Ep. 521 - Cowardice Fuels The Cancel Culture
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The cancel culture mob feeds on cowardice. This is what we have to understand: the more that people bow to the mob, the more it will grow in size and strength. So we ll talk about some recent examples of egregious cowardice in the face of the mob and where that all leads. Also, five headlines including an alleged rape case at a university that proves what a sham consent rules are on the modern college campus. And today in our daily cancellation we re going to discuss the blatantly racist anti-white comments made by the bigot Nick Cannon.
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, the cancel culture mob feeds on cowardice. This is what we have to
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understand. The more that people bow to the mob, the more it will grow in size and strength. So
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we'll talk about some very recent examples of egregious cowardice in the face of the mob
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and where that all leads. Also, five headlines, including an alleged rape case at a university
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that proves what a sham consent rules are on the modern college campus. And today in our
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daily cancellation, we're going to discuss, of course, the blatantly racist anti-white comments
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made by the bigot Nick Cannon. But he wasn't fired for those comments. He was fired for another
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Well, the conversation about cancel culture usually focuses on the mean bullies in the mob who prowl the
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earth, seeking souls to devour and wrong opinions to punish. And they are, yes, the primary villains,
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but they aren't the only ones who keep the cancel culture mill churning. Cowards, though they are so
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often the victims of the cancel culture, also embolden the mob and they perpetuate the problem.
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The story of cancel culture is a story of the gutless legions pouring fuel on the very fire
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that consumes them. So cowardice is the real problem. I'll give you a few recent examples,
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probably not necessary to give examples, but I will anyway, because they are instructive. Last week,
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a high-ranking executive at Boeing, his name is Neil Golightly, which you couldn't ask for a more
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fitting name than that. He resigned from his position and issued a groveling apology after
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an employee complained about an article that he had written three decades ago. And in the article,
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he argues that women should not have a place in combat roles in the military. Now, in the editorial,
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which has apparently been causing this employee untold trauma for 30 years, Golightly stated that
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introducing women into combat may interfere with male, quote, cohesion, morale, efficiency,
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and aggressiveness. And he doubted whether, quote, women and men can adapt emotionally to the socially
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radical step of fighting side by side. Now, he now calls these comments offensive and embarrassing
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and apologizes for them and is stepping down in disgrace. Of course, they were not offensive or wrong.
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He was entirely correct. And I suspect he still knows that he was correct. He's just pretending
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otherwise. Also last week, the actress Halle Berry begged for forgiveness after it was revealed that
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she might play a, quote, trans man in an upcoming film. Following the standard apology script in these
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situations, Berry said in a statement, as a cisgender woman, I now understand that I should not have
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considered this role and that the transgender community should undeniably have the opportunity to
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tell their own stories. I am grateful for the guidance and critical conversation over the past
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few days and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But it wasn't a mistake. She said she's going to learn
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from her mistake. She didn't make a mistake. A transgender man is a female. Halle Berry is a female.
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Perfectly qualified for the role. But that shouldn't even matter. Because being qualified for the role of an
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actor is just a matter of, can you do a good job pretending to be that thing? The whole job of an actor is to
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pretend to be something that you aren't. If you're simply portraying what you already are,
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it's not acting by definition. So the attacks against her were preposterous on multiple levels,
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completely wrong, but she caved anyway without even really much hesitation. This week has seen
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even more egregious cases. Listen to these, okay? You just, you have to listen. Gary Garrels,
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a prominent curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, probably a guy being a curator at an
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art museum in San Francisco. I'm assuming a very liberal guy and probably not someone who ever thought
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he'd be the target of the liberal mob. But he has resigned and apologized after some staff members
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accused him of racism and started a petition denouncing his, quote, toxic white supremacist
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beliefs. Now you hear that and you think, wow, an art museum curator in San Francisco was a white
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supremacist? That's not exactly what you would expect. That's not exactly where you would expect
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to find Klan members. I don't know, not to be stereotypical. But what specifically were his
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toxic beliefs? White supremacist toxic beliefs. At a recent staff meeting, he said that the museum
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would, of course, trying to be diverse and everything, but they would still collect some
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art from white men. And he said he didn't want to commit reverse discrimination and disqualify
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artwork based on the color of an artist's skin. That's it. That's all he said.
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His position that he was taking there was obviously reasonable and completely right.
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Of course, you shouldn't refuse to display art from someone because they're white. That doesn't
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make any sense. The only bone that I would pick with his comments is that discrimination against
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whites isn't reverse discrimination. It's just discrimination. Racism against whites, the racism
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of Nick Cannon, for example, which we'll talk about later on in the show, that's not reverse racism.
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That's just racism. Reverse discrimination and reverse racism makes it sound like discrimination and
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racism is a white thing. And when someone is racist against a white person, they're reversing,
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they're taking the, you know, sort of giving the white people a dose of their own medicine.
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By putting the word reverse in there, you're almost excusing it implicitly. So that's the
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only bone I would pick. But other than that, his point was self-evidently true. Still, he left his
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position, which he had held for decades, offered a sincere and personal apology, offered this apology
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to the stupid, disgraceful crybabies on his staff. Only he didn't call them stupid, disgraceful crybabies
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as he should have. Instead, he validated their lunacy and their paranoid delusions by acting like he was
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somehow in the wrong. And for this contrition and this accountability, Geralt will no doubt be rewarded
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with shunning and ostracization, which is exactly what would have happened if he had just stuck to
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his guns and maintained his dignity in the first place. Finally, another example from this week.
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Okay. Most egregious example from this week, anyway, uh, a white business owner, although the
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week is, is yet still young, a white business owner in Seattle, Rachel Marshall published a long
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apology on Instagram, um, because she wore dreadlocks. Marshall, uh, it was, that's the
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sin. She's, she was wearing dreadlocks. Apparently, I guess she's, she's had dreadlocks for a long
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time and she has decided, realized, come to the conclusion, been convinced, um, by the offended
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masses that this was racist. She said she's going to get the dreads taken out as soon as she can.
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She said she's very sorry for the harm and pain that her hairdo caused to black people. And she
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also promised to hire diversity and equity representatives to teach her how to maintain a
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fair, equitable workplace. Now she doesn't explain how a hairstyle could have harmed anyone or caused
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anyone pain, let alone how it may have interfered with fairness and equality in the workplace. And she
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probably doesn't explain it because it's impossible to explain because it's nonsense.
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It's also worth noting here for the record, dreadlocks have been worn by many cultures for
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millennia. Many races, including the white race, have a tradition of wearing dreadlocks going back
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thousands of years. Yes, white people have been wearing dreadlocks for literally thousands of years.
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In fact, ancient Europeans were among the earliest to sport dreadlocks. Um, and no,
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I didn't know that off the top of my head. I actually had to look it up. This, this is what
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I've been reduced to because of all this madness. I had to look up the history of dreadlocks and
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sure enough, here you go. Black people did not invent the style. They don't own it. Even if they did
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invent it, which again, they didn't, they still wouldn't own it because that's not how style works.
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Styles and fashions change and evolve over time. Cultures are constantly in exchange with one
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another, um, importing and exporting different styles. A white German immigrant invented blue
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jeans. Nobody says that you have to be white or German to wear blue jeans. No one says that.
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So again, the offended mob is severely wrong on every level and in every way. Yet they get what they
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want. And their wrongness is validated by the people who should be flipping them the bird and
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telling them to piss off. Many excuses could be offered, of course, for the cowards that I just,
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uh, documented or the, any other, you know, any of the, the countless other cowards who have fallen
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to their knees and begged the mob's forgiveness for saying and doing things that are unobjectionable
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by any sane standard. Um, you could say their lives would be destroyed if they didn't,
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they had no choice, they had to comply, so on and so on. Now that may be true in some cases,
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although I think that probably the woman with the dreadlocks wasn't facing any life destroying
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consequences. And you'd think that an executive at Boeing would have the power and resources to
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stand firm without falling into bankruptcy and ruination. But, um, we, we have seen time and
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time again that the mob, if it wants to, will wreck your life, whether you apologize or not.
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Um, the apology doesn't seem to have any bearing on the penalty meted out. Sometimes, oftentimes,
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in fact, the, the mob will just move on and find something else to complain about, which is one of
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the, you know, which is one of the main reasons I've been saying forever, you come up against the
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outrage mob, just, just bide your time. Um, don't apologize. Just wait for them to forget about it and
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move on. Probably they will. Now, sometimes they don't, and they're really going to try to destroy you.
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But my point is, if they do that, it won't matter if you apologize or not. If they really smell blood
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in the water and decide that they're going to, they're going to just devour you, then rather
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than taking a couple of nibbles and moving on, then, uh, they, then they're going to do it. And
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there's, there's actually nothing you can say that's going to stop it. So you may as well
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maintain your dignity, uh, you, you may as well stand, stand firm and have some courage because
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you literally have nothing to lose. But even if some amount of financial and professional security
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could potentially be maintained by prostrating oneself and pleading for absolution, we still
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must have the courage to defy the mob and accept the consequences of that defiance. There is always
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a risk in being courageous. Of course, that's why we call it courageous, but the risk in continuing to
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grovel on command is far greater. The mob only grows in size, grows in power. It's thirst for vengeance
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and domination becomes even more insatiable over time and justice, rationality, liberty, and truth
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recede further into the background in our culture. The only way to stop this process, the only way,
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if it can be stopped at all at this point, is to stand firm. There is no other solution. There is no
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other way. Defy the mob, refuse to apologize to it, refuse to bend to its will, or watch as it takes
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and destroys everything. Those are the only two choices. And this is why when we're blaming people
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for the outrage mob, the cancel culture mob, one of the groups we must blame are many of the cowards
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who have been its victims. So yes, there is some victim blaming going on here. Absolutely.
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All right, let's move on to headlines. And I want to get to the daily cancellation as well,
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slash Walsh. Number one, I want to start with this very instructive case here. This was reported on
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the Daily Wires as a male student at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is suing after the school
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expelled him for sexual misconduct, even after evidence was presented that showed he was the
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victim. The student referred to as John Doe in court documents says in his lawsuit that he informed
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ERAU that he was too intoxicated to engage in sexual activity, and witness statements back him
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up. Yet the school relied on antiquated gender stereotypes about male sexuality to say his claim
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wasn't credible. So that's the introduction to the case. Here are some of the specifics.
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Jane and John Doe, no relation, let's hope, girl and guy on this college campus. I suspect that's
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not the real names. They've been texting for weeks. They meet up at a party, I think. John is 15 drinks
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in, okay, completely hammered. They go back to, I think it was his place, and they, you know, have,
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they have sexual relations. She initiates sexual contact with this extremely drunk man. Then she
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spends the night. The next morning she leaves. Later on, she decides that she was raped. Even though
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she never said during the sexual activity that she wanted to stop, or that she didn't consent.
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Never said that. She was a willing participant the entire time. And again, she was the initiator,
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actually, of this sexual activity. The school expels John. So now he's suing, and I hope that
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he bankrupts the school and takes every dime that it has. The standard of consent on college campuses
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is that drunk people cannot consent. And a great many men have been expelled or worse for having
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sex with drunk women. Now, here we have a woman having sex with a drunk man, and witnesses say,
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by the way, that she seemed fine and sober. He was the one that was, you know, completely gone.
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So by this standard, she is the rapist. She should have been expelled. He's the victim.
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Yet he gets the penalty. Now, in reality, of course, nobody is the victim here. Well,
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he is the victim now. He's a victim in a very serious way. A victim of a false rape claim,
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getting expelled for no reason. So he really is a victim. But in terms of the sexual encounter itself,
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nobody's a victim. When two people get together and willingly engage in sexual activity with one
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another, there is no rape. That's not rape. If you had one too many drinks or several too many drinks,
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that doesn't make it rape either. Because if it did, then the vast majority of all sexual contact
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on college campuses is rape. And often, both participants are raping each other.
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But the whole notion is just nonsensical and sick and wrong. But again, that's the standard
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established. Them's the rules. You know, yes, we could easily say that John also was a willing
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participant. He never said no. He never tried to leave. By any sane definition of the term,
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that's not rape. Again, both. If you have two willing participants in a sexual act,
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it's not rape. Rape by definition is when one participant is not willing and is forced to.
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That's rape. But that's normal, sane, rational standards. That's not the standard you have on
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college campuses. And by their standard, Jane should be expelled, not John. Now, introducing
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rational and sane standards, she should be expelled now, at least, for making the false rape claim.
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But even by, she should be expelled two times over, actually. What we see at work here is actually,
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as the article references, it's actually kind of an antiquated, chivalrous notion,
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where the man is more responsible in a sexual act than the woman is. And it's the man's job to
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protect the woman from herself. That's the way these issues are handled on college campuses.
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The man is responsible for a sexual act that the woman later regrets, even if he was the drunk one,
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and even if she was the initiator, and even if she was entirely willful the whole time.
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Which is to say that the woman is, what? Incompetent? Helpless? Not responsible for her
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own actions? That's the message being sent here. It's a very paternalistic, one might even say
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patriarchal message of a woman not being responsible for her own actions, and the man being penalized for
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not protecting her from her own self. Feminists should be up in arms about this, but of course,
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they're not. Number two, here's the headline from Pink News.
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UK's biggest cervical cancer charity shuts down disgustingly transphobic lie that only females
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get cervical cancer. Yes, they're transphobic lie. But by the way, in case you didn't know,
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dear audience, only a female has a cervix. So yes, only females can get cervical cancer.
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Typically, the way this works, and I'm not a doctor, I admit, but my understanding, anyway,
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is that you can only get cancer of a body part that you, you know, actually have.
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So that's one of the reasons why, funnily enough, I've never suffered a damage to my wing
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or a ruptured gill plate, you know, because I don't have those things. I've also never
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had canine distemper or feline leukemia. It's pretty amazing. The other day, I went to the
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doctor for a physical, and he came back and told me that, thank God, my elephant tusks are not
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infected. And I was pretty relieved by that. And then he explained that the reason they're not
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infected is because actually I don't have any. So that was pretty great. But remember, this is the
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pro-science side, okay? The side that holds the most anti-science position the modern world has
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ever seen. This is worse even than flat-eartherism. A lot of times we criticize anti-science or
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pseudoscience positions by saying, this is like saying the earth is flat. This is worse than saying
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the earth is flat. This is actually a lot worse. But this is the pro-science side. Remember that.
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It's important. Pro-science. Number three, I never thought I'd actually say this, but Terry Cruz for
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president. I actually think the president from idiocracy should be the real president.
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Unironically. Cruz, of course, has been in the news recently pushing back against the false
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narratives from BLM, which here is an example of courage in the face of the cancel mob. Okay, this is a
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man, for a man in his position, a black man, to take that stance publicly, okay, that takes guts.
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Especially as a guy who, you know, he makes his living doing things on mainstream media. He's
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like the host of America's Got Talent, or he was anyway. We'll see how that goes.
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He works for mainstream media companies. They aren't going to like what he's saying. He is probably going
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to suffer financially for this, but he sticks to it anyway. And that's exactly what needs to happen.
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That takes courage. He deserves a lot of credit for that. Here's the latest from him.
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He says, it's a tweet from him where he says, defund Pornhub, and then tags fight the new drug.
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So he's going after Pornhub now. Now, you know me. He won my vote right there. Hands down,
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that's my vote. But this is what I really love about it. He goes from publicly defending one of
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the most unpopular opinions you can possibly take these days. It goes from that to taking
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an even more unpopular position. So he's saying to the cancel mob, oh, you didn't like what I said
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over that? Get a load of this over here. You're really not going to like this. It's almost like
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he's doing it on purpose as a middle finger to the outrage mob. And I love that because that's
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exactly what we need to do. President Terry Crews, let's make it happen. Number four, a little bit of
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good news to come out of this pandemic. No fans are going to be allowed at Eagles or Philly's
00:25:12.340
home games, apparently. That's the latest news out of that. Now, I'm not in favor of the lockdowns,
00:25:17.800
and I really don't see why we have to keep fans out of the stadiums. Why can't you fill them to 30%
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or 40% capacity or whatever it is? But I am in favor of banning all Philly sports fans from all venues
00:25:29.860
and all places everywhere permanently. That I can endorse, you know, for public health and all of
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that. Number five, World of Beer in Hartford, Connecticut, has pulled from its collection
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an expensive bottle of beer because customers were complaining about it. The beer was made,
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apparently, to raise awareness and fight racism. It's an anti-racism beer,
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and it was served to a black customer recently who I suppose was meant to be impressed and
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appreciate the anti-racism-ness of the beer. But something was lost in translation because,
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well, here's the beer. Take a look at, that's what the beer, that's what the beer looks like right
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there. It's a beer dressed up in Klan robes. That's what they did. Now, in fairness, it does say
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yellow, the name of the beer is yellow belly, which is an insult. So I guess you could say
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they're calling the Klan yellow bellies. Now, it's an insult nobody has used since 1875, but still.
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Yet, you know, somehow, shockingly, that didn't exactly resonate. And this brings to mind an old
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adage, which, you know, is go woke, go broke. Or maybe it's get woke, go broke, or go woke,
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get broke. Anyway, woke and broke is the idea. They tried to be woke, but they accidentally
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ended up promoting the Klan, which it can happen to anyone. It happens. But that's why it's better
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to just make your beer a beer. Beer should just be beer. Don't worry about making your beer socially
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conscious. In fact, personally, I prefer for my beer to be totally unconscious. Having a conscious
00:27:10.900
beer freaks me out. So that's the way I would handle that. All right, we're going to get to our
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daily cancellation, all of this stuff with Nick Cannon in just a second. But, you know, in midst of
00:27:20.260
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Okay. Today for our daily cancellation, we're going to be canceling Viacom for firing Nick Cannon
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after he made racist anti-white comments. We're canceling Viacom for canceling Nick Cannon.
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But we're not canceling them for firing him. We're canceling them because they didn't fire him
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for the anti-white comments. So let's go back and, and, and, uh, go over this again. A clip from
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Nick Cannon's podcast went viral yesterday and in the clip, he's mostly babbling incoherently. So
00:28:54.140
it's, it's kind of hard to understand what he's trying to say, but he does make his feelings about
00:28:58.340
white people loud and clear. When we talk about the power of melanated people, when we talk about who
00:29:04.240
we really are as gods and understanding that our melanin is so power and it connects us in a way
00:29:09.660
that the reason why they fear black, the reason why they fear is because they, the lack that they
00:29:14.540
have of it. So then when you see what's, you know, Dr. Francis C. Wellesley talked about is that fear
00:29:21.660
in that, that, that genetic annihilation deficiency of when you have a person that has, has the lack of
00:29:28.780
pigment, the lack of melanin, that they know that they will be annihilated. So therefore, however
00:29:33.760
they got the power, they, they, they have the lack of compassion that melanin comes with compassion.
00:29:40.920
Melanin comes with soul that we call it. We call it soul. We soul brothers and sisters. That's the
00:29:45.780
melanin that connects. So the people that don't have it have, are, are a little, and I'm going to say
00:29:51.600
this carefully, are a little less, and, and, and where the term actually comes from, because I'm
00:29:59.440
bringing it all the way back around to, to minister Farrakhan, to where they may not have the compassion
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or the, the, when they were sent to the mountains of Caucasus, when they, when they didn't have the
00:30:11.760
power of the sun, that was that the sun then started to deteriorate them. So then they're acting
00:30:18.940
out of fear. They're acting out of low self-esteem. They're acting out of a deficiency. So therefore,
00:30:29.480
the only way that they can act is evil. The only way they can, they have to rob, steal, rape, kill,
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and fight or flight in order to survive. Exactly. So then these people who didn't have what we had,
00:30:42.560
and when I say we, I speak of the melanated people, right? They had to be savages. They had
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to be barbaric. They had, because they're in these Nordic mountains, they're in these rough,
00:30:54.360
uh, torrential environments. So they, they're acting as animals, right? So they're the ones that
00:31:00.800
are actually closer to animals. They're the ones that are actually the true savages.
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Okay. So to review white people are a little less evil, savages, barbaric, closer to animals.
00:31:19.820
Plus we don't have souls, compassion, or self-esteem. So, and we rob, kill, and rape. He, he, he put all
00:31:26.680
that into, into, you know, two minutes. You have to sift through a lot of incomprehensible nonsense
00:31:32.420
to get to it, but that's, that's what he was trying to say. He does also appear to think that
00:31:36.520
melanin in the skin is like some kind of magical elixir, some sort of supernatural formula that
00:31:43.480
imbues soul and compassion and other things into people. He sees melanin like, it's almost like he
00:31:49.180
sees it as, um, what's the thing from Star Wars? The, the thing that Jedi have that makes them,
00:31:54.640
that gives them superpowers? Midol? Or mitochondria? Whatever, no, it's not that. Uh,
00:32:00.140
whatever it is, melanin is like that, what the Jedi have. And of course that's all
00:32:04.400
pseudoscientific inanity. It doesn't make any sense, um, at all. But the real issue here is
00:32:09.720
the stuff he said about white people and the fact that he thinks that we're evil soulless savages.
00:32:14.160
That, that I think is the headline. It is actually helpful though, I have to say. I'm actually grateful
00:32:20.560
to the bigot Nick Cannon for saying this because the term racism is thrown around so much that you,
00:32:27.040
you forget what it means. It's a, you can easily forget what racism means because we're calling
00:32:31.420
everything racism these days. And, uh, you know, even, even someone's hairstyle or an art, art curator
00:32:37.880
collecting art from white, white artists, you know, we're calling that racist. So after a while,
00:32:43.620
maybe you forget it, the, the term loses its meaning. And then you see this and you realize,
00:32:48.980
oh, okay, that's what racism is. That right there. Racism is a guy degrading an entire race of people
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and outright saying they are less than him and savage and evil. That is racism. And that is
00:33:02.440
literally supremacism. That is black supremacism that we're seeing there to a T textbook racism,
00:33:09.260
maybe not modern textbook racism because they're changing the definition, but any, a real textbook
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racism right there. Any white person who said that goes without saying,
00:33:19.500
if you can even imagine a, a white person of any prominence whatsoever saying anything like that
00:33:28.820
about black people or any other race, they would be fired, shunned, canceled, destroyed in a heartbeat
00:33:35.260
without hesitation, without question. And not one person anywhere would defend them,
00:33:40.460
nor should they, nor would I, you see, objecting to cancel culture doesn't mean that we have to take
00:33:48.520
the position that nobody should ever suffer any consequences for anything they do or say.
00:33:53.860
That would be silly. Of course, that's, that's, that's not what we mean when we talk about cancel
00:33:58.100
culture. At least it's not what I mean. Cancel culture is about shutting down intelligent debate,
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punishing people for doing and saying things that are not actually objectionable and oftentimes correct.
00:34:10.680
And cancel culture is all is, is also disproportionate. So it could be that, that someone says or does
00:34:20.000
something that is objectionable, but the response is totally out of proportion. So for example,
00:34:24.900
some kids playing around with dough at Jimmy John's become national pariahs. That is a consequence that
00:34:32.320
is way out of proportion to the crime. These are not public figures. These are just some kids being
00:34:38.520
stupid. Uh, yeah, they're going to lose their job at Jimmy John's, but to have their face plastered
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all over the place to be, to be denounced in mainstream publications across the, the, the country
00:34:48.680
and the globe way out of proportion. That's cancel culture. Cancel culture also goes digging for
00:34:54.740
offenses. Okay. The cancel culture mob is looking to be offended. They're looking for things, finding
00:35:00.920
things people said and did long ago to destroy them. A, uh, you know, article someone wrote 33 years ago
00:35:07.120
about women in combat, which also wasn't even objectionable and was completely correct,
00:35:10.660
but that's how cancel culture behaves. In this case, it's completely different. We have a prominent
00:35:15.760
person saying something publicly saying it now, not saying it 30 years ago. Um, and what they're
00:35:22.140
saying is wrong and extremely objectionable and actually racist by any sane definition of the term.
00:35:28.500
So this is not, yes, he should be fired for that. Absolutely. And again, if it was a white person,
00:35:34.620
nobody would be saying that they shouldn't be, it was a white celebrity who works for a major
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media company. And they went out and said about another race that they're savages and evil and
00:35:44.340
less than him. Nobody would be saying, don't fire him. Of course they're going to fire him for that.
00:35:49.260
Well, what else is the company going to do? Stay? No, the company's not going to stand by.
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They shouldn't have to stand by you for that. You're the one who decided to come out and say that.
00:35:58.860
And now, now you need to accept the consequences. It's not the company's job to, you know,
00:36:04.420
take the slings and arrows for you being a revolting, stupid, insane bigot.
00:36:11.800
But, and so he is fired, right? But the problem is that he wasn't fired for that.
00:36:17.980
Here's the statement from Viacom. Viacom CBS denounces bigotry of any kind,
00:36:22.140
and we categorically denounce all forms of antisemitism. We have spoken with Nick Cannon
00:36:27.400
about an episode of his podcast, Cannon's Class on YouTube, which promoted hateful speech and
00:36:31.560
spread antisemitic conspiracy theories. While we support ongoing education and dialogue in the
00:36:37.060
fight against bigotry, we are deeply troubled that Nick has failed to acknowledge or apologize for
00:36:40.280
perpetuating antisemitism, and we are terminating our relationship with him. Okay. Wait a second.
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Antisemitic? What? It wasn't antisemitic. It was, it was just, it was anti-white in general. It was
00:36:51.600
bigoted against all white people. It wasn't focused exclusively on Jewish people. What are they talking about?
00:36:56.460
Well, it turns out that Nick Cannon went on a bit of a bigotry spree during that episode,
00:37:02.880
and also at one point said that, quote, Semitic people are black people, and quote,
00:37:08.980
you can't be antisemitic when we are the Semitic people, when we are the same people they want to
00:37:13.760
be. That's our birthright. And he also said that black people are the true Hebrews. That's what they
00:37:20.080
fired him for. Even though that, that, what I just, what you just heard there is, while nonsensical and
00:37:28.160
weird and, and, and incorrect and objectionable, it is way tamer than what he said about white people
00:37:34.940
in general. I mean, remember, he called white people evil savages, for God's sake. It literally
00:37:42.480
does not get more racist than that. That is the height of racist language. You, you couldn't,
00:37:47.520
you couldn't possibly be more racist than this. That's as racist as it gets.
00:37:53.140
But, and this is why Viacom is canceled. They couldn't bring themselves to fire Nick Cannon
00:37:58.980
for anti-white racism, or even, even to denounce it, to acknowledge it. It's smacking them,
00:38:05.280
anti-white racism, smacking them in the face with a sledgehammer, which these days often it does in
00:38:10.320
a literal sense as well, but they couldn't do it. He's out here calling white people soulless
00:38:15.920
barbarians, and they don't fire him for it. They don't even specifically mention it in their,
00:38:22.360
in their announcement of his termination. Instead, they use the, the Semitic comments as the excuse
00:38:27.540
to dump him. This is how trendy and acceptable anti-white racism is. You can denounce white people
00:38:34.480
as subhuman monsters, and you won't lose your job for it. You may lose your job for something else.
00:38:41.540
Your, your company may find some other reason to dump you because they're afraid of what you might
00:38:45.400
say next, but that's not going to be the reason they stay. They're going to find something else.
00:38:50.320
And they certainly won't come out and say anti-white racism is bad and we reject it.
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Think about how crazy that actually is. It is now edgy. It is controversial. It is provocative. It is
00:39:03.060
offensive to simply say that it's bad to hate all white people. That statement now is, is, is like,
00:39:10.940
you know, people don't want to say that. It's actually racist to say that. I've been told this
00:39:15.340
directly that to speak out against anti-white racism is itself racist. It is racist to be opposed to
00:39:24.060
anti-white racism. That's where we are. And we should also mention that if you go on, on Twitter or social
00:39:31.240
media, you're going to find that there is a lot of support for what Nick Cannon said, not just for
00:39:38.900
him, not just people saying, Oh, you let him have a second chance or whatever people supporting what
00:39:44.700
he actually said. Like, yes, I agree with it. White people are soulless barbarians who are subhuman and
00:39:51.380
lack compassion. There's a lot of that. Anti-white racism is the only mainstream form of racism. I
00:40:01.600
didn't say it's the only form of racism that exists in the world. It's the only kind that is acceptable
00:40:06.900
in the mainstream, not just acceptable, not just tolerated, but oftentimes celebrated. And so if
00:40:13.320
you pretend to be against racism and fighting racism, but you're not acknowledging this kind of
00:40:18.300
racism, then you're just a cowardly, hypocritical fraud. And there are a lot of those to go around
00:40:25.160
these days. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody. Thanks for listening. Godspeed.
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