Ep. 1322 - The Secret History Of The Evil Organization That Pushed Gender Madness Into The Mainstream
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There is one single organization most responsible for pushing transgenderism into the mainstream. Most people don t know anything about it, or even that it exists. And today we ll try to change that. Also, White House staffers are getting increasingly frustrated when people point out that the president is senile. Oregon officially recriminalizes drugs after their decriminalization experiment epically fails, and the drag queen RuPaul plans to send a rainbow bus around the country giving out inappropriate books to children. This story only gets more bizarre from there.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is one single organization most responsible for pushing
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transgenderism into the mainstream. Most people don't know anything about this organization or
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even that it exists. And today we'll try to change that. Also, White House staffers are
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getting increasingly frustrated when people point out that the president is senile.
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Oregon officially recriminalizes drugs after their decriminalization experiment epically failed.
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And the drag queen RuPaul plans to send a rainbow bus around the country giving out
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inappropriate books to children. This story only gets more bizarre from there.
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All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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castration of children last year, they singled out the World Professional Association for Transgender
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Health or WPATH. This is the organization that major hospitals and gender clinics cite as the all
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important authority on so-called trans healthcare. In fact, in court, the ACLU argued that WPATH's
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professional opinions are so important that they should overturn the will of the overwhelming
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majority of voters in the state of Tennessee, but the court was not convinced. In its opinion,
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it pointed out that WPATH, by its own admission, has presented, quote, limited data on the long-term
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physical, psychological, and neurodevelopmental outcomes that result from administering puberty
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blockers and cross-sex hormones to children, in part because WPATH's data and the documentation
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wasn't exactly comprehensive, the court allowed the ban on these so-called treatments to take effect.
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Six months later, we now have a window into what data and documentation WPATH actually does have
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in its possession, and it's not limited, as they previously said. Instead, this internal documentation
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at WPATH is comprehensive evidence that so-called gender-affirming care, quote, unquote,
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permanently damages their bodies. And crucially, the documents prove that WPATH knows it. These leaked
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WPATH files come to us from a think tank called Environmental Progress and the independent journalist
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Michael Schellenberger. Among the files is this internal communication at WPATH from a doctor
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concerning a 16-year-old girl who developed liver tumors, large ones, after she was given drugs to
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suppress menstruation, as well as testosterone. Quote, the patient found to have two liver masses,
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and the oncologist and surgeon both have indicated that the likely offending agents
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are the hormones. That's a quote. In response to that report, another doctor on the WPATH discussion
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forum said that one of his colleagues had developed liver cancer and died after taking testosterone for
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about a decade. Quote, to the best of my knowledge, it was linked to his hormone treatment. The doctor
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wrote, quote, it was so advanced that he opted for palliative care and died a couple of months later.
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Now, at no point in these documents does WPATH suggest that they should go public with these concerns.
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They don't immediately run to the media with their determination that cross-sex hormones could
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contribute to fatal liver cancer. They don't warn anybody, as far as I can tell. Instead, they press on
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with a plan to mutilate the 16-year-old girl with liver tumors and the tumors that they have apparently
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caused. Quote, we're prepared to support the patient in any way we can, e.g. top surgery when
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medically stable, etc. Now, Ghoulish doesn't even begin to describe this. After concluding that they've
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possibly caused tumors in a teenage girl's liver, their only concern, apparently, is how quickly they
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can remove her breasts. In fact, from the documents, it appears that WPATH tries to rush these procedures
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in general before patients can reach adulthood. One surgeon, Christine N. McGinn, boasts that she's
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performed more than a dozen vaginoplasties on patients under the age of 18. And in this context,
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vaginoplasty means that they are removing a child's penis and testicles and scrotum and replacing them
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with a non-functioning open wound. And they're doing this to children. The surgeon writes, quote,
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I feel the best time for surgery in the U.S. is the summer before their last year of high school.
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She also says many other surgeons in this community agree with her. What makes this even more egregious,
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if that's even possible, is that WPATH knows that children can't provide informed consent to any of
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this butchery. They admit that in these files. Schellenberger obtained this footage showing WPATH
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members discussing how little patients understand about these procedures. And parts of this video
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were made public last year, but Schellenberger obtained the full thing. Here are a couple of parts
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of it. Watch. I think the thing you have to remember about kids is that we're often explaining these
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sorts of things to people who haven't even had biology in high school yet. And I know I've heard
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others in this kind of a setting say, well, we think adults are like really slick biologically.
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In fact, lots of people have very little medical understanding of stuff like that. We just
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medical professionals and mental health professionals take for granted, but I don't
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know still what to do for the 14 year olds. The parents have it on their minds, but the 14 year
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olds, you just, it's like talking with diabetic complications with a 14 year old. They don't
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care. They're not going to die. They're going to live forever. Right? So I think, I think when
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we're doing informed consent, I know that that's still a big lacuna. We try to talk about it,
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but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of a brain space to really, really, really talk
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about it in a serious way. That's always bothered me, but you know, we still want the kids to
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be happy, happier in the moment. Right? We want them to be happier in the moment. He says,
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we try to talk about it, but most of the kids are nowhere in any kind of brain space to really,
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really, really talk about it seriously. That's just one of the many quotes like this from WPATH
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members. Here's another one quote. It's out of their developmental range to understand the extent
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to which some of these medical interventions are impacting them. They'll say they understand,
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but then they'll say something else that makes you think, oh, they didn't really understand that.
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And they didn't really understand that they're going to have facial hair.
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So these are the doctors doing this stuff, admitting that the patients they're doing it to
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cannot really consent to it. Elsewhere in the files, there's a confession from a therapist that in 15
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years, she's only turned down one patient for gender treatment. And that's only because that
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patient was in active psychosis and was hallucinating during their interview. There's also discussions
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about boys who began transitioning when they were four years old. To understand the extent of the
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barbarism, you need to read the WPATH files for yourself. I'm not going to summarize them all here
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only because it would be redundant. For now, it's important to emphasize that none of these findings
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are surprising. They're unbelievably disturbing, but there's nothing in here that would surprise
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anyone who's done even a cursory look into WPATH. There's no excuse for any hospital or medical
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association to listen to a word WPATH says. And that's been clear for a very long time. Redux
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has done extensive work exposing the various perverts who are connected with WPATH,
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including eunuch fetishists who post their fantasies anonymously on the internet. These are academics
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who have lectured at WPATH and spoken at conferences, and they're apparently sexually
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aroused by the idea of castrating themselves. Imagine entrusting the care of your child
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to an organization that promotes people like that. They want to castrate themselves and they want to
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do the same to your child. It's unbelievable, but the truth is that even before these kinds of
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people became affiliated with WPATH, the organization had no credibility. WPATH, the organization that
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major hospitals and medical organizations hold up as the gold standard for trans healthcare standards
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was a radical cult from the very beginning. That's what you have to understand. So I'm going to
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recount WPATH's sordid history because to my knowledge, no one has done it before. And you need
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to understand what this organization is. And to know that, you need to know where it came from.
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So the history of WPATH starts with a gender-confused, new-age, drug-addicted,
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lesbian-rich kid named Rita Erickson, her prolific nudist friend Zelda Supley,
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and something called the Erickson Educational Foundation, or EEF. Rita Erickson was born in
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Texas in 1917 to successful business owners named Robert and Ruth Erickson. And with immense privilege
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and educational opportunities, ironically, at an all-girls school, Rita grew up to become an engineer
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and contributed to the continued success of her family's lead-smelting business, ultimately
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inheriting and selling it for millions of dollars. In 1963, after her father had passed away,
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Rita sought to transition into a he under the care of a quack doctor named Harry Benjamin.
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Rita changed her name to Reed Erickson and became the ultimate financial force in the push for
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mainstream acceptance of transgenderism. Then, in 1964, Erickson launched the EEF to, quote,
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provide assistance and support in areas where human potential was limited by adverse physical,
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mental, or social conditions, or where the scope of research was too new, controversial, or imaginative
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to receive traditionally-oriented support. Imaginative. Well, that's one way to put it.
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But despite Rita's plans to advance human potential for everybody, supposedly, her own life was falling
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apart. Following the mutilation that Erickson received under the care of Dr. Benjamin,
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she had four failed marriages. She developed a drug addiction and ultimately fled from California
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to Mexico to avoid drug charges. Her daughter had to take on a conservatorship of her estate due to
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her mental and physical decline. And still, beginning around the time of Erickson's transition,
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and all through her decline, the EEF pushed transgenderism and mutilation-based care of gender-confused
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people under the leadership of its director, Zelda R. Suple, who was the right-hand woman to Erickson.
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Now, Suple, her claim to fame was her obsession with nudity, mostly. She owned multiple nudist camps
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and became the first woman to pose fully nude on the cover of Playboy. She also did psychic research
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and dabbled in past-life New Age beliefs. Under Suple, the EEF-sponsored symposiums to bring
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fringe doctors together. The organization paid these doctors to travel and spread gender ideologies.
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They also sponsored programs at colleges to inject transgenderism into academia.
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They handed out propaganda to doctors and lawyers and police departments and social workers.
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The EEF even provided grants to doctors who wanted to pursue gender mutilation, contributing heavily to
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today's more mainstream acceptance of this butchery. The EEF helped to bankroll the first major gender
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clinic at Johns Hopkins University, where Dr. John Money, an EEF board member, worked at the time.
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The clinic received a reported $85,000 from the EEF, and that's approximately $750,000
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in today's dollars. Now, the EEF revered John Money, calling him a leading scholar and researcher
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of our time in a newsletter in 1972. Now, what was John Money doing in 1972 to be celebrated and
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financed by the EEF? Well, according to Arizona State University, he became infamous for directing
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twin boys to, quote, inspect one another's genitals and engage in behavior resembling sexual
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intercourse. He also attempted to change one of the boys into a girl, a story you know if you watched
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What is a Woman? Ultimately, one of the boys shot himself in the head and the other died of a drug
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overdose. Now, the EEF suspended its operations in 1977, but not before helping fund the Janus Information
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Facility, or JIF, which overtook much of the EEF's work. The JIF also absorbed the nudist director
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of the EEF, Zelda Supley. The JIF served as a referral service for gender-confused people to find
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fringe doctors willing to sterilize and mutilate them. Along with Supley, it was run by the University
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of Texas' Dr. Paul Walker, a former Johns Hopkins colleague of Dr. John Money. And through the late
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1970s, bankrolled by the EEF, the Janus Information Facility and Dr. Paul Walker led the continued
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push to mainstream these extreme surgeries, which were increasingly marked by patient regret,
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high complication rates. In 1982, researchers at Yale and the University of Kentucky found that
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post-operative complications included, quote, breast cancer and hormonally treated males, the need for
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surgical reduction of bloated limbs resulting from hormones, repeated construction of vaginal openings,
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infections of the urinary system and rectum, hemorrhaging, loss of skin grafts, post-operative
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suicides and suicide attempts, and patient demands to reverse surgery. Some sex change patients,
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the researchers reported, quote, threatened to shoot the genitals of the surgeon with a shotgun.
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Now, those are pretty bad results of this new form of surgery. Did any of this make Erickson,
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Supley, Paul Walker, John Money, Harry Benjamin, or any of their other unhinged counterparts stop? Did it
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give them a moment of hesitation? No, they doubled down. In 1979, the EEF-funded symposia led to the
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formation of the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association, which took over from
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the JIF. And it was chaired by Dr. Walker, who left the University of Texas thanks to some financial
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backing from Erickson. Dr. Harry Benjamin, the new organization's namesake, had long been bankrolled
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by his former patient and funder extraordinaire, Erickson. Benjamin received $18,000 per year from
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Erickson, which is worth about $176,000 today. In the early years of the Harry Benjamin Association,
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at the urging of Benjamin, Erickson allowed the EEF to be revived for a year to fund newsletters to get
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its message out to the masses. But what was it about Benjamin that made him so beloved? Well,
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in 1966, Dr. Harry Benjamin had authored the transsexual phenomenon, which inspired this
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community of fringe doctors. In it, Benjamin acknowledges that fake vaginas are, quote,
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wounds, and says that these fake vaginas can degrade to the point of being, quote,
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obliterated and useless for sexual relations. So this is him admitting that they're creating
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open wounds in patients and calling it vaginas. Benjamin also outlines the social motivation
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behind some transitions. In one case, Benjamin writes that a mother was embarrassed to be seen
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with her son in public. But when her son began identifying as a girl, the mother suddenly became
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proud of him and even found him to be, quote, attractive. In an especially creepy passage,
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Benjamin writes that he could also verify the attractiveness of the supposed young lady.
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The Harry Benjamin International Gender Daphoria Association, led by Paul Walker, fully recognized
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its roots in Dr. Harry Benjamin, Reed Erickson, Zelda Supley, presenting them with Lifetime Achievement
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Awards. And the newly formed Harry Benjamin Association wasted no time creating their first
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standards of care in 1979. Despite the ample history of failure and suffering they'd inflicted
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on people who often had comorbid mental illnesses, they declared themselves arbiters of authority.
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Their only mild redeeming quality was that they seemed to agree that this sadistic quackery
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shouldn't be inflicted upon minors who were obviously incapable of consent. That's what they said back
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then. In 2000, one of the earliest iterations of the website for the Harry Benjamin Association
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linked to another website called Transsexual Women's Resources, run by one of their early
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members, Dr. Anne Lawrence, who sat on the Standards of Care Committee for the association.
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And he was, and still is, an admitted autogynophile, which is a paraphilia where a man is sexually
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aroused by the thought of himself as a female. And in a paper, Dr. Lawrence refers to
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autogynophilia as an underappreciated paraphilia. Now, few have been as honest about this paraphilia
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as Dr. Anne Lawrence. In a 1999 version of his website, which the Harry Benjamin Association
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linked to, he wrote about his personal experience with genital mutilation, saying that he very badly
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wanted to be a, quote, receptacle. And that's why he wanted to get the mutilation. In 1997, Lawrence
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resigned from a hospital after admitting to a serious lapse in judgment, quote, unquote, involving
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a patient. And the lapse of judgment was that, according to an incident report, a hospital
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gynecologist repeatedly told Lawrence that a patient, an Ethiopian woman, had not experienced
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female circumcision. But when the gynecologist left the room, Lawrence performed a non-consensual
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genital exam on the woman who was unconscious. That was his lapse of judgment, otherwise known
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as sexual abuse of a woman. Now, how many, quote, unquote, trans women are just men with
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a paraphilic sexual arousal of themselves as women? And more concerningly, how many of them
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who view themselves, you know, view women simply as genital receptacles, quote, unquote, are being
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allowed in the restrooms and locker rooms of actual girls and women? Despite having published
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this garbage, Dr. Anne Lawrence remained involved in the standards of care for the Harry Benjamin
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International Gender Dysphoria Association. He was a co-author on the sixth version of the standards,
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which were published in 2001. And that was the last version published before the organization
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changed its name in 2007 to WPATH, or the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.
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Now, despite this new branding, WPATH continued promoting the same radical gender ideology and
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sexual paraphilia of its predecessors. The seventh version of the standards of care released under
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the new WPATH name in 2012 and valid all the way through 2022 continued to reference the work of
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Dr. John Money, whose victims killed themselves. WPATH also cited the receptacle autogynophile,
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Dr. Anne Lawrence. As recently as last year, the WPATH website fully acknowledged almost proudly
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their origin with the EEF and how its suspending of operations in 1977 directly led to this pack of
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fringe doctors forming the Harry Benjamin International Gender Dysphoria Association,
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which is now WPATH. But despite its sordid history, WPATH is somehow now taken seriously
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as the standard setter in the field by major hospitals and medical associations.
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And this is maybe the single greatest scam in modern medicine. It's one of the greatest scams
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in the history of medicine. It's destroying the lives of children across the country. And that much
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is clear. What's less clear is why anyone who knows the truth about WPATH's origin would ever listen to a
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word they have to say. The WPATH of today is the proud product of decades of quackery and sexual
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experimentation. It's a threat to public health and in particular to children. Now, the good news is that
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there's a simple solution. The fact that radical activists at WPATH provide standards of care doesn't mean
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doctors, hospitals, medical schools, insurance companies have to follow them or use them for any
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purpose at all. Medical professionals have the capacity and capability of rejecting barbarism and doing what's
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right. They can exercise some level of common sense and restraint. It's happened before. Physicians used to engage
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in a wide range of practices that we now recognize are gruesome and unethical, like lobotomies, using heroin as
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cough syrup, treating asthma with chloroform. In time, WPATH's standards of care and the procedures they endorse
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will meet the same fate. WPATH exists because, for years, most people didn't know about its history or how its
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standards of care are used. Most people didn't know that hospitals will perform double mastectomies and other
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life-altering operations on children. Well, that's all changing now. WPATH and everything it stands for has been
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exposed. And now it's time for the medical profession to do what it should have done a long time ago and shut
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That's zapmydebt.com. Super Tuesday was yesterday. Not much to talk about there. Obviously, Trump won
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basically everything. Nikki Haley is dropping out, although Haley did win the Vermont primary,
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I believe. So by my count, Haley won exactly two primaries. She won Vermont and Washington, D.C.
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So she wins the swamp, and then she wins the kookiest left-wing state in the union outside of
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maybe Oregon. So it's a very fitting result for her. Also very expected. No surprises with any of
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this. Trump is the nominee. Has been for a while now. The guy he's running against, Joe Biden,
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continues to decay in front of us, of course. And the funny thing, though, is that his staff
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is getting pretty defensive about it. So I want you to watch this moment from the White House press
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briefing yesterday. And here's Karen Jean Pair just fed up. She's had enough of all the questions.
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If I may, the president, I noticed, had note cards at the border when he was doing his briefing there.
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He also had note cards last Friday with the Italian prime minister. Why does the president
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rely so heavily on note cards? You're upset because the president has note cards? You're asking me a
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question about the president having note cards? I'm asking why. The president who has had a,
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probably one of the most successful first three years of administration than any modern day
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president. He's done more in the first three years than most presidents who had two terms.
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You're asking me about note cards? I don't think that's, I don't think, wait, I'm not speaking to
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you right now, James. I'm talking to, I'm talking to your friend over here, Ed. So thank you so much.
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But thank you so much for interjecting. Go ahead, Ed.
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I was just asking why he relies so heavily on note cards.
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I think what's important here and what the American people care about is how this president is
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delivering for them. And that's what he's doing. And that's what's the most important thing here.
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That's good. It's like Karen Jean Paris Iverson moment. We're talking about practice. We're
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talking about note cards. We're really out here talking about note cards. Yeah, well,
00:24:51.720
we are talking about note cards because this is what you call overcompensation on Karen Jean
00:24:57.620
Paris' part. And it's embarrassing to watch, secondhand embarrassment, but it's also sort of
00:25:07.420
infuriating because it's insulting to our intelligence. I mean, it's one thing for her
00:25:12.420
to do the usual song and dance about how Joe Biden is a firecracker. He's full of energy.
00:25:17.220
You know, he's doing great. Everything's fantastic. He's, you know, you should see him behind the
00:25:22.320
scenes. And that's one thing. But here, Karen Jean Paris is pretending like she doesn't understand
00:25:32.460
why people are concerned about the note cards or what that represents to people.
00:25:40.340
She's, and that's insulting to our intelligence. She's pretending like she doesn't understand at all
00:25:45.000
why anyone might be worried about the fact that the president has dementia.
00:25:50.380
That's just, that's an unreason, it's like she's pretending it's such an unreasonable concern that
00:25:56.600
it's not even worth answering the question. The question itself is, is silly. It's ridiculous.
00:26:03.000
So this is not just explaining away the concerns. That's what we expect her to do.
00:26:07.520
That's her job. Her job is to lie on behalf of the cucumber in the Oval Office. We get that.
00:26:13.320
But instead, she's going way overboard and pretending to be personally insulted,
00:26:16.540
even confused by questions relating to the president's senility. The question of whether
00:26:25.060
the president of the United States can speak, you know, for two minutes at a time without
00:26:34.720
reading off a note card. That's a pretty good question. It's one of those basic skills that
00:26:42.480
you want the president to have, the skill of being able to speak and think.
00:26:50.280
But it's not even, not even worth talking about, Karen Jean-Pierre tells us.
00:26:54.740
Here's a story we've been following for a while and reading now from the post-millennial
00:26:58.340
as we get sort of the final word on it, for now anyway.
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Oregon lawmakers voted on Friday to make minor drug possession a criminal misdemeanor offense
00:27:08.120
following the state's disastrous attempts at decriminalization. In November of 2020,
00:27:13.720
it was voted for ballot measure 110, which decriminalized personal possession of drugs
00:27:22.480
such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and LSD. Oregon became the first state in the union to
00:27:27.500
approve such a measure, turning possession of hard drugs from a criminal misdemeanor into a class
00:27:31.660
E misdemeanor, which warrants a citation of up to $100 instead of criminal punishment.
00:27:35.120
The state's decriminalization effort resulted in heavy open-air drug use and a significant
00:27:39.680
surge in overdose deaths. Oregon lawmakers hailed the measure as an approach to addiction,
00:27:44.680
but in return, decriminalization was a hard lesson learned. In a 21-8 vote, the Oregon Senate
00:27:50.880
voted on Friday to recriminalize hard drugs as a misdemeanor criminal offense. The Oregon
00:27:55.440
House of Representatives also voted to roll back decriminalization in a 51-7 vote on Thursday.
00:28:00.640
The bill now heads to Democrat Governor Tina Koteck's desk, where it's expected to be signed into law.
00:28:08.820
According to federal data, Oregon recorded 1,387 drug overdose fatalities in 2022,
00:28:15.060
an increase of nearly 160% from the previous five years.
00:28:19.980
So this is a story that should be getting a lot more attention. What we're seeing here is a
00:28:28.980
dramatic repudiation of one of the most pervasive and increasingly popular left-wing policy ideas.
00:28:35.320
And of course, left-wing policy ideas are repudiated by reality all the time,
00:28:39.700
but rarely do you see it so clearly and so starkly and so quickly that it only took two years. And they
00:28:47.020
said, never mind, this was a terrible idea. It's a very simple process to follow. The left says we should
00:28:57.200
decriminalize drugs. Oregon said, okay, let's do it. Total unmitigated disaster follows. And now they're
00:29:07.460
recriminalizing. And that should be just the end of the decriminalization movement. It's a movement that
00:29:15.620
never should have begun to begin with, but this should be the end of it. It was put into practice.
00:29:22.380
Every bad thing that critics warned about happened. Like everything that the critics said would happen
00:29:28.140
did happen. And so what else is there to talk about? This should just be, I know we can never
00:29:35.160
end any conversation in this country. We can never come to a conclusion on any debate,
00:29:38.860
but this should be one where the debate's just over. Like you said, you know, you wanted this
00:29:44.320
policy. You said it would have a certain result. The exact opposite happened. And, uh, and so that's
00:29:49.660
it, but that's it. It's over. You lost the argument. If you go around talking about drug decriminalization,
00:29:55.100
it, it's not even a valid argument anymore. There's nothing to talk about. You've already lost the
00:29:58.760
argument. You might as well not even talk because you lost the argument. It's done. Keep in mind too,
00:30:04.420
that this Oregon law was presented initially as a model for the nation. So it wasn't just something
00:30:10.760
they were doing. It was when, when it happened, the media celebrated it and they said, this is a
00:30:15.140
model for everybody. Everybody could do the same thing. In fact, just for fun, I want to go back two
00:30:19.200
years ago, uh, just pulling one, one example. And this is a news report from PBS. And here's the
00:30:25.640
headline. Could Oregon's decision to decriminalize hard drugs provide a model for the country?
00:30:31.440
Well, we've already spoiled the answer to that question, but let's just watch a bit of this.
00:30:37.180
The report was published on, uh, April 5th, 2021 and lots of hope, lots, lots of optimism.
00:30:43.340
And let's, uh, let's watch. Well, the times, they are a changing with New York state's recent
00:30:49.340
legalization of recreational cannabis. More than 40% of Americans now live in states that have embraced
00:30:55.580
marijuana legalization. Oregon has been on the leading edge of drug law reform and in November
00:31:02.540
became the first to decriminalize possession of hard drugs. As other states eyes similar moves,
00:31:09.400
Stephanie Sy reports on Oregon's early rollout and the obstacles ahead.
00:31:15.320
37-year-old Sabrina Brandt has been an IV drug user since she was 16.
00:31:20.440
I had mental health issues and since age 12, um, have been on, uh, multiple antidepressants
00:31:29.040
and have multiple diagnoses. And so I think my IV drug use with heroin and cocaine was a way to
00:31:38.860
self-medicate. She describes her relationship with drugs as a love hate thing. I felt like if I quit
00:31:44.820
using drugs, like right now, it'd be like losing my closest confidant, like my best friend, because
00:31:50.260
she's been with me for so many years. So if Sabrina were caught with say less than a gram of heroin or
00:31:56.580
two grams of meth in Oregon today, she'd receive no more than the equivalent of a parking ticket with
00:32:02.820
a maximum fine of $100. She could avoid paying that by making a phone call with a counselor for a health
00:32:09.620
assessment. Now, this is not totally on topic, but I do want to make one point here, uh, and not to get
00:32:15.700
back on my, um, anti-psychotropics hobby horse, but I do have to point this out that the, this woman,
00:32:22.560
Sabrina has been on multiple antidepressants since she was 12. And, you know, she's a junkie,
00:32:29.660
a heroin addict. She's also addicted to anti, you know, to anti, the, the psychiatric drugs,
00:32:35.460
but you can, you can tell just by looking at her that her life is in shambles. I mean,
00:32:42.000
by definition, if you're a heroin addict, then your life is in shambles. And yet they have her
00:32:45.820
on antidepressants to deal with her depression. Um, because her depression is due to a mental
00:32:51.560
illness apparently, and not due to the fact that she's a junkie, not due to the fact that she,
00:32:56.940
she, she leads it in absolutely miserable, awful life governed by her addiction to a poison.
00:33:03.000
Even though anybody with a brain can look at this woman, listen to her speak for five seconds
00:33:09.240
and immediately identify the source of her despair. Like it's not that hard to figure out.
00:33:15.600
We don't need to talk about chemical imbalance and everything else. It's like, obviously she's
00:33:20.180
depressed. Anybody living that life would be depressed. It would be strange if you weren't.
00:33:24.020
And still they have her on multiple antidepressants, which, which obviously are doing nothing for her.
00:33:33.920
Like you would think if doctors were responsible at all at a minimum, they would say, okay,
00:33:39.720
stop doing heroin first. And then we'll talk about like, stop doing heroin and stop doing it for a
00:33:48.000
while. And if you're still depressed, maybe then we can talk about antidepressants. We're certainly
00:33:53.780
not going to talk about them while you're currently doing heroin because that is a thousand percent the
00:33:59.500
reason why you're depressed. Um, but we, there are very few doctors anymore that are responsible.
00:34:06.080
And so that's how she ends up on it. Anyway, um, I want to get to the, we'll, we'll just kind of skip
00:34:10.240
ahead to the end of this video. Let's, let's watch. Like Brandt, not everyone will choose the path of
00:34:16.660
sobriety, but Christina Avery did. She hasn't done drugs for more than three years.
00:34:22.160
Once I tapped into the support, once I accepted what it is that I had to do or was required to do,
00:34:30.320
um, my life changed dramatically. Oh my God. Everything.
00:34:34.980
Other states trying to find a way out of the failed war on drugs have their eyes on Oregon.
00:34:40.440
It's an experiment where the stakes could hardly be higher.
00:34:44.400
So what will, uh, the other states learn? Uh, what lessons will they learn from this experiment?
00:34:50.020
That's what PBS is asking. And, um, I mean, we can only hope that they learn lessons from the
00:34:55.840
experiment, uh, and, and, you know, the right lessons though. Now, you know, when we've talked
00:35:02.600
about this in the past, I've, I've pointed out the obvious, which should be obvious, which is that
00:35:05.920
when you want less of a certain behavior, you punish it. And if you punish that behavior less,
00:35:12.180
you get more of it, punish it more, you get less of it. That's the inverse relationship here.
00:35:18.080
Pretty basic. It's a fundamental fact of human nature. People are driven by incentives and
00:35:22.760
disincentives. Everything we do, we're either, you know, you're doing it to get something you
00:35:26.580
want, or you're doing it because you want to avoid something you don't want. Or, you know,
00:35:30.600
if you're not doing something, it's because doing that thing would give you something that you don't
00:35:34.060
want. Like that's, that's how people work. It's just, there's, there's no point in disputing it.
00:35:41.320
We don't need any, we don't need to see any study on, um, you know, whether or not, whether or not
00:35:48.980
these sorts of measures discourage people from, from committing crimes. Of course they do. Of
00:35:54.880
course they do. To deny that is to deny the most obvious facts of human nature. But the other point
00:36:03.440
is that there's a false distinction drawn in these conversations between compassion and punishment.
00:36:12.080
Uh, it's, it's always like, well, uh, we shouldn't punish drug users. We should have compassion.
00:36:19.180
Well, what I don't understand is why are those two distinct options? Why are we acting like those
00:36:23.740
are two different things? They're not. In fact, to punish is to have compassion in many cases.
00:36:29.480
Punishment is compassionate to the person you're punishing. Uh, parents know this, like hopefully
00:36:38.700
your kid is not a drug addict or a drug dealer, but he hasn't done anything nearly that bad. But,
00:36:43.400
but as a parent, of course, if, if you're a responsible parent, then you utilize punishments
00:36:48.540
and you do it, um, not in spite of your love for your child, but because you love your child.
00:36:55.060
In fact, you do it through that love for your child. Now it's possible, obviously to punish a
00:37:01.860
child in an unjust and cruel and unloving way that's abusive, that's evil, but a punishment
00:37:07.240
meted out proportionally and fairly with the objective of helping your child to be a better
00:37:12.880
person with the objective of incentivizing good behavior and disincentivizing bad behavior.
00:37:17.600
That again is not in spite of your love for your child. It is because of your love for your child.
00:37:24.040
Um, and, and, you know, you always kind of know, uh, that you're punishing fairly and lovingly because
00:37:29.660
you don't, you don't want to, right? Like I had this experience with my son a little while ago.
00:37:35.560
He was misbehaving to what I thought was a, an inordinate extent. You know, he was testing the
00:37:40.880
boundaries as kids will do. And so I, he, I sent him to bed with, to bed early. Um, we were going to
00:37:46.020
sit down as a family and watch a show together, you know, as we do sometimes at night. And, uh,
00:37:50.740
and, but he had to go to bed and he was not going to be a part of that. And for him, that's a major,
00:37:55.200
like, that's a major punishment. That's like, that's like the, that's life imprisonment basically
00:37:58.980
for him. That's, it's that level. It's like, that's, you know, it gets hard for kids in general,
00:38:03.560
go to bed early at an early bedtime. It's just, it's unthinkable. This is just, uh, from,
00:38:09.600
from his perspective, it's cruel and unusual punishment. So he's very distraught and very upset. And,
00:38:13.920
um, and the thing is, you know, I was upset too. I mean, not like distraught like he was,
00:38:18.280
but I wasn't happy about it. Um, I don't want to have to do it. You know, I wanted to hang out
00:38:22.200
with my, I like, I like my kids. I like being around them. Uh, I wanted to hang out with them.
00:38:25.560
I wanted to be part of the family, but, uh, it's, it's a punishment. And, uh, you know, so you talked,
00:38:31.920
you talked to my kid and said, Hey, I look, I'm sad about this too, buddy, but there are consequences
00:38:37.740
to your actions and these are the consequences, but I don't like it. Well, yeah, I know you don't like it,
00:38:42.940
but if, if you don't like the consequences, then don't do the thing that carries those
00:38:47.240
consequences. If that's the message that you want to get across as a parent, it's a very basic
00:38:51.280
message. If you don't get that message across, your kid is destined to become a, a, a dysfunctional
00:38:59.540
and probably ultimately very bad person. If, if they don't, if they don't come to understand that,
00:39:06.680
it's your job as a parent to make them understand that. And the same goes on a wider and much more
00:39:12.080
serious societal scale with criminal justice. It's compassionate to have drug laws and to
00:39:17.760
enforce them. And that goes for the drug dealers. You know, you know, you know, the punishments I
00:39:22.160
would like to see inflicted on drug dealers. Um, but, but that's sort of the easy, or that should
00:39:28.780
be the easy one. It's like, well, of course, drug dealers should be in my mind, should get the worst
00:39:34.080
punishments. Uh, and I think any, any rational person would agree at least that they should be
00:39:38.820
severely punished. Uh, when you get to the drug users, that's where even otherwise rational people
00:39:43.980
start to get a little squeamish and they say, well, we don't want to punish the drug users.
00:39:48.560
And this is what Oregon tried to do. They tried to do this. They said, well, we don't, you know,
00:39:53.920
we saw, we saw this story about Sabrina Brandt or whatever her name was. And, and, and, you know,
00:39:57.940
we don't want to have to punish her. She's obviously a broken person. Um, but no, they should be
00:40:04.220
punished too. Not as severely as the drug dealers should be, but they should be punished. Why?
00:40:11.500
Well, because punishment is just, it's right. It's, it's compassionate both to the punished
00:40:16.040
person and to society as a whole. Also, um, drug addicts are not above the law. Addiction should not
00:40:23.060
be considered an excuse to break the law. So we have laws and we say, this kind of stuff is poison.
00:40:29.620
It's not going to be allowed in our community. And then if somebody says, but I'm addicted to it.
00:40:34.020
Well, okay. So what the law, we're going to change the law now because you're addicted to it.
00:40:39.640
Why would we do that? That's all the more reason to not change the law.
00:40:43.540
Like the fact that it's addictive is one of the reasons why this stuff is illegal.
00:40:48.360
I mean, the idea that we're going to make it legal because of that is, it's exactly backwards.
00:40:53.580
And certainly don't tell me that addicts are only hurting themselves. I mean, again,
00:40:59.920
this is the kind of libertarian nonsense that should, should be done now. If you're a thinking
00:41:05.500
person, you should, if you've said that in the past, you should stop saying it now because you've
00:41:09.880
been proven wrong. So stop it. But you should have known that you shouldn't have needed. You
00:41:14.420
shouldn't need this experiment in Oregon to know that. Of course, drug addicts aren't only hurting
00:41:19.000
themselves. You can ask Oregon about it if you don't believe me. No, drug addicts, they hurt
00:41:25.000
their communities. They hurt, they hurt everybody. How many people are killed every year by drug
00:41:29.660
addicts, either because an addict is driving under the influence or because they're robbing someone
00:41:33.400
for drug money or whatever. And that's just the direct harm. Now, sure. One drug addict in isolation
00:41:39.700
alone in his apartment, uh, shooting heroin, isn't in that moment hurting anyone but himself,
00:41:48.160
but a city full of drug addicts, uh, you know, is, is a city in a state of decay. It's a city that is
00:41:57.980
unlivable, unlivable for everybody else. So that's harm too. And by the way, also the drug addicts are,
00:42:04.700
they don't just go off somewhere by themselves to do the drugs. As we heard that the whole city
00:42:10.520
becomes an open air drug den. And so everybody's surrounded by it. So yeah, when you're living in
00:42:17.480
a city where, where you've got drug addicts all over the place, yeah, that hurts everybody. You have
00:42:22.060
made the community like I, you, I can't even live. If I'm a normal person and I have a family, I can't
00:42:26.920
live here anymore because of you people. Does that hurt me? Yeah, of course it does. You've made my
00:42:32.420
community unlivable. You have no right to do that. I don't care if you're addicted. You don't have a
00:42:37.500
right. You have no right to that. You should be punished for it. And, uh, so what we should be
00:42:43.940
doing is obvious when it comes to hard drugs, especially heroin, fentanyl, meth, and so on.
00:42:48.520
Should be rounding everybody up who's involved dealer, distributor, buyer, throw them all in prison
00:42:55.680
for lengthy terms. Not the same length, but lengthy terms. And, oh, we don't have enough room in prison.
00:43:05.160
Okay, well build more prisons. Build as many as you need. Build a hundred more prisons if you need.
00:43:11.260
But however many prisons you need to round up all of the people that are on the street,
00:43:14.780
making, turning our cities into cesspools, however many prisons you need to round them all up and throw
00:43:20.380
them there. You know, we, we also heard, uh, I don't know if it was in that clip, but, um, one of
00:43:25.840
the, um, I think it was one of the drug addicts said, well, you can't force people to stop doing
00:43:30.020
drugs. Well, you can actually, you can, you know, prison can be one way to do it. Now they do get
00:43:36.500
drugs into prison, obviously, but like you could do it. If you have somebody in solitary confinement,
00:43:42.780
if you have them in isolation, they'd have no contact with the outside world. Yeah. You force them
00:43:47.900
to stop doing drugs. Now, I'm not saying we do that with every drug addict, but like,
00:43:52.580
actually you can, you know, actually we can force people to do whatever we want as a society.
00:43:59.740
If the incentive is high, if it's a bad, if it's a, if it's an action that we have decided is, um,
00:44:06.960
harmful enough to society, we can force people to stop doing it. If we have a stomach for it,
00:44:12.120
or at a minimum, we can strongly, strongly, strongly disincentivize it. And if that's still
00:44:21.120
not enough for somebody, then you can take them and you get them off the street, you get them out
00:44:27.280
of the community. You say, you're not, you're not fit to live out in your community. You're making
00:44:32.040
this an unlivable place for everybody else. And you have no right to do that. You have no right to be
00:44:36.640
lying out on the street, strung out on drugs. You have no right to it. People are trying to live
00:44:42.440
here. They're walking by with their kids. You just have no right to do this. Oh, but I'm addicted.
00:44:48.740
Okay. Well, I feel, I feel bad about that, but you still have no right to do this.
00:44:54.860
It's against the law. It's a crime. There's punishments.
00:44:57.560
You know, this is another one of those conversations that it's just, sometimes I try
00:45:07.680
to imagine, I like to imagine going back, you know, 80 years and explaining to people that this
00:45:15.980
is even like a conversation to be had. You know, should we allow, should we allow our cities to be
00:45:22.440
totally overrun by drug addicts laying out on the sidewalk, you know, with needles in their arm?
00:45:27.920
Should we allow that? You know, you don't have to go back that far in history where if you ask
00:45:33.000
that question, people are going to look at you like, what? Why are you even, how is this a
00:45:38.000
conversation? Of course you shouldn't allow it. Is that going to make life any better for anybody?
00:45:43.980
Is it going to make your community any better? Does it make society better? Does it improve
00:45:49.060
anything at all for anyone? No? Okay, well then don't allow it. Simple, simple equation there.
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the fight against banned books. Now, not to skip ahead, but of course, the banned books are much
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like RuPaul's talent. They don't exist. Nobody is banning books. And yet RuPaul wants to make sure
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that these non-existent banned books, which are already available everywhere, are available
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everywhere. The website dnyuz.com has more details. RuPaul is the co-founder of a new online bookstore
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that will be sending a rainbow school bus from the West Coast to the South to distribute the books
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targeted by bans. He announced on Monday that he was one of the three business partners behind the book
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Allstora, which will promote underrepresented authors and provide writers with a
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greater share of profits than other online booksellers do. RuPaul said that this sort of
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book website would fill an important gap, especially in these strange days we're living in,
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to support the ideas of people who are willing to push the conversation forward.
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As part of Allstora's kickoff, the Rainbow Book Bus will be traveling in March from Los Angeles to
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the South to fight book bans in these cities, which will include Birmingham, Tallahassee, Baton Rouge.
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Allstora will team up with local LGBT organizations to distribute thousands of books. The goal is to give
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away 10,000 books by the end of the year out of the brightly colored 22-foot former school bus.
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So RuPaul will be going around in a rainbow bus giving books away to children. Luckily, there's nothing
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creepy about that at all. And here he is on Stephen Colbert the other night talking about this initiative.
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I love this. Tell us about the Rainbow Book Bus.
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Yeah. Allstora is a bookstore that I'm involved with that is bringing books to people who need to
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read them and who, where, in areas where they've banned books. Because, you know, I've said this
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before, and I wasn't the first to say it, but knowledge is power. Knowledge is power.
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True. I didn't come up with it. Just the truth. And if somebody is trying to take away your power,
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they are trying to render you powerless. So read a book. Read a book. Get some knowledge.
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Yeah, I'd like for him to name three books he's read. Just on the spot. Someone put them on the spot.
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Name three books you've read. Right now. Yeah, I guarantee you couldn't do it. I guarantee this
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guy's never finished a book his entire life. Really, I'd put a lot of money on that.
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But knowledge is power, he says. He didn't come up with that phrase, he clarifies,
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which, of course, you know, we know he didn't. We know he didn't come up with it because,
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for one thing, it's one of the most overused cliches in the English language. And also,
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it's already established, the guy has never come up with an original idea in his entire life.
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His whole public persona is based around the appropriation of womanhood. He's never experienced
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a unique thought as long as he has lived. But you'll notice something. And, you know,
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I've now read an article about the banned book bus, and we've heard RuPaul talking about it on a late
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night talk show. And yet, interestingly enough, nobody has explained which banned books he plans
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to distribute. That's because, again, there are no banned books. If there were, you wouldn't be able
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to drive around in a giant rainbow bus and hand them out. Okay, people like RuPaul like to claim that
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we're living in a new era of Nazi-style book bans. And yet, as a point of historical clarity,
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I must mention that if the Nazis were really in charge and were banning books, you would not be
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able to announce on national television that you're going to be driving from coast to coast
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in a rainbow bus and giving away the very books that the fascist overlords have banned.
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So that's not the way that it would work. So this is a good general rule. If you can announce on
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television that you plan to do something, and then you can go around the country in a big,
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bright-colored bus doing that thing, that means that you are, by definition, not banned from doing
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it. The only thing RuPaul is not able to do is give out certain books in schools. That's because
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all schools in the entire history of schools in every country that has schools have always included
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certain books in their curriculum while not including other books. In fact, they don't include
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most books. And I made this point before, but just to highlight, I looked this up, and there was some
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study that was recently done. And I don't know if this number is accurate or not, but this is what
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they're saying. There have been something like 130 million books published since the invention of the
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printing press. 130 million. Yeah, it sounds like a good, probably logical ballpark. Now, let's just say
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there are 130 million books that have been published. It's safe to say that easily 129 million
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of them have never been made available in any school library anywhere. Now, does that mean that
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schools have banned 129 million books? If there are 129 million books of the 130 million that have
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never been available in a single school, does that mean that, can we say that schools have banned
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129 million books? No, obviously not. It just means that only a very tiny fraction of books in
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existence can be included in schools, and schools are, or should be, very selective and thoughtful about
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which books they include. Historically, many books have been excluded because they are not relevant,
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or they are not educational, or they are not appropriate for kids. That's not a ban. That's just
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common sense. And yet, again, neither RuPaul, nor Stephen Colbert, nor anyone in the media,
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wants to talk about the small selection of specific books that have been recently removed
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from schools in some states because they have been judged not relevant, not educational,
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and or not appropriate. They don't want to get into specifics because those books are essentially
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gay pornography. They obviously can't defend pornographic books in schools, so instead they
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recast the whole issue as book bans and never mention any of the actual titles that have allegedly
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been banned. RuPaul isn't going to pull out the book Genderqueer in front of Colbert's audience
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and show the pages that depict graphic sexual acts. He's not going to say, look at this.
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This is what they don't want in schools, those Nazis. He knows that 99.9% of the audience would see
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that and say, oh, oh, that's what they're taking out of schools? Well, of course we don't want that
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in schools. Like, obviously not that. Instead, they talk about book bans in a broad sense to give
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uninformed and ignorant people the impression that hundreds of substantive, intelligent,
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worthwhile books have been prohibited from general distribution. Of course, you know, there are people
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who do want to stop regular non-pornographic books from being distributed in schools and outside of
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schools. In fact, RuPaul, with his new online bookstore, has run afoul of those people. So
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this controversy has started because of his all-store-a-book store where people are upset
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that there are certain books that are being made available on the website at all for anybody,
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even adults. It's just that, as RuPaul has discovered, the people who are upset about this
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are all on the left. And that's where this story gets pretty hilarious. So as mentioned in the article
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we just read, the rainbow bus is being set out by the new online bookstore, Allstora, which RuPaul
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co-founded. And the online bookstore is supposed to stand against these imaginary book bans and be a
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haven for free expression. And so leftists applauded the idea when it was first announced. But now Allstora
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is experiencing major backlash from the left when leftists discovered that books by conservative authors
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would also be made available on the site. So the very people who pretend to care about book bans are
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now demanding that RuPaul ban dozens of titles from his anti-book banning site. So it's like the
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levels of irony here are it's impossible to keep track of. The website Vulture explains, quote,
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according to Allstora's website, it offers 10 million titles. And as it turns out, that includes
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controversial books with right-wing and anti-LGBTQ plus messages. As a publication time, for example,
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you can purchase copies of Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf, Matt Walsh's What is a Woman, and a children's
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book by Chaya Reitschik, aka Libs of TikTok, on Allstora. Riley Gaines, Robbie Starbuck, and Kirk
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Cameron are among other authors known for anti-LGBTQ stances whose work is available on the site.
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Critics feel this means Allstora is not actually committed to inclusivity. For example, Lady Bunny
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took to Instagram, I don't know who that is, to describe the new venture as an example of rainbow
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capitalism, while a TikToker who runs a lesbian bookstore criticized Allstora as a dropshipping
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operation with a kind of veneer of progressivity over it. Okay, now there's a lot going on here.
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And there are plenty of other examples from other outlets explaining why this new online bookstore
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is problematic for refusing to ban books written by people like me. The left only wants to ensure
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that gay porn for children isn't banned. But, you know, a perfectly wholesome, age-appropriate book
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from Chaya Reitschik or Kirk Cameron, well, obviously they want that banned. And we could go
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on and read through other examples of leftists revealing their insane hypocrisy on the subject
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of book bans, but I don't think we need to move past just the two paragraphs I just read.
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Because for one thing, Vulture has put Mein Kampf and my book, What is a Woman?, in the same category,
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because obviously a book by Adolf Hitler and a book that argues for the existence of women
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are morally comparable. And for another, we're told that the inclusion of books by me, Chaya,
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Robbie Starbuck, and other conservatives means that Allstora is not actually committed to inclusivity.
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So, the website has become less inclusive by including. It's funny how that works.
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By the way, as it stands right now, after all the backlash, you can still buy a copy of What is a Woman
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or Chaya's book or, you know, Kirk Cameron's book or Robbie Starbuck's book. You can still buy that
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on the site, but if you go to the page, you'll find this note written in urgent red letters. It
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says, Allstora note. With the help of our community, we flag this book as contrary to our core values.
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All proceeds from this title will go towards protecting diverse literature
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and marginalized communities from book bans through the rainbow book bus.
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Ah, yes. Flagging books as contrary to your core values because they were written by people you
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disagree with politically, that's what you do when you really believe in free expression, right?
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The best ways to stand against book bans is to slap scary warning labels on any book that wasn't
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written by a far-left radical. Knowledge is power, to use a phrase coined by RuPaul.
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And what we've learned here, the knowledge we've gained, which we already knew, is that the left
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is much more likely to complain that a book has not been banned than to complain that books are banned.
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And that is why RuPaul and the left's whole fake anti-book banning crusade is today canceled.
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That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching. Thanks for listening. Have a great day.