Ep. 510 - A Rash Of Attacks Against White People. None Are Called Hate Crimes.
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A white man was brutally attacked by a black man in the middle of a Macy's store. No one has been charged. Is this a hate crime? Or is this an isolated incident? Also, NASCAR has come out fully in support of a black driver who says that someone left a noose in his garage.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there's been a slew of assaults against white people recently.
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Now, the media doesn't care about this at all, isn't paying any attention to it.
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But more importantly, the crimes are not being charged as hate crimes. They're not being
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considered hate crimes. Why is that? Why shouldn't they be hate crimes? We'll talk about that today.
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Also, five headlines, including NASCAR coming out fully in support of the black driver who says
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that someone left a noose in his garage. Now, there are several strange aspects to this story.
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Is it a hoax? We'll talk about that today. And finally, in today's cancellation, I am canceling
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Karen. Not Karen's, not a woman named Karen, but the Karen meme, the Karen thing I'm going to cancel
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today. And I'll explain why all of that coming up. And we start with this. And first of all,
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in fact, I did get this big, big, big moment. I did get my first presidential retweet last night.
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Always an exciting moment, kind of a coming of age for conservative pundits when they get the
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Trump retweet. And the post of mine on Twitter that Trump retweeted was this video, which we discussed
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yesterday on the show. And let me play it for you again here.
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That right there, as we talked about yesterday, is a white Macy's employee being brutally assaulted
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by a black man in the middle of the store, which this happened a few days ago. The video shows the
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assailant, his name's Demir Palmer, punching the man in the head, as you saw, as he crawls on the
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ground, begging for Palmer to stop. If you're listening to this on iTunes, you don't have the
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video. That's what you see there. The assailant's brother, who filmed the crime and posted it proudly
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to social media, claims that the victim used the N-word prior to this assault taking place. Now,
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even if that was true, that wouldn't remotely justify felony assault, but it isn't true.
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Macy's investigated. They confirmed the attack was unprovoked. Also, the N-word claim is just
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absurd on its face. A Macy's employee is not going to casually refer to his black customers as a racial
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slur. If he was in the habit of doing that, he would have been fired a long time ago. Macy's is
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not going to fall on the sword to defend an employee who uses racial slurs. That's just not something
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corporations are going to do. Now, what actually happened from the looks of it is that the Palmer
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brothers selected a victim based on his race, beat him mercilessly, and then slandered him.
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They damaged him physically and then tried to ruin his life for good measure. If the hate crime
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designation has any meaning, this should fit the bill. Yet to this point, no hate crime charges have
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been filed. In fact, no charges of any kind have been filed. As I say this right now, there's been
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that the guy who carried out the assault has not been arrested, even though it's on video. We have
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it right there. And they know his name. Somehow hasn't been arrested. No charges at all as at all
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have been filed so far because of that. It should be noted that a man who assaulted a Macy's employee
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last year was charged with a hate crime, a somewhat similar situation, just in the fact
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that it was a Macy's employee being assaulted in the store. And that person was charged with a hate
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crime. But in that case, it's because he used anti-gay slurs during the attack. It's not clear to me
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that the customer or the employee was actually gay. I'm not sure if he was or not. All it says in the
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news reports is that the person carrying out the assault used anti-gay slurs. The prosecutor in the
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case said that the attacker, quote, subjected the victim to offensive physical contact. And this was
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done, quote, because of his perception of the victim's sexual orientation. Well, was this latest
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Macy's assault not offensive physical contact? And was it not due to the attacker's perception of the
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victim's race? How is one a hate crime and this isn't? Now, this unfortunately is not an
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isolated incident. Recently, there's been a slew of horrific physical attacks against white people.
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Last week, a group of black men attacked a white man in a gas station parking lot in Texas.
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And this is all everything I'm talking about here. These are all on video.
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They punched him. They knocked him to the ground. They stomped on his head when he was lying there.
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Now, I'm not going to play all these videos for you because they're pretty violent and they're
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disturbing. And I'm not going to force you to watch them if you don't want to. But you can go to my
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Twitter feed and you can find them. I've linked all of them there. And I would recommend if you
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think you can stomach it, just go. It's one of those things you have to sort of see for yourself
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to understand the severity of the situation. In New York, a black man pushed a 92-year-old
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white woman to the ground. She bashed her head against a fire hydrant as she fell. She was 92 years
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old. No hate crime charges have been filed. She was going along on her walker down the street.
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This guy walks by, just pushes her and walks away. In another attack against the elderly,
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Jaden T. Hayden of Michigan, maybe you saw this video, he was repeatedly beating a 75-year-old
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nursing home patient in the head as he lay helpless on his bed. Now, the interesting thing is that Hayden
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has YouTube videos where he claims that, among other things, quote, the black race is supposed
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to rule the earth. No hate crime charges have been filed so far in this case. But try to imagine
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the same outcome if a white man with similar professed views about the white race, let's say
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a white man who had YouTube videos saying that the white race is supposed to rule the earth.
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And then if that man were to go and film himself brutalizing an elderly black man,
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how quickly do you think hate crime charges would be filed in that case? Like within 10 seconds?
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Maybe at the speed of light, they would come out? There are more examples. And in fact,
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All right. So other examples of these assaults that we're talking about. During the riots in Rochester a
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few weeks ago, a white woman was attacked by a group of black men. She was punched in the face
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repeatedly, beaten with a wooden board. In Ocean City, where violence has been rampant of late,
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there have been several examples of this, but there's one video where a guy's sitting on a park
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bench and is knocked out, knocked to the floor. Again, no hate crime charges. And hate crime charges
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aren't the only thing missing here. There has been little public attention to or condemnation of
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these attacks. In fact, I've been told that it's racist to even talk about them.
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If you go to my Twitter feed and you see where I have these videos posted,
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whether it's the Macy's one or the longer thread where I post all of the videos I just mentioned,
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you find lots of people either outright defending felony assaults of white people or insisting that
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I'm a racist for calling attention to it. And there's no explanation provided. They don't
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explain why it's racist to point out when a white person is brutally assaulted. It's assumed that
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we all understand. Like it's a given. But well, of course, that's racist. You can't do that.
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Why can't you do it? No, you just can't. It's just not something you can do. That's all.
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Just a few random examples. Here are some responses justifying the assault of the Macy's employee,
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which you saw. Just just a few random responses on my page. One person says an eyewitness says the
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black man asked the employee a question then became angry when the Macy's salesperson who was on his
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phone used the N word when he got back to his call thinking he'd done so discreetly. So no,
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it's not a hate crime. It's a guy angered by racism. So this is a person saying that that basically it's
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okay because he was angry about a word that he heard. Now, as I've already said, that word was
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not said. These guys made that story up. And it's very clear that they made it up. And the story is
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absurd on its face. But regardless, you cannot beat a man to a pulp because you heard a word you don't
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like. Now, someone else says he's clearly saying, I'm sorry, implying that he indeed said or did
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something to result in getting punked like that, making the white guy a victim is far-fetched. I
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know plenty of white men like this that pop off at the mouth and expect nothing bad to happen.
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It's far-fetched. That video you just saw with a white man on the ground being pummeled,
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it's far-fetched to say that he's a victim. Someone else says, firstly, three punches isn't brutally
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assaulted. Second, if it was a white person beating a black person, I'm sure you will believe the black
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person must have done something to deserve it and even go so far as to dig up past criminal records.
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The problem, it's a problem no matter what we do. Oh, it's not brutally assaulted. That wasn't a
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brutal assault. It's just a regular assault. It's just a standard assault. No problem there.
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And then other stuff like that. Now, once again, the guy did not say the end where the story was
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fabricated, but the idea that the assailant is entitled to commit felony assault because of a
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bad word is lunacy. And it's all besides the point. The attack was unprovoked as were most of the attacks
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that I just listed, yet no hate crime charges have been filed. Now, let me say that I am not
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personally a proponent of the hate crime designation. I don't like it. I don't think the prosecutors can
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look into a criminal's heart and accurately assess whether a crime was motivated by hatred or not.
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I don't know how they can do that. They can't do it. And even if they could, I'm not sure why a crime
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of hate should be considered any more severe than a crime of greed or jealousy or anger or boredom or
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indifference. Is it really worse to shoot a man for his race than for his wallet? Haven't you treated him
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as less than human either way? Haven't you killed him either way? Isn't he just as dead in both cases?
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Isn't his family mourning him just the same no matter what? Now, the common argument, the common
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response to that is that hate crimes have a special effect on the community and that they terrorize and
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intimidate people. And so that's why there's a reason to respond, especially aggressively to them.
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And it's true that an actual hate crime is going to terrorize the community. But then criminals who kill
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their shoes or for the cash in the register also terrorize communities and intimidate communities
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beset by such crime are often crippled by fear. If you live in a community like that, you don't even
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want to let your kids leave the house. So I don't see much of a difference in that case either.
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People might be crippled by fear and terrorized for different reasons, but they're still terrorized,
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they're still in fear, and people are still dying. There's no reason to think that hatred is the worst
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possible motivator for a crime. I would say that, in fact, that indifference to human life
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is actually the worst. And it motivates the worst kinds of crime. Mass shootings,
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many mass shootings, school shootings, serial killers, psychopaths. These are people who don't
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care about human life enough to, you know, they don't care about human life enough to hate it.
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Like, they're going to kill you, but they don't care about you enough to hate you.
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You just mean nothing to them. They're indifferent to you. Totally empty inside. Killing just for the
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fun of it. Just for the thrill. Now, that seems to me to be a reason to kill someone at least as
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evil as hate. But then again, killing someone if it's not in self-defense or in defense of somebody
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else is evil no matter what. And I'm not convinced that there can be a more or less evil reason to do
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it. The whole conversation becomes absurd after a while. Yet this is what our justice system has
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done. It's come up with a sort of tier system ranking the reasons to kill people or assault
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people from worst to best. This is a really bad, this is a, you know, a bad reason, but not the
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worst reason. And this is, this reason is a little bit worse. And this is the, the worst reason to do
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it. It's ridiculous. And not only is that ranking system subjective, but the judgment of why someone
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performed an act is also subjective. So this is subjectivity on top of subjectivity. And that's
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why we shouldn't have the hate crime label at all, in my opinion. But if we're going to go down this
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road, and if we, if we've gotten into the business of doling out special punishments for hate-based
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crimes, and if we've assumed that prosecutors and judges have mind reading abilities, then equal
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justice under the law means prosecuting crimes against white people with all the same gusto as
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crimes against non-white people. And that's not happening here. And that's an injustice.
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All right, let's move on to your headlines. Number one, as mentioned yesterday on the show,
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NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace says that someone hung a noose in his NASCAR garage. Wallace,
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of course, is black. The story has been reported everywhere. A huge deal has been made of it. It's
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been reported as fact everywhere, just straightforwardly. The media, the headline saying a noose was found in
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the garage. They're not saying allegedly, reportedly, it was claimed that, so on and so forth. None of
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that just news was found. Yesterday at Talladega, the other drivers came together to push Wallace's
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car to the start line in a show of solidarity. NASCAR itself has gone all in supporting Wallace,
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rallying around him. Here's a video they put out today.
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We want to stand with our friend and we want to stand with Bubba and that's what took place through
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last night, this morning. And then as this idea came together today and started within the drivers
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and then as the crew members caught wind that we wanted to push Bubba's car down and stand with him
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during the national anthem. The teams wanted to get involved as well and you saw the support. It's pretty
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amazing. This garage area is going to stand together stronger than ever as that message continues to
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get sent. You know, I love you, man. We all do. Take care of yourself out there. Put us in a good
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spot. Get yourself a deep breath. Get your mind right. Let's go shut these haters up. As Bubba Wallace
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guns it from the inside with Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick. I'm proud to stand where I'm at.
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Sport is changing. The deal that happened yesterday, I wanted to show whoever it was
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that you're not going to take away my smile and I'm going to keep on going.
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So Bubba Wallace is now famous and renowned. Whereas before, if you didn't follow NASCAR,
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you probably hadn't heard of him. I hadn't heard of him. I haven't heard of really any NASCAR
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drivers because I don't follow it. And he's being hailed as a hero for his bravery and standing up to
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racism. He's put out a statement, several statements now, where he talks about how he's
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not going to be intimidated. He's not going to back down. He's going to fight racism and everything.
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Meanwhile, federal authorities are investigating the incident. But here's the weird thing. Still to
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this point, we have seen no photo of this noose. Now, keep in mind, the noose was supposedly discovered
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by one of Wallace's crew members. And that person saw it and then went and told Wallace. That's the
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story we're given. But we know that the guy who found it obviously would have taken a picture.
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That's the first thing you're going to do. Because for one thing, you want to show Wallace,
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right? So he's going to take out his phone. He's going to take a picture. It's what anybody would do.
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And yet we haven't seen this picture. That's kind of strange, isn't it? Why haven't we seen it?
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Two days later and still no picture. Also, these garages at NASCAR races are under lock and key,
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you know, highly restricted area, very tight security, cameras everywhere, right? This isn't
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something that a fan can just wander into. So it's not like some random racist fan went in and did that.
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It's not possible. So if it was done, if this was actually a hate crime, if somebody put it there
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as a racist attack against Bubba Wallace, then it would have had to have been, you know, a NASCAR
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employee or someone who works, you know, and someone who's on, someone officially involved,
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someone employed would have had to do that, somebody with access. And this would also be someone
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who would have known that they would be immediately found out because they would know about the
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security. They would have had to go through all that security just to get to that area.
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And so they would have known that. My question is, would an employee with access,
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would they be so racist? Would they be so overcome with racism that they would sacrifice their job and
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their livelihood and their freedom? Because they're going to go, they would go to jail for this if
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they did it. They're going to sacrifice everything just to hang a noose.
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I mean, even supposing that there's a NASCAR employee with access who is racist,
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would he essentially commit suicide for the sake of this stunt?
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Maybe so. Who knows? People are crazy. People do crazy things.
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But still, there is the other explanation. And it happens that this other explanation
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is what has explained almost every news story we've heard in recent years.
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And that's that the story is a hoax, or at best, somebody misinterpreted what they saw.
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And now they're just running with it. Because the thing is, with NASCAR doing that and coming
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out in support, and they've got the drivers walking down the track and everything, they're all in.
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They can't. It would be a total embarrassment to them if they were to come out and say,
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oh, you know what, actually it was a hoax or it was misinterpreted. Not to mention, NASCAR is going
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to be accused of racism, no matter what. Even if there is irrefutable evidence that this was all a
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hoax or a misunderstanding, if NASCAR were to come out now and say that, they're going to be accused
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of racism, and they're not believing a black man and all that kind of stuff.
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So I think, very likely, if this was a hoax, we're never going to find out.
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But also, we're never going to see a picture of this supposed news.
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Number two, race hustler and all-around scumbag Sean King, who is, by the way, one of the worst
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people currently living on planet Earth, is now inciting attacks on churches. Here's what he said.
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Let me pull it up. A few tweets he sent out. He said, yes, I think the statues of the white
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European they claim is Jesus should also come down. They are a form of white supremacy, always have
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been. In the Bible, when the family of Jesus wanted to hide and blend in, guess where they went?
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Egypt, not Denmark. Tear them down. And then later, he also says, yes, all murals and stained glass
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windows of white Jesus and his European mother and their white friends should also come down.
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They are a gross form of white supremacy, created as tools of oppression, racist propaganda.
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They should all come down. So this, of course, is the next step. First, the Confederate statues,
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then Columbus, then founders, other presidents, then on to religious statues. That was always the
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next step. Remember, this is a war on Western civilization. That's the objective here. It's
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got nothing to do with racism whatsoever. These are people who hate Western civilization,
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despite the fact that Western civilization gave them freedom, liberty, luxury, unimaginable to almost
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everyone else who has lived on earth anywhere at any point in history, despite all that. They hate
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Western civilization and they're tearing down whatever represents the foundations of our
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civilization. Christianity is the foundation of the foundation. It lies at the very root of Western
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civilization. So, of course, of course, that's next. There was never any doubt about it. And when they start
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tearing down the Jesus statues, please don't be shocked. That was always going to happen.
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Number three, speaking of tearing down monuments, Democrat politicians, of course, are
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actively and explicitly encouraging these felonies. Here's the latest from Andrew Cuomo,
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the governor of New York, and a man who, of course, consigned thousands of elderly people to their
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deaths. Here's what he has to say about the monuments. President Trump mentioned in an interview
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that he feels cities should take further action to stop monuments from being destroyed. We saw that
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scene at the White House with the Andrew Jackson statue near the White House. We know, for example,
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Theodore Roosevelt statue is coming down in New York City. Do you agree with the president's
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guidance that cities should do more to protect monuments?
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Yeah, I don't even know what the president's guidance is, Savannah, frankly. Cities are making
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decisions. The Teddy Roosevelt statue, I think was less about Teddy Roosevelt, but the other parts of
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that of that statue. And look, people are making a statement about equality, about community to be
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against racism, against slavery. I think those are good statements. And it depends. Can you overdo it?
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Of course you can. But in New York, I don't think we've overdone it. And I think that I think it's a
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healthy expression of people saying, let's get some priorities here. And let's remember the sin
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and mistake that these this nation made. And let's not celebrate it.
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Oh, they're making a statement that slavery is wrong. Wow. Bold statement. Incredible statement.
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Important statement. Slavery is wrong. I mean, this is really a statement that needs to be made.
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Right. Because because, of course, the the popular view is that slavery is good. You hear it all the
00:24:10.760
time. Right. It's like every day you walk out of your house, there's someone coming up to you and
00:24:15.520
defending slavery. It's the mainstream view. Slavery is good. And so we really need brave rebels to come
00:24:22.420
out and say, no, nope. You know what? Slavery is wrong. I'm not afraid to say it. And can I just and I
00:24:31.340
want to say this right now myself and I want to be very clear about this.
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I also believe that slavery is wrong and I am not afraid to say it. OK.
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OK. So that's good. Healthy expression, Cuomo says. Notice here the infantilization of these
00:24:55.000
criminals that goes on. Cuomo sounds like a permissive parent justifying his toddler's
00:24:59.400
tantrums. It's a healthy expression, just part of growing up. You know.
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This is what we call the bigotry of low expectations. And this is what this is what
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we're seeing from Cuomo and all the Democrats. Trump, by the way, has has come out. He came
00:25:16.420
out today and said that he's authorized the federal government to arrest anyone who vandalizes
00:25:21.980
monuments or statues on federal property. And so he's authorizing that. Now, I have to admit,
00:25:29.380
I'm totally in favor of arresting people who are doing this. I've been saying that all along.
00:25:33.920
Arrest them. These are felonies, whether it's federal property or not. It doesn't matter where
00:25:37.640
it is. No matter what property is. OK. No matter where it is, if it's not your stature or your
00:25:42.100
monument, you are committing a felony because all of these things are worth way more than 500 bucks.
00:25:48.840
So. I agree with that. Yes, absolutely. Arrest the authorization part. I don't quite understand.
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He says we're authorizing it. Well, this was already a crime. And law enforcement.
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I don't think they need specific authorization from the president
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to arrest someone for committing a crime. I don't think that's how it works. I'm a little
00:26:09.180
bit confused by that. Number four. But yes, let's arrest them, please. A Bloomberg reporter,
00:26:13.880
Stephen Dennis, reports. He says a day ahead of Trump's visit to Arizona, GOP Senator Martha McSally
00:26:20.400
proposes giving taxpayers four thousand dollars each to take a vacation. Couples would get eight
00:26:25.600
thousand dollars in vacation tax credits plus five hundred dollars per kid.
00:26:28.680
Um, the bill would pay for your food, beverages, lodging, transportation and live entertainment
00:26:34.440
events, including sporting events. So. All right. That would be for my family, I think ten thousand
00:26:42.360
bucks. I've never spent ten thousand dollars on a vacation in my life. I don't think I've spent that
00:26:48.500
much collectively in my whole life on vacations. But you know what? Can I just say this is not enough.
00:26:54.080
What if I want to fly first class with my whole family and stay in a Ritz-Carlton hotel and order
00:27:00.460
room service four times a day? This proposal wouldn't allow us to do that. It just wouldn't
00:27:05.720
be enough money, which is outrageous. This is a violation of my rights as an American and as a
00:27:11.700
human being. It basically erases my existence. It deprives me of what is rightfully mine.
00:27:19.000
And I won't stand for it. Finally, here's a video of a giant dead squid. Check it out.
00:27:26.000
Okay. I have nothing to say about that. I just thought it was interesting. That's it. If you,
00:27:54.620
if you wanted to see a video of a dead squid today, which I'm sure you did, you woke up this
00:27:59.380
morning, first thing you thought is, I wonder if there's any videos of dead squids. I hope Matt
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plays one. There you go. I'm here to serve. We're going to move on to our daily cancellation. But I
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00:28:45.420
Okay. Today, I'm going to cancel Karen. Not the people, but the meme. It's a meme that I have,
00:28:53.720
I'm sure you'll be quick to point out, indulged myself a time or two. But I'm tired of it. And we
00:29:00.920
know that with my cancellations, it is arbitrary according to my whim. And so once I tire of
00:29:06.780
something, it's canceled. Now, I might cancel because I'm tired of it. But then the next day,
00:29:10.980
I decide I'm not tired of it anymore. And then I'll uncancel it. I have that authority. I can do
00:29:15.560
that. I'm the canceller here, canceller in chief. But I'm tired of the Karen thing. And I'll tell you
00:29:20.500
why. First of all, what brings this to mind is a video that went viral today, which I'm not going
00:29:26.520
to play for you. But it's a black man who's filming, confronting a white woman who he says
00:29:33.460
flipped him off and called him a racial slur. And in the video, and so she, this happened while they
00:29:40.480
were driving. He follows her back to her house. In the video, she's crying and terrified because
00:29:48.040
he's putting her face on camera, following her, stalking her. He's at her house, outside of her
00:29:54.700
house. And he documents her license plate number and her home address and shows everybody what her
00:30:00.560
house looks like. Puts that all on film too. Puts it online, accuses her of racism.
00:30:07.100
Most of the people who are sharing the video are laughing about it, saying she's a Karen,
00:30:10.660
deserves to be publicly humiliated and doxxed because that's what all Karens deserve, right?
00:30:15.740
Meanwhile, this guy, the guy who filmed it, is openly racist against white people. He's an activist.
00:30:21.960
His Twitter handle is literally white people hate. That's how he advertises himself as someone who
00:30:29.280
hates white people. So he's a racist against white people, advertises it, is an activist,
00:30:33.880
BLM activist, has a history of claiming that white people call him racial slurs and trying to do this,
00:30:39.980
get him on video, clout chasing, as the kids would call it these days. So I don't believe his version
00:30:45.620
of events at all. But even if he's telling the truth, which he almost certainly isn't,
00:30:50.260
doxxing a random person in this environment is not justified. You could get somebody killed.
00:30:55.240
And this dude obviously doesn't care if he does. But this brings to mind the whole Karen meme,
00:31:02.700
which increasingly has become an excuse to intimidate and harass random white women.
00:31:07.560
It is, from what I've seen recently, it's taken a very aggressive turn. And it's become,
00:31:15.300
you know, it's not just laughing about, you know, a middle-aged white woman who's
00:31:19.000
calling the manager, or I want to speak to your manager. It's not just that. Now it's,
00:31:23.220
let's dox them. Let's harass them. Let's get them on tape. Let's, let's, you know,
00:31:28.440
accuse them of racism, try to ruin their lives. That's what's happening now. And here's my question.
00:31:35.480
Because the, the, I guess, insinuation is that the very fact that a woman is a middle-aged white
00:31:42.680
woman is justification in itself to treat her this way. But here's my question. Would it be considered
00:31:49.380
appropriate to take a stereotypical female name in another race and make a negative meme out of it?
00:31:57.760
You know, what if somebody mocked a, what if a white person mocked a non-white woman
00:32:03.660
by calling her a name that the mocker thinks is typical of women of that race?
00:32:10.020
Would that be considered funny? Just a good bit of fun? Just a fun meme we can all laugh about?
00:32:15.800
No, of course not. Of course not. It'd be, it'd be, it would be racist. It would be widely condemned.
00:32:21.840
In fact, someone who did that would, they would lose their job. They would lose their livelihood.
00:32:26.940
It's not just that people would be offended. It's not just about that anymore. It's never just that now.
00:32:34.420
If someone took the Karen thing, which for white middle-aged white women, it's, it's funny and
00:32:39.240
hilarious and let's all laugh about it. And if they did the same thing for a non-white woman,
00:32:43.160
they, they would lose their job. They would lose that. Their lives would be destroyed because of it.
00:32:50.080
And we all know that. So then why is this okay? I mean, really, why can you think of any reason
00:32:58.100
why the one should be not okay, but this should be okay? Is there any, can you come up with it?
00:33:05.060
Can you come up with any defense of this double standard short of just saying it's okay to be racist
00:33:10.100
against white people? That, that of course is the real answer. That's the honest answer.
00:33:16.280
So it's a double standard. And, and, and for, for those two reasons, I think it deserves to be
00:33:19.560
canceled. This is a struggle for me. Uh, this kind of thing I admit, because as I said, I have,
00:33:24.600
I have laughed about this joke at first I thought was kind of funny. I've laughed about it myself.
00:33:29.500
Um, and used it myself, but, and, and, and the thing is I'm not offended by stereotypical jokes.
00:33:38.680
Stereotypes don't offend me. I think most of the time stereo, the reason why it's a stereotype is
00:33:44.760
that it's rooted in truth. I've never heard a stereotype that is completely off base and has
00:33:50.700
no truth to it whatsoever. Maybe that stereotype exists. I just haven't heard it, but I personally,
00:33:56.160
I can't think of one, every stereotype, there's some truth to it. So the Karen thing, yeah,
00:34:01.260
there's some truth. Not, not every middle-aged white woman is like that, but, uh, there is a
00:34:05.660
certain stereotype of that sort of person who calls the manager, doesn't mind her own business,
00:34:10.940
so on and so forth. That, that does exist, right? So that's where the stereotype, stereotype comes
00:34:14.400
from. It doesn't offend me personally. If people make stereotypical jokes, I don't care. So I'm fine
00:34:20.260
with that. And I can laugh about it, but then there's the double standard of it too,
00:34:23.980
because I know with this kind of joke, even though it doesn't offend me, although now I'm
00:34:29.980
uncomfortable with the aggressiveness of it. So that would be enough reason in and of itself,
00:34:33.940
even without the double standard to cancel it. But even though I'm not personally offended by it,
00:34:39.380
I still don't like the double standard. And so that's always the struggle when, you know,
00:34:45.500
with the left, when it's, with its double standards, when, when, when, when people on the
00:34:49.160
left are doing and saying things that don't actually offend you, but you know, that if you
00:34:56.060
said that to them, they would break down in tears. That's the struggle because you think,
00:35:03.440
well, I don't want to act like I'm offended by something I'm not. And I don't want to act like
00:35:06.240
them. But at the same time, I don't know what am I supposed to just allow this double standard to
00:35:10.940
continue. So that's the balance that I haven't quite figured out how to strike. But I do know
00:35:19.200
that, that, that, that, you know, just, just allowing double standards without calling them
00:35:22.740
out is, uh, is not the right approach. And I think we've, I think we've tolerated it for far too long.
00:35:29.460
And I think that's what we have to settle on. Even if you're not personally offended by something,
00:35:34.040
when it comes down to it, we're not playing this game. We can't play this game.
00:35:37.280
If something is racist, it's racist. Period. If it's racist against someone of another race,
00:35:44.260
then it's racist against white people. That's, that's it. Even if I don't personally think it is
00:35:49.300
that if that's the rule now, then that's the rule has to be applied to everyone.
00:35:55.240
All right. So that's canceled and, uh, we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching everybody.
00:36:33.020
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