Ep. 542 - Attacker In Macy's Assault May Only Get Probation
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Today on the Matt Walsh Show, there is an update to the story of the Black man who assaulted a white Macy's employee, and it's outrageous. Also, a cancer-stricken 2-year-old who was stranded at a cancer center while it was being attacked by rioters in Chicago, and feminists who claim that, you know, normal human interactions are sexist micro-aggressions.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, there is an update to the story of the black man who assaulted a
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white Macy's employee, and it's outrageous, so stick around for that. Also, five headlines,
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including the cancer-stricken two-year-old who was stranded at a cancer center while it was
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being attacked by rioters in Chicago. And in our daily cancellation, we'll talk about the feminists
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who claim that, you know, normal human interactions are sexist microaggressions. So we've got to
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discuss that. All of that on the way, and more. There's actually a lot to cover today, so bear
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with me. But we'll start with this. If you are in the unfortunate habit of relying on the national
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media for your news and information, you probably didn't hear about the brutal assault of a white
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Macy's employee by a black man in June. The attack happened at the Genesee Valley Mall in Michigan on
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June 15th. Here it is, if you haven't seen it. Watch this.
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The assailant there is an 18-year-old man named Demir Palmer. His brother filmed the attack,
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reported it to the media, which happily ran with the story, uncritical as always,
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reported that the employee had used a racial slur. At the time, the brother, an alleged rapper
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who goes by the name F.T. Quay, said that they were innocently shopping for a new shirt when the
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employee, in full hearing of the two brothers, referred to them using the N-word. This is what
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the brother told the New York Post. Quoting now from him, he said,
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I just want people to know the real story of what really happened and what's in the description of
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me and my brother just walking into Macy's, just minding our own business. And yes, we made a petty
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joke and asked the guy, was the shirt too little? When he could have asked me, he was just being
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funny. And just the fact of the remark that he said that we all heard, and just what else were we
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supposed to do in this age and time? He didn't know what else to do. That was just his instinct.
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Of course, it shouldn't matter if the employee said a bad word or not. That would in no way
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justify felony assault. But it was obvious to anybody with two brain cells rubbed together
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that the story from the brothers was bogus. And I said as much right away, right after this
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happened. I said, I guarantee you, the word was not actually said. And indeed, what do you know?
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It was bogus. It was made up. It was a lie. He never said the N-word. But I'm getting ahead of
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myself a little bit. We'll get back to that in a second. All right. Let's back up again.
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Remember, this happened on June 15th. The local prosecutor, David Lighton, did not file charges
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against Demir Palmer until June 26th. That's over 10 days later. It took 10 days to decide
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that pummeling a man while he's crawling on the ground begging for mercy is, in fact, illegal.
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Here's Lighton on June 26th announcing the charges. Listen to him.
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He shook up and he's emotionally upset, as well as physically upset. But he's emotionally upset
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to think that, you know, anybody would think he said the alleged vile, racial, provoking slur
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because he says he didn't say it. And his history suggests he didn't say it. We're charging
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Demir Canal Palmer with a count of assault with intent to do great bodily harm less than murder.
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It's a felony assault charge punishable by up to 10 years in prison. This was an unprovoked attack.
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The internal video for Macy's shows the suspect approaching from behind. The victim, the store
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manager, appears unaware that he's even there. The suspect then sucker punches him from behind,
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knocks him to the floor, continues to punch him while he's on the floor. There is no evidence
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of provocation whatsoever. Even if there were verbal provocation, which we have no evidence of,
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violent retaliation is not permitted by the law.
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Vile, racial, provoking slur. That's what Lighton is focused on.
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You see how, in the context of announcing charges against a man who committed a barbarous assault
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against another human, he feels the need to begin by denouncing a word that there's no reason to
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think anyone even used. By the way, no charges were filed against the brother who filmed it.
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Okay, so fast forward two months. That was about two months ago. Two months forward,
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and the obvious has now been confirmed. The racial slur was not said. It was a lie. It was a hoax,
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yet again. But Demir Palmer blames his brother. So no honor among thieves, or in this case,
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among people who randomly assault retail employees. Palmer said that his brother told him the N-word
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was used, and that's what led to the assault. Now, here's where we get to the inevitable and yet no
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less outrageous part. Palmer's brother still has not been charged with any crime, and Palmer himself
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is looking at quite possibly getting off with probation. Probation. And not only probation,
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but he won't have a criminal record in this scenario. This will be expunged from his record,
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like it never happened. Palmer pleaded guilty to assault with intent to do great bodily harm,
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but the assistant prosecutor, Patrick McCombs, says that he'll be sentenced under something called
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the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act. The Holmes Youthful Trainee Act. Now, I had to Google that,
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and it took me to a website of Tannis and Schultz, Michigan-based lawyers. Here's what they tell
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us about the Holmes Youthful Training Act. It says, the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act, more commonly known
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as HYTA, provides individuals between the ages of 17 and 24 with a second chance. Under the act,
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an individual charged with a crime may petition the court for status as a youthful trainee.
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The Holmes Youthful Trainee Act states, if an individual pleads guilty to a criminal offense
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committed on or after the individual's 17th birthday, but before his 24th birthday,
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the court of record having jurisdiction of the criminal offense may, without entering a judgment
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of conviction and with the consent of that individual, consider and assign that individual
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to the status of youthful trainee. If the court grants the individual status under the Holmes
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Youthful Trainee Act, he or she will be placed on a probationary term. If he or she successfully
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completes the probationary term, the criminal conviction will not be entered into his or her
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record. The court will dismiss all charges, and his or her criminal record will remain clean.
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Okay. Dismiss all charges. That's where this is very likely headed. Official sentencing is not until
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September. Technically, Palmer could still get 10 years in prison, and at the conclusion of that
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sentence, then his record is wiped clean. But I think we all know that's not going to happen.
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The sentence can be anything from probation to 10 years, and all signs are pointing to probation here,
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or something much closer to that end of the spectrum. And then, clean slate, like magic,
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like it never happened. Until it happens again. Which it will, because men who pummel other men for fun
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don't just wake up one day as decent human beings. That doesn't happen. Except maybe in fairy tales.
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Now, according to the ABC 12 report, a local affiliate in the town, much of the court,
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the court hearing over this case, had to do with the issue of the phantom N-word,
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and how upset that made poor Demir Palmer. Reading from the AP report, it says,
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after pleading guilty to the 10-year felony against him, assault with intent to do great bodily harm,
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less than murder, Palmer shared with the judge what led to the assault inside the Genesee Valley
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Mall on June 15, 2020. And then, this is Palmer now. He says, I asked him a question about some
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clothes, Palmer said. I asked him about the jacket type that I was about to get. Palmer said the man
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answered him. They laughed, and then his brother told him the store manager had called him the N-word.
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He admitted that he since learned his brother lied to him. Big shocker there.
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Now, we continue. The assistant prosecutor questioning the brother says,
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why would your brother do that? And he says, I wouldn't know. I honestly wouldn't. Palmer replied.
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The assistant prosecutor, okay, now listen to this part. The assistant prosecutor
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told Palmer he understands the anger that would fuel the assault, but he said the store manager
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has asked that the charge does not stay with Palmer forever. Okay. He understands. He understands
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how a person might be so mad about a bad word that he would beat another person senseless in the
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middle of a Macy's. He understands. And yes, the victim in this case apparently has expressed his
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consent to the lenient sentence, and that's the human shield that the prosecutors are hiding behind
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here by saying, well, it's what the victim wants. But the fact that the victim who'd already been
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attacked once didn't want to come out and demand a harsher sentence is completely irrelevant here.
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We can think of many reasons why he might express that point of view, even if it's not how he really
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feels. All right. So a lot needs to be covered here. First of all, once again, who gives the
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slightest damn whether he said the bad word or not? It is in fact not understandable for an adult to
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commit felony assault in response to a word. Not understandable at all. The implication from the
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way this sentencing is working out is that felony assault is legal, or at least not very illegal,
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if a black man even so much as believes a racial slur was said. I mean, what if the slur had been
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said? What then? Would they have simply let him walk, no questions asked, not even probation?
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Second, and I'm sounding like a broken record here, but we have another incident in this case that
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if the races were reversed, would be headline news. The assailant will be looking at hard time behind
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bars on federal charges, hate crime charges. Now, I don't think that the hate crime designation
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should exist at all. I think the whole category as a matter of law is absurd. But if we're going to
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have it, then it ought to be evenly applied. And this is a hate crime. In fact, Demir Palmer admits
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as much. He told on himself in his excuse, he admits that it's racially motivated. Think about it.
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He assaulted the store clerk because he thought that the clerk had said a word. Now, side note,
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I don't actually believe him about this. I don't think that he thought that the word was used. I
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think that this was something both brothers decided to do for fun and for viral fame. That's
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my theory. But in any event, going based on his testimony, he assaulted the Macy's guy because he
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thought that the Macy's guy had said a word. We can assume that Demir Palmer would not have assaulted
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a black man for saying that. In fact, we know he wouldn't because he himself uses the word he's
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supposedly mad about the employee allegedly using while he's assaulting the employee for using the
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word, which he didn't actually use, if you're following me. In other words, he assaults the
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employee because the employee is a white man who he thought used a certain word. He assaulted him
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for being a white man using a certain word. This is not an argument that the word is the same when
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used by white people as by black people. That's not my point. It's an argument that this assault
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was undeniably motivated by the combination of the alleged word and the race of the person who
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said it. That is by definition a racially motivated attack, a hate crime. He should be going to federal
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prison for this. But we know that everything is in two tiers in this society. The media puts black
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on white assaults and murder on one tier, a low tier, white on black on another, and the justice system
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does the same. Third point, speaking of the justice system, we see here the actual type of reform that
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is necessary. Put aside all the racial stuff and the double standard, all of that. Think about this
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youthful trainee nonsense. The justice system in Michigan, home to Detroit, one of the most violent
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cities in America, considers adult violent criminals to be trainees and will release them back into society
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without even any indication that they are actually violent and dangerous. There's no justice here
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because there's no punishment. And they're failing to protect society on two levels. First, by releasing
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violent criminals back into communities and then by refusing to tell the communities that these are
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violent criminals. So a law like this fails in every conceivable way to ensure that the justice system
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does what it's supposed to do. You know, we don't have a large scale problem in this country of the
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justice system system coming down too hard on the bad guys. There may be, there's some examples of
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that, sure, but there are many, many, many more examples of the justice system putting on, you know,
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its kid gloves and slapping violent, dangerous people on the wrist and then patting them on the
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head and sending them on their way. Practically inviting them to continue committing crimes until they've
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finally done something so heinous that even the most lenient and henpecked prosecutor has no choice but to
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take the book and throw it at them rather than doing what they normally do, which is to take the book
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and throw it out, allowing criminals to continue along in their criminal ways. The streets of our
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cities are overrun by dangerous, violent people who are known to the system, known to be dangerous and
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violent and yet are permitted to stay out on the street, free, unencumbered. And the story often has
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a predictable, infuriating, and tragic ending. And something tells me that the story of Demir Palmer
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um, two-year-old Owen Buell and you could see him right there. Uh, Owen has cancer stage four
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neuroblastoma. Owen, along with his family has been staying at the Ronald McDonald house near
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Lori children's hospital in Chicago. Ronald McDonald house was targeted by looters and rioters during the
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riots a few days ago. Yes. A place with cancer stricken children, um, was attacked. The glass
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was shattered. Dora was shattered to make matters worse. Owen was supposed to go home to have his
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birthday party. And he just, he just turned two. This little guy has earned his birthday party more
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than, than, than certainly I've ever earned a birthday party. Um, and he apparently is a big fan
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of llamas who isn't, I'm a big fan of llamas too. And so his, his mom had had a big three foot tall
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stuffed llama shipped to the house as part of the birthday celebration. She was looking forward to
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bringing him home. So you can see that. Um, but the party had to be canceled because of the riots.
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They couldn't discharge any children in the middle of this. So Owen missed his birthday party.
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Meanwhile, as Owen's mother describes it, they could hear, I mean, just imagine that these children,
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they could hear the noise, they could hear the, the, the sirens and the gunshots and everything and
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all the chaos. And while they're trapped at this place, imagine the fear and the terror for these
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kids who are already going through something that no kid should have to endure. So if you need
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another reason to despise the rioters and BLM, here it is just reprehensible, awful, self-obsessed
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people who don't give the slightest damn about anyone but themselves. Remember something, remember,
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remember we played this yesterday, the BLM activists in Chicago justifying looting by saying that they
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should be able to take whatever they want because they're entitled to it. Let's play that again.
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I don't care if somebody decides to loot a Gucci or a Macy's or a Nike because that makes sure that
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that person eats, that makes sure that that person has clothes, that makes sure that that person can
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make some kind of money because the city obviously doesn't care about them. Not only that, that's
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reparations. That is reparations. Anything they want to take, take it because these businesses have
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insurance. They're going to get their money back. My people aren't getting anything.
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So BLM is taking whatever they want because they're entitled to it. While cancer stricken toddlers
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are deprived of their birthday parties. Because there's a direct correlation. Because BLM had to
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take what it is owed, apparently, that meant that cancer stricken toddlers out of luck.
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By the way, positive note here, if you go to my Twitter right now, I've got a link up to the GoFundMe
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for Owen. And it's a GoFundMe for, you know, for, of course, his medical expenses and whatever else
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the family needs the money for. And so you can go there and if you have it in, if you're able to
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donate, then do that. Someone sent me the GoFundMe page yesterday. It had raised $20,000
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when they sent it to me since February. And then I put it up and we all kind of rallied together.
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And overnight, we doubled it for another $20,000. So go to my Twitter if you can and donate there.
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All right. The manager of a bakery in Chinatown was trying to talk to Mayor Bill de Blasio about
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how the shutdowns and the COVID policies have affected, have destroyed his business. And he's
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getting quite emotional in this clip, understandably. But let's look at de Blasio's
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We've been taking a hit since January. We lost our Chinese New Year, our busiest day of our community.
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The most festive holiday that we have, then COVID happened. Now we're all hurting ourselves.
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What we need is more confidence. I know Margaret Cheney, but we need help. We need more confidence.
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A little bit of space, please. Thank you very much.
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Yeah, he just doesn't care at all. Speaking of self-obsessed, not giving the slightest damn
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about anybody but yourself, there's de Blasio. I mean, de Blasio, the rioters, BLM, Antifa,
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these are all matches made in, well, not heaven, but in the other direction anyway.
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Um, they're all, they're all sort of peas in a pod. Very, very similar in that way. He just,
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he doesn't care at all. This guy's, this guy, you know, this, this, this business owner,
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life, business destroyed. De Blasio couldn't, couldn't possibly care less, just walks away from
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him. Number three, an article in the LA Times, uh, here's the headline says, want more diversity
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in camping? Start with the gear. And then the article goes into detail talking about how fewer
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black people go camping. Uh, and this, you guessed it is due to historical injustice and racism.
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You know, all those laws on the books forbidding black people from camping. It's, well, you have
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to admit those laws would be pretty bad if they existed. Now I, I'm, I, and let me say, I am
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totally against those non-existent laws. I, those laws don't exist. And I say they should continue
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not existing. Now, as for the question in the headline, I just thought, I know it's a rhetorical
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question. I thought I'd answer it anyway. Want more diversity in camping. Allow me to answer that
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question. No, I don't actually. Uh, I don't want more diversity in camping. I also don't want, I
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don't, I don't not want more diversity in camping. I don't want more. I don't not want more. I just
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have no feeling at all about the racial makeup of the camping community. It doesn't matter to me at
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all. Shouldn't matter to anyone. People will camp if they want to. Uh, if they don't want to camp,
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they won't. If more white people than black people want to go camping. Okay. Why would that
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matter? Why does every single facet of society need to have a certain predetermined fill a certain
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quota of a racial diversity quota? Who cares that this something like camping as with so many other
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things in, in society, it really comes down to do people want to do it or not. It's like that with
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the sexism claims. And we'll talk about more about this in a second, but we look at certain
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industries and we say, well, there's, there's not enough women doing this job. But have you ever
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thought that maybe there's not more women doing the job because women don't want to do that job?
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Yeah, there's, there's a lot of, uh, there's not a lot of gender diversity in the roofing industry.
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Okay. Most roofers on a hot roof in July, almost all of them men. In fact, I don't think I've ever
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seen a female roofer. Maybe a few of them exist. Is that because females are excluded from root from,
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from roofing? No, it's just because they don't want to do it. And so they don't, uh, I suspect
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there's something similar going on with camping. All right. Uh, number four, huge news here. Um,
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finally, we'll get to something important. Farmers in Botswana have come up with a, uh, an incredible
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innovation. They figured out that you can prevent predators, lions, leopards, et cetera,
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from attacking your cows. If you draw eyes on the cows, but, uh, you can see right here,
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eyes on the butt. And they don't have to be very realistic eyes either. Apparently
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even these lackadaisical eyes will work. Why do they work? Well, uh, they've done a whole study
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to figure out why this works. I can tell you why it works. Would you want to eat a hamburger with,
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with eyes on it? If you picked up your hamburger at Applebee's and there's, and there are eyes
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staring at you, would you eat it? I mean, I still would because I'm hungry, but it would freak me
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out. No question. Uh, all I can say is that this so far though, is a massive missed opportunity.
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If these, if these farmers are drawing eyes, I know you probably thought the same thing as me,
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right? We're putting eyes on the cow's butt. Okay. I'm with you there. Sounds good. Why aren't we
00:23:50.400
putting googly eyes? Go to Joanne Fabrics. If they have that in Botswana, get the googly eyes,
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put that on the butt of the cow. More realistic, a lot funnier. Let's go. Number five. Finally,
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a new study says that a certain mind controlling fungus can infect cicadas and turn them into zombies.
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And to be honest with you, I'm really just mentioning the story, uh, as an excuse to
00:24:16.380
transition into a story about my kids. This is, that's the only reason. So we're putting that to the
00:24:19.840
side. Enough about the cicadas. Uh, I thought this was pretty great and I don't have anywhere else to
00:24:24.500
put it in the show. So I'm just going to tell you here. I, uh, yesterday, while I was out of the
00:24:28.200
house, our, our three-year-old son got mad at his brother, uh, because, uh, he, he wouldn't play
00:24:35.460
with toys with him. So our three-year-old took one of the toys, plastic shark, threw it at his older
00:24:41.500
brother, hit him in the eye, actually ended up giving him a nice little cut beneath the eye, like right
00:24:45.400
here. Um, and I guess my, my younger son's logic was, listen, if you don't want to play with the
00:24:50.540
toys with me, then I will beat you with them. That was his logic. Now he got punished for that,
00:24:55.360
of course. But when I got home, I decided that I should have a talk with him about it. And I was
00:24:59.800
talking to him about it and I asked him why he did it, even though I knew the answer, but I asked him
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anyway. And he told me this was his, his excuse. All right. He told me that he was worried that his
00:25:12.000
older brother might be a zombie. So he threw the toy at him. That's what he said. And you know, I,
00:25:20.020
I didn't expect his excuse to be persuasive. I knew he'd have some excuse. I didn't expect it to
00:25:26.300
be so persuasive, but I heard that. And I thought, all right, fair. Who, I mean, who can, what do you
00:25:33.620
want him to do? He, I, he thought his brother was a zombie or not even that. See what I liked about it
00:25:38.000
was it wasn't, he didn't come out and outright accuse his brother of being a zombie. He said
00:25:43.080
might be. So, so it was, it was more of like a plausible theory that he couldn't rule out
00:25:49.060
without further investigation. And the investigation involved throwing a plastic shark at his eye. I
00:25:55.700
don't totally understand the connection there, to be honest with you, but I don't have any experience
00:25:59.300
battling zombies. Do you? So I don't think that we can really pass any judgment there. And I thought
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that was, that was good. Kids will always, kids always coming up with the, it's one of the great
00:26:08.100
joys of being a parent is listening to all the excuses from your kids. I use the word joy. There
00:26:15.160
are other descriptions you could probably use, but I'm going with joy for right now. All right,
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I will be canceling women. Not all women, don't worry. In fact, if you are a woman, I hope that you
00:27:13.260
do not fall into the category of being canceled this afternoon. I am canceling women who have a
00:27:18.360
tendency to claim that relatively normal yet uncomfortable or irritating social interactions
00:27:23.280
are sexist. Now, I suppose I could simplify by saying I'm canceling feminists, but I think that
00:27:28.420
there may be some women who don't identify as feminists and yet still fall into this trap.
00:27:32.760
So now, look, I'm not talking here about things, words, behaviors that are actually abusive or
00:27:38.200
degrading to women. In fact, just this week, we've discussed the latest Cardi B song, which is
00:27:42.420
intensely degrading and dehumanizing to women. Yes, it was a woman who produced it, but even so,
00:27:47.580
it amounts to an attack on the dignity of women. And there's plenty of this sort of thing in the
00:27:51.480
culture. And if you're a woman who has spoken out about that, God bless you. To you, I say,
00:27:56.540
girl power. I will join you at the protest march for that. That's not what I'm talking about. What
00:28:01.800
I'm referring to here are, as I said, the more ordinary, everyday, social interaction-based sexism
00:28:09.560
claims. If you want examples of this kind of thing, just go to Google and type in sexist microaggressions
00:28:15.100
or everyday sexism or similar keywords. You'll be greeted with volumes and volumes, just like this.
00:28:20.400
One random example from Yahoo Finance. This is just one article that popped up, of many.
00:28:28.040
And the headline, why sexist microaggressions are holding women back at work. So just reading a
00:28:32.940
little bit of this, it says, around 64% of women are supposed to be exposed to this kind of
00:28:36.720
discrimination, according to the report, with black and lesbian women facing an even greater
00:28:40.080
variety of microaggressions in the workplace. And then it continues. So what are examples of
00:28:46.240
microaggressions experienced by women? That's a very good question. According to the Women in the
00:28:51.320
Workplace report, the most common issue is women having to provide more evidence of their competence
00:28:55.660
than men. And they are more likely to have their judgment questioned, even on things that they're
00:29:00.460
an expert in. And then the article goes into anecdotes from various women. Here's one. It says,
00:29:07.100
one Asian woman who had worked four years at a company told the report authors of her experience of
00:29:12.120
a microaggression. She said, I was in an elevator and pressed the button for the executive office.
00:29:16.140
Someone said to me, um, no, honey, that's for the executive offices. The interns are going to this
00:29:20.600
floor. That's not funny, but I, another Middle Eastern woman, uh, the vice president of a company
00:29:25.360
added, I walked into a meeting where I was the only woman in a very large room of men. And when I sat
00:29:30.340
down, an older white man from another company turned to me out of nowhere and, uh, said, could you take
00:29:36.080
notes for the meeting? Which was a little bit odd because I was the lawyer in the room, uh, the one
00:29:42.100
I'm doing the negotiating. Okay. So those, and then it goes into other anecdotes and so on and so
00:29:47.400
forth. Um, and then it, it's, it stipulates importantly, microaggressions can be hard to
00:29:52.420
pinpoint. They might be brief comments or small actions such as interrupting or talking over
00:29:56.520
someone in a meeting. No matter what form they come in, microaggressions can have a serious impact
00:30:01.980
and create a toxic working environment. They might seem innocuous, but over time, these incidents
00:30:06.280
and comments can lead to self-esteem, uh, or rather to low self-esteem, feelings of alienation and
00:30:11.480
impact on mental health. All right. So a few classic examples there of alleged micro sexism,
00:30:18.500
uh, that you find. There are other classics that you've no doubt heard being told the smile is one
00:30:24.160
women will sometimes complain that others remark on their lack of smiling and, uh, and they'll chalk
00:30:29.920
that up to sexism. Of course, there's the old favorite mansplaining and mansplaining is anytime a
00:30:35.880
man explains something in a condescending or patronizing way, I'm doing mansplaining right now. In fact,
00:30:40.700
unwelcome advice, a cousin of mansplaining is another example. So questioning of judgment,
00:30:46.280
interrupting, talking over, talking to a, uh, telling a woman to smile, explaining things,
00:30:50.180
doling out advice, unwelcome touching, unwelcome flirting. All of these are commonly considered
00:30:55.780
sexism and they're used to promote this, this, this narrative of a, of a patriarchal and male
00:31:01.320
privileged society. But it's all bogus, almost entirely bogus. Might there be some occasions
00:31:11.040
where a man interrupts or explains or says you should smile more because he has a low opinion
00:31:16.700
of women? Sure. I suppose so. I can't see inside anybody's mind. I don't know. What I do know is
00:31:22.000
this, that all of these things, all that I just listed, all of these supposed sexist anti-woman
00:31:27.940
aggressions, however micro they may be, happen to men all the time. All the time. None of this is
00:31:35.980
unique to women, nor is there any credible reason to assume that they, that they're experienced more
00:31:40.140
often by women. All we know, and save yourself the trouble of sending me links to studies. Look at the
00:31:46.080
studies. The studies say, the studies have declared. All we know is that women more often report and
00:31:52.640
remember these incidents and interpret them as sexism. What we do not know is that women actually
00:31:58.620
experience these events more often. And I submit that there's no good reason to assume they do.
00:32:06.500
Now, this is all anecdotal, of course, but that, you know, all of this is, the claims from feminists
00:32:10.660
are anecdotal. It's all anecdotal. So let me add my own anecdote. Okay. I am told to smile all the time.
00:32:15.580
I have just never cared enough to make note of it or, or of any specific incident and to store it
00:32:22.500
away in my head as a traumatic sex experience, sexist experience, because ultimately I don't care
00:32:27.220
what other people think of my demeanor or my personality. A lot of people hate me and hate
00:32:31.420
my demeanor and personality. Fine. Doesn't matter to me. Your opinion of me is irrelevant. I don't care.
00:32:38.180
What about being talked over? What about being interrupted, condescended to? Men experience that all the
00:32:43.600
time, all of that. Though men who learn to assert themselves will experience it less, but that's true
00:32:49.180
for women too. The point is that if you have a more submissive personality, you're more likely to be
00:32:54.960
ignored or overridden, especially in a work environment, in a competitive environment. That's not an anti-woman
00:33:00.560
thing. That's an, that's a human society thing, like it or not. What about unwelcome advice? Are you
00:33:05.960
kidding me? I would wager here that 95% of all the unwelcome advice given in a day across the world,
00:33:12.300
cumulatively, is supplied by women. Now this is partly a positive reflection of women though.
00:33:18.580
Women give advice, nag we used to call it, for the same reason that they gossip. It's the downside of
00:33:24.360
the more positive attributes more common in women, of sensitivity and empathy. Women are more likely to
00:33:30.500
care what other people are doing, thinking, saying, and feeling. Yes, this can lead them to gossip. It can
00:33:35.720
lead them to nag, but can also lead them to be wonderfully caring and invested in other people
00:33:40.320
and, you know, and very empathetic. Now men, we're less likely to care all that much about what other
00:33:46.600
people do. The plus side is that we don't nag very often. We're less prone to gossip. But the negative
00:33:51.880
side is that we can sometimes lack sensitivity. We can lack empathy. We can perhaps err on the side of
00:33:56.600
indifference more often than we should. This is a difference between the sexes and one of the reasons
00:34:01.840
why our differences are complementary and one of the reasons why it's so great to have a mom and dad in
00:34:05.940
the home to balance each other out. You need sort of both sides of this. But the point here is that
00:34:11.080
is simply that because of the masculine and feminine tendencies just described, some of this everyday
00:34:17.200
sexism is far more likely to come from women. So why does it seem like women experience these things
00:34:25.780
more? How could it be possible that somehow men have been become known in modern society as the nagging
00:34:32.380
busybodies while women are suddenly the aggrieved and frustrated victims of this behavior?
00:34:37.660
I mean, it's absurd. Well, I think it has a lot to do with another difference between men and women.
00:34:43.060
Men only articulate about 10% of their emotions and experience. For women, the number is closer to
00:34:48.600
225%. These are not scientific figures, I admit. But the point is that men don't talk as much about what
00:34:56.320
they're feeling and going through and are especially unlikely to go home and tell their wives elaborate
00:35:00.800
stories about, you know, being interrupted at a meeting or being told to smile and how upset it
00:35:06.580
made them. Not because it doesn't happen, but because for one thing, a man might feel embarrassed
00:35:11.160
that he was emasculated and therefore be more likely, if anything, to tell a story about some other
00:35:15.800
incident in the day when he was assertive and in control just to assuage his bruised ego. Also,
00:35:21.580
he won't bring it up because men are more practical, even about emotional matters and admittedly to a
00:35:27.500
fault sometimes. So a man will calculate in his mind whether the story about his day is actually
00:35:33.260
useful or relevant to anyone. And if he decides that it isn't, he won't say it. Women don't perform
00:35:39.880
those calculations as often for better or worse. Now, that's where the confusion comes from. It is
00:35:49.700
like so much of the confusion between the sexes, a matter of miscommunication or lack of communication.
00:35:55.540
And now I'm starting to sound like my wife, who, for the record, has never in her life said the
00:36:00.580
phrase microaggression or even sexism, unironically. I don't think I've ever heard her call anything
00:36:05.080
sexist ever, which is awesome. And so this time she is not the one being canceled, but a bunch of
00:36:11.460
other women are, I'm afraid, being canceled, which I'm sure they will hasten to say is sexist on my part.
00:36:17.940
So be it. The cancellation stands. And we'll leave it there. Thanks for watching, everybody.
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