Ep. 1328 - The Children's Entertainment Industry Is Infested With Groomers And Pedophiles
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Summary
A new documentary exposes the behind-the-scenes grooming, exploitation, and abuse that was rampant at Nickelodeon during its heyday. Also, Justice Kandaji Brown-Jackson worries that the First Amendment may be hamstringing the government. A new study finds that woke people tend to be anxious and miserable, no surprise there. And, in our daily cancellation, the campaign to de-stigmatize cannibalism is finally underway. We ll talk about all that and more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, a new documentary exposes the behind-the-scenes grooming, exploitation, and abuse that was rampant at Nickelodeon during its heyday.
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Also, Justice Kandaji Brown-Jackson worries that the First Amendment may be hamstringing the government.
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Of course, that's the whole point of the First Amendment.
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A new study finds that woke people tend to be anxious and miserable, no surprise there.
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In our daily cancellation, the campaign to de-stigmatize cannibalism is finally underway.
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We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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You can always tell that somebody has real power when they do something that's obviously wrong, maybe even illegal, for a very long time.
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And yet, they make no effort to hide it whatsoever.
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In the entertainment industry, Harvey Weinstein is, of course, one of the most prominent examples of that.
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His behavior was an open secret in Hollywood for three decades to the point that, you know, they were making jokes about it during the Oscars.
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But nothing was done about it until just a few years ago.
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And unfortunately, the process of taking down Harvey Weinstein involved a much larger, extraordinarily destructive movement called Me Too, which did far more harm than good.
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I'm not going to recount all the problems of that particular movement.
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But one major issue with Me Too is coming to light very plainly right now, which is that the movement conspicuously left pedophiles pretty much unscathed.
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And you know that because, to this day, you still aren't allowed to talk about the pedophilia that's rampant in elite circles.
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You know, you can complain about so-called toxic masculinity, quote-unquote, and misogyny all you want.
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But if you bring up the topic of pedophilia, the left treats you as a QAnon conspiracy theorist.
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Using words like groomer is prohibited on many social media platforms.
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How dare you suggest that pedophiles have infested Hollywood, the education system, the media, etc.?
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But make that claim, despite the fact that the sexualization and mistreatment of children has been on display for decades in mainstream children's entertainment.
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The first episodes of a new documentary series exposing the inner workings of Nickelodeon,
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which, of course, is the children's network that most people my age grew up watching in the 90s and early 2000s,
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called Quiet on the Set, The Dark Side of Kids TV, just premiered.
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It's worth watching because it's one of the few well-researched, effectively produced looks into how the entertainment industry abuses children.
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And in a moment, I'll show you some of the new clips from this documentary,
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the ones that involve behind-the-scenes insights and interviews.
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But the incredible thing is that Nickelodeon wasn't really hiding what they were doing.
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Some of the most perverse parts of this documentary are scenes that Nickelodeon aired publicly or uploaded to the Internet many years ago.
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For example, take a look at these sequences from a show called Victorious, featuring a young Ariana Grande.
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It's a teen sitcom created by former Nickelodeon bigwig Dan Schneider that premiered more than a decade ago on Nickelodeon.
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And the videos received a lot of attention when they resurfaced in 2019.
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But it's important to see them again to understand the new accusations against Schneider,
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who also created many other hit shows like iCarly.
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And once again, this is stuff that was put on the air, put on the Internet for the public to see at the time.
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Have you ever tried to get your whole big toe in your mouth?
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Sometimes I wonder if you can get juice from a potato.
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Is it possible for a teenage girl to drink water upside down?
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Okay, so to be clear, these videos were posted online by Nickelodeon, which has a core audience of young children.
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And apparently they were posted online with little objection from anyone until years later.
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And they created this content to promote their show on the Internet.
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And these videos are unambiguously, deliberately intended to be as suggestive as possible.
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They're well past any pretense of plausible deniability.
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But even after the uproar a few years ago, there still wasn't a whole lot of in-depth reporting about what exactly Dan Schneider was doing in Nickelodeon.
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One of Grande's co-stars, Jeanette McCurdy, wrote a memoir describing her abuse in Nickelodeon.
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But generally speaking, Schneider himself escaped in-depth scrutiny.
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And that was a big oversight because anyone who's willing to produce this kind of content for young children is obviously someone who needs to be investigated very thoroughly.
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Firing him should not have been the end of it, but for a while it was.
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Now, though, we have a better idea of what was going on.
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And one of the sequences that Quiet on the Set has highlighted is this behind-the-scenes footage from 2002,
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in which Schneider sits in a jacuzzi with Amanda Bynes, who was 16 years old at the time.
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In the footage, Schneider is fully clothed while Bynes is in a bathing suit.
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I'm the executive producer of the American show, Dan Schneider.
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Yes, I'm the executive producer and the head writer.
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We actually wrote the words for saying to each other right now.
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Actually, I wrote this whole conversation that we're having right now.
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Have you ever an IC before since then, the executive producer?
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Now since then, you're kissing, now since then.
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It continues, and eventually they start eating spaghetti in the jacuzzi for some reason.
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He said to this 16-year-old girl to put on a bathing suit and get in the jacuzzi,
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and he got in there with her, and they filmed this little whatever it was.
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As they talk about in the documentary at some length, this is a very twisted kind of power
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There's no legitimate reason for the executive producer of this show to be in a jacuzzi with
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an underage actress, having her explain to the camera that he controls everything she
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There's certainly no reason for him to eat spaghetti with her, even if he does happen
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But as you watch the documentary, it becomes clear that this kind of behavior was open and
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There are extensive interviews with cast members and staff of shows like All That and The Amanda
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Show, which go into extensive details about how pervasive this problem was.
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At one point in the film, or the documentary series, former Nickelodeon employees describe
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how Schneider thought it would be funny to have a young actress use the name Taint on air.
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So Penelope Taint is a character that Dan created.
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The taint is the part of the body that's between the penis and the anus.
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And Dan had said to us in the writer's room, don't tell what this word really means.
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I remember someone from Nickelodeon sitting with us and saying like, oh, does this mean,
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Why would you think that's like tainted like you've tainted something?
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That you can just say you want something and it's done.
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And it's one of those things where it's like, oh, you know, like, it's a young girl.
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It always amazes me when you see these kinds of documentaries.
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It's just the, well, yeah, you have the disgusting pervert who's being exposed and whose behavior
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But also just the incredible cowardice of everybody around this person is the amount of cowardice
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that's required to have somebody doing this sort of thing that nobody would speak up and
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We're not going to give a young girl actress the name Taint because you want to make some
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Instead, they're all like, okay, well, if you want to.
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And then after the fact, they can be in the documentary as like the good guys.
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Well, he wanted to, and I didn't know what to do.
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If you watch just the first episode of this documentary series, that would become very clear.
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For example, employees also discuss how he instructed his subordinates to describe themselves
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in demeaning terms, including as sluts, for his personal amusement.
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It was clear that there was a permissibility around these sexualized jokes with children.
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And that was just one of the things he thought was funny.
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He liked to play pranks and jokes, which at first seemed fun.
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In the beginning, I would see, you know, instant message pop up.
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Dan would send a message for you to say out loud, scream hammers.
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And then it would be, you know, more degrading, like scream, I'm an idiot or slut.
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And if you didn't, he would send you the message again, caps, exclamation points.
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Once again, my question is, like, why didn't you refuse?
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You know, that's an interesting, but they don't really explain that part of it.
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And as the segment goes on, the employees claim that Schneider would often offer money to induce
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his subordinates to do degrading tasks like gorging themselves on gallons of ice cream,
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only to refuse payment when they tried to collect.
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And for his part, not surprisingly, Schneider denies all these accusations.
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He hasn't been charged or convicted of any crime as of yet.
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But even so, there's clear evidence that serious child abuse did occur at the company.
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For example, in later episodes of the documentary, former Nickelodeon star Drake Bell comes forward
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on camera to say that he was sexually assaulted when he was 15 years old by Brian Peck,
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also known as Pickle Boy, who worked on the Amanda show, the same show as the jacuzzi scene.
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Peck was arrested back in 2003 on 11 charges relating to this abuse, including
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sodomy and committing a lewd act upon a child aged 14 or 15 by a person 10 years older.
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There was also a charge for oral copulation by anesthesia or controlled substance.
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Peck pleaded no contest to the charges, was sentenced to only 16 months in prison at the time.
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I'll say that again. He spent less than two years in prison for child sexual abuse.
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Bell's name was concealed during the trial, but now many years later, he's come forward to identify himself.
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And in the second episode of the documentary, Brian Peck is described as doing something similar
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to what Schneider did, trying to get profane jokes on air at the expense of children.
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Pickle Boy was this, like, character that returned again and again and again throughout the seasons of all that.
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Pickle Boy appeared in every episode, and he's often interacting with a celebrity.
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Pickles? Look, this is the mind of Dan Schneider. You gotta ask him.
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There was this referencing to, like, oh, yeah, Dan just has a weird sense of humor.
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That was like, the pickles don't look like penises to you?
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Wait, why is this in the show? What is the joke here exactly?
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There's this weird element of, like, they all were able to, like, pull a fast one and get away with it.
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Um, so, and that's another one where, you know, of course, the kids, this is, these are kids on the show,
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and they don't know what's going on any more than those of us who were kids watching all that at the time.
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I can remember I watched every episode of that show, like any kid in the 90s did.
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And the kids who are on the show also didn't know what was going on.
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Uh, however, there are a lot of adults running the show, writing the show.
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They would have known exactly what that was all about.
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So, it's, this is what's required for this sort of thing to go on.
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It's not just one or two perverts who can, who, who make this all happen.
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Uh, it's also, it's the perverts along with the, again, the incredible cowardice of all the other adults involved.
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Now, the final episodes of the documentary aren't available yet, so we don't have the full details of what Peck did.
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We, um, don't have the interview with his alleged victim yet.
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But it is suggested in the episode that after Peck was arrested, Nickelodeon higher-ups, not including Schneider himself, apparently,
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They didn't let their parents participate in this meeting.
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They had the children alone and told them that Peck wasn't going to be around anymore.
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They, they asked if anyone had anything to say, almost as if they wanted to get the jump on any misconduct allegations.
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And there was reason for those executives to be worried, because Peck wasn't the only sexual abuser at Nickelodeon during this period.
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The documentary also goes into some detail about the disturbing case of Jason Handy,
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who worked as a production assistant on both The Amanda Show and all that.
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Handy allegedly sent a picture of himself masturbating to an 11-year-old girl he was working with,
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who was working on The Amanda Show at the time.
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Law enforcement had been tipped off about Jason Handy's inappropriate behavior towards children.
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They find this enormous trove of child pornography.
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Over 10,000 images of children, including 1,768 images of young girls in erotic poses,
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238 images of young girls in sexually explicit poses,
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and two images of girls engaged in bondage activity.
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One of the CDs included seven video files of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.
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One of the most disturbing things that law enforcement found when they searched Jason Handy's home was Handy's own journals,
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where he spells out how he feels about these young children.
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I really have been giving in to my desire for little girls these past few weeks,
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and I even struggle on a day-to-day basis of how I can find a victim to rape if I have to.
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Now, these are accusations that are far more serious than what Dan Schneider is even accused of,
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but they're part of the same general pattern of behavior that involves demeaning and sexualizing and abusing children.
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This is what was going on internally at the most popular children's channel on the planet.
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although its popularity has declined precipitously in the intervening years.
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But that leaves reasonable people to wonder whether sexual perverts are still trying to pollute the minds of children over at Nickelodeon.
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Previously, I've covered Nickelodeon's Paw Patrol spinoff,
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which recently hired a radical leftist writer who likes to teach children about abortions, among other things.
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And maybe in 20 years, we'll learn the inside story as to why exactly that woman was hired.
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Simply put, there's no way a man like Dan Schneider could operate so openly for so long
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if he wasn't part of a much larger systemic problem as we've been discussing.
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This is a problem that can't be solved by arresting a couple of production assistants and firing Dan Schneider,
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The only way to really solve it is to do what the parents of these child actors should have done a long time ago,
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which is to keep your children as far away from corporate children's programming as possible.
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In a major case testing the role of First Amendment in the Internet age,
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the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday hears arguments focused on the federal government's ability to combat
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what it sees as false, misleading, or dangerous information online.
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Last September, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,
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the most conservative federal appeals court in the U.S.,
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issued a broad ruling that barred key government officials from contacts with social media companies.
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Among the personnel targeted in the order were officials of the White House,
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the Centers for Disease Control Prevention, the Office of the Surgeon General,
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the FBI, and an important cyber security agency.
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The appeals court said that individuals at those agencies likely violated the First Amendment
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by seeking to coerce social media platforms into moderating or changing their content about COVID-19,
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foreign interference in elections, and even Hunter Biden's laptop.
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The Supreme Court has put that ruling on hold while it examines the tricky issues in the case.
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The plaintiffs in the lawsuit are two states, Missouri and Louisiana,
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and five individuals, including vaccine opponents,
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who either were banned from some Internet platforms at the height of COVID-19,
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or whose posts, they say, were not prominently featured on social media sites,
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such as Facebook, YouTube, and X, formerly known as Twitter.
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Not prominently featured, otherwise known as, you know,
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These content was being suppressed by the algorithms.
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The Biden administration notes that under established First Amendment precedent,
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the government itself is entitled to express its views and to try to persuade others.
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quote, essential dimension of presidential power is the use of the office bully pulpit
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to seek to persuade Americans and American companies to act in a way
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Now, first of all, despite what the Biden administration is claiming,
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you know, nobody is saying that the government itself can't try to persuade people of its own position.
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So if they want to put out a PSA or whatever about the dangers of, quote, unquote, misinformation,
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But the thing about a PSA or an argument presented in any other form
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is that we are free to disagree with it or ignore it entirely,
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which is why the Biden administration is not satisfied to express its view
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then this would not be an issue and it wouldn't be at the Supreme Court
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because no one is no one is like suggesting that that President Biden can't come out and say,
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you know, here's what I think misinformation is and I'm opposed to it and you shouldn't share it.
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And again, we are we are perfectly free to just ignore it.
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What are you saying completely, which is what I would do.
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But instead, of course, the Biden administration wants to use social media platforms
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as censorship proxies to shut down the speech that they don't like
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and ban and de-platform the purveyors of what they claim is, quote unquote, misinformation.
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You know, their way of persuading the public is by ensuring that the public only hears their side of the story.
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That's the persuasion technique that they want to use,
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which is a blatant violation of the First Amendment.
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And it all centers around this idea of misinformation,
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which is just not something that the government should be in the business of combating,
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at least beyond issuing PSAs if they want to and and trying to persuade people.
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If it's simply making arguments, that's one thing.
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But beyond that, it has no role because information in this context
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is simply the substance of what is conveyed through methods of communication.
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And there's billions of bits of information flying every which way at the speed of light every second.
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Some of the information reflects what someone wishes was the reality.
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And it's almost certainly a net negative in the grand scheme of things.
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And most people lack the discernment to effectively distinguish
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and what is important and what isn't and so on and so on.
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It'd be better if, you know, we were not all surrounded by all this information all the time.
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But this is the reality of the world we live in.
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And even if it has its pitfalls, massive, gaping pitfalls,
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we cannot fill those holes in or make anything better by giving the government the power
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to act as a giant filter deciding which pieces of information are good or bad
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and which pieces we should see and which we shouldn't see and all the rest of it.
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which means it's an age dominated and driven by information.
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To give the government that kind of power to be the filter
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is then to give them essentially absolute power over our lives and our minds.
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And we especially can't do it with an administration like this one.
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Like, how can we give them the power to determine what counts as misinformation
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when we already know that they believe or at least pretend to believe
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many things that are wildly untrue and which do not reflect reality
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and which contradict the facts in an extreme way?
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I mean, certainly anyone who believes that men can get pregnant, for example,
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is unqualified to be the judge and jury ruling over the flow of information.
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Um, but really no one is qualified for that position.
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Um, although it's a point that not all of the justices seem to understand.
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So for example, here is Ketanji Brown Jackson revealing some, uh, very fundamental confusion
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about, uh, the constitution and the government and what their exact role is.
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And, uh, now she also has revealed that she doesn't know what the constitution is.
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Let's, uh, although she revealed that she's revealed that many times in the past,
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So my biggest concern is that your view has the first amendment hamstringing the government
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in significant ways in the most important time periods.
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Um, I mean, what would, what would you have the government do?
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I've heard you say a couple of times that the government can post its own speech,
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but in my hypothetical, um, you know, kids, this is not safe, don't do it, um, is not
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And so I guess some might say that the government actually has a duty to take steps to protect
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And you seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging
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or even pressuring, um, platforms to take down harmful information.
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Cause I'm really, I'm really worried about that.
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Um, because you've got the first amendment operating, um, in an environment of threatening
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circumstances from the government's perspective.
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And you're saying that the government can't interact with the source of those problems.
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So she's worried that the first amendment may hamstring the government.
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That's the point that is literally quite literally the whole point of the first amendment.
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Uh, that's the whole point of the bill of rights.
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It's in fact, it's to hamstring the government, to limit the scope of the government's authority
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You cannot touch these things and, um, uh, to, to, to prevent it from infringing on our
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So, and this is a, this is a Supreme court justice who is not clear on that fact.
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She's very worried that she's worried that the first amendment might do what it's supposed
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And, but she's part, you know, uh, she's, she's really part of the whole regime, part
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of the whole system that, um, that only proves why these people, like if, if anybody was equipped
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to be the filter of information, to decide what information people should see and shouldn't
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see to decide what is misinformation and what isn't, if there's anybody equipped to do
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And I don't think anybody is, but if there was anybody, it's not these people like they
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They've got Supreme court justices that don't even know what the constitution is or what
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They're just, just, just deeply confused or at least presenting themselves as deeply confused,
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So they deeply confused about the most basic fundamental facts.
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And these are the exact same people who want to decide what counts as misinformation and,
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uh, and, and what doesn't, um, and that just cannot be allowed.
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The New York post, uh, has this, this, this is the headline woke people are more likely to
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A new study suggests the article says, psychological researchers in Finland have created an assessment
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to help measure an individual's commitment to principles of social justice and have made
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some surprising findings across the Finnish population, including a negative correlation
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between progressive ideals and levels of happiness.
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Their findings published in the Scandinavian journal of psychology suggest other Western nations
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may see similar patterns among their socially conscious citizens.
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Study author Asghari, uh, Latinin, a senior researcher at Inves Research flagship center
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at the University of Turku remarked that the woke discourse has since worked its way
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into Finnish discourse, uh, so on and so forth.
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Um, however, the concerning, the most concerning finding was the relationship between mental health
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and agreement with the, uh, with, you know, woke ideals.
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Specifically, researchers found a high prevalence of anxiety and depression in people
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If white people have, on average, a higher income than black people, it is because of
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More broadly, they found that those who identified as less left-wing were most likely to report
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There's, there's a sort of an obvious chicken or egg dilemma here, which others have pointed
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Um, and so you have to ask yourself, is it, is it that people become unhappy because they're
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Or is it that they become woke because they're unhappy?
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You know, and that's a fascinating question that would impact our analysis of the findings.
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But even without having that sorted out, I think we can say a few things here because
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really the answer, the answer, the answer is both.
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Wokeness attracts unhappy people and it also makes people unhappy.
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And then it also makes unhappy people unhappier.
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So that's kind of the, that's, that's the way the cycle works.
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Um, and there are myriad reasons and we're told there's a lot of depression and anxiety
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in people who agree with the statement that white people have an average, have a higher
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Well, because, because these ideas destroy agency.
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They take away your willpower, um, your free will, your ability to choose your own path
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Everything is predetermined by the structures of oppression and racism, according to wokeness.
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So if you're successful, it's because of racism.
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If you're not successful, it's because of racism.
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And that means that for the white person, this creates a sense of guilt, a sense of hopelessness,
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And for the black person, it's also passiveness, helplessness, resentment, hatred, scorn.
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Feeling like you aren't in control, feeling entirely swept along by the currents.
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I mean, that's really the source of all anxiety at some level, I would argue.
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The, the removal of human agency is the whole point.
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Um, there's always this question of, well, how do you define wokeness?
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And I mean, really wokeness is just the word we're using for leftism.
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Um, I'd be fine going back to talking about leftism, but, you know, if you want to come
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up with it with a, with a definition of it, you could do worse than this.
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It's, it's the effort to remove human agency, um, to take away, to take away human agency
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Um, and, and then what do you get in exchange for it?
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So you give up your sense of agency, your sense that like, you are at least to some
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significant degree responsible for your own place in life.
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Um, I mean, you end up depressed, passive, resentful, guilt-ridden, emasculated, all of
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Like why, why do people fall into this given that it makes them so unhappy?
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Well, I think you, you do get, and I wouldn't really call this a benefit, but for the people
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You get an excuse, you know, that's, that's what you get.
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You get to, you get to have the feeling that you're a good person without doing anything
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That's all of the, the victimology and everything.
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That's, that's what it's really about for the, on the individual level.
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The reason why people find it attractive is yes, it makes them depressed, anxious, everything
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It makes life basically pointless, but it also takes, it gives you an excuse.
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And so wherever you are in life, it's, it's not your fault.
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Um, you can just find, find your victim group that you belong to because anyone can find
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You know, if you're white, you can't, you don't get to be in the, in the black victim
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group, but you can find another victim group to fall into.
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Um, LGBT is always there at the ever expanding alphabet.
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And, and then it gives you an excuse, wherever you are in life, whatever your, whatever your
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faults are, whatever your, um, shortcomings, uh, whatever aspects of your life
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you, that, that you're dealing with that you don't like, it's not your fault.
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And I think any healthy person is wired is I'd rather go the other way.
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Like I I'd rather, I'd rather err on the opposite extreme.
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I I'd rather take, uh, blame for things that like, aren't even my fault.
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I would rather have, um, you know, a, a, uh, I would rather, I would rather go the other
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way in seeing that, that things are in my control when they really aren't.
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Um, I'd rather, if I have to err on one side or the other, I'd rather be on that side because
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the idea of having no agency of not being in control of my life at all, um, is deeply
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Um, so if I'm in a bad spot in life or I'm dealing with something and someone comes along
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and, and, uh, and says, well, that's all your fault.
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I would rather, I would rather think it's all entirely my fault, even if there are aspects
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of it that really aren't, even if there are aspects of it that are out of my control.
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I'd rather accept that, um, and realize that I have agency over my life.
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I'd rather, I'd rather accept that and retain a sense of agency than, uh, then take the excuse
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and say, oh, it's not my, it's not my fault at all and lose that sense of agency.
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But I think, um, for people who fall into the woke cult, um, they just getting that excuse
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is incredibly appealing to them and they'll, they'll give up everything just to have the
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It breeds resentments, not just between races, but even worse between families, between generations,
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possibly worst of all, it makes you, uh, you know, sort of unstuck in time to borrow a
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I don't remember which, I think Slaughterhouse-Five, Unstuck in Time, um, it unmoors you or it removes
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all connection to your past, to your family, to your ancestors, to your culture, uh, particularly
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if you're white, uh, it, it takes all that away and, and that creates more despair, more
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And the ultimate goal is to remove, is to take away meaning, take away meaning for your
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It's, you know, it's, and it's not even that, I think we get this wrong sometimes because
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we would say that people who are woke leftist, um, they, uh, kind of relativist and they, they
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believe that you can make your own meaning for your own life.
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Um, meaning is something that you create for yourself.
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That's, that's kind of an existentialist approach is that meaning is what you, is what you, is
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what you make, you know, you make your own meaning.
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Um, but on the left, that's not really what they believe.
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Uh, the woke religion rejects meaning altogether.
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And it's an existence defined by oppression and self-victimization.
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And does it attract unhappy people who are looking for excuses?
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Unhappy, passive, emasculated people who are looking for excuses?
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Um, finally, let's go to a situation up in Washington state.
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We'll start with this recent report from the post-millennial.
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So as a landlord in an upscale neighborhood in Washington state is out of, is out thousands
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He can't evict because of the county's eviction backlog.
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Jaskaran Singh owns a rental property he bought two years ago in Woodridge, um, of Bellevue,
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Washington's, one of Bellevue, Washington's most desirable neighborhoods.
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He thought that Sang Kim, along with his wife and kids, were going to be ideal tenants.
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That is, until the Kims allegedly started skipping out on rent.
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He thought Sang Kim, along with his wife and kids, uh, well, repeating that same sentence.
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Um, Singh attempted mediation through the city.
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And when that failed, he began the eviction process, which has now been dragging on for
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One of the main issues causing the delays is that King County courts are behind on at
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Uh, Singh says there's no law protecting the landlord.
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So, and there are many such cases, especially in Washington state and, uh, states like Washington,
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where you've got situations like this, where somebody, you know, rents a property, stops paying
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Then the landlord says, okay, if you're not going to pay to be here, get the hell out.
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And you would think if you're, you know, uh, a sane person, you, you would think, well,
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Like, and if the person won't leave, then you could call the cops.
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Like that person is there now a trespasser on your property.
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Um, in particular in Washington state, that's not how it works.
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Now the person who is living there and we use the term squatting.
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Uh, I don't even, I, I, I think that, that, I think you need a stronger term.
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This is, this is like grand theft for one thing.
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You're stealing, you are, you are stealing this home.
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You're, you're, you're stealing an entire home now is what you're doing.
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Uh, you're guilty of home invasion, the burglary of, you know, every second you're in that
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property that you don't belong in that property.
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That's, that's the way the law should look at it.
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But anyway, we, you know, for lack of a better term, call them squatting.
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And then, uh, now if you're in Washington state, the squatter has, uh, rights.
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And as we'll see here in a second, actually has more rights than you as the homeowner.
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And so that's the background of this particular case.
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And that led to this week when the homeowner saying organized a protest at his own house
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against the guy who lives there and won't leave.
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If you live in Washington state and you're renting properties, uh, and somebody you have
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To, to, to get just to protest the fact that somebody is in your house and they don't belong.
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You're left with holding signs and marching and chanting, uh, because the law is not on your,
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The cops show up to throw the homeowner off of his own property in defense of the guy
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If you do not leave, I will call the police for the trespassing.
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The guy, the squatter in the house, tells them they're trespassing.
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It's not his house, and he's living there illegally, accusing them of trespassing.
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And if that's not bad enough, the squatter, Sang Kim, was-
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He was granted a protection order against the guy who owns the house.
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The guy who owns this house that I'm living in illegally is harassing me.
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He gets a protection order, which means that the guy who owns the house has to stay away from his own house
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so that Sang Kim, who does not own it and is not supposed to be there, can stay.
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And this is what happens when you live in a morally inverted society.
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You end up in a situation where squatters have more rights than the people who own the homes they're squatting in.
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When left-wing victimology becomes the defining principle of the justice system,
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And the result is that life becomes harder for everybody else.
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Life becomes harder for normal, law-abiding, hard-working people.
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For the sake of this scumbag, the Kim guy, for his sake, so that he could be just a degenerate, good-for-nothing,
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for his sake, everyone's life becomes harder.
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So you want to complain about, say, the lack of affordable housing?
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Well, the more impossible you make it for landlords, the more expensive and onerous and difficult you make it for them,
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the more expensive it becomes for everybody else.
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I don't know how anyone can rent properties in Washington State anymore at all.
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But if they do, they need to protect themselves.
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They need to ensure that they have the financial resources to deal with the court system.
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Because you know if you're renting, if you're a renter, rather, if you're a landlord,
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the person who is putting the properties up for rent, in Washington State,
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you know you're going to end up in the court system perpetually.
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And so the more expensive you make it for the landlords, the more expensive it is for the tenants.
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But after a while, there probably won't be any landlords left in Washington State.
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Which, of course, is something that you say that, you know, after a while,
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there won't be landlords left in Washington State.
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Right. Well, left-wing morons will hear a statement like that and they'll say,
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good, landlords are bad. That's good. Kick them all out.
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Okay, well, then have fun dealing with mortgages and banks and property taxes and utility companies,
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And look, I'm a proponent of home ownership.
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I think you absolutely should buy a home if you can, rather than renting.
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But my point is that if you want to get rid of landlords because you think that they're evil or whatever,
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you know, they're the evil fat cats who have power over you.
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Well, then wait till you have to deal with the banks, you dumbasses.
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Like, that leaves you with all these other institutions that you have to deal with as a homeowner
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You're not going to be at the mercy of a landlord,
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but you will be at the mercy of the banks and realtors and taxes and utility companies
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And if you don't have the money to buy a house,
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if you aren't in the right situation for home ownership,
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if you have $1,000 in your bank account and you make $30,000 a year
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and you probably won't be in your current location for very long
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because you're still kind of moving around a lot,
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which makes buying a house, you know, not practical and probably not even possible.
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If you live in Washington State, they chase all the landlords out.
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That's where renting is the most sensible option.
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And it's where making it impossible for landlords to exist and to operate
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But you're going to have plenty of people who see stuff like this,
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and somehow in their twisted, perverted heads,
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find a way to side with the guy who's stealing the house.
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And they'll side with him not realizing that he is making their,
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that he is actively making their own lives more difficult.
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And then all these people in Washington State,
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once all the rent, once all the landlords have been chased out
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because they just simply can't be in that state anymore,
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And they're going to look around and have nowhere to live.
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If, you know, they were the people who would provide them houses.
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Well, why is anyone providing housing for me?
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Because you chased them all out, you idiots.
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They were there and you chased them out of the state.
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And all those people that cheer on the squatters,
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you know, if they all end up living on the street homeless,
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Anyone who sees a video like that and sides with a squatter,
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that a woman can do in the sort of police world?
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