Ep. 1374 - Violent Criminal Offenders Are Now 'Justice-Impacted Individuals'
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Illinois has a new term to describe dangerous criminals: "Justice Impacted Individuals." Also, a Democratic congresswoman starts listing her professional achievements during a House hearing about DEI. The coach of the Kansas City Chiefs has a great response to a reporter who tried to get him to condemn Harrison Butker. And the movie Goodfellas is the latest film to get a cultural sensitivity warning label. We ll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Warshaw Show.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the language police have come up with a new term to describe dangerous
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criminal offenders. If you really want to prove how enlightened you are, just call them
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justice-impacted individuals. Also, a Democrat congresswoman, for some reason, starts listing
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her professional achievements during a House hearing about DEI. In the process, she inadvertently
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demonstrated why we should get rid of DEI. The coach of the Kansas City Chiefs has a great
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response to a reporter who tried to get him to condemn Harrison Butker. And the movie Goodfellas
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is the latest film to get a cultural sensitivity warning label. We'll talk about all that and more
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Walsh to 989898. That's Walsh to 989898. A couple of months ago in March, a 37-year-old man named
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Corsetti Brand was released on parole in the state of Illinois. He had been locked up on a charge of
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home invasion and sentenced to more than a decade in prison. But the state's prisoner review board
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decided to let him out early with electronic monitoring. And what happened after that was
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predictable. Just a day after he got out of prison, Chicago police say that Corsetti attacked a pregnant
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woman and her 11-year-old boy killing the child and critically injuring his mother. According to
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court documents, the last time he was on parole, Corsetti had threatened the same woman by text
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and showed up at her home. But somehow none of Corsetti's criminal history, including
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his alleged threats, were enough to keep him in prison. And now authorities say that a child is dead
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as a result. Now, this is obviously clearly a massive failure of the judicial system in Illinois,
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which particularly post-BLM has focused more on rehabilitation instead of punishment. It's the
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kind of episode that you'd hope would spur lawmakers in Illinois to pass new laws to rein in their
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approach of restorative justice, quote unquote, which we have talked about recently. But the Illinois
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government has opted for a very different response. Instead of doing something to prevent violent
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criminals from getting out of prison, state lawmakers have decided on a course of action
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that's ripped straight from a Babylon Bee article. A new bill that was just passed by both houses of
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the Illinois legislature, which is expected to be signed by the governor, would modify state law so
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that the term offender becomes replaced by the term justice impacted individual. Justice impacted
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individual. The Department of Corrections and a bunch of other government agencies will be
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required to use that term from now on. So the plan is not to do anything about the criminals who are
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getting out of prison. It's to use a nicer word to describe these criminals. Don't call them
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offenders. Call them justice impacted individuals. Now, I had to check several times to make sure this
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wasn't satire because it is quite literally beyond parody. Actually, if the Babylon Bee had come up with this
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idea, I wouldn't even find it funny because it would be too on the nose. But this is reality now
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in Illinois. This is their cutting edge approach to criminal justice. Watch.
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Bankers have passed a bill that if signed into law by Governor Pritzker will change the term
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offender in state law to justice impacted individual. WGN's Jewel Hillary here to explain. Jewel.
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Hi, Micah and Bray. So this legislation has passed both the state house and Senate. And to be very
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clear, the potential language change would only apply to about 1800 offenders across the state.
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On Tuesday, Bill 4409 passed in the state Senate 34 to 20. The question is, shall House Bill 4409
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pass? All those in favor of vote aye? Oppose nay? The voting is open. The proposed legislation would
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remove the term offender and replace it with justice impacted individual for individuals in the state's
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adult redeploy Illinois program, commonly referred to as ARI. According to the Illinois Criminal Justice
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Information Authority, ARI is an initiative that diverts offenders from prison to programs to help
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rehabilitate them to success. Republicans say the language change portrays a lack of empathy for
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victims and lack of concern for public safety. Change this, change that. The only thing that you
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don't want to change is the behavior of criminals. Now, before the fact checkers jump down my throat,
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I'll emphasize one thing, which is that this rebrand doesn't apply to everyone who commits
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crimes in the state of Illinois. Instead, this new term applies to many women in the state's
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Adult Redeploy Illinois Program, or ARI, as you heard. According to the government of McLean County,
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Illinois, the ARI program provides for comprehensive daily supervision of dozens of, quote,
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high-risk adult felons as an alternative to costly penitentiary commitment.
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So they're not rebranding every criminal as a justice-impacted individual. They're only
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rebranding some of the high-risk adult felons who otherwise would be in prison. So if you're living
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in Chicago, hopefully you can rest easy tonight with that distinction in mind. Now, the point of the
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word game here is the same as always. First, it removes agency from the individual by making
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terminology as passive as possible. An offender is not an offender anymore because offending is
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something that a person actively does, right? It puts the onus on the individual. You have gone out
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and offended. You've committed an offense. And instead, they're saying, well, they're justice-impacted.
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They were impacted by justice. It's not their fault. You know, justice came along and impacted them.
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I mean, they're the victims here, if anything. And second, on top of making everything passive and
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removing agency, it also helps to identify the people that are in your club because they're the
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ones who know about these lingo changes and follow the rules. So it's not much different from a child
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who sets up a pillow fort and won't let you inside the fort unless you know the password, which changes
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randomly and on a whim. It's like that kind of idea. Now, if you go looking online for the term
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justice-impacted individual, you'll find that it's popular among Harvard podcasters,
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billionaire left-wing activists, giant Silicon Valley corporations like Google.
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These are the people and organizations that, conveniently enough, have distanced themselves
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as much as possible from communities where crime is high. So they don't want anything to do with the
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justice-impacted individuals, but they want you to have to live near them and treat them with respect
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and even refer to them in a way that will not be alienating or otherizing for them.
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Of course, nobody in the real world uses terms like justice-impacted individuals,
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which is precisely the point. If you go around saying the word justice-impacted individual,
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then you're instantly communicating where you stand on the political spectrum.
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And perhaps more importantly, people who don't use these new terms are instantly identifiable as
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outcasts, as racists, and terrible people. Every so often, wealthy elites and academics come up with
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new ways to provide these kinds of signals. And then they inevitably filter down to activists
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and government bureaucrats, which is what's happening right now in Illinois. Which is also
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why, by the way, this may be the first time you're hearing of justice-impacted individual.
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Give it like a year or six months and you'll be hearing it everywhere. That's the way this always goes.
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Now, there was an episode during the Canadian trucker convoy a couple of years ago that
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illustrates how this strategy works in practice. The truckers who gathered in the Canadian capital
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city of Ottawa were exactly the kind of blue-collar workers that liberals pretend to care about. But
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in this case, the blue-collar workers were protesting for, you know, freedom. So they had to
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be crushed. It was vitally important for liberals to smear these truckers as racists. And one of the
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ways the liberals did that was by criticizing the truckers for using the wrong lingo.
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This is a clip from a Fox interview that leftists mocked relentlessly during the convoy.
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And listen to it and see if you can spot what they considered the problem to be. Listen.
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It was only one guy. So you are not racist. I have all type of friends, color friends, Spanish,
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Chinese. You know, they are great people. There is no racism here.
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So they're actually, and then there's, you know, this is a Romanian trucker who clearly speaks English
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as a second language. And he's explaining on primetime television that he's not racist because
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he has a bunch of colored friends. Now, logically, there's no difference whatsoever between saying
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I have colored friends and I have friends who are people of color. It's just a slight grammatical
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difference that means absolutely nothing. It's all semantics. If anything, the latter sentence is
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unnecessarily wordy. Otherwise, they're the same. If a person can be of color, then it's accurate to
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say that the person is colored. A person of color is a colored person. But your intellectual superiors
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have decided, for reasons that cannot be explained, they've just decided that people of color is the
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only phrase you're allowed to use. If you say colored people, and unless you're the NAACP,
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you're a bigot. So they vilified this trucker all over social media,
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both here and in Canada. And on top of that too, not only did he use the lingo or did he use the
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wrong lingo, but he also tried to disprove accusations of racism by saying that he has black
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friends. And we're also told by our betters that that doesn't prove anything. When of course,
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it absolutely does. Like if you have friends of a particular race, it's a pretty good indication
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that you're not racist against that race. But this is one of the main reasons that cutting-edge
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PC lingo exists. It's why you're supposed to say, you know, people experiencing homelessness
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instead of homeless drug addict. It's why you're supposed to say minor attracted person instead of
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pedophile. And it's why, if at all possible, you're supposed to employ clever euphemisms to
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describe criminals who happen to be really any race but white. The New York Post is particularly
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adept at this last trick to the point that it's becoming a running joke online and presumably in
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the Post newsroom. Among the euphemisms that New York Post has come up with to describe black suspects
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are cold-hearted teens, knife-wielding sicko, misogynistic maniac, and my personal favorite,
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lunchtime rowdies. Now, just in case there was any doubt that the Post is doing this deliberately,
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here's a passage from that article on the lunchtime rowdies. See if you can count all
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the euphemisms. Here it is. And this is totally real. A band of foul-mouthed, toy-gun-waving,
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pot-puffing high school hooligans are keeping residents of West 13th off 6th Avenue hostage in
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their own Tony homes. For at least a year while school's in session, the roughnecks roam from stoop
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to stoop every day at lunchtime, rolling blunts, getting high, acting out, and taunting anyone who
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gets in their way. Now, with terms like hooligans, roughnecks, lunchtime rowdies, you'd be forgiven
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for thinking that this is like an article from a small-town newspaper somewhere out in Wyoming in
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the year 1873. My only hope is that in the next Post article they can work in the terms ruffian and
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scoundrel. But in any case, you read the whole article and you won't find any mention in the text
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about the ethnicity of these lunchtime rowdies and pot-puffing hooligans. But if a white person is
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causing problems, the Post will generally put the race in the headline. For example, one recent headline
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in the Post read, video shows black NYC partiers scatter for cover as white neighbor douses them with
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garden hose. Now, there was no euphemism for the white guy. He wasn't a hose-toting scoundrel or
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anything like that. He's just a white neighbor. And for what it's worth, not all the people he hit
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with the water were black. The Post went out of its way to mention the race of the white guy even when
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it was misleading to do so, of course. And this isn't specific to the New York Post. It's the approach
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of most major media outlets. As the account Data Hazard found, the race of white murderers is made clear
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in more than 90% of news articles. But with black murderers, race is only mentioned in 30% of the
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articles. And when it does appear, it's usually much lower down in the text of the article.
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So this is obviously a very intentional thing that they're doing. And journalists do this in part to
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signal that they're true believers in principles of restorative justice. And in the process, they're
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denying the agency of black offenders by holding them to a completely different standard.
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These criminals get additional protections in the media, even when they commit heinous crimes solely on
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basis of their skin color. And now the state of Illinois is doing the same thing. It's almost as
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if they hired the New York Post euphemism guy to write their legislation. Now, to give the left some
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credit, they understand the role of language in shaping policy and shaping opinions and the views of the
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public. In order to normalize crime and pedophilia, they first need to change the way people prefer
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to crime and pedophilia. And that effort is now underway in Illinois, which means that many more
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justice-impacted individuals will soon be out on the streets. It also means that many more innocent
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people, including children and pregnant women, will be impacted by these justice-impacted individuals.
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Because one euphemism at a time in Democrat-run cities all over the country, it's pretty clear that
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to learn more about their company insurance programs. So let's begin with someone who's quickly becoming
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my favorite, maybe my favorite crazy woke congresswoman. She may have supplanted AOC at this point.
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As, and I don't even know if the, so this is Jasmine Crockett, and I'm not sure, is she even in the
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squad? That's an interesting question. Has she been, is the squad, is squad membership closed?
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Um, or is it, is it, is it an ever-expanding group? I'm not exactly sure. So I don't know if
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Jasmine Crockett is in the, in the squad, but, uh, she's back in the news. And of course, Jasmine
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Crockett was last seen in a Waffle House style fight with Marjorie Taylor Greene during a House
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Committee hearing, an altercation, which we should say, um, you know, the women on both sides of the
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aisle embarrass themselves in equal measure. And now she's back. Here's the story from the left-wing
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rag Raw story. It says, Representative Jasmine Crockett confronted a Republican plan to diminish
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diverse hiring practices if a GOP presidential candidate wins in 2024. During a Wednesday House
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oversight hearing on federal employment, Crockett noted that some of her Republican colleagues
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appeared to be echoing Project 2025, which aims to eliminate diversity, equity, and inclusion
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practices in the federal government. Crockett said that Republican arguments against diversity
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workplace made her very frustrated because of her own personal qualifications. And then she then
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proceeded to list off her qualifications. Um, this is a House Oversight Committee hearing. They're
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running on taxpayer money. And Crockett decided to take up time during this hearing, for whatever
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reason, to let everybody know about her resume. And she's very proud of it. Here it is.
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All I could think about was the fact that I currently hold an honorary doctorate. I also
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hold a juris doctorate. I also hold a bachelor's. I also technically hold the rank of lieutenant colonel
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in the Civil Air Patrol. And I actually practiced law for almost two decades. In addition to serving on
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various boards, in addition to being a prior state lawmaker. And there are those that would make some
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people believe that because I happen to be black and or a woman, that somehow, even though I can rattle
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off all the qualifications in the world, my blackness makes me unqualified.
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Well, no, it's not your blackness, Jasmine. Your blackness does not make you unqualified. Your qualifications
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make you unqualified. Um, qualifications that you claim amount to all the qualifications in the world. She has
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all of them. She has all the qualifications that could exist. She has them all. And what are they? Well, let's
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review. She has a bachelor's degree, which literally anyone can achieve if they feel like going into
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debt for the sake of it. I mean, any, any person who can get a bachelor's degree, if you want to go
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into, if you're willing to take on the debt, you can get a bachelor's degree. She has an honorary
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doctorate, which means absolutely nothing. Uh, she has a JD from a mediocre mid-tier law school.
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Well, she technically, technically she qualifies has the rank of Lieutenant Colonel in the Civil Air
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Patrol, which is a truly hilarious thing to brag about. And that's about it. She has accrued various
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pieces of paper that indicate that she attended various schools. Um, none of the schools are even
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prestigious or difficult to get into. And even the prestigious schools these days aren't actually
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prestigious. So that's where we are now. She hasn't achieved anything that could not be achieved by
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an unskilled, unimpressive person of mediocre intelligence. You know, there isn't one thing
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on the list where you hear that and you go, oh, wow, you did that. Wow. Well, I didn't know.
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That's impressive. Like no one's going to respond to go, oh, wow, you got a bachelor's. Did you just
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say you got a bet? This woman got a bet. She has a bachelor's. Hey, everyone, everyone, shut up,
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shut up. Listen to her. She's got a, she's got a bachelor's. And did I mention she's in the Civil
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Air Patrol? Now, I'm not trying to be mean here either, but when you completely unsolicited start
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bragging about your accomplishments, you better actually have accomplishments. She didn't have to
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bring it up. She decided to. Like going to school is not an accomplishment. I know this is news to a
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lot of people. Going to school is not an accomplishment. The fact that you went to
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school is not an accomplishment. It's not an achievement. I'm sorry. So if the only thing
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you've done in your life is go to school, you haven't really achieved anything. You have zero
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achievements so far. At best, going to school sets you up maybe and will help you in your pursuit
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of achievements. But being there in and of itself is not an achievement. It's just not.
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Being in the Civil Air Patrol is fine, you know, but it's not an accomplishment. And none of this
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necessarily makes you qualified for anything in particular. And more importantly, all of this is
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completely irrelevant to the subject at hand. What is the subject? Well, Republicans want to get rid of
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DEI. Allegedly, they want to get rid of it. I hope they actually do. They want to get rid of it in
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federal government. And they don't want to hire people based on, you know, DEI policies. And
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Crockett's response to that is to insist that she's a black woman and deeply qualified for whatever job
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she wants. Now, let's leave aside the fact that she's not really qualified for anything in particular.
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Let's pretend that she is as impressive as she finds herself to be. And she finds herself to be so
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impressive that it's the only thing she could think about. Notice she says that at the start of
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her little spiel, because they have this whole hearing going on. And she says, yeah, I'm listening
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to you guys. And all I could think about was myself and my own resume. Well, like, what does that tell
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you? Really? That's the only thing you could think about? I believe you. I believe you, Jasmine.
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That's the only thing you can think about. But so let's pretend for a moment that she is that
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impressive. Well, OK, then, then you don't need DEI to get hired. If you truly are that accomplished
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and impressive, you would easily be able to set yourself apart on a level playing field where race
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is not taken into account. That's all that getting rid of DEI means in this context. It simply means
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that people will be hired and promoted based on their actual merits and their actual skills and
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accomplishments and not based on skin color. So if you're a black person who's very skilled and very
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qualified, not only should you not fear the ending of DEI, but you should cheer its ending.
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You know, because you don't need that helping hand. You don't need that kind of patronizing sort of
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thing. And having it there, it only succeeds in diminishing your actual achievement. So you,
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you of all people should be opposed to it. It's like, if you know how to ride a bike,
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do you want to ride down the street with a bike with training wheels? Now, it might be true that
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you don't need these training wheels. And maybe you insist to people as you're riding along,
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I don't really need these. I know how to ride the bike. Maybe you do, but like you're riding
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with training wheels. And so we have to at least suspect that you're a grown adult who doesn't know
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how to ride a bike. And this is what happens if you're in one of the favored groups with DEI.
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Anyway, it's like, it's quite possible that you would have gotten that job anyway.
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You might be the best person, the most skilled person in the whole company or the whole organization.
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But because that is there, we have to at least suspect that you might've only gotten it because
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of DEI. Which again means that if you're the kind of person who can get the job anyway and climb the
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ladder anyway without that, then you shouldn't, you should hate it the most. But of course,
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Crockett is doing the thing that people in the internet age love to do. She's trying to argue
00:23:59.520
against a general point by offering some kind of hyper-specific and totally irrelevant personal
00:24:05.260
anecdote. So, and this is something that I will say, I think you find this on the internet all the
00:24:15.780
time. It's not only women who do this. It does appear that women tend to this sort of thing more
00:24:23.660
often. Responding to a general point with an anecdote that doesn't really advance the conversation
00:24:32.140
at all. So Republicans are saying, we should get rid of DEI because it's unfair and unconstitutional.
00:24:39.120
And Crockett responds, oh yeah, but I'm extremely qualified. Okay. What does that have to do with
00:24:45.680
anything? What does that have to do with anything? Who cares? Good for you. Thanks for the cool story.
00:24:55.720
But this is how it always goes. Like, you know, you could go on Twitter and say,
00:25:03.460
bananas are healthy and somebody will respond, oh yeah, but I don't like bananas. I like apples and
00:25:14.000
apples are healthy too. Oh, you're talking about bananas are healthy? What, you're saying apples
00:25:19.800
aren't healthy? I eat apples all the time. I ate an apple for breakfast this morning.
00:25:25.360
Okay. Good for you. It's got nothing to do, that doesn't negate the statement about bananas.
00:25:33.760
So just a failure across the board there by Jasmine Crockett,
00:25:39.900
who's always providing good content though. So I appreciate her for that at least.
00:25:44.880
Andy Reid, coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, was asked about the Harrison Butker speech by
00:25:54.160
With so many women just on staff here and in the building, if, I mean, his comments kind of touched
00:25:59.500
on one of the workforce. I mean, what do you tell them if they come to you with a concern about
00:26:03.360
players speaking ill of, you know, women in general?
00:26:06.860
Yeah, that hasn't happened. I don't think he was speaking ill to women, but he has his opinions and
00:26:12.440
we all respect that. I let you guys in this room and you have a lot of opinions that I don't like.
00:26:17.960
So that's a good response. And Patrick Mahomes was also asked about it. And he gave,
00:26:26.760
you know, he gave a pretty good response too. It was a decent response.
00:26:30.480
And this has been the response of the team, which is why all the people speculating that Harrison
00:26:38.700
Butker would be fired over this. That's why I said all along, that's not, if you know anything
00:26:43.360
about football, that ain't happening. It's not happening. They're not going to cut. They're not
00:26:48.420
going to cut one of the best kickers in the league who helped them win a Super Bowl because he said
00:26:52.960
offensive, things that are allegedly offensive or were offensive anyway to morons. The fact that he said
00:26:57.560
offensive things to morons is not going to be enough to get him cut from the team.
00:27:02.600
And that's one of the things about, well, I wish this was true of professional sports in general, but
00:27:07.580
certainly football, it's still true that when it comes down to it on the field,
00:27:14.560
it is still a meritocracy. All the woke stuff can be happening around the peripheral and sort of on
00:27:21.780
the sideline a little bit too, because they got the Rooney rule and all the rules with,
00:27:24.940
you know, you got to hire a certain number of black coaches or at least interview them and all
00:27:28.640
that stuff is happening. But on the field, that is still a place where the guy who's there,
00:27:35.320
it's because he's the best at the job. And that's it. And all the wokeness, all the different,
00:27:41.260
the politically correct, political correctness, all the controversies, that really doesn't make
00:27:45.900
its way on the field. Because it still is about winning. And that's all. And when it comes down
00:27:54.860
to it, that's all that anyone really cares about. At least all when it comes to the people on the
00:28:00.020
field and the coaches on the sideline, the only thing they really care about is winning the game.
00:28:05.500
Which means that as long as that is the case, and it is still the case, 100%. As long as that's the
00:28:13.700
case, then football will remain a meritocracy. And as long as it's a meritocracy, that's an antidote
00:28:27.660
to wokeness. It's insulation. It's a defense against wokeness and a pretty good one.
00:28:35.040
So well done on Andy Reid's part. But I would like to focus on the question from this reporter
00:28:41.680
for a moment. He asks, what would he say to any woman on the staff who comes to him
00:28:48.860
concerned that Butker, quote, spoke ill of women in general?
00:28:53.620
And Reid was firm but polite in his response, which was probably the right tone to take.
00:29:03.340
But if that was me, I would not have been so polite. He spoke ill of women? What the hell
00:29:11.920
are you talking about? No, I mean, really, let's stop. If I'm up there at the podium, let's stop
00:29:22.360
everything. He spoke ill of women in general. Okay, what did he say that spoke ill of women?
00:29:30.800
Don't paraphrase. Don't paraphrase. Give me the quote. Give me one thing this guy said
00:29:41.200
Now, of course, he didn't know such thing was said. And if you were to comb through the text of
00:29:51.140
that speech, looking desperately for anything that could even sort of count as an insult to women,
00:29:58.240
you're not going to find it. You just won't find it. It's not there. Because this whole controversy
00:30:03.800
was it's one of the dumbest. I feel like I keep saying this about every new controversy that comes
00:30:08.500
along. I declare it the dumbest one yet. And well, because it's true, it just keeps getting
00:30:12.680
dumber and dumber. And that one was, I mean, there'll be a dumber one coming up soon. But
00:30:17.420
for right now, that's the dumbest controversy yet. When it comes to things that have provoked that level
00:30:22.500
of outrage, I can't think of anything dumber than this. But of course, this guy, like he probably
00:30:28.400
didn't even, not probably, well, he certainly didn't read or listen to the whole speech.
00:30:33.120
He probably didn't even listen to the clip. Like there's a, there's a two minute clip
00:30:38.800
where he, where he talks about women. It's only in that two minutes where he talks about women.
00:30:43.420
And I bet this guy never even heard it. He doesn't even know what he says in the clip.
00:30:48.820
All he knows is that people are mad and he knows that his tribe is mad at Harrison Butker. And so
00:30:57.560
they must have a good reason in his mind. All right. I'm going to mention this briefly.
00:31:05.840
This is a report from Mary Margaret Olihan and she's a reporter of the Daily Signal.
00:31:14.260
The tweet says, the Catholic Diocese of Lexington issues a statement using male pronouns referring to
00:31:20.100
a woman who identifies as a transgender monk. Says Bishop Stowe has accepted his profession and is
00:31:27.260
grateful to this woman for her witness of discipleship, integrity, and contemplative prayer.
00:31:33.540
There's, that's the transgender monk who's not actually a monk, is a hermit, not a monk.
00:31:41.300
That's a female. Let me read the whole statement from the Diocese of Lexington.
00:31:45.740
On Pentecost Sunday, Brother Christian Mattson, a professed hermit in the Diocese of Lexington,
00:31:50.000
has made it public that he's a transgender person. Brother Christian has long sought to consecrate
00:31:55.820
his life to Christ and church by living the evangelical counsels of poverty, chastity,
00:32:00.880
and obedience. He has consistently been accompanied by a competent spiritual director
00:32:04.980
and has undergone formation in the Benedictine tradition. He does not seek ordination, but has
00:32:10.340
professed a rule of life that allows him to support himself financially by continuing his work in the
00:32:15.340
arts and to live a life of contemplation in a private hermitage. Bishop John Stowe accepted his
00:32:21.400
profession and is grateful to Brother Christian for his witness of discipleship, integrity, and
00:32:26.040
contemplative prayer for the church. A couple of things to note here. First, when you look at the
00:32:34.140
picture of this woman, you see again this interesting phenomenon that I think we've remarked on in the
00:32:42.280
past that, and this again, this is not meant as a, this is just an observation, just an observation.
00:32:48.960
But it is true that it seems like the only people who are trans identified, who truly quote unquote
00:32:59.040
pass, who, in other words, might, you might actually mistake for the gender they're pretending to be.
00:33:07.620
The only ones who pull that off are those who are morbidly obese. They're the only ones.
00:33:13.580
And the reason is that morbid obesity has this kind of effect because it, when you're covering your
00:33:20.880
body and all of your features and traits in a layer of, of a rather large layer of lard, and so it's already,
00:33:28.340
it kind of has this, you know, effect of making people seem already sort of ambiguous.
00:33:33.420
Um, and then from that sort of template, um, a person can
00:33:39.760
successfully sometimes pull off looking like a morbidly obese member of the, uh, opposite sex.
00:33:47.100
Just an observation. More importantly, though, we should say that this woman, um, should be
00:33:55.900
excommunicated and whoever is responsible for this statement in the diocese should be excommunicated
00:34:04.460
as well. That that's what it will not happen. It'll never happen in a million years, but it should
00:34:10.980
happen because this is an insidious lie and it's a scandal and it's not Catholic. This is a rejection of,
00:34:21.960
this is a full rejection of the Catholic faith. Now it's also a rejection of reality. It's a
00:34:29.440
rejection of truth because of course I'd be the first to say as a Catholic that these things are
00:34:35.700
not distinct from one another, reality, truth, and the Catholic faith. Um, but it is a rejection of
00:34:41.620
science, of scientific realities, and it's a rejection of, of, uh, Catholicism.
00:34:48.600
You cannot be a faithful, what are the words here? Committed disciple of the Catholic church
00:34:59.000
while supporting trans ideology or while being a woman claiming to be a man. You can't, it's
00:35:06.240
impossible. This is a indirect contradiction of the Catholic faith. So you, you can either be a
00:35:13.620
disciple of trans ideology, which is its own religion, or you could be a Catholic. You cannot
00:35:18.780
be both. It's not possible. You know, you might as well have someone who's claiming to be, uh, you
00:35:25.040
know, uh, a Muslim Catholic or something like that. It's a, it's a, it is a, uh, completely different
00:35:34.700
faith entirely. And you can't be both. And there are a lot of reasons for that. One is that it's,
00:35:43.220
again, this just, this just contradicts Catholic teaching, clear Catholic teaching, Catholic teaching
00:35:49.740
that has been in place for 2000 years. Trans ideology totally contradicts and rejects it. So
00:35:55.940
there's that, but it also, it also, it, this is one of the reasons why it contradicts Catholic
00:36:03.240
teaching is that in order for trans ideology to be correct, we have to posit either that there is
00:36:09.140
no God, which obviously you can't believe that there's, you can't reject the existence of God and
00:36:14.100
also be a Catholic in a meaningful sense or in any sense whatsoever. Um, or it posits a, a God who is,
00:36:22.880
who makes rather significant mistakes. It posits a sort of bumbling, incompetent God, a foolish God
00:36:33.780
who can accidentally somewhere on the, I don't know, uh, celestial assembly line can accidentally,
00:36:42.880
uh, take a, a male soul, the essence of a male and, and put it into a female body.
00:36:49.840
And then the person is born and God says, ah, man, I screwed that one up. Sorry about that.
00:37:00.140
Yeah, we got to correct that. No, see, you're supposed to be, you're a woman, but you're supposed
00:37:05.780
to be a man and you, you weren't born how you were supposed to be born. And if you weren't born,
00:37:13.400
how you're supposed to be born? Well, there's only one person. There's only one being rather in,
00:37:17.620
in the universe and beyond it who could be responsible for the mistake. And that is God
00:37:23.100
himself. So you are rejecting God's omnipotence, his omniscience, his wisdom. You're rejecting
00:37:30.880
everything. You're rejecting that he's all powerful. And then you're, you are, I suppose,
00:37:38.500
correcting God's mistake by taking a bunch of hormone pills and, um, identifying as something
00:37:43.760
other than you are. So it's a rejection of truth. It's a rejection of Catholic teaching. It's a
00:37:48.020
rejection of God's omnipotence, uh, power, wisdom, love, knowledge.
00:37:53.740
And anyone who does that, anyone who stands up publicly and declares that shouldn't be a part,
00:38:03.100
should be excommunicated from the faith. And that should be obvious. All right. Daily Wire has this,
00:38:10.980
AMC is being mocked for placing a cultural stereotypes warning on the classic 1990 Martin
00:38:15.880
Scorsese mobster drama, Goodfellas. Anyone tuning into the film on the streaming service, AMC Plus
00:38:20.800
sees the following message before the movie begins. This film includes language and or cultural
00:38:25.100
stereotypes that are inconsistent with today's standards of inclusion and tolerance and may
00:38:29.240
offend some viewers. AMC provided the New York Post with a statement about the warning.
00:38:34.900
The company said that they started adding this content warning four years ago. Quote,
00:38:38.440
in 2020, we began adding advisories in front of certain films that include racial or cultural references
00:38:43.160
that some viewers might find offensive. Several individuals weighed in on the warning.
00:38:47.620
Michael Franzese, a former captain of the Colombo crime family, told the outlet he didn't agree with
00:38:53.880
adding the warning. We don't need anyone protecting mob guys. It's crazy, he said.
00:38:58.780
Former NYPD officer Bo Dietl, who played a police officer at Goodfellas, also disagreed with the
00:39:03.120
messaging. The effing political correctness is effing taking everything away. This is how life was back
00:39:08.140
then. It was not a clean, beautiful thing. You can't cleanse history. If you want to tell true
00:39:12.160
history, you got to tell it the way it is. So they've added this warning. And now,
00:39:19.600
was there a single person at any point who complained to AMC prior to this warning being put
00:39:28.020
in, who complained that it was culturally insensitive? Was there a single viewer of
00:39:33.300
Goodfellas who, after viewing it, or maybe viewed only a few minutes of it and turned it off and
00:39:38.300
discussed and then complained to AMC saying this is culture? Did that happen one single time? I think
00:39:44.580
we could probably assume no. Now, even if it did happen one single time or two times or five times,
00:39:49.720
that doesn't justify adding the warning in. But the point here is that they're doing this to
00:39:54.680
address a problem that doesn't even exist anywhere. And the most important point here,
00:40:01.980
of course, is that Goodfellas is based on a true story. So if there are cultural stereotypes,
00:40:06.920
it's because these historical figures really did behave in a way consistent with those stereotypes,
00:40:14.140
which isn't surprising because that's how the stereotypes exist. That's why every stereotype
00:40:19.500
has at least some truth to it. And most of them have a lot of truth, which is why it makes no sense
00:40:26.480
to declare stereotypes unsayable and horribly offensive. But that's why they do it. The fact
00:40:35.760
the stereotypes are usually at least somewhat true, that's why our cultural elites have called
00:40:41.280
them, have declared them unsayable because the stereotypes are true and you're not allowed to
00:40:46.600
notice true things. We know that noticing true things is the greatest sin of all. So let me ask you
00:40:51.580
this. Have you ever heard in your life a stereotype where you heard the stereotype and you
00:40:56.460
said to yourself, what? Where did that come from? Nobody in that group acts like that.
00:41:04.840
No, of course not. Every stereotype you've ever heard, whether you said it out loud or not,
00:41:10.460
you knew in your head like, okay, yeah, yeah, that makes sense. You're not going to hear a stereotype
00:41:16.900
that comes totally out of the blue. It makes no sense. You've never heard a stereotype where it's like,
00:41:24.640
Native American men always wear blue jeans on Thursdays. That, you know, like some kind of
00:41:33.020
non-sequitur stereotype. He's like, where did that come from? I don't know. What in the world does that
00:41:38.000
mean? No, because stereotypes like that have no resonance and therefore won't be stereotypes.
00:41:44.020
stereotypes. So stereotypes are an observation made collectively by society about a certain group
00:41:51.840
or type of person. Doesn't mean they're always true. Doesn't mean they're true of everybody. Doesn't
00:41:57.700
mean there aren't exceptions. It just means that like it's, it's kind of broadly speaking, this is
00:42:03.480
sort of how it is. So how did Italian people develop the stereotype of acting the way they do in
00:42:09.340
Goodfellas? Well, because lots of Italian people acted that way. That's why it resonates. And this
00:42:15.580
is one of the reasons why, by the way, when they do remakes of old movies and they do the race swap
00:42:21.520
thing, one of the many reasons why that doesn't work is because of this. Because it just doesn't,
00:42:27.600
like, it wouldn't surprise me if at some point they actually tried to do a Goodfellas remake
00:42:33.040
where the gangsters are, you know, uh, all black or something, but it would make no sense. I mean,
00:42:39.760
there are plenty of black gangsters, but the Goodfellas gangsters act the way they do because
00:42:44.380
they're white Italian guys. And so they act a certain way and the whole story and all the, you know,
00:42:49.680
the, the, the, the, um, characterizations and everything, it makes sense for that type of person.
00:42:57.060
But you make it a different type of person just doesn't make any sense anymore.
00:42:59.540
Um, I will say one other thing and, and, um, that this is what happens when the PC rules
00:43:09.420
are applied to protect the feelings of white people too. And it's actually not an improvement
00:43:16.800
because often you'll hear people on the right when they talk about these, um, these sorts of PC things
00:43:23.920
and trigger warnings and everything else, you'll hear conservatives on the right say, well, you never
00:43:29.240
do this for white people. You know, one of the big ones that I've used this example plenty of times,
00:43:33.940
but, uh, they want to get rid of all the native American mascots. And so you always hear the,
00:43:37.900
well, what about the fighting Irish? What about the leprechaun? What about the Notre Dame?
00:43:43.020
Well, then you find out that, yeah, they might eventually get around to that.
00:43:47.040
Like maybe eventually they'll come along and say, oh yeah, that's, that's insulting to Irish people.
00:43:51.120
We don't want that anymore. But that's, that is, that's not an improvement. That's actually
00:43:55.360
not the solution that we want where it's, it's like we bring that up to point out a double standard,
00:44:00.060
but, um, it's probably not the best argument because actually it turns out that the woke
00:44:05.840
people have no problems. Like, oh yeah, sure. What you want more sensitive over sensitivity.
00:44:10.740
You want more trigger warnings. You want more of that sort of, yeah. Like you want to take our idea
00:44:15.480
and expand it? Uh, sure. We'll do that. Absolutely. Okay. Yeah. You want, so we'll,
00:44:22.820
we'll be fair. Uh, we put a sensitivity warning on Aladdin because it's supposed to be offensive to
00:44:28.100
Arab people. Well, uh, fine. We'll, we'll, we'll take the sensitivity warnings and we'll put them on,
00:44:32.200
uh, on movies of, you know, Italian mobsters and problem solved. Now everybody's feelings are
00:44:38.940
protected. Yeah, but actually the problem hasn't been solved. We don't, we don't want more
00:44:45.360
of the thing. We want less of it. You know, I'm quite happy that they have not gotten rid of the
00:44:51.280
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00:44:58.340
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00:50:19.040
We discussed, like we have plenty of times in the past, the modern dating scene.
00:50:23.000
And during that conversation, I listed what I think are the main challenges that young single people face today.
00:50:29.640
And now I want to add one other challenge to the list that I neglected to include.
00:50:35.460
And it comes from this, that in response to the segment, I heard, as I always do, anytime we talk about this, from several people who insisted that I am neither qualified nor equipped to give dating advice because I'm too old and I've been out of the game for too long.
00:50:49.160
This is one of the most common rebuttals that I hear whenever this subject comes up.
00:50:53.920
Similar objection is raised whenever I try to offer advice to younger people who are struggling to or more likely refusing to move out of their parents' house and build an independent, successful adult life.
00:51:04.900
In that case, I'm often informed that I'm old, I have money, and therefore I can't possibly understand what younger people are experiencing or how difficult it is to be in their shoes.
00:51:13.500
And so I should just shut up because what do I know about any of this?
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Now, I'm not the only one who encounters this attitude, of course, and this is what happens anytime someone my age or older who has reached a certain level of professional and personal success tries to offer a few morsels of wisdom on these subjects.
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There's always going to be someone, usually a whole crowd of people, rushing into the scene to let us know that we're out of touch, we're old, we're spoiled, we're elitist somehow, we have it easy, and therefore we have nothing relevant to say.
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Now, this is, as I said, one of the other great challenges that many young single people face today.
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They're trying to do something, in this case, find a wife or a husband, but in many cases, they're unwilling to listen to advice from people who've actually succeeded in doing the thing that they want to do.
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So they find themselves in the middle of the forest, off the trail and without a map, not because there is no trail or no map, but because they've chosen to discard those things and wander through the thicket aimlessly instead.
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Now, it is true that I am ancient and decrepit at the advanced age of 37.
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It's a wonder that I'm even able to walk without assistance at this age, but that doesn't mean that my relationship advice is obsolete.
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In fact, there are many people even older than me, if you can believe it, whose advice is not obsolete either, but who have even better advice than I do.
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And that's because, in part, the fundamental challenges that you face as a young single person looking for love in the world are the same fundamental challenges faced by anyone who has sought romance and companionship anywhere in the world at any point in history ever.
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Now, it's true that you face some unique obstacles.
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Some of those obstacles are quite daunting, quite significant.
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But human nature is the same as it has always been.
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And therefore, the basic roadmap to a successful relationship and a happy marriage is basically the same as it has always been.
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Now, there's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy here that I've noticed, which is that we declare that everything is different now and the wisdom of the past no longer applies.
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And the more we insist on that, the more screwed up things get, and therefore, the more different and less applicable that wisdom actually becomes.
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So, for example, just to illustrate this, one piece of advice that I give, and that many people much wiser than me give, so that you can just listen to them if you want and not me, is to embrace what we now call gender roles.
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And what in the past they didn't call gender roles because they didn't have a word for it because it just was what you did.
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It was so obvious and innate that you didn't need a term to describe what it was.
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One of the things that makes it difficult for single people to match up with each other and form functional relationships and eventually marriages is that they have no idea what the point of a relationship is and what the man is supposed to do within that relationship and what the woman is supposed to do.
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So, those of us who advocate for restoration of those roles or simply a recognition of them because they're innate, we will be told that our advice is antiquated because we don't do gender roles in our society anymore.
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In other words, the people who reject these roles are making a mistake by rejecting them and then using that mistake as justification for continuing to make the same mistake.
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Now, it's true that we live in a society where many people have rejected the timeless wisdom of the ages when it comes to how relationships are supposed to function.
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But the solution, therefore, is to stop rejecting that timeless wisdom.
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It's not to continue rejecting it on the basis that it's already been rejected.
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You know, another piece of timeless wisdom, again, that is, this is not some brilliant, innovative idea that I came up with on my own,
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is this is exactly what we're talking about right here.
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Whatever it is that you're trying to do in life, you should seek out people who have actually done it and done it successfully and use them as an orientation point.
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And if you will not listen to them, if you disqualify all of them on the basis that their situation is not precisely exactly like yours down to the last minute detail,
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then you have doomed yourself to a life of dysfunction and confusion.
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Now, of course, the situation is actually often worse than what I'm describing here.
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Because often younger people will listen to relationship advice offered by voices actually outside of their own heads.
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There are plenty of social media personalities and YouTubers and people in media who have garnered large followings,
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in part by talking about these kinds of issues.
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The problem is that many of them have never done the thing successfully either.
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They have not formed, maintained, and provided for a functional nuclear family.
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You know, their lives are like total disasters.
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They have not demonstrated that they have any real insight into the subject at all.
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In fact, if anything, they demonstrated a profound lack of insight
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and a tendency towards failure and dysfunction in the very arena that they're pontificating about.
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And this is one of the reasons why many young people are lost in the dating world.
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or they seek advice from people who are just as lost as they are, if not more lost.
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And this is reflected not just in the dating world.
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experience, wisdom, and success are counted as negative somehow,
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as hits against your credibility, as essentially disqualifying factors.
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Now, it's true, and could be rightly pointed out here,
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that plenty of people claim to be experienced and wise and actually aren't.
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And part of the context here is the trust the experts thing.
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And the problem, though, with trust the experts when it's so often used,
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is that the people that are being put forward as experts actually aren't.
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And skepticism in that context is not only warranted, but highly recommended.
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But there are some basic truths that can be learned and put into practice,
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even by someone like me, who is not especially wise, but has at least some common sense.
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At least the kind of sense common to those of us who have been married and had families
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and learned what it takes and put it into practice.
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And that is why those who say that we are somehow less qualified to give advice at all