Ep. 515 - The BLM Fraud
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Black Lives Matter is a far-left political group with left-wing political goals. It s not concerned at all with preserving black life. Today, we re going to talk about that today. We re also talking about 5 headlines including mentally unbalanced college students saying they are too traumatized to return to school because of a tweet about George Floyd, and some Jimmy John s employees were fired for making an allegedly racist video.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Black Lives Matter is a far-left political group with
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far-left political goals. It's really that simple. It's not concerned at all with preserving black
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life. We're going to talk about that today. We're going to talk about what Black Lives Matter
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actual agenda is, because I think that's important. Also, five headlines, including
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mentally unbalanced college students saying that they are too traumatized to return to school
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because one of the students at the school tweeted a joke about George Floyd, and now they're too
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scared to go back. This is real. We'll talk about that. And some Jimmy John's employees were fired
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for making an allegedly racist video. The only problem is that there's nothing racist in the
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video at all, yet they've been fired anyway and smeared as racist. So all of that on the way.
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Cruz last night on his alleged news program. Terry Cruz is an actor, TV host, TV personality,
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also a black man who has had the courage to speak out in recent weeks about the real threats that
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are faced by the black community. Cruz's point has been that the police are not the main problem by
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a long shot. If we're going to talk about Black Lives Matter, we need to talk about all of the black
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victims of violence, most of whom are victims of violence perpetrated by other black men. That's
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the reality. Now, Don Lemon doesn't like that. He doesn't want to talk about that. Don Lemon is
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generally opposed to integrity and intellectual courage in all its forms. So if he sees that,
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he's going to have a problem with it, especially now. So here is Lemon explaining his point of view.
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Really, it should be Terry Cruz explaining his point of view because he's the one on for the
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interview. But instead, it's Don Lemon explaining his point of view, and it's extremely revealing.
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I think. Listen to this. The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about
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police brutality. If you want an all Black Lives Matter movement that talks about gun violence
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in communities, including, you know, black communities, then start that movement with
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that name. But that's not what Black Lives Matter is about. It's not an all-encompassing.
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So if you're talking about, if someone started a movement that said,
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cancer matters, and then someone comes in and says, why aren't you talking about HIV? It's not
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the same thing. We're talking about cancer. So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police
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brutality and injustice in that manner, not about what's happening in black neighborhoods.
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If you, there are people who are working on that issue. And if you want to start that issue,
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why don't you start it? Do you understand what I'm saying?
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But when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they're talking
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about. I know that. I agree. But that's not what the Black Lives Matter movement is about, Terry.
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Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice. It's not about
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what happens in communities when it comes to crime, black on black crime. People who live near each
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other, black people kill each other. Same as whites. Eighty-some percent of white people
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are killed by white people because of proximity. It's the same thing with black people. It happens
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in every single neighborhood. But that doesn't, again, I'm not saying that's not important that
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Lemon seems to really be struggling there with the concept of an interview,
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because normally an interview is a thing where you ask questions to the interviewee and then you
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give him a chance to answer. That's what the interview is supposed to be. Instead, Lemon
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pontificates and then continues pontificating even as the interviewee is trying to respond.
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That's the way Lemon handles this. No wonder CNN's ratings have taken a dive ever since people
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stopped going to airports because they didn't have the captive audience anymore. Who would ever
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actually choose to watch this in their own home on their own time? That's what I don't understand.
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But what he says there is illustrative, I think. He actually says, now you heard it for yourself.
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I'm not exaggerating. This isn't hyperbole or misquoting. He actually says that Black Lives
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Matter does not mean all Black Lives Matter. He actually says that. So forget all lives matter.
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We know we're not supposed to say that. It isn't even all Black Lives Matter, according to Don Lemon.
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It's only about the very, very, very small percentage of Black people who are killed by police.
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That's all we're talking about. They're the ones we're supposed to be focused on, according to Don
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Lemon. Now, the problem for Lemon is that BLM has a website where it outlines its mission statement and
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the things that it's concerned about and fighting for. It's guiding beliefs and principles. And what you
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find there is an extremely wide range of issues, not just police brutality. That is not the exclusive
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focus of Black Lives Matter at all. It also, by the way, literally says all Black Lives Matter.
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It identifies that as one of its guiding principles from the website. It says, we are guided by the fact
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that all Black Lives Matter. Direct quote from BLM's website. So contra Lemon, BLM does in fact claim
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that it's representing all Black Lives and it's fighting for all Black Lives. Now, it doesn't
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actually do that, not even close. But it does claim that that is its mission and its motivation.
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And that's the point that Terry Crews and many others are trying to make if you let them speak
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without talking over them. If you say Black Lives Matter, and you say that's what you're fighting
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for, then what about all these Black Lives over here, these lives that are being destroyed on a
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daily basis? How can you ignore them if you're fighting for all Black Lives? At least five children
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were killed just this past weekend in our cities. I think actually it was six children. An eight-year-old
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was killed in Atlanta, shot while she was in her car. A 13-year-old was killed in a carjacking
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in California. 16-year-old was shot in the face in Rochester. More than a dozen other people were
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shot in Rochester over the weekend. Nine people were shot in Baltimore. 69 were shot, 16 killed in
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Chicago. 25 were shot in Atlanta. This is all in one weekend. One weekend of activity.
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Thousands of Black people are murdered every year. And in some weekends, as we see, you have dozens
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in a span of 24 hours or 48 hours. Over 7,000 Black people were killed in the year 2018, for example.
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And Black people are murdered at a rate six times higher. According to DOJ statistics,
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Black people are murdered at a rate six times higher than white people. Six times. But over 90%
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of those murders are carried out by people in their own communities and of their own race. That's the
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reality. And it is just the absolute height of absurdity and fraudulence to have a Black Lives
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Matter movement that ignores all of this. Especially when you consider all of the other things besides
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police brutality that BLM focuses on. And I want to go through some of those things in just a second.
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let me read their mission statement to you, okay, right from their website. It says,
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we are guided by the fact that all black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual
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identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious
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beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status or location. We make space for transgender brothers
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and sisters to participate and lead. We are self-reflexive and do the work required to
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dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift black trans folks, especially black trans women who
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continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans antagonistic violence. We build a space that affirms
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black women and is free from sexism, misogyny and environments in which men are centered.
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We practice empathy. We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their
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contexts, to learn about and connect with their contexts. You know, I just want to connect with
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your context. That sounds vaguely sexual, doesn't it? It sounds very euphemistic.
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We make our spaces family friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children.
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We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work double shifts so that they can
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mother in private, even as they participate in public justice work. We disrupt the Western prescribed
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nuclear family structure by supporting each other as extended families and villages that collectively care
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for one another. We foster a queer affirming network. When we do, we do so with the intention of freeing
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ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather the belief that all in the
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world are heterosexual. We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism.
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We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.
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Okay. So, and that's just part of it. Okay. So we're talking about trans people. We're talking
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about, actually, we're talking about an awful lot about trans people for some reason. We're talking
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about sexism. We're talking about the patriarchy. We're talking about unfair working conditions. We're
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talking about ageism. We're talking about disrupting the nuclear family. We're talking about getting rid of
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heteronormative thinking. We're talking about cisgender privilege. And then elsewhere on the
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website, it also says they're focused on environmental injustice, economic injustice, access to healthcare,
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access to quality education, voting rights, voter suppression. So that's like 14 things, I think,
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14 or 15. And that's just a sampling. It is a veritable cornucopia of issues that they are
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talking about. Mostly far left issues, often extremely far left issues. Dismantling the nuclear family,
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heteronormative thinking. This is far, far, far, far left. A bunch of stuff that you'd expect a white girl
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girl in a gender studies class to care about. If you polled the average black person in America,
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if you had a thousand black people polled at random, do you think that they would cite these
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as high priorities in their lives? Are these the things they're waking up worried about and focused on?
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Cisgender privilege and heteronormative thinking? The average black person, if you were to ask them,
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you know, what are the things that are most important to you? How many are going to say
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dismantling cisgender privilege? How many of the average white person is going to answer that way?
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The answer is almost none. Now, I haven't conducted this poll, but that's, I think, a very fair
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assumption. Because these are the goals and desires and priorities of far left political activists.
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And yet, amid all of these issues, despite the extremely wide lens that BLM is using here,
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they can't make room anywhere on the website to even mention the problem of black children being
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slaughtered in the street by criminals. They've got time to talk about cisgender privilege.
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Somehow, cisgender privilege is a bigger affront to black lives and to the dignity of black life
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than black children being killed in the street in carjackings. They have no space for that. They
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have no space for the thousands of other black people who are killed every year. They don't mention
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it. It doesn't come up anywhere, ever. The sad fact of the matter is that Black Lives Matter is a very
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necessary message. Because black lives are indeed devalued and discarded on a routine basis in this
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country. But that devaluing and that discarding is happening almost all of the time in the vast, vast
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majority of cases within the black community itself. There is no getting around that.
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And the murder rate is not the only evidence of that. I want you to watch this video. I'm going to
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play this for you. And it's gone sort of viral over the past few days. It's actually from, I think,
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2019. And it shows a young black guy with two other young black people in the car. One of them is
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his sister, apparently, and then someone else. And he's flaunting his guns. And he's saying that
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he's going to kill a cop if he gets pulled over. Just watch this.
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My s*** on my lap next to the Jake's like, and I got my sister.
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Stop playing. I'm going to kill him. He ain't a mad self. What we going to do to him?
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You do it. F*** the Jake. He don't want to look. He's scared. You better match him. What a f***ing
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bitch. I'm going to kill you right here. Okay, now think about what you just saw there. That is a
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young guy who is apparently totally willing to throw his own life away for no reason.
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He's, according to his own words, he is prepared to die for no reason. He's ready to shoot at a cop,
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instigate a fatal encounter. The best case scenario, go to jail for the rest of his life
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for no reason. Just, you know, why not? No reason other than bravado and acting out the stuff that
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he hears in songs like the one that's playing in the background during the video. Black Lives Matter,
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yeah, they do. But tell him that. He doesn't know that, that guy. And I'm sure he would shout the
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slogan. But he doesn't even think his own life matters. His own life. He is, this is a self-imposed
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devaluing of his own life that he is doing. He's willing to die just because, just to impress
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some people on Instagram or Facebook, wherever that video was streaming.
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This is the same attitude that Rayshard Brooks had. He instigated a fatal encounter with cops for,
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just why? Because he didn't want to go to jail for, because, you know, he was, he was going to go to
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jail for a DUI. Okay, well, now, now best case scenario, you've just, you've just gone from,
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you're getting a DUI charge to about seven other felony charges. That's best case scenario if you
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survive, which he didn't. That's Rayshard Brooks, who did not think his own life mattered. Certainly
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not enough to take basic steps to preserve his own life. And this is the attitude that cops in the city
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run up against all the time. It is a very noxious and virulent kind of nihilism, which treats violence
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and even death as a game. And this is what cops are confronting in the inner cities across the
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country. If your Black Lives Matter movement is, if you're, the cops are confronting this. If your
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Black Lives Matter movement is not confronting this and not addressing it and not fighting against it
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and not exposing it, then your Black Lives Matter movement is nothing but a fraud, nothing but a
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front, which is what BLM is. Now, I want you to imagine, just think about for a moment
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the situation that the average black child in this, in the, you know, the average inner city
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is facing. Okay, he's growing up in a home without a father. He listens to music and consumes media that
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explicitly glorifies and advocates violence, murder, and crime. And, you know, of course,
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it's like, it's cliche to even talk about that or cliche, but also, I guess, racist to talk about
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that or, you know, it's offensive somehow. But this is the stuff that kids in the city, not just in the
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city, across the country, are listening to, is it? Openly advocating. Say, oh yeah, go out and get
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yourself killed. So, no father in the home, consuming media that explicitly glorifies and
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advocates violence, crime, and murder. Living in a community where murder is a daily occurrence.
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In Chicago, it is a daily occurrence. In Baltimore, it's a daily occurrence. Drug dealers rule the streets.
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That's the situation he's in. What honest person could look at that and decide that the police are the
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biggest problem? You really think for that black child that the biggest problem for him is the police?
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That's where all this goes back? That's the source of most of his troubles? That's the thing most likely
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to kill him? No. Not even close. So, the whole thing is ludicrous. And it is, it's a shame that,
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you know, that there is, that there is something called the Black Lives Matter movement that doesn't
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actually care about black lives because we could, we could use a real Black Lives Matter movement.
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Let's go to headlines. So, a couple weeks ago, a student at Kansas State, Jaden McNeil, tweeted a joke
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about George Floyd. The tweet said, congratulations to George Floyd on being drug free for an entire
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month. Okay, that was the joke. Edgy joke. Okay, it's the kind of thing that, at the absolute most,
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a joke like that warrants a sort of a, hey man, too soon, or something like that. At least that's how
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normal, sane, well-adjusted, mentally balanced adults respond to offensive jokes. Whoa, hey,
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that's the most that an offensive joke should ever get out of you. Whoa, like that.
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And then you move on with your life, and you forget about it. Because hopefully, there are,
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I mean, quite literally, a billion other things in your life that are more important to you than
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the joke that you just heard or saw on Twitter. But we happen to live in a country that is home to
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lots of people who are not sane, not well-adjusted, and not mentally balanced. And this is doubly,
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triply, quadruply true in our colleges. So, this tweet provoked an enormous reaction with students
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panicking over it. And the administration of the school treating it, well, just look at these
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statements that were frantically sent out by the administration on the day of the tweet.
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The day of the tweet. The day that will live in infamy because of the tweet. This is Thomas Lane,
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Dean of Students. This is what he said. For those impacted by this incident, please know there are
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supportive resources available, including the Office of Student Life, Counseling Services, and
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K-State Diversity. Okay. This sounds like there was a school shooting. That supportive resources for
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those impacted, that's the kind of thing you hear after a shooting. But there was no shooting. Nobody
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was killed. Nobody was injured. Nothing happened to anybody. Nobody was hurt in any way whatsoever.
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There was a tweet. What would it even sound like to go and seek resources because of a tweet? I just
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want to know what that exchange, when a student goes into the Office of Student Life, what are they
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saying? Yes, hi, I saw the tweet. Please help. Please help me. I saw the tweet. I saw the tweet.
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Something like that, I imagine. And then here's a message from the school president. A message from
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President Richard Meyer says, the insensitive comments posted by one K-State student hurts our
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entire community. These divisive statements do not represent the values of our university. We
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condemn racism and bigotry in all its forms. We are launching an immediate review of the university's
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options. Black Lives Matter at Kansas State University, and we will continue to fight for social
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justice. Hurts the community? How exactly? Can you explain that one, Prez? I mean, it's in specific
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detail. I want you to walk me through the steps. Okay, step one, somebody tweets a joke about George
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Floyd. And then there are a few more steps, and then someone is hurt. Like, what happens? How does that
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tweet become a thing that is hurting someone, and in what way are they hurt by it? That's what I want
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to understand. Also, by the way, why is it just assumed that this is racist? It's an attack against
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an individual named George Floyd. You could say it's in poor taste. You could use all kinds of
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different adjectives. How is it automatically racist? If George Floyd was white and the exact
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same joke was told that, well, then I guess it wouldn't be racist, then you would just, you would
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say it was in poor taste. It's personally offensive to George Floyd and his family. That's what you
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would say. You wouldn't say it was racist. So anyway, that was over a week ago, and the traumatized
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students still have not recovered from this. They haven't gotten over it. Here's an article on
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KansasCity.com. Let me pull, I just have to read some of this too. The headline is, I am totally
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scared. Black students dread return to Kansas State after racist tweets. We just have to pause
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right there. Dread return after tweet. It says, Mikella Ross, a Kansas City, a Kansas State University
00:27:39.120
sophomore, went to her internship boss at Exxon Mobil last week and told him, I'm scared to go
00:27:45.080
back to school. She wanted him to know why she couldn't concentrate on work. She was preoccupied
00:27:51.520
checking in with schoolmates after a K-State student's racially insensitive tweets about George
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Floyd offended students of color and drew support from national white supremacist groups.
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I'm not scared to speak out. I'm scared of the unknown, said Ross. I feel like the K-State
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environment is hostile and not welcoming to black students, and our administration has
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not taken actionable measures against racist incidents that have happened there. And this
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is not the first one. In an unscientific student poll on Twitter, 124 of the approximately 700
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black students on the Manhattan campus responded to the question, do you feel safe on campus?
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About 80% said, no, they don't. And I can't even continue reading this. I just, this is,
00:28:35.040
this is mental illness. Okay. If you sincerely cannot concentrate on work and you have to talk
00:28:45.580
to your boss about it and you're traumatized and you're actually scared to go back to school
00:28:52.440
because a kid tweeted something that you have a mental illness. You have psychological problems
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that are much deeper than, than any, any tweet can touch. Yes, you do need counseling. That's the
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thing. That's, that's the one thing I actually agree with this stuff from the school of us. If you need
00:29:13.600
counseling, yeah, all, all of these students that are traumatized, they all need counseling,
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but not because of the tweet. Just how do you function as a human being when, when you are that
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fragile that, that a tweet that someone sent could make you, could incapacitate you.
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And on top of that, it's, it's, it's like, it's a tweet and 99% of the people reacting to it
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are not just condemning it, but are over the top condemning it.
00:29:52.800
So it's not even like you can say you, you, you feel ganged up on or, or everyone, it's a tweet
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was sent. It's a tweet. Everybody is saying is a horrible tweet. It's the worst.
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Is that not enough? Is that, is that not enough condemnation?
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If a million people react to something and all, but like three of them are condemning it,
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is that still, you need the other three too in order to function again as a person? It's just,
00:30:26.100
Let's go to number two here. And now the great hero, the great martyr, Colin Kaepernick
00:30:29.860
has met the fate that all great martyrs meet, which is a partnership deal with Disney.
00:30:34.140
Here's Kaepernick saying, I'm excited for this partnership with Disney across all of its
00:30:37.680
platforms to elevate black and Brown directors, creators, storytellers, and producers.
00:30:41.780
I look forward to sharing culturally impactful and inspiring projects. This is, this is, you know,
00:30:47.880
I, I can never cease to be impressed and, and just be an admiration of Colin Kaepernick
00:30:55.300
and his heroism and self-sacrifice. I want you to think about
00:31:02.740
a job as the mediocre second string quarterback for a losing franchise. He gave that up and all he
00:31:12.820
got in return was multimillion dollar partnership deals with some of the biggest corporations on
00:31:18.820
earth and widespread media claim. That's all he got. That's it. I mean, all he got was way more
00:31:27.620
money, fame, and admiration than he had before. Amazing. A true martyr. I mean, this is what
00:31:33.820
martyrdom is. Number three, now an important story from the Daily Caller. It says a German
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man was hospitalized Saturday after he was dared to lick a venomous snake during his bachelor party
00:31:47.580
in the Australian Alps. After the incident was reported, a mountain rescue operations team
00:31:51.960
and a doctor recalled on the 30 year old man was taken to a nearby hospital. Um, the local Red
00:31:57.980
Cross organization stated the man was bit on the tongue after fellow party goers dared him to lick
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the snake. You know, at least this is one vestige of toxic masculinity that we still have.
00:32:10.980
And I cherish it. That, that men will still do almost anything. If you just say, I dare you to do it.
00:32:21.020
That's, that's the one thing. And I think we have to, we have to hang on to that at all costs. Uh,
00:32:25.680
now a report from the Daily Wire. Uh, it says actress Halle Berry apologized and backed out of
00:32:35.060
potentially playing a transgender character in a film after she received fierce backlash online for
00:32:39.900
considering the role as a cisgender woman. According to Harper's Bazaar, Berry told fans
00:32:44.520
via Instagram live that she was up for consideration to play a transgender man in an upcoming film until
00:32:49.040
she received a flood of criticism, scolding her for taking a role from someone who identifies as
00:32:53.420
transgender. Um, and so she's not going to do that anymore, but, but so this is a, she was supposed
00:33:00.140
to play a transgender man. So in other words, a female, this is a female who was going to play a
00:33:07.520
female and that is appropriation. Okay. It makes a lot of sense. And finally, a report from the AP,
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uh, it says New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing
00:33:21.540
homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial now scrap policy, according to state
00:33:25.780
officials. But so we knew this was happening. We didn't know the extent of it. Now they're saying
00:33:31.960
6,300 infected people were sent into nursing homes, but they argued it was, they are not to blame for
00:33:40.740
one of the nation's highest nursing home, uh, death tolls. What they're saying is it's the, um, it's the
00:33:45.880
staffers who, uh, who were infected. They're blaming the staffers just, just to summarize their
00:33:53.580
rationalization. They're saying it's not their fault. Yes. They sent infected people by mandate,
00:33:59.460
by order into nursing homes, into the, into the places where the most vulnerable people are
00:34:05.600
not their fault though. No, they're blaming the staffers. Just the hubris is almost unbelievable.
00:34:16.380
All right. We're going to go to our daily cancellation, but before we do, you know,
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this past weekend, we witnessed a complete and total mockery of our country and the founding
00:34:24.100
principles it was built on. And no, I'm not talking about president Trump's speech. I'm
00:34:27.520
talking about the media response to it. It's just the complete and total sham that's called
00:34:31.280
journalism nowadays. Um, this horror show from the left is exactly the kind of thing that Ben
00:34:35.720
Shapiro talks about in his new book, how to destroy America in three easy steps. You can pre-order
00:34:40.100
your signed copy at dailywire.com slash Ben. The book covers two fundamentally different visions for
00:34:45.880
America that we're facing right now. This is a very important book for the, for our time, for this,
00:34:51.000
for this current moment in our culture. Um, one vision finds unity and shared philosophy, culture,
00:34:56.100
and history. The other disintegrates our country in the name of fundamental change. Um, hence
00:35:01.180
disintegrationists. These are the people who use weapons like cancel culture and forced apologies to
00:35:05.960
advance their agenda. Shapiro covers all of this ground and more in his book, how to destroy
00:35:10.520
America in three easy steps. Again, you can pre-order your signed copy of dailywire.com slash Ben to
00:35:15.560
get the perfect snapshot of this strange moment in our history. Now, speaking of strange moments in
00:35:22.540
our history, this is a, another, another hallmark of this moment is, um, the, what we do now of sharing
00:35:31.160
out of context videos of people maliciously in order to destroy them. And this is, this is our daily
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cancellation. I will be canceling with great prejudice. Everyone who maliciously shares out
00:35:41.620
of context videos in an attempt to ruin the lives of usually just random people who are, you know,
00:35:47.760
random private people. And, and despite not having all the facts, we're obviously at a crisis level with
00:35:55.440
this kind of thing that happens all the time. There are two recent examples I want to talk about
00:35:59.640
briefly. Um, so first we have some kids who worked for Jimmy Johns who've now been fired and publicly
00:36:06.720
shamed all over the internet and the media, uh, for an admittedly quite dumb video that they did take
00:36:12.340
themselves and share themselves. But, um, it's a video with, with, uh, one of them has a noose made
00:36:19.560
out of, uh, bread dough around his neck. And anyway, here's, here's the video.
00:36:25.120
Now the claim, like in this tweet here from Nick Pappas and by so many others is that this is racist.
00:36:47.640
It's a racist video. This was done to mock the lynching of black Americans. That's what we're told.
00:36:55.520
But that's not actually what you see in the video, is it? There is nothing racial in the video.
00:37:03.080
Yeah. Is, is there, was there another video? Is there more context to this
00:37:07.180
that gives us some evidence that this was racially motivated? I don't know. We haven't seen it.
00:37:13.180
Nobody's mentioned it. Yes. They're making a joke out of a noose, which is macabre humor and also an
00:37:21.900
unsanitary use of a food product, which is really the only thing I'm offended by in the video.
00:37:25.920
But how is it racist? And it really matters because if these are just some kids being stupid
00:37:34.360
and misusing a food product and being unsanitary and making a macabre joke out of like suicide or
00:37:41.820
something, well, then we would all say that's stupid. And yeah, they're going to get fired
00:37:45.740
because they took the video and they put it up. And again, they're, you know, you can't do that with
00:37:49.780
the food. So any company is going to fire you for that. But if that's all it was, their whole lives
00:37:57.440
aren't going to be destroyed probably because of it. But you attach the word racist to it and you say
00:38:03.880
that they're making fun of black people being lynched. Well, now not only do they lose their Jimmy
00:38:10.180
John's job, their whole lives are destroyed. They're forever going to be the insanely racist
00:38:16.760
people who are making fun of, you know, lynching black people. So it really matters whether or not
00:38:25.280
this was racist. And there's no evidence of that. The only evidence apparently is just that they were
00:38:33.480
making a joke out of a noose, out of a fake noose. But since when did a noose become a universal sign
00:38:40.080
of racism? Nooses and hanging have been used across the world everywhere, you know, as, as, as
00:38:48.280
in order to kill people. This is, and it's also the most, one of the most common forms of suicide.
00:38:55.360
So this is something that we're watching the media and the left do right now in real time.
00:38:59.300
They're taking the noose and they're, they're just, they're making it into a white supremacist
00:39:04.500
symbol, even though it isn't. And it never has been. They're just, they're making it into that.
00:39:11.880
It's just like they did with the okay sign. Oh, and I just did that. So now watch,
00:39:15.960
this is going to be on media matters now. Um, that symbol, which, which for, I don't know,
00:39:22.300
decades meant a okay good or something like that. The media made it into a white supremacist symbol.
00:39:29.300
And if you remember, there was a guy and now people are getting fired, even if they just
00:39:33.500
inadvertently make that a guy, a Hispanic truck driver made that inadvertently did that while
00:39:40.560
he was cracking his knuckles. He was kind of like going like this and he got fired as a suspected
00:39:44.740
white supremacist. So now the media is doing that with this as well. Um, and these are, these are real
00:39:52.360
people whose lives are being destroyed and nobody cares. And then there's this video, which, uh,
00:39:59.340
according to people like David Levitt shows quote, ignorant Florida man without mask screams and
00:40:05.180
spread spit at elderly woman who asked him to please wear a mask. And the man who defended her
00:40:09.920
because quote, he feels threatened. That's the description of the video. Sounds pretty bad.
00:40:14.840
Uh, here's the actual video. Okay. Wait a second. Almost nothing in the description that I just read
00:40:38.940
to you is actually shown in that video. Yes. A guy is screaming. Yes. He says he feels threatened,
00:40:45.540
but there's no elderly woman in sight. There's no discussion about masks.
00:40:51.680
Um, you don't see in this video, a man being politely asked to wear a mask by an elderly,
00:40:57.840
elderly woman, and then him freaking out in response. That's not what you see. You see a man
00:41:04.420
freaking out. That's the part you see. You don't see what led up to it. You don't see the context.
00:41:09.980
In fact, in the video, in this clip, anyway, the thing that he's upset about is being filmed and
00:41:15.160
publicly shamed. That's the thing he's, he's mad about, which on that note, I don't blame him for that.
00:41:23.720
Um, now maybe the rest of what David Levitt says did happen, but that's not what you see in the video.
00:41:31.380
And so what happens now is we get these out of context videos. Um, and almost always what we see
00:41:38.820
is someone reacting to something and then the people sharing it just fill in the blanks and tell
00:41:47.380
you and tell you what, what led up to that reaction. And very few people stop to say, okay, can we see
00:41:55.520
that part of it? How do we know that what your description of the off camera stuff actually
00:42:01.640
happen? And by the way, why was this video clipped that way there in that video, there's obviously
00:42:09.340
more to it. It cuts on in the middle of something. It's pretty clear that there's, you know, I don't
00:42:15.500
know. Is there five seconds more? Is there 10 minutes? I don't know. But for some reason,
00:42:20.760
someone decided to cut out the rest of it and just show us that part. Why? Maybe there's an
00:42:25.500
innocent explanation, but maybe not. This is the game though. And it's, and I'm, I don't know if
00:42:34.020
this is what happened here, but we also know the game among some agitators is to provoke a reaction
00:42:40.100
out of somebody and get the reaction on tape and then make up a story about what led up to that
00:42:47.220
reaction to try to destroy the person. We saw that. I think we played that video of a black guy who
00:42:55.600
said that he, he tracked down a woman who had shouted a racial slur at him. And, and, and, you
00:43:00.800
know, the only thing we see in the video is her outside of her home because she had been followed
00:43:05.180
back to her house by the guy. And she was scared because a man just followed her back to her house.
00:43:12.720
So I think she has every right to be scared. And we get him filling in the blanks and just
00:43:17.320
claiming that she, that he, she used the racial slur, which even if she did, that wouldn't justify
00:43:23.180
you following her back to her house, but we don't see that part. And that's the game. So everybody who
00:43:29.640
shares these kinds of videos uncritically, um, and with the malicious intent to randomly destroy
00:43:36.800
people they don't know who were involved in a confrontation that they know nothing about and
00:43:42.980
the context of which they are, they are ignorant, all of those people are all canceled and we'll
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leave it there. Thanks for watching everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.
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Hey everyone, it's Andrew Klavan, host of the Andrew Klavan Show. In a horrifying but revelatory
00:44:36.580
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00:44:41.920
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