00:01:08.320So Garrett now, Miles Garrett, the aggressor in the situation, the guy that tore the helmet off and hit somebody else with it, he now, in an effort to excuse his actions and to deflect blame and to get his suspension overturned or at least minimized, he now says that Mason Rudolph used a racial slur towards him.
00:01:30.620Nobody mentioned anything about a racial slur before, but now the claim comes out that, oh, by the way, a week later, but yeah, he said racial slur, just so you know.
00:01:39.680First of all, I think that as people have been talking about this, whether or not it's true or whatever, this hasn't been stipulated enough.
00:01:50.660But even if it was true, okay, even if Mason Rudolph really did call Miles Garrett a racial slur, that would not in any way justify ripping his helmet off and beating him in the head with it.
00:02:06.220I would hope we could all agree with that, but apparently we can't because people are talking about this issue as if the only thing that matters is whether or not it's true that Mason Rudolph said that.
00:02:20.960When really, even if he said it, that doesn't do much to negate the fact that Miles Garrett ripped a guy's head off and hit him in the head with it and could have caused brain damage or worse.
00:02:35.540Maybe you saw that video of, it was viral a few weeks ago of a woman, older woman getting body slammed in the parking lot of a Popeye's by a Popeye's employee.
00:02:47.340And the claim that I saw online is that the woman used a racial slur towards that guy.
00:02:59.120My point is people were sharing the video, number one, assuming that she used the racial slur, and then number two, assuming that it therefore justifies an older, an old woman being body slammed on the pavement.
00:03:13.720But even if she, it's bad if she used the racial slur, that doesn't mean you can body slam her and potentially kill her.
00:03:20.900I mean, just, can't we agree with that?
00:03:24.000That there is no, there is no, no word or insult or anything that could be said that would justify physical assault, especially to the point of potentially killing somebody.
00:03:39.680You would hope we could agree with that, but apparently we can't.
00:03:44.440Second thing though, there is, there is no evidence that, uh, Rudolph said any such thing.
00:04:18.720And it's not just that they didn't hear the slur.
00:04:20.920It's that Garrett's own teammates, when they pulled Garrett off, brought him to the sideline later in the locker room.
00:04:28.460He apparently never mentioned this to anybody.
00:04:30.420He never said, Hey, that, that, that guy called me X, Y, Z.
00:04:33.840You, you'd think he would have, that would have been one of the first things he said, especially when you're, you know, they're in the middle of fighting and he's enraged and you pull them off.
00:05:13.540And all the cameras and mics all over the field, apparently didn't pick it up.
00:05:17.940Um, plus there's been no indication that I'm aware of that Rudolph has a history of using that word.
00:05:23.540He's, he's, he's, Rudolph's been playing football for years, has a lot of black teammates.
00:05:28.600He's been presumably tackled by black players many times throughout his football life.
00:05:34.220We can assume, uh, and as far as we know, he's never used a racial slur before.
00:05:39.980So why would he all of a sudden start using it now?
00:05:44.760All of these factors just make it impossible to believe, um, or at least very hard to believe.
00:05:50.600So it seems like we've got a Jussie Smollett in cleats here, uh, situation.
00:05:56.160And I'll tell you this, if Garrett lied about this and slandered the man right after trying to cross, cause brain damage.
00:06:05.820So first he rips his helmet off and beats him with it.
00:06:07.640And then later, week later lies about it, tries to permanently damage his reputation.
00:06:12.780Then he needs to be sued, not just for physical assault, but also for slander.
00:06:16.600And he also needs to be suspended from the league for another year.
00:06:19.800So put a tack another year on to however long this suspension was supposed to be, because that's actually worse than the original physical assault.
00:06:27.420When you think about the long-term damage to someone's career reputation, you could do by making something like that up.
00:06:34.800All right, before we go on, a quick word from Honey.
00:06:40.680You know, giving holiday gifts is great.
00:06:43.440Overspending on all those gifts is definitely not so great.
00:06:47.080And that's the hard part about the holidays is all the money that you're spending.
00:11:58.520When's the last time you saw a video like this and then you saw the police show up and arrest a bunch of people and throw them in the paddy wagon?
00:15:54.540Think about how creepy and perverse that is.
00:15:57.120Think about what a creepy, weird person you have to be to see it like that.
00:16:04.940To actually get angry at a young girl, a minor, a child, because she doesn't want to be naked around a boy.
00:16:11.280So, it's not even just that you're, you think you're trying to, it's not even just that you support this, but you're actually mad at her for not wanting to be naked around a boy.
00:16:24.140And the argument he makes, and this is a popular argument, this is something that, this is an argument that the LGBT camp, they're always doing this.
00:16:34.120They're always comparing themselves to, to the plight of segregated black Americans, or even, you know, going back to slavery times and trying to draw these comparisons.
00:16:46.040And it's so just disrespectful and degrading.
00:17:20.640So, it is very possible to argue that black people have a right to the same accommodations as white people, without also arguing that biological boys have a right to get naked in front of girls.
00:17:33.920In fact, the two issues have nothing to do with one another at all.
00:17:39.880Another way of putting it is, you can disagree with racial segregation, while still agreeing with other forms of segregation that have nothing to do with race whatsoever.
00:17:58.000And so, segregating locker rooms and separating boys and girls, that's segregation, yes.
00:19:31.400Now, the obvious insinuation here, and the reason why this guy was, I think it's a guy,
00:19:39.580the reason why this person was presenting this to me is because the implication is that making a, quote, trans girl,
00:19:50.660that is a biological girl that identifies, a biological boy who identifies as a girl,
00:19:54.780making that individual use the boy's facilities with his other biological counterparts,
00:20:03.020that somehow puts him at risk for sexual assault.
00:20:06.240And so what you're meant to take from this headline, what this guy on Twitter and also what NBC News wants you to take from the headline,
00:20:13.900is that apparently there's an epidemic of trans people, of, quote, trans girls, again, biological.
00:20:22.620I'm only using this terminology just for the sake of argument to talk about this study.
00:20:25.860Anyway, there's a, there's a, there's a, what you, what they want us to take from this is that there's an epidemic of, quote, unquote, trans girls getting sexually assaulted in the boys' rooms,
00:20:36.880which is why we need to put them into the girls' rooms.
00:20:39.360That's what we're meant to take from this.
00:20:47.840Even if that were true, it still would not justify putting boys into the girls' room.
00:20:57.260Because even if you could prove that we have some real concern about the safety of these individuals in the boys' room,
00:21:04.960that doesn't mean we sacrifice the safety and security of the girls.
00:21:08.840It doesn't mean we just, we put them up on the altar for sacrifice.
00:21:12.360No, that would be an argument for giving them a separate facility and saying, okay, now you can go use this other bathroom over here and you can have privacy, you can be by yourself.
00:21:23.140In fact, the school that we're talking about in, in, in Illinois, that's what they were doing.
00:21:29.020They were giving the trans students a separate privacy area.
00:21:49.140So it's actually got nothing to do with sexual assault at all.
00:21:53.180But, of course, you know, and this is what you, when you, when you see a headline like this, your, your, your, your BS detector has to be going haywire.
00:22:02.420You're thinking, what, one in four, what?
00:22:06.380You're telling me one in four of trans students in the men's, in the boys' bathroom and locker room are getting sexually assaulted?
00:22:21.560It even says in the second paragraph of the article that this person linked, well, they didn't link to, they just gave me the screenshot.
00:22:28.920It says in the second paragraph, the study's author admits that there isn't necessarily any causal relationship between the bathroom policies and the sexual assault of trans students.
00:22:38.340So they didn't establish any causal relationship at all.
00:22:42.480And they're not actually talking about sexual assaults in bathrooms.
00:22:46.280What the study is saying is they're, they're taking a look at sexual assault in general.
00:22:51.900And they're using information compiled by, among others, the human rights campaign, which is a far, far, far radical left organization.
00:23:00.000So you've got all kinds of problems with the methodology that they're, that this is, this is far from objective research.
00:23:05.220This is, this is, this is completely biased and they are relying on information from organizations that have an obvious ideological stake in the matter.
00:23:14.160But putting even that aside, which you can't really do, but we'll put it aside anyway.
00:23:19.220What they're saying is they're looking for instance.
00:23:22.520So for example, to get to this one in four statistic, you could have a transgender student who, for example, was abused at home.
00:23:32.580And they're, they're lumping that in with the one in four.
00:24:37.420But they tried to find a way of presenting the information so that there would still seem to be kind of a link.
00:24:43.320And then the media helps them out by coming up with a headline like this, that is completely and totally misleading.
00:24:49.600And this really is how fake news works.
00:24:51.840So the headline here is technically true.
00:24:55.700So they can always claim that they didn't lie, but it's also obviously grossly misleading.
00:25:02.560This is what I always say with studies.
00:25:08.780If someone throws a study at you and it doesn't mean anything until you've read it.
00:25:16.760And in fact, we should not be, you know, we should not be presenting study.
00:25:21.240You shouldn't be presenting a study as evidence for your claim unless you have read the study.
00:25:26.780Not read a headline about it, not read an article about it, but you need to have actually read the study itself, the entire thing.
00:25:35.000If you haven't done that, then you have no business quoting a study, none.
00:25:39.380And in fact, to quote the study that you haven't read is dishonest and it is a form of lying.
00:25:44.620Because you know that you're trying to support an argument and you're using this and, but you don't actually know if it's a legitimate study or not.
00:25:50.820And you know that you don't know that, but you're using it anyway.
00:26:05.140Hey, Matt, I wanted to ask you something that may seem trivial at first, but it's been on my mind for a while.
00:26:09.740That is, how can I critically think better?
00:26:12.020I ask this question because I'm really into history, philosophy, and theology, but I find that I hold most of my views because I just happen to agree with someone.
00:26:19.320When I discuss my views with people, they compliment me on my knowledge or my opinion on the subject.
00:26:23.500But I can't help but remember that I only hold my views mainly because I've just heard other people make the points.
00:26:28.860The only thing I've done is memorize ideas and agree or disagree with them.
00:26:32.280I'm not sure if I'm being too hard on myself, but I can't help but feeling a little bit like a fraud.
00:26:36.180How can I get better at coming up with my own original takes on things and then building my convictions off of them?
00:26:41.000Also, I study history at university, so it would only help if I got better at thinking critically.
00:26:46.680I also ask you because out of all the conservative speakers I have listened to, you seem to have the most nuanced takes.
00:26:52.160I never hear the typical right-wing talking points, and I can't really predict what you're going to say about a certain topic.
00:26:57.520And I'm always interested with your take and rationale behind it, not exactly trying to flatter you, although take it how you want.
00:27:02.360I just thought you were a top-notch example of thinking for yourself and then letting those original thoughts shape your beliefs.
00:27:19.660Number two, I don't think you need help thinking critically because you're obviously doing a great job of it.
00:27:27.140This email, what you're describing here, this is critical thinking.
00:27:31.160What you're doing right now is critical thinking.
00:27:33.260And this is exactly the sort of self-reflection and self-analysis that most people never engage in.
00:27:39.460So you are already way, way, way ahead of the curve.
00:27:41.840And people who lack critical thinking skills, which most people do in my experience, certainly never have this thought process that you're having right now.
00:27:54.480I mean, I think it's great that you're, the fact that you're saying this about yourself and noticing this about yourself is a really good sign.
00:28:05.600So what you're doing here is asking a really basic question, a question that is a starting point for all critical thinking,
00:28:10.640and a question that I'm, that again, I'm betting most people in this country and in across the world have never asked themselves.
00:28:17.760And the question is this, why do I believe the things that I believe?
00:28:24.200And what you've discovered is the same truth that any one of us would discover the first time we asked this question to ourselves.
00:28:30.600The first time we sincerely and seriously asked this question of ourselves.
00:28:35.660What you find is that you believe most of what you believe because you have passively inherited those beliefs from your parents, from your friends, from the media, from the people around you, from the culture, et cetera.
00:28:47.460So it's just been this sort of, you know, like a, like a sponge, just soaking in things, but not really thinking much about them.
00:28:54.640Um, you don't have necessarily good reasons for some of the things that you believe you have talking points, which you've memorized, but that's not the same as having a reason.
00:29:08.880And this is the case for everyone before they've really taken on the task of critical thinking.
00:29:14.640So, you know, don't, don't feel bad about it.
00:29:18.040You should feel proud of yourself that you're, that you're thinking about this and engaging in this process in the first place.
00:29:26.120Just because you've, you've inherited certain convictions, just because you don't really have necessarily good reasons for thinking some of the things you think, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're wrong about those things.
00:29:37.300It doesn't mean that all your beliefs are wrong, but it does mean that they could be wrong, right?
00:29:43.060For all, you know, so now you have to take those beliefs sort of metaphorically, pull them out of your mind, place them on the table in front of you and, and inspect them, do, do an honest inspection.
00:29:59.340And so here are just some ideas on how, you know, how we can become critical thinkers.
00:30:05.080And I give this advice, not as an expert, but as a, as a, I guess a striver, I suppose, like you.
00:30:10.460So I think the, the first step, when you notice that you believe something, but don't have great reasons for believing it, the first step is to do what you've already done, which is to acknowledge and say, okay, you know, I might be wrong about this.
00:30:24.380And, and now with that simple acknowledgement, you're setting yourself up for an objective analysis of the question, because you can't objectively analyze anything if you're not willing to admit that you might be wrong.
00:30:37.720So if on, on any subject, you've never said to yourself, I might be wrong about this, then you've never objectively considered it, no matter what it is, whatever the conviction, belief, whatever is, if you've never at any point considered the possibility that you could be wrong, then you've never looked at it objectively, which probably means you have no good reason for thinking it.
00:31:03.860Okay, but so once you've done that, now you're ready for objective consideration. And, and so that's good.
00:31:13.420And now I think it's a simple process of, of listening to, looking at, reading, giving a fair hearing to all of the sides of the issue in question, whatever it is.
00:31:24.240Don't seek out the very best arguments and the most articulate defenders of the various different views. Let them speak for themselves. Don't seek out one side's version of what the other side says. Don't do that.
00:31:37.940Let that side speak for itself and really challenge yourself. Find the people, because it's very easy. And we, we all do this sometimes make, we make ourselves feel better about our convictions by only engaging with the dumbest people on the other side of it so that we feel even better.
00:31:54.640Because we can leave saying, oh, wow, these people don't have any arguments. They're a bunch of morons. And depending on what it is, I mean, there, there are issues, in my opinion, where the other side really has no good arguments at all.
00:32:07.000And you can hear them out, but they just, they just, and I, we've been talking about it this week with the bathroom thing. I've heard out the other side and they have no good, they really don't have any good arguments.
00:32:15.540I mean, there are positions that are just flat out stupid and wrong. And, um, and there's only so far you can go in taking them seriously. So that's true. But in, you know, that's not the case with so many other issues. Um, and so you take, you, you seek out the other side, let them speak for themselves. Uh, and, and then you're, and now you're, you know, and now you're formulating your own views. And this is pretty exciting. It's very freeing.
00:32:39.580Um, because now you're doing this honest investigation and you're developing your own perspective, your own ideas. Um, and when you consider the issue, you know, don't worry about whether the ideas and opinions you feel forming are consistent with what people have always told you or with what you want to believe or anything else. Just, just let your brain and your mind, um, do, do its own work.
00:33:05.320And then as you engage with all the sides, you listen to the arguments, now you've kind of fueled your brain and you can really work it over in your head. So something I'll do, maybe this is because I'm schizophrenic. I don't know, but I'll have arguments with myself in my head. I don't know if this is, I guess probably a lot of people do this. This is what I do. Um, I have arguments with myself in my head all the time.
00:33:25.940Um, and if I have a viewpoint that I want to defend that I believe that I think I'm right about, so I'm turning it over in my head and I try to argue against myself and I try to anticipate what an, you know, an intelligent person might say in response to that view.
00:33:41.140And so now I'm just like going back and forth in my own mind. Um, and I think that's what critical thinking consists of for, for everybody in one form or another.
00:33:51.700Just one, one good tip is when you're arguing with yourself in your mind, try not to, especially if there are people around you, don't, don't verbalize anything because you'll look crazy.
00:33:59.980Um, one other thing to think about here, I think another good test, another good thing for a critical thinker to do is to constantly be holding your views up against your other views to see if they're consistent.
00:34:16.480I think this is one thing we should always be doing is to look for internal consistency within your worldview.
00:34:21.240And if you discover that, um, so if you have an opinion on an issue and the arguments you present, you discover are not consistent with the arguments you present on some other topic, where in other words, you know, you present arguments on one topic, but those arguments, if applied to your position over here, it would actually defeat your own position.
00:34:46.680And I think a lot of people have a worldview full of stuff like that. It's just a tangled web where they've just a mishmash of, of conflicting, contradicting ideas.
00:34:59.660And that's a problem because now you don't have a coherent worldview. And now also, you know, that you must be wrong about some of this stuff because in order to be right about this over here, you got to be wrong about that.
00:35:10.440And so that's another thing we have to be analyzing and figuring out and trying to establish a worldview that's coherent.
00:35:17.500And we are, you know, we have certain basic principles that we are consistently applying across the board to everything.
00:35:22.940Uh, but you're on a, you're on a great path already. So congratulations for that.
00:35:30.640Uh, let's see, this is from Joseph says, Matt, I'm finally able to say, I was able to see the great theocratic emperor in person.
00:35:39.000I went to the, uh, uh, uh, university of Wisconsin, Milwaukee lecture, and I loved every second of it.
00:35:44.460Don't have a beard. So I couldn't ask a question in person. That is a rule. You have to, you have to have a beard to ask a question.
00:35:49.160So thank you for following that rule. I love that you changed the topic and talked about masculinity.
00:35:53.200The speech reminds me of an extended, expanded a version of the C.S. Lewis quote.
00:35:57.480We make men without chess and expect of them virtue and enterprise.
00:36:01.040You mentioned the type of education system you would send your kids to outside of home.
00:36:04.720I think what you described would be the best, but is it attainable?
00:36:08.600You said not government run, which also means not government funded.
00:36:12.200If it's totally private, wouldn't it be hard for the middle class and lower class to attend these schools?
00:36:16.140Thanks for all you do. Yeah. Well, we live in a society right now, Joseph, where, uh, is, is in many ways structured around the current educational system and dependent upon it.
00:36:26.180So any significant change to the, to the system would require necessitate, uh, a major change to the way our society is structured and there's no getting around that.
00:36:40.200So, but my point is that we have to start by realizing that the current system is horribly, fatally flawed and bad for children and counterproductive and harmful and all these things.
00:36:51.660And we start by realizing that. And even if the total solution, the ultimate solution is far in the future, we can at least start heading in that direction.
00:37:01.340So when we're taught, when we're noticing that there's something in society that is some major thing in society that is fundamentally flawed, yeah, that's going to mean that fixing it is a real long-term solution.
00:37:16.860And it's going to require a lot of sacrifice and it's way in the future. So I, I, that is the case with, with, um, the education system.
00:37:23.140I think the ultimate goal for us should be to get rid of the government funded state sponsored education system completely.
00:37:31.000I think that education should be a fundamentally private endeavor. I don't think the government should be running it, but is that something that is a realistic goal for the next five years? No, but I do think it should be a goal.
00:37:46.000Um, let's see. Do one other real quick here from Antonio says, hi, Matt, in your opinion, is it possible to establish a deep affinity or friendship or a love relationship with someone who thinks in the opposite way on issues that are fundamental for such a, uh, for us, such as abortion or child abuse in cases of gay slash transgender propaganda in schools?
00:38:08.000Well, Antonio, you could definitely have a friendship with someone who disagrees with you fundamentally on, on anything. I think, uh, there's no reason why you can't be friendly with and even friends with someone who you disagree with on, on everything.
00:38:22.780But if you're talking about a romantic relationship, potentially a marriage with someone who's diametrically opposed to you on the most basic issues, then that I would be very wary of.
00:38:33.120And I would warn against, um, especially with something like abortion and transgenderism among children and child abuse, because if you marry someone who disagrees with you on those things, you've got two big problems.
00:38:46.200One is that your worldviews are so opposed, so separate that I think you're going to have trouble establishing that kind of intimate and complete bond that you need in a marriage because you just see the world through completely different lenses.
00:38:57.920The other, on a more practical level, and this is something that I think people need to take into consideration, on a more practical level, especially if you're a man, um, pro-life, you know, against child abuse, against transitioning children, which is child abuse.
00:39:15.780Well, if you marry a woman who disagrees with you on that, you have no guarantee, first of all, that she won't kill your child in the womb.
00:39:27.560What if you guys end up conceiving a child when you didn't mean to or intend to?
00:39:33.860Um, now you know that you're married to someone who at least considers it an option to go and kill the child.
00:39:40.720And I just, that's not a situation I ever want to be in.
00:39:43.520And then also, even after the child is born, you know, what if the kid has a normal phase when he's three or four years old and starts going around saying that he's a girl?
00:39:53.780Normal thing for, for, for, it's a normal phase for children of both genders to go through.
00:39:58.380And a normal confusion for them to have, especially if it's never been explained to them what a boy and girl is.
00:40:03.540Well, you're married to someone who might be inclined to encourage that and fuel it.
00:40:09.700And next thing you know, you know, it's like the James Younger case and you're married to someone who's, who's, who's trying to change your son into a girl.
00:40:17.720So, so I would, that's, that's a big risk, especially these days.
00:40:23.920Um, and especially with the lack of power legally that men have over these situations.
00:40:31.080So as a man, you gotta be, these are questions you gotta be talking about with a woman that you're dating.
00:40:39.160And I really think you gotta be a hundred percent on the same page, at least with that stuff before even considering marriage.
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