160 to make that point there.

00:48:49.580 Nick says,

00:48:50.160 Matt needs to realize

00:48:50.920 that though,

00:48:52.780 needs to realize though

00:48:53.540 that it's hard

00:48:54.100 even with a job

00:48:54.980 to be able to afford

00:48:55.720 a place now

00:48:56.340 if you're single.

00:48:58.080 Like,

00:48:58.480 it used to be

00:48:59.920 one week's pay

00:49:01.000 was your rent.

00:49:01.920 Now,

00:49:02.280 it's three weeks pay.

00:49:04.040 Then you have like

00:49:05.060 groceries and gas

00:49:06.100 and if you have

00:49:06.580 entertainment

00:49:07.120 like cable bill

00:49:08.160 and internet bill,

00:49:09.120 you can't.

00:49:10.660 Yeah,

00:49:11.080 it's way too expensive

00:49:11.860 to live right now.

00:49:13.420 That's the case

00:49:14.060 for everybody.

00:49:15.400 Now,

00:49:15.820 by the way,

00:49:16.120 I will tell you that

00:49:16.960 it's always been difficult,

00:49:19.180 especially if you don't

00:49:19.840 make a lot of money,

00:49:20.880 in particular,

00:49:21.920 if you're kind of

00:49:22.320 starting out

00:49:22.940 in adult life.

00:49:25.080 It's always been difficult.

00:49:27.100 Get a job,

00:49:27.980 keep a job,

00:49:29.700 you know,

00:49:29.940 find a place to live,

00:49:31.040 maintain,

00:49:31.380 like that's never been

00:49:32.280 necessarily an easy thing

00:49:33.420 to do.

00:49:35.960 But yes,

00:49:36.960 it is certainly

00:49:37.460 more expensive now.

00:49:39.220 Yet,

00:49:41.140 as I'm sure

00:49:41.960 is the case

00:49:42.400 for you,

00:49:42.820 Nick,

00:49:42.980 that what you'll find

00:49:44.440 is that although

00:49:45.180 it's difficult

00:49:45.840 and it's not easy

00:49:48.580 and things are

00:49:49.180 far too expensive

00:49:50.020 and it shouldn't cost

00:49:51.200 all this money

00:49:51.760 to go to a grocery store

00:49:52.700 and get like a week's

00:49:53.720 worth of groceries,

00:49:54.560 shouldn't cost

00:49:55.560 hundreds of dollars.

00:49:56.720 but if you are

00:50:00.020 a basically

00:50:00.680 competent person,

00:50:02.800 if you are just like,

00:50:03.600 if you meet

00:50:04.600 a bare minimum

00:50:05.440 level of competency,

00:50:07.080 then you can still do it

00:50:08.360 and there's really

00:50:10.900 like no chance.

00:50:12.040 I mean,

00:50:12.240 I don't know

00:50:12.880 your situation,

00:50:13.660 Nick,

00:50:13.760 but even just based

00:50:15.600 on this comment,

00:50:16.360 it's like there's

00:50:17.540 probably no chance

00:50:18.480 that you're going

00:50:18.800 to end up living

00:50:19.280 under a bridge.

00:50:22.080 Ron Berg says,

00:50:23.420 have you any idea

00:50:24.960 how many vets

00:50:25.720 you walk past

00:50:26.500 on the streets?

00:50:27.160 And yes,

00:50:27.580 sober vets.

00:50:28.200 A better question

00:50:28.740 might be,

00:50:29.140 when's the last time

00:50:29.700 you even stooped

00:50:30.380 to walk past,

00:50:31.220 let alone spoke

00:50:32.020 to a homeless person,

00:50:33.760 Mr. Christian?

00:50:36.200 I've spoken to homeless

00:50:36.980 people many times.

00:50:38.000 You know,

00:50:38.220 I sometimes give money

00:50:39.720 even though I know

00:50:40.400 that it probably

00:50:41.080 won't be spent

00:50:41.660 on necessities.

00:50:42.400 I'm aware of that.

00:50:42.920 In fact,

00:50:43.160 just last night

00:50:43.820 I was at the gas station.

00:50:45.140 Woman comes up, 1.00

00:50:45.980 asks for money.

00:50:46.700 She has some story

00:50:47.640 about what she needs it for.

00:50:49.000 You know,

00:50:49.160 it's always the same

00:50:49.880 kind of story.

00:50:50.880 It was probably a lie.

00:50:52.520 You know,

00:50:52.820 it usually is.

00:50:53.680 Gave her 20 bucks anyway

00:50:54.760 because, hey,

00:50:55.800 maybe she'll put it

00:50:56.620 to good use.

00:50:57.120 Probably not,

00:50:57.820 but she might.

00:50:58.840 I can't control

00:50:59.580 what other people do.

00:51:01.700 A few winters ago

00:51:02.720 I got together

00:51:03.460 a bunch of plastic bags

00:51:06.580 full of essential items

00:51:07.760 like, you know,

00:51:08.660 gloves and scarves

00:51:09.540 and toothpaste

00:51:10.600 and that sort of thing.

00:51:11.760 And I kept them

00:51:12.520 in my car.

00:51:13.340 And if I passed

00:51:14.200 by a homeless person

00:51:14.920 I would give them

00:51:15.620 like one of the bags

00:51:16.680 that I had pre-made.

00:51:18.380 And I ended up

00:51:19.620 giving away

00:51:19.960 all the bags

00:51:20.480 pretty quickly.

00:51:21.120 And on more

00:51:22.280 than one occasion

00:51:22.960 I can tell you

00:51:24.340 I saw the person

00:51:25.460 rifle through the bag

00:51:27.000 because they're looking

00:51:27.440 for cash

00:51:27.980 and I didn't put

00:51:28.620 any cash in it.

00:51:29.880 And then they just

00:51:31.000 threw the bag

00:51:31.620 in the trash

00:51:32.060 before I even

00:51:33.220 drove away.

00:51:34.300 I knew that would

00:51:34.920 probably happen.

00:51:36.140 Again,

00:51:36.600 can't control

00:51:37.000 what people do.

00:51:38.180 And you want to

00:51:38.880 give people a chance

00:51:39.640 anyway.

00:51:40.000 I believe that.

00:51:41.720 But still,

00:51:42.460 this is what

00:51:42.860 we're dealing with.

00:51:44.120 Like someone

00:51:44.860 on the street

00:51:45.500 in the cold

00:51:46.560 underdressed

00:51:48.060 and you give

00:51:50.120 them stuff

00:51:50.580 to help them

00:51:51.040 stay warm

00:51:51.600 and they throw

00:51:52.620 it in the trash.

00:51:54.720 This is like

00:51:55.920 a level

00:51:56.980 of instinctual

00:51:58.040 self-destructiveness

00:51:59.400 that is exactly

00:52:02.220 the kind of thing

00:52:02.760 that leads a person

00:52:03.420 to living on the street

00:52:04.240 and that makes it

00:52:05.620 so that they can't

00:52:06.220 get off the street.

00:52:07.680 That's how they got there.

00:52:08.780 That's why they stay there.

00:52:10.960 And it's why

00:52:11.720 although I do believe

00:52:12.480 in offering help

00:52:13.120 where you can,

00:52:16.340 these are all

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00:52:58.760 I think it's well understood

00:52:59.940 by the audience

00:53:01.100 of this show

00:53:01.580 that I am not exactly

00:53:02.480 a big fan

00:53:03.440 of Republican presidential

00:53:04.460 candidate Nikki Haley.

00:53:05.600 In fairness,

00:53:06.200 I'm not a fan

00:53:06.660 of any politician

00:53:07.360 even the few

00:53:07.940 that I support.

00:53:08.740 Politicians are not

00:53:09.360 professional athletes

00:53:10.200 or pop stars.

00:53:11.260 They shouldn't have fans

00:53:12.320 but either way,

00:53:13.480 my feelings

00:53:14.200 about Nikki Haley

00:53:14.700 are generally quite negative.

00:53:16.080 Her whole brand

00:53:16.900 is basically

00:53:17.540 George Bush

00:53:18.300 in a pantsuit

00:53:19.040 which is a brand

00:53:19.780 that I not only

00:53:21.060 find viscerally repulsive

00:53:22.320 but also one

00:53:23.160 that couldn't possibly

00:53:24.960 be more out of step

00:53:26.380 and out of touch.

00:53:27.740 In fact,

00:53:28.100 it's worse than

00:53:28.680 George Bush

00:53:29.080 in a pantsuit

00:53:29.600 because George Bush

00:53:30.300 was at least

00:53:30.860 kind of likable

00:53:31.740 in a goofy

00:53:32.440 bumbling 0.97

00:53:33.240 neocon war hawk

00:53:35.140 kind of way.

00:53:36.540 Haley has the

00:53:37.120 neocon war hawk

00:53:37.920 part down

00:53:38.660 but not the likable part.

00:53:40.020 So she's George Bush

00:53:41.080 with less charm

00:53:42.740 and more shrillness.

00:53:45.980 Basically,

00:53:46.660 it's like

00:53:47.000 the most unappealing

00:53:48.960 sales pitch

00:53:50.040 you could possibly

00:53:51.660 come up with

00:53:52.240 in my opinion.

00:53:54.040 But it's not just

00:53:54.920 my opinion.

00:53:55.500 Many conservatives

00:53:56.060 feel the same way

00:53:56.920 of course,

00:53:57.360 especially after

00:53:58.460 Haley's most recent

00:54:00.060 controversy.

00:54:00.620 Appearing on Fox News

00:54:01.600 yesterday,

00:54:01.960 the presidential hopeful

00:54:02.660 called for the government

00:54:04.440 to unmask

00:54:05.620 and monitor

00:54:06.380 all anonymous accounts

00:54:07.960 on every social media platform.

00:54:09.800 A plan that sounds bad

00:54:11.860 when you hear it summarized

00:54:12.960 and then somehow

00:54:13.500 gets even worse

00:54:14.980 when she explains it

00:54:16.620 in more detail.

00:54:17.680 Listen.

00:54:18.720 When I get into office,

00:54:20.080 the first thing

00:54:20.820 we have to do

00:54:21.480 social media accounts,

00:54:23.260 social media companies,

00:54:24.420 they have to show America

00:54:25.580 their algorithms.

00:54:26.680 Let us see why

00:54:27.440 they're pushing

00:54:27.980 what they're pushing.

00:54:29.020 The second thing

00:54:29.760 is every person

00:54:30.860 on social media

00:54:31.680 should be verified

00:54:32.600 by their name.

00:54:34.860 That's,

00:54:35.440 first of all,

00:54:35.820 it's a national security threat.

00:54:37.200 When you do that,

00:54:38.320 all of a sudden

00:54:38.940 people have to

00:54:39.560 stand by what they say

00:54:40.900 and it gets rid

00:54:41.820 of the Russian bots,

00:54:42.800 the Iranian bots 0.84

00:54:43.620 and the Chinese bots

00:54:44.740 and then you're going

00:54:45.860 to get some civility

00:54:46.880 when people know

00:54:47.940 their name is next

00:54:49.040 to what they say

00:54:49.940 and they know

00:54:51.000 their pastor

00:54:51.560 and their family member

00:54:52.400 is going to see it.

00:54:53.160 It's going to help

00:54:53.920 our kids

00:54:54.380 and it's going to

00:54:54.900 help our country.

00:54:56.500 So this is

00:54:57.440 not just something

00:54:58.560 she wants to do,

00:54:59.400 but it's a

00:54:59.980 day one priority.

00:55:01.560 When she first

00:55:02.440 gets into the White House,

00:55:03.340 which she never will,

00:55:04.840 the first thing

00:55:05.580 she wants to do

00:55:06.420 is to start exposing

00:55:08.220 and cataloging

00:55:09.220 all of those

00:55:10.280 dastardly anonymous accounts.

00:55:12.840 Biden's DOJ

00:55:13.720 just prosecuted a man

00:55:15.060 for posting a joke

00:55:16.260 about Hillary Clinton

00:55:17.020 with his anonymous account.

00:55:18.920 And we talked about this

00:55:19.520 on the show,

00:55:19.840 they sentenced him

00:55:20.380 to seven months

00:55:21.200 in federal prison.

00:55:23.040 Haley has,

00:55:23.700 as far as I know,

00:55:24.160 expressed no concern

00:55:25.360 over that outrageous

00:55:26.540 miscarriage of justice,

00:55:28.120 that blatant assault

00:55:29.140 on the First Amendment.

00:55:30.040 Instead,

00:55:30.360 she wants to make it easier

00:55:32.280 for the federal government

00:55:33.800 to do that again.

00:55:36.040 Now,

00:55:37.320 the kind of general

00:55:38.820 complaint about

00:55:39.600 anonymous accounts

00:55:40.440 is one that years ago

00:55:41.900 I would have agreed with.

00:55:44.940 Now,

00:55:45.120 I never would have called it

00:55:45.980 a national security threat

00:55:47.480 or advocated for the government

00:55:48.700 to forcibly unmask them,

00:55:50.780 but I did buy into the idea

00:55:52.240 that conversations online

00:55:53.420 would be more productive

00:55:54.280 if everybody had their

00:55:55.160 real name attached

00:55:56.040 to whatever they're saying.

00:55:58.580 It's easy,

00:55:59.620 you know,

00:55:59.880 to see why a non-anonymous

00:56:01.120 person can find it annoying

00:56:02.620 when anonymous people

00:56:04.320 take pot shots

00:56:05.260 from behind the cover

00:56:06.060 of their fake name

00:56:07.160 and their anime avatar

00:56:08.480 or whatever.

00:56:09.400 But,

00:56:10.060 you know,

00:56:10.520 I kind of changed

00:56:11.300 my view on this topic

00:56:12.500 because,

00:56:13.080 of course,

00:56:13.960 not every anonymous person 0.98

00:56:15.180 is a dumb troll 0.98

00:56:16.040 and plenty of people 1.00

00:56:16.840 who are not anonymous 0.99

00:56:17.680 are still dumb trolls. 0.98

00:56:19.560 I'm not sure 1.00

00:56:20.240 there's any real evidence

00:56:21.180 that people online

00:56:22.100 are suddenly more thoughtful

00:56:23.300 and civil

00:56:24.060 when they go by

00:56:25.560 their real name.

00:56:26.260 Ultimately,

00:56:26.960 it's not anonymity

00:56:28.120 that enables

00:56:29.460 so many people

00:56:30.180 on social media

00:56:30.880 to conduct themselves 1.00

00:56:31.760 like despicable clowns. 0.99

00:56:33.120 Rather, 1.00

00:56:33.780 it's the screen

00:56:34.680 separating them

00:56:36.280 from everyone

00:56:37.280 they're engaging with.

00:56:38.240 It is the separation.

00:56:39.320 It's the disconnect

00:56:40.100 that gives rise

00:56:42.780 to most of this stuff.

00:56:43.580 And that's just

00:56:43.880 the nature of the beast.

00:56:44.900 That's the internet.

00:56:46.060 There's nothing

00:56:46.440 you can do about that.

00:56:48.240 Besides,

00:56:48.960 the problem

00:56:49.500 with online discourse,

00:56:51.100 much like the problem

00:56:52.020 with discourse

00:56:52.900 in Washington, D.C.,

00:56:53.800 it's not that it lacks

00:56:54.880 civility.

00:56:56.660 The problem

00:56:57.380 on the internet,

00:56:58.040 anyway,

00:56:58.360 is that usually

00:56:59.020 this discussion

00:56:59.780 is loud 1.00

00:57:00.860 and stupid 1.00

00:57:01.540 and focused 1.00

00:57:03.400 on the wrong things.

00:57:05.400 But there are plenty

00:57:06.360 of loud, 1.00

00:57:06.940 stupid, 1.00

00:57:07.420 off-topic people 1.00

00:57:08.360 ruining the conversation

00:57:09.380 while proudly posting

00:57:11.040 all that stuff

00:57:12.560 with their real names

00:57:13.780 and faces.

00:57:14.920 Again,

00:57:15.400 there's no reason

00:57:15.980 to think that

00:57:16.480 taking away anonymity

00:57:17.560 will suddenly make people

00:57:18.760 respectful and thoughtful.

00:57:20.520 The internet is just

00:57:21.460 not a place

00:57:22.340 for that kind of conversation

00:57:23.560 and never has been

00:57:24.960 and never will be.

00:57:26.420 In any case,

00:57:28.440 there are,

00:57:28.820 I've realized,

00:57:29.400 very good reasons

00:57:30.300 for people to be anonymous.

00:57:31.800 It's easy for someone

00:57:32.640 like me

00:57:33.360 to cast all anonymous 0.91

00:57:35.200 accounts as cowardly trolls. 0.91

00:57:36.740 It's easy for Nikki Haley 0.98

00:57:37.640 to take that position.

00:57:38.940 We are both public figures

00:57:40.220 whose employment

00:57:40.940 will not be threatened

00:57:42.540 by us expressing

00:57:43.740 our political views.

00:57:44.700 Our whole public persona

00:57:45.960 is based around

00:57:47.280 the expression

00:57:47.920 of our views.

00:57:50.520 Now,

00:57:50.820 that's not to say

00:57:51.240 that I don't suffer

00:57:51.820 very real personal

00:57:52.720 consequences for it,

00:57:53.860 but at least my livelihood

00:57:55.100 is not threatened.

00:57:56.860 For many people

00:57:57.740 in this country,

00:57:58.420 the situation

00:57:58.920 is quite different.

00:57:59.680 If they don't have

00:58:00.320 the cover of anonymity,

00:58:01.500 then they will not

00:58:02.560 be able to engage at all.

00:58:03.900 They will not be able

00:58:04.520 to share their views at all.

00:58:05.740 They face being fired,

00:58:07.000 ostracized,

00:58:07.660 potentially even worse.

00:58:09.840 And not for saying

00:58:10.540 horrible,

00:58:11.160 objectionable things,

00:58:12.000 but simply for expressing

00:58:12.960 viewpoints

00:58:13.680 that are not approved

00:58:15.280 by mainstream

00:58:16.380 liberal society.

00:58:17.900 Strip away anonymity

00:58:18.940 and you will ensure

00:58:20.020 that the left-wing views

00:58:21.300 are like the only ones

00:58:22.600 that dominate

00:58:23.140 on every platform,

00:58:24.060 even more than

00:58:24.540 they already do.

00:58:25.100 Because those

00:58:26.000 are the only views

00:58:26.780 that a person

00:58:27.320 with a normal job

00:58:28.300 can comfortably express

00:58:29.200 without fear of reprisal

00:58:30.380 or loss of livelihood.

00:58:31.940 Now,

00:58:32.200 it would be much better

00:58:33.060 if we lived in a country

00:58:34.540 where anonymity

00:58:35.840 was not necessary.

00:58:36.960 It would be better

00:58:37.460 if everyone could post online

00:58:39.020 under their real name,

00:58:39.980 but that is not

00:58:41.560 the country we live in.

00:58:43.620 Now,

00:58:43.920 of course,

00:58:44.140 this is all somewhat academic

00:58:45.380 because whether there is

00:58:46.500 good reason to use

00:58:47.420 anonymous accounts or not,

00:58:48.600 and I think there is,

00:58:49.600 the biggest issue

00:58:50.700 with Haley's proposal

00:58:51.500 is that she wants

00:58:52.140 the federal government

00:58:53.080 to force the issue.

00:58:54.940 She is advocating

00:58:55.760 for a massive expansion

00:58:57.400 of the surveillance state.

00:58:59.300 She wants to further empower 0.99

00:59:01.220 the federal government

00:59:02.080 to crack down on speech

00:59:03.640 that it deems a threat

00:59:05.060 or even worse,

00:59:05.940 uncivil.

00:59:07.880 She's trying to solve 0.97

00:59:08.960 the wrong problems

00:59:09.940 while making the real problems

00:59:11.420 even worse.

00:59:13.020 You know,

00:59:13.900 to summarize.

00:59:15.360 And to top it all off,

00:59:16.540 she's attacking people 1.00

00:59:17.260 for not using their real names

00:59:18.380 while she herself

00:59:19.700 does not use

00:59:20.860 her real full name.

00:59:22.840 She is not only

00:59:23.680 an out-of-touch neocon,

00:59:24.820 but also then 1.00

00:59:25.440 a hypocrite. 0.99

00:59:26.840 And that is why 1.00

00:59:27.520 Nimrata Nikki Haley

00:59:29.060 is today

00:59:30.340 canceled.

00:59:32.460 That'll do it

00:59:32.780 for the show today.

00:59:33.300 Thanks for watching.

00:59:33.840 Thanks for listening.

00:59:34.500 Talk to you tomorrow.

00:59:36.180 Godspeed.

The Matt Walsh Show - November 15, 2023

Ep. 1263 - Lowering The Standards In Every Industry In The Name Of Diversity

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