The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 650 - The 'Hate Speech' Trojan Horse

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, the White House calls for big tech companies to censor so-called hate speech.

00:00:05.420 But what is hate speech? And should we be censoring it at all?

00:00:08.200 We'll talk about that. Also, five headlines, including Governor DeSantis' effort to rein in big tech, speaking of big tech,

00:00:13.740 and a Maryland school district's efforts to instill anti-racism in preschoolers.

00:00:19.460 Plus, our daily cancellation and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.

00:00:30.000 You know, I don't quite hate myself enough to waste my time watching White House press briefings.

00:00:34.640 I do catch the highlights sometimes, though.

00:00:36.560 And there was a highlight from the press conference on Monday that perhaps deserves our attention.

00:00:41.840 One member of our illustrious press, always looking to ask the tough questions, to hold those in power accountable,

00:00:47.600 to shine the light of truth into the darkest corners. Democracy dies in darkness, after all.

00:00:53.520 They took the time to ask White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki whether it's nice to not have Trump around anymore.

00:00:59.240 Really tough question. Always a tough question from this bunch.

00:01:02.660 But there was something said in that exchange that was inadvertently interesting and important.

00:01:07.320 So let's take a listen.

00:01:08.960 As you know, President Trump has been barred from a lot of social media sites.

00:01:12.560 I'm curious whether you think his absence has made your job any easier or the White House's job any easier

00:01:18.460 as it kind of goes forward on these COVID negotiations.

00:01:22.080 In what way?

00:01:23.180 Well, he'd create a lot of noise, right?

00:01:24.640 He would have a certain gravitational pull with Republicans who may be more inclined to take a harder position.

00:01:31.820 I wonder if that's been anything that you guys have thought about or kind of considered.

00:01:36.800 This may be hard to believe.

00:01:37.800 We don't spend a lot of time talking about or thinking about President Trump here.

00:01:41.140 Former President Trump, to be very clear.

00:01:43.520 I think that's a question that's probably more appropriate for Republican members who are looking for ways to support a bipartisan package

00:01:53.700 and whether that gives them space.

00:01:55.680 But I can't say we miss him on Twitter.

00:01:57.640 Does President Biden support the continuing ban of President Trump on their sites?

00:02:02.240 I think that's a decision made by Twitter.

00:02:04.300 We've certainly spoken to, and he's spoken to, the need for social media platforms to continue to take steps to reduce hate speech.

00:02:12.920 But we don't have more for you on it than that.

00:02:15.520 Yeah, that's not true, first of all, the idea that they don't spend a lot of time thinking about Donald Trump.

00:02:19.320 They spend a lot of time thinking about Donald Trump.

00:02:20.860 I mean, Joe Biden issues 14 executive orders every day to undo Trump's policies and has said that that's what he's doing.

00:02:29.720 So I think they do spend a lot of time thinking about him.

00:02:31.880 But that's not the point.

00:02:32.780 They say continue to take steps to reduce hate speech.

00:02:36.040 The implication here, obviously, is that by their thinking, Donald Trump is guilty of hate speech and his ban was a way of reducing the hate speech.

00:02:43.440 The implication is also, though she says it as an aside and moves on quickly, and of course, there's no follow up,

00:02:49.860 that the administration is pushing the big tech companies to purge and censor those who are guilty of hate speech.

00:02:55.920 No big surprise there, but it does highlight why hate speech is so dangerous.

00:03:00.540 And when I say hate speech is dangerous, I don't mean that the type of speech they call hate speech is dangerous.

00:03:05.740 I mean that the term is, the term hate speech, the labeling of certain speech as hate speech,

00:03:11.180 especially when it's done by people in power and for political reasons, is dangerous.

00:03:17.280 Conservatives made a massive mistake, I think, not the first by a long shot,

00:03:20.920 when many of them tacitly went along with the formation of categories like hate speech and even hate crime.

00:03:26.100 The difference between those two, hate speech and hate crime, is that hate crime is an actual legal category,

00:03:31.940 though it shouldn't be, it is, while hate speech is not, but not for lack of trying.

00:03:35.860 I mean, the left has long wanted to make hate speech a crime in its own right.

00:03:40.520 They've so far run into roadblocks, mostly from the Supreme Court, preventing them from achieving that goal,

00:03:46.360 but they're going to keep trying.

00:03:47.160 Even so, other powerful institutions outside of the court system, namely big tech, also academia,

00:03:53.520 have adopted their own policies of punishing so-called hate speech.

00:03:57.680 And ultimately, this is an excuse, a cover, a Trojan horse, by which conservative speech and thought,

00:04:03.880 and really any speech or thought that does not comport with leftist orthodoxy, is silenced.

00:04:08.800 I think it's therefore worth analyzing this idea of hate speech.

00:04:13.400 And the main thing we should say, in analyzing it, is that it doesn't really exist,

00:04:18.860 or at least it doesn't exist in any sort of objective way.

00:04:22.500 Because to label something hate speech, just as to label a crime a hate crime,

00:04:27.340 is to label not the thing itself, but the motivations behind it.

00:04:32.300 So you hear someone say something, and you call it hate speech,

00:04:35.180 because according to you, it was said for hateful reasons.

00:04:38.420 But you, of course, have no way of knowing that.

00:04:41.640 Unless the speech in question was someone literally saying, I hate you.

00:04:45.520 Almost anything outside of that, or many, many of the things outside of that,

00:04:50.540 when you call it hate speech, you are merely labeling your own feelings about someone else's speech.

00:04:57.020 So it reminds me of the scene in the office when someone poops on Michael's carpet,

00:05:01.600 and he calls it a hate crime, which it very well may have been.

00:05:05.640 But Stanley says, oh, it's not a hate crime.

00:05:07.440 And Michael says, well, I hated it.

00:05:09.900 That is essentially how both hate speech and hate crimes are judged.

00:05:14.180 The person doing the labeling is using the standard of their own feelings

00:05:19.440 about the speech or the act in question.

00:05:23.500 As for the feelings of the person who actually said or did the thing,

00:05:27.300 nobody but that person really knows.

00:05:29.240 This is why the hate speech label has always been and always will be political.

00:05:34.320 The left hates conservative speech and labels it hate speech,

00:05:38.920 which is a statement not about the speech, but about their perspective of the speech.

00:05:44.840 They feel that the speech is motivated by hatred.

00:05:50.080 Whether or not it actually is, how could they possibly know?

00:05:54.160 Unless you're inside the mind and the heart of the person doing the speaking.

00:05:57.220 Besides, even if speech is motivated by hate,

00:06:00.900 who is to say that that's a bad thing necessarily?

00:06:04.500 Yes, I will say this right now.

00:06:06.600 Sometimes hate speech is good. 0.53

00:06:09.000 There are plenty of things in the world worthy of hatred.

00:06:12.280 You may express your views about those things,

00:06:14.440 and in so doing, you are speaking at least partly out of hate.

00:06:18.060 So in a literal sense, it is hate speech.

00:06:20.540 It is hateful speech.

00:06:21.920 I get hit with the hate speech label all the time.

00:06:27.800 And often, I must admit, quite accurately.

00:06:31.220 For example, recently I said something on this show,

00:06:34.100 as I have many times in the past, about drag queen story hours.

00:06:37.600 And I'm against them, if you haven't heard.

00:06:39.980 And I was afterwards accused of hate speech, as usual.

00:06:42.980 Not the first time for that.

00:06:44.600 And yeah, you know, you're right.

00:06:45.940 But I do hate drag queen story hours. 0.96

00:06:48.680 I absolutely hate them. 0.90

00:06:49.760 It is hateful speech. 1.00

00:06:50.940 I absolutely hate them.

00:06:52.900 And if you picked up on that, I'm glad,

00:06:54.960 because that was the message I was trying to send.

00:06:57.460 I hate the sexual exploitation of children. 0.98

00:07:01.700 Call me crazy. 0.99

00:07:02.520 I just hate it.

00:07:03.680 Hate speech?

00:07:04.360 Sure, I guess so.

00:07:06.040 Now, if by calling it hate speech,

00:07:08.160 you mean to accuse me of hating the actual people themselves

00:07:11.320 who host and stage these drag shows for children.

00:07:15.920 Well, again, you're not far off the mark.

00:07:17.600 I mean, I try not to hate any individual person,

00:07:20.160 hate the sin, not the sinner.

00:07:24.640 But because I am a Christian,

00:07:26.960 we are commanded not to hate people.

00:07:31.460 But I will admit that I fail to live up to that edict sometimes.

00:07:34.340 And yes, I lapse into actually hating the individual people

00:07:38.480 who sexually exploit children. 0.83

00:07:39.940 I will admit that. 0.77

00:07:42.660 But what about the bad kind of hate?

00:07:45.320 That certainly exists, just as with hate crimes. 0.97

00:07:48.800 You know, I don't think the hate crime label,

00:07:50.820 the hate crime label should exist,

00:07:52.600 but the things that are legally labeled hate crimes

00:07:55.280 are, of course, very bad.

00:07:57.300 Physically attacking someone for their race or ethnicity,

00:08:00.040 for example.

00:08:00.840 That's hateful, yeah.

00:08:02.360 It's obviously bad.

00:08:03.340 You should go to jail for it.

00:08:05.000 There is speech that is hateful in a bad way.

00:08:07.780 Though it isn't a crime and should not be,

00:08:10.980 it's still worthy of our condemnation.

00:08:12.820 I myself am the target of quite a lot of deeply hateful speech.

00:08:16.940 Often I know it's hateful because the person will say something to me like, 0.99

00:08:19.880 I hate you and want you to die. 1.00

00:08:21.600 Kill yourself. 1.00

00:08:22.420 You know, that sort of thing. 1.00

00:08:23.120 Okay, I think I'm safe in assuming that's hateful.

00:08:26.860 They hate me.

00:08:28.320 But the implication is that really hateful speech is the worst kind of speech.

00:08:35.940 Just as we're supposed to believe that really hateful crime is the worst kind of crime.

00:08:41.020 The person who physically assaults another person for their race will get a harsher penalty

00:08:45.780 than someone who physically assaults another person out of, say, greed because he wants their money

00:08:50.040 or just out of general indifference, just for the fun of it.

00:08:53.540 But I think this is wrong.

00:08:55.540 Crime motivated by hate is bad.

00:08:59.500 Is it worse than crime motivated by indifference or greed or envy?

00:09:05.660 I don't see why that's the case.

00:09:07.640 I mean, at a minimum, they're all equally as evil.

00:09:09.720 But really, it seems to me, people who commit violent crimes indifferently are the worst of all. 0.54

00:09:16.180 They're the worst of the worst. 0.84

00:09:17.140 They're the most dangerous.

00:09:19.940 If anything, indifferent crimes should get the kind of emphasis that hate crimes do.

00:09:26.180 Think about serial killers, sociopaths, school shooters, most of these indifferent.

00:09:30.420 They're committing violent crime indifferently.

00:09:32.800 They don't hate the people they're victimizing.

00:09:34.780 They don't feel anything towards those people.

00:09:37.320 That's the problem.

00:09:38.100 And they are the most dangerous.

00:09:42.320 Same thing with speech.

00:09:44.080 People who say really hateful things are bad.

00:09:47.380 Or maybe I should say people who hate things that should not be hated.

00:09:49.820 But what makes the internet especially miserable are the trolls who say vile and horrible things indifferently, merely to get a rise out of people or to experience whatever thrill they get out of it, which I don't quite understand, but they get some kind of thrill.

00:10:06.560 See, that's the problem with hate speech.

00:10:09.180 It's an obscure category.

00:10:11.080 It doesn't really mean anything.

00:10:13.000 And even if it does mean something, it doesn't deserve the attention we give it.

00:10:18.420 But this is all academic.

00:10:20.780 None of this matters to the left, of course.

00:10:22.660 They're not worried about hate per se.

00:10:24.640 They're worried about the ideas they hate.

00:10:28.040 And this is their way of shutting all of that down.

00:10:32.560 Let's get now to our five headlines.

00:10:35.200 Okay, well, this is from the New York Post.

00:10:42.680 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis launched an offensive against big tech on Tuesday, warning that the social media platforms are targeting politicians like former President Donald Trump now, but will soon be coming for regular American citizens, vowing to combat the threat.

00:10:55.480 He said in a news conference, quote, today they may come after someone who looks like me.

00:10:59.400 Tomorrow they come after someone who looks like you.

00:11:01.660 And he was announcing the Transparency in Technology Act.

00:11:05.200 As part of his measure, DeSantis suggested fines of $100,000 per day for deplatforming political candidates, as well as daily fines for any company that, quote, uses their content and user-related algorithms to suppress or prioritize the access of any content related to a political candidate or cause on the ballot.

00:11:21.200 The governor also called for allowing people to opt out of content algorithms, requiring notification about changes in terms of service, and providing the right of citizens to take legal action if these conditions are violated.

00:11:32.860 All of this is great.

00:11:33.920 This is all exactly what Republicans should have done this years ago on the federal level.

00:11:42.340 And they could have at least tried.

00:11:43.860 They didn't even try.

00:11:45.680 Trump didn't try.

00:11:46.800 None of them tried when they had the chance.

00:11:48.080 This is exactly what needs to happen.

00:11:50.360 And some of this should be totally uncontroversial.

00:11:52.980 So, yeah, if you want to, we could have a debate about rules that stop social media companies from censoring political content or political candidates.

00:12:06.420 I think there should be those rules.

00:12:09.060 But something like notification about changes in terms of service.

00:12:16.940 Yeah, that's just, that is basic transparency that we expect and legally require of most any other company.

00:12:27.520 And oftentimes companies that don't have nearly the kind of power and control over you that big tech companies do.

00:12:34.320 That's all that is.

00:12:36.760 What's the argument against it?

00:12:40.420 If they're going to make a change, at a minimum, if they're going to make a change to the terms of service, you signed up for the site thinking one thing, and then they start tinkering with it and changing it, they should have to tell you that.

00:12:55.300 And, again, at a minimum, if Twitter wants to decide that it's going to start purging conservative accounts, as they have been doing, which is why all conservatives are losing their Twitter followers, they should, at a minimum, have to tell us that they're doing it and explain why.

00:13:15.380 Basic transparency that we require of any other company.

00:13:20.320 So, DeSantis, we'll play some of the clips from this because I just think it's great.

00:13:25.960 Here he is talking about some of the things that prompted this and discussing what Twitter did with the New York Post story and how that's motivating some of what he's doing now.

00:13:37.260 Let's watch.

00:13:38.240 Hunter Biden's story was true.

00:13:40.720 Okay, we now know it was true.

00:13:43.160 And the typical corporate media outlets, they just chose to ignore it.

00:13:47.280 Obviously, they wanted to beat Trump.

00:13:49.000 They had a view on the election.

00:13:52.020 They didn't want to give it any air.

00:13:53.720 So we rely on social media to go around that, not let corporate legacy media outlets control the discourse and let us speak.

00:14:02.660 So you had the New York Post to run it, and you couldn't get any traction.

00:14:06.160 You couldn't get any reach on it because big tech put their thumb on the scale.

00:14:09.860 So that was true.

00:14:10.800 What they said at the time, oh, it's a conspiracy or it's based on hacked information.

00:14:17.620 Are you kidding me?

00:14:19.460 You're trying to tell me if there was hacked information that could damage me, you guys wouldn't print it?

00:14:25.020 Give me a break.

00:14:26.000 You can whiz on my leg, but don't tell me it's raining.

00:14:28.560 You guys would print it every single day if you could.

00:14:31.160 And big tech would allow it to proliferate every single day 24-7.

00:14:35.440 So it's not being done in a principled basis, and it's not – there's threats on me.

00:14:41.720 And it only gets taken down if law enforcement goes and tells them to do it.

00:14:46.280 Otherwise, it just stays up.

00:14:47.500 They're not moderating any of that.

00:14:49.900 Oh, he's absolutely right.

00:14:50.960 And if, once again, Twitter wants to shut down the New York Post story, and yes, that is influencing the election.

00:15:00.960 Now, maybe you could argue that it wouldn't be influencing the election quite as much, at least not influencing it in a dishonest way,

00:15:08.540 if Twitter just came out and said, listen, we are – we're a liberal company.

00:15:15.760 We're a left-wing company.

00:15:16.840 This is how we run things.

00:15:18.780 We're not interested in conservative content.

00:15:21.240 The content that we're going to highlight and put in front of your eyes, that's going to be left-wing content.

00:15:26.240 And if there's a story that we don't like for political reasons, we're going to get rid of it.

00:15:30.960 At least if they came out and said that, then everyone would know where they stand,

00:15:34.900 and the bias would maybe be a little bit less harmful.

00:15:37.440 That's why I tend to think that bias from a news organization like CNN, if we can call them a news organization,

00:15:46.640 but the bias from CNN is – it's indefensible, but it's also not very harmful because everybody knows what they're getting with CNN,

00:15:55.880 even if they don't admit it.

00:15:58.320 Still, everyone knows.

00:16:00.320 Now, with Twitter, there are still a lot of people who use Twitter and are oblivious to this.

00:16:03.940 They think they're getting an accurate reflection.

00:16:08.100 You know, the way they – what they think is happening is that when they go to their news feed on Twitter or Facebook,

00:16:14.540 that they're going to be exposed to news, and they're going to find out what's going on.

00:16:20.220 It's what most people think.

00:16:21.560 So, Twitter should have to be honest about that.

00:16:27.680 And here's DeSantis touching on something that I also feel.

00:16:32.940 I mean, we talk about the bias from Twitter, which is very concerning,

00:16:40.120 but that doesn't even hold a candle to what happened to Parler.

00:16:43.880 Let's listen to DeSantis on that.

00:16:46.820 What really, I think, scared me was the decapitation of Parler.

00:16:51.440 It wasn't just – it wasn't just some of that stuff.

00:16:54.800 It was the web hosting, the payment processing, take away your email, your text.

00:16:59.780 You could totally neuter a candidate's ability to communicate and execute a campaign plan.

00:17:04.480 So, once we have that situation, they can't de-platform you without consequence.

00:17:10.420 And, look, I don't know that there has been – in 2020, we'd have to look –

00:17:14.460 I don't know that there has been a candidate that got wiped off the map.

00:17:17.980 But you see the way this is going, and I think that protection is very well warranted,

00:17:23.460 and I think it should be there.

00:17:25.260 And just think, if you're in October of 2022 and you have a state senate race or something,

00:17:32.540 and they de-platform one of the two candidates,

00:17:35.500 that is not – that's going to have a huge impact on the outcome of the race.

00:17:41.160 Yeah, Parler, they – we could talk about the bias from Twitter and Facebook.

00:17:45.680 As I said, that's bad enough.

00:17:47.040 But what they did with Parler, they just came in and – he says decapitated.

00:17:54.020 Good word for it.

00:17:55.100 Just came in and wiped it out.

00:17:56.200 They didn't like Parler and said, no, you can't have that.

00:17:57.740 Now, for years we were told, oh, if you want this – if you want your own kind of social media platform,

00:18:04.420 then go set up your own social media platform.

00:18:06.800 All right, we won't bother you over there.

00:18:10.340 Isn't that always the trajectory?

00:18:12.440 Isn't that always the theme with the left?

00:18:14.240 They said, oh, no, we won't bother you.

00:18:16.180 Just keep it to yourself.

00:18:17.900 Keep it in private, and that's fine.

00:18:20.520 We won't bother you.

00:18:21.180 And so people went to Parler, and they said, fine, we'll start our own thing.

00:18:25.880 We're going to go over here to Parler.

00:18:28.040 And enough people went over there, and then the left said, no, never mind.

00:18:30.920 You can't have that either.

00:18:33.560 Yeah, it is time for legislative solutions to this problem.

00:18:38.360 So I'm glad that DeSantis is getting the ball rolling.

00:18:40.300 And I say again, Ron DeSantis, 2024.

00:18:42.140 He's my – definitely my early frontrunner.

00:18:44.600 Number two, the New York Times has an article.

00:18:46.340 The headline is, how the Biden administration can help solve our reality crisis.

00:18:53.940 We have a reality crisis.

00:18:57.060 And among other things, it is suggested – I'm not – it's not satire.

00:19:00.660 I'm not making this up.

00:19:01.380 It's suggested that Biden appoint a, quote, reality czar, a czar of reality, lord of all reality.

00:19:09.980 I thought that was my job.

00:19:10.880 But the writer says, several experts I spoke with recommend that the Biden administration put together a cross-agency task force

00:19:18.440 to tackle disinformation and domestic extremism, which would be led by something like a reality czar.

00:19:25.080 It sounds a little dystopian, I'll grant, but let's hear them out.

00:19:28.740 Right now, these experts said the federal government's response to disinformation and domestic extremism

00:19:32.340 is haphazard and spread across multiple agencies.

00:19:35.280 And there's a lot of unnecessary overlap.

00:19:36.820 And the way to solve that – I'm not going to read all of this – but the way to solve that is to have an agency

00:19:43.260 and an actual czar who's – I guess – now, I did read all of this.

00:19:48.720 And before going on the other – it's not quite explained what exactly the reality czar would do.

00:19:57.420 But I guess the idea is that we have a czar, we have an authority figure to stand up and tell us what reality is.

00:20:07.780 They are the official authority.

00:20:10.860 If there's information circulating, they can declare if it's false or not.

00:20:16.200 And you think this is so absurd.

00:20:19.320 Now, this couldn't happen.

00:20:21.200 And even if it did happen, who would actually listen to the realities are?

00:20:26.640 A lot of people.

00:20:29.300 You look at these organizations that have just declared themselves fact checkers.

00:20:36.340 They haven't had to prove why they deserve that label or anything like that.

00:20:42.020 Organization comes along and says, oh, we're fact checkers, this is what we do.

00:20:44.720 And so, if we say it's not a fact, because we're fact checkers, means it's not.

00:20:50.840 Many people fall for that.

00:20:53.380 So, I'm sure the reality czar.

00:20:55.060 All we need is the realities czar.

00:20:56.560 You know, we know on the left, they believe in pregnant men, for example.

00:21:01.640 So, we just need the reality czar to come out and say, yes, officially, this is reality.

00:21:05.920 Men can get pregnant. 1.00

00:21:07.200 The reality czar has spoken.

00:21:08.800 It is settled law.

00:21:09.780 Number three, a CNN legal analyst reacted to Trump's impeachment defense, and she made a rather startling legal claim.

00:21:20.060 Let's listen.

00:21:21.220 Counselor, let me start with you. 1.00

00:21:22.500 This is the 14-page brief filed by the president's lawyers.

00:21:25.940 It says, number one, this is unconstitutional because he is a former president.

00:21:29.980 It says, number two, that he has a First Amendment right to speak, and therefore, he said things at a rally and people attack the Capitol.

00:21:36.120 You can't hold him accountable.

00:21:37.080 Yeah, those are wrong, and they're well countered by the very long brief the House filed earlier today.

00:21:44.780 I mean, you don't have a First Amendment right to lie.

00:21:47.800 You don't have a First Amendment right to put people in danger, and he did both of those things.

00:21:53.560 And, of course, we know the jurisdictional arguments were covered in about 40 pages of the House's brief as well.

00:21:58.520 So, you know, it's not surprising that in only 36 hours with what are clearly not his A-listers of defense lawyers, they weren't able to come up with compelling arguments.

00:22:07.980 But it also highlights that there really aren't any compelling defense arguments here at all.

00:22:12.160 So, you know, the brief was mostly what was to be expected.

00:22:16.240 There was one thing, actually, that did surprise me.

00:22:18.080 She's a legal analyst, and she's a lecturer.

00:22:21.640 I didn't see the body.

00:22:22.680 Was it Columbia Law School?

00:22:26.100 A lecturer, Columbia Law School, legal analyst, a lecturer.

00:22:30.020 And her claim is that you don't have a First Amendment right to lie.

00:22:34.920 Yes, you do.

00:22:36.340 See, I'm not a legal lecturer at all.

00:22:38.980 I don't have any job in any law school.

00:22:40.640 I didn't go to law school.

00:22:43.300 But I can say you absolutely have a First Amendment right to lie.

00:22:49.600 That is, but keep in mind, we talked about hate speech to begin the show.

00:22:53.260 These are the same people who, according to them, what they would like to see happen is that you don't have a First Amendment right to say things hatefully either.

00:23:01.320 Who decides if it's hateful?

00:23:02.880 They do.

00:23:03.260 Who decides if it's a lie?

00:23:05.000 They do.

00:23:06.700 All right.

00:23:07.260 Number four, this is from the Daily Wire.

00:23:08.920 The Montgomery County Public School District in Maryland spent more than $450,000 on an anti-racist audit for the 2020 through 2021 school year,

00:23:18.900 which resulted in the district tentatively adopting policies that push anti-racist thinking in preschool.

00:23:25.480 So we're talking about like three- and four-year-olds, okay?

00:23:28.480 According to a copy of the school district's Tentative Action Policy obtained by the Daily Wire,

00:23:31.680 the district will now provide a culturally responsive pre-kindergarten to grade 12 curriculum

00:23:36.040 that promotes equity, respect, anti-racist thinking, and civility.

00:23:42.700 I'm wondering when do we get to the how to riot part of the lesson?

00:23:48.480 Is that in the civility?

00:23:49.900 How to riot civilly?

00:23:52.280 The curriculum will also teach students that the impact of racism on mental health has been deemed a public health crisis.

00:23:58.600 The school district, which is one of the largest in the nation, announced in November that it would partner with the Mid-Atlantic Equity Consortium

00:24:04.700 for the $454,000 to conduct an anti-racist audit.

00:24:10.220 The audit was designed to examine the district's systems, practices, and policies that do not create access opportunities

00:24:15.440 and equitable outcomes for every student's academic and social-emotional well-being.

00:24:20.700 So, yeah, starting in pre-k.

00:24:24.100 Now, you know what I'm going to say, because what I always say when we read a story like this,

00:24:26.980 which is the first thing is get your kids out of the public school system.

00:24:29.660 But I would add an addendum to that.

00:24:33.300 And I would say this.

00:24:35.640 At least, at least get them out of the public school system at these very early ages.

00:24:41.820 Please, dear God, do not send your four-year-old to a public school system.

00:24:50.860 Now, you homeschool them early on, send them to high school or something.

00:24:58.300 Maybe, you know, maybe that's a feasible plan.

00:25:01.160 Because at that point, if your kid's 13 or 14, they've been raised, and you've raised them correctly,

00:25:06.700 and you've, maybe at that point, they'll have the fortitude and the formation to withstand the brainwashing that will still happen.

00:25:16.120 But the point is, at four years old, forget about it.

00:25:20.140 Four years old, there's just no chance.

00:25:23.260 You send your four-year-old in.

00:25:25.360 A four-year-old is going to believe whatever they are told. 0.86

00:25:29.480 It doesn't matter what it is.

00:25:31.160 Anything you tell them, you tell them that you rode to work this morning on a unicorn, they'll totally believe it.

00:25:40.000 That won't even occur to them as an odd thing to say.

00:25:43.940 Because talk about reality, they have no concept of reality.

00:25:48.420 So when you send much more than this is the case with the older kids, with younger kids,

00:25:54.640 when you send your younger kid to school, that is an act of profound trust.

00:26:03.680 You are putting so much trust

00:26:05.840 in the people that will be in charge of your child at that school.

00:26:12.520 Because the influence and power they're going to have over your child, it's difficult to articulate.

00:26:23.120 The immensity of it.

00:26:28.480 And if they decide that they want to brainwash your kid at the age of four

00:26:33.280 into this anti-racist nonsense, into critical race theory,

00:26:37.680 that's it. 0.99

00:26:39.220 Your child's going to be brainwashed.

00:26:40.660 There's almost nothing you can do about it.

00:26:42.340 If they're being exposed to that for hours a day, at that age.

00:26:48.180 So please, think twice about that.

00:26:51.120 I beg of you.

00:26:52.720 Number five.

00:26:53.360 Big news yesterday.

00:26:54.260 One of the great crimes of the century.

00:26:56.080 Somebody changed the Hollywood sign to read Holly Boob. 0.98

00:27:01.120 Someone climbed up there and they changed the W and the D.

00:27:04.220 And they made it say Boob. 1.00

00:27:07.880 Okay.

00:27:08.200 Now that was the story yesterday.

00:27:09.480 Someone changed the Hollywood sign, made it Holly Boob. 1.00

00:27:13.100 And of course, I think all people, our inner middle schoolers, are delighted by this story.

00:27:20.480 But now the New York Post has the latest.

00:27:22.840 And we're told that, here's what the New York Post reports,

00:27:25.360 Julia Rose, who won fame for flashing her breasts on live TV during the 2019 World Series.

00:27:30.620 Apparently that's something you can win fame for now.

00:27:33.120 I've never heard of this person, but she's famous for this.

00:27:35.920 She was busted along with five others for changing the famous Hollywood sign to read Holly Boob.

00:27:41.720 She's a 27-year-old model. 0.63

00:27:44.140 And apparently this was done in an act of protest

00:27:48.840 because she was protesting that Instagram had locked her out of her account for posting nude photos.

00:27:57.560 And I have to say, this is a very disappointing reveal, isn't it?

00:28:04.040 I heard this story about the Holly Boob thing. 1.00

00:28:06.840 And I hoped that these were some very industrious 12-year-olds who had managed,

00:28:13.260 like instead of writing it on the bathroom stall, like the rest of us had done,

00:28:18.640 they had big dreams.

00:28:21.460 I mean, they went for it all.

00:28:22.680 And that would have been impressive.

00:28:26.160 But then you find out it's a 27-year-old, they did it for Instagram,

00:28:29.860 and they did it for social media clout.

00:28:32.400 Not fun at all.

00:28:33.280 This is one of the most disappointing endings I think I've ever seen in any story at all.

00:28:38.520 So that's pretty bad.

00:28:39.900 All right, we're going to move on now.

00:28:40.860 Now, before we get to our daily, this is usually when we get to our daily cancellation,

00:28:44.540 but before we do that, this is pretty exciting.

00:28:46.520 I am debuting a new segment on the show today.

00:28:50.460 And this will be a segment.

00:28:51.660 I figure, you know, one thing that I'd like to bring back into the show that I used to have early on

00:28:56.280 and hasn't been as much is a little bit of viewer feedback,

00:28:58.700 a little bit of interaction with the viewers and the listeners.

00:29:01.140 And so what I'm going to start doing after the headlines every day is reading.

00:29:05.320 They say you're not supposed to read your comments, especially on YouTube.

00:29:08.320 Talk about hatefulness, right?

00:29:09.780 Don't read the comments is what everyone says.

00:29:11.820 But the dirty little secret about people in my position, anyone with a platform,

00:29:16.140 is that we all read the comments.

00:29:17.540 We always do.

00:29:18.680 We're not supposed to say that because that only empowers the trolls

00:29:21.720 because they know that we will see the stuff they're writing.

00:29:24.240 Yeah, we do see it.

00:29:25.600 And it also hurts our feelings.

00:29:26.960 We cry about it.

00:29:27.600 We do.

00:29:28.700 So think about that next time.

00:29:32.440 So I'm going to read a few of the comments from the show on YouTube yesterday

00:29:36.540 just to get a little bit of the viewer interaction.

00:29:38.760 And this is a segment that I will call reading the comments.

00:29:45.960 Creative, I know.

00:29:47.240 This is from Anthony.

00:29:48.120 He says, I live across the street from that mattress store in Kenosha.

00:29:51.300 I watched that mattress store crumble and collapse into the road from the extreme heat.

00:29:55.840 I could feel from my front yard.

00:29:57.580 It basically melted the brick building.

00:29:59.480 It rained fire embers that night from the entire block burning.

00:30:02.740 I thought it was a real possibility I could die that night.

00:30:05.020 I also know the people and politicians responsible for inciting the $20 million in damages to my city and neighborhood

00:30:10.220 will have to answer for what they did because God never forgets.

00:30:13.480 I want to feel bad for AOC, but I don't.

00:30:16.040 Now she slightly knows how I and so many Kenoshaans feel about the night my life changed forever.

00:30:20.880 We are still cleaning up the buildings, which were burnt.

00:30:23.560 I currently live in a construction where I am reminded every day what happened,

00:30:26.780 what happens for a man who was a rapist and a thief evading police and evading the responsibility for his actions.

00:30:33.120 This is why you should read the comment because that's a great comment.

00:30:36.380 And these people like Anthony, completely forgotten.

00:30:40.580 Have we gotten any, have there really been any follow-ups with the people like Anthony,

00:30:46.520 people in the community who lived in these neighborhoods that were reduced to rubble?

00:30:53.500 I'm interested to know.

00:30:54.920 That's why I'm glad to hear from Anthony.

00:30:55.880 I'm interested to know what it's like to live in a neighborhood like that.

00:30:59.960 How are things going?

00:31:02.400 The media just completely ignores.

00:31:04.060 They've been erased.

00:31:06.860 Nick says, beards looking thick, Matt.

00:31:09.780 T-H-I-C-C-C. 1.00

00:31:11.820 I don't really know what thick means.

00:31:13.180 I've always thought it had a vaguely sexual connotation.

00:31:15.640 I hope not, given that this came from someone named Nick.

00:31:18.020 But thank you, Nick.

00:31:19.620 Miss Region Rat says, okay, this Groundhog thing being so old school is actually really adorable. 1.00

00:31:24.540 What a bunch of goofs. 0.56

00:31:25.440 I did come out against the Groundhog Day yesterday, and I had time to think.

00:31:29.160 Because my problem with it is that, as I said, we've gotten rid of all of our cultural traditions, pretty much.

00:31:35.460 All of our shared traditions are out the window.

00:31:38.380 You know, Thanksgiving, everything's going.

00:31:40.380 The one thing we hold on to is the tradition where guys in top hats talk to a magical rodent who can tell the future.

00:31:48.160 And I just think that's the one we keep.

00:31:51.180 But as I had more time to reflect on Groundhog Day, I realized, well, okay, if that's all we got, then I guess we should, I guess I should have the opposite attitude.

00:31:58.100 That we need to cling on to Groundhog Day.

00:31:59.720 It's our last cultural tradition. 1.00

00:32:01.380 It's all we have now is this stupid rodent. 1.00

00:32:05.000 So I think you're right, Diana. 1.00

00:32:08.320 R.G. reacting to AOC's Instagram where she was crying about her trauma from the rioting.

00:32:14.480 R.G. says, OMG, what happened to politicians?

00:32:17.420 Teddy Roosevelt was shot in the chest and still managed to give a speech.

00:32:21.200 Babies everywhere.

00:32:22.260 My God.

00:32:23.460 Yeah, that was, I covered that in a daily cancellation, I think, recently.

00:32:26.240 You look at, he, he, Teddy Roosevelt, this is quite literally was shot in the chest and still gave a speech.

00:32:32.460 Compare that to politicians today.

00:32:34.200 And what does that tell you?

00:32:35.920 And David says, Matt, sounds like you're supporting this gradual acceptance of the Democrats view when you and others say, well, this is what we can expect.

00:32:44.060 And be ready for these changes.

00:32:45.900 How about a plan to stop this?

00:32:48.400 You're baptizing us slowly.

00:32:50.440 The Dem put their deranged opinions in our face.

00:32:52.740 It's time to spin this around.

00:32:54.500 No, this is not, this is not defeatism on my part.

00:32:56.760 When I say, well, this is what, this is what we can expect.

00:32:58.880 This is what's, this is what's going to happen.

00:33:00.760 It's not defeatism.

00:33:01.940 It's about, you know, I'm just like the realities are, wants us to.

00:33:07.440 It's about facing reality.

00:33:10.200 And I think, especially in recent months, conservatives spent.

00:33:14.220 There was a, this kind of mass delusion that took hold of conservatives.

00:33:20.120 And not just in the last few months, but especially in the last few months leading up to the, to the inauguration.

00:33:27.440 Where conservatives were refusing to face reality and insisting to the very end.

00:33:32.040 I mean, I don't know how many, but many insisting to the very end.

00:33:34.960 Oh no, it's Trump will still be in office.

00:33:36.920 There's no way this is going to happen.

00:33:40.160 And anyone like myself who said, no, look, it's he, Joe Biden's going to be president.

00:33:45.680 We were castigated for it.

00:33:48.520 No, it's this, we're not.

00:33:49.940 And we were accused of being defeatist.

00:33:52.260 I heard this many times.

00:33:53.700 If I said, you know, Joe Biden's gonna be president.

00:33:55.900 Oh, you're being a defeatist.

00:33:56.860 No, I'm just, I'm being a realist.

00:33:58.780 He will be.

00:34:00.100 I don't like it, but he will be.

00:34:02.980 So when I say things like that, it's all about facing reality.

00:34:07.020 Because we have to first, if we want to do anything about what our reality is right now,

00:34:12.320 if we want to, if we want to make changes in reality, then we have to first face, face it, right?

00:34:17.220 That's to be the first step.

00:34:18.840 All right.

00:34:19.560 Those are the comments for today.

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00:37:34.140 Let's get down to our Daily Cancellation.

00:37:39.640 Today for our Daily Cancellation, we must begin by discussing the drama of a woman who 0.52

00:37:44.520 has been dubbed Courtside Karen.

00:37:47.320 Her real name, in fact, is Juliana Carlos.

00:37:50.180 She's apparently an Instagram influencer, which, as far as I can tell, just means that she's

00:37:53.680 married to a rich guy and posts a lot of pictures of herself online.

00:37:56.660 That makes her an influencer now.

00:37:58.100 So, Mrs. Carlos was at the Hawks game a couple nights ago, courtside seats with her husband,

00:38:03.140 watching the home team take on LeBron's Lakers.

00:38:06.160 At some point during the game, a brief argument or shouting match of some kind broke out between

00:38:10.560 LeBron and the husband of Juliana Carlos.

00:38:14.220 She, after the fact, described the interaction between herself, because she intervenes, she

00:38:20.700 says, and she described the interaction with LeBron in a way that certainly does not engender

00:38:26.220 any sympathy for her.

00:38:27.540 Let's take a listen.

00:38:28.440 So, I'm minding my own business, and Chris has been a Hawks fan forever.

00:38:33.900 He's been watching the games for 10 years, whatever.

00:38:36.000 He has this issue with LeBron.

00:38:37.540 I don't have an issue with LeBron. 0.97

00:38:39.300 I don't give a f*** about LeBron. 0.97

00:38:40.800 Anyway, I'm minding my own business, drinking my f***, having fun. 0.97

00:38:45.280 All of a sudden, LeBron says something to my husband, and I see this, and I go, I stand 0.98

00:38:51.260 up and go, don't f***ing talk to my husband, and he looks at me and he goes, sit the f*** 0.99

00:38:55.580 down, b***h, and I go, don't f***ing call me a b***h, you sit the f***, get the f*** out 1.00

00:39:00.000 of here, and I go, don't f***ing talk to my husband like that. 1.00

00:39:03.900 Don't talk to my husband, and he literally was like, f*** you, b***h, sit down, b***h, 1.00

00:39:08.940 and all of a sudden, now I'm getting kicked out. 1.00

00:39:10.940 Excuse me, I have courtside seats that I pay for. 1.00

00:39:13.760 F*** you, LeBron, you're a f***ing b***h, get the f*** out of here. 1.00

00:39:17.160 You're going to let a 25-year-old girl intimidate you during a game? 1.00

00:39:20.580 Bye, b***h. 0.95

00:39:22.980 I wanted to send that to our editors, I know it was probably fun for them to get all the... 0.99

00:39:27.980 My lord, why do rich guys marry women like this? 1.00

00:39:32.260 Now, I know why they do, I'm not naive, but is it worth it?

00:39:36.760 Is it worth the price of listening to that every day?

00:39:39.440 Is it really?

00:39:41.500 I don't know anything about her husband, I assume he's older.

00:39:43.980 You know, I assume he's like 92.

00:39:46.440 And your final years of life, this is what you're listening to?

00:39:50.940 Is it worth it to you?

00:39:53.900 In any case, this woman later apologized for the argument and took full responsibility,

00:39:58.440 which tells me, you know, which does make me doubt the part of the story where she allegedly

00:40:03.240 was called the B-word.

00:40:04.900 She seems to have backed away from that and is now trying to apologize and move on.

00:40:09.060 Whatever actually happened, given what we know already about LeBron James and given what

00:40:12.980 we know about this woman just from the 30-second clip there, it's safe to say that there were

00:40:16.760 no good guys in the dispute.

00:40:18.320 No one to root for.

00:40:20.420 But today's daily cancellation has nothing to do with any of that.

00:40:23.780 LeBron James, after the game, didn't have much to say about the whole incident except

00:40:28.580 this.

00:40:29.240 He tweeted, Courtside Karen was mad mad, followed by a bunch of laughing emojis. 1.00

00:40:35.780 I've already canceled grown men who use emojis, so we're not going to rehash that aspect of it.

00:40:40.800 My issue today is with the pejorative use of the name Karen.

00:40:43.960 Okay, that's what I'm canceling.

00:40:45.140 The Karen meme is officially canceled because it's a racial slur.

00:40:48.320 Now, to reiterate, I'm not defending the woman who seems to embody pretty much all of the

00:40:54.360 things I loathe.

00:40:55.740 Also, I'm not personally offended by the Karen thing.

00:40:58.620 I'm not a white woman, though I could become one if I wanted to, of course.

00:41:02.740 At least that's what I'm told anyway.

00:41:03.780 Okay, so for now, it doesn't concern me directly or apply to me, but I am a fan of intellectual

00:41:10.680 consistency, and I do hate, with a burning, unyielding passion, here's some hate speech,

00:41:17.160 I hate double standards. 0.98

00:41:19.500 Hate them.

00:41:21.040 And on that basis, I object to the name Karen being used in this way.

00:41:25.740 Now, a couple things to establish here.

00:41:26.900 First of all, Karen does absolutely have a racial connotation. 1.00

00:41:33.400 Please do not embarrass yourself by claiming otherwise.

00:41:36.640 Yes, sometimes, rarely, but sometimes, non-white people are labeled Karens. 0.81

00:41:40.920 But in its origination, and in its most popular usage, it refers specifically to obnoxious white 0.98

00:41:45.980 women. 0.99

00:41:46.460 And when a non-white woman is called a Karen, the insult is, you're acting like a white 1.00

00:41:51.380 woman.

00:41:52.620 Okay?

00:41:53.640 A Time Magazine article in July says that the Karen meme confronts the violent history of

00:41:58.860 white womanhood. 0.77

00:41:59.740 And a Teen Vogue article from around the same time says that the archetypal Karen is a white 1.00

00:42:04.880 woman, and that the Karen meme originated, quote, as an inside joke within communities

00:42:09.280 of color.

00:42:10.100 That is, it's an insult against white woman, and it was created by non-white people. 1.00

00:42:15.320 In fact, the Teen Vogue article takes issue with white women using the word themselves in 0.87

00:42:21.000 reference to each other.

00:42:21.760 The writer, Malavika Cannon, explains that non-white people have a right to use this slur 1.00

00:42:30.600 against white people.

00:42:31.500 And if you, as a white person, use it yourself, then you are appropriating your own slur. 0.59

00:42:36.500 And you can't do that.

00:42:38.820 A Daily Beast article from earlier this month says that, says, quote, Karen, like the once

00:42:44.120 popular phrase, Becky, became a moniker to describe white women who were problematic. 1.00

00:42:48.760 In this case, the author wishes to stop using the term, but not because it's racist.

00:42:54.340 He wants to stop using it because he fears instead that Karens are being normalized by

00:43:00.540 the use of the word Karen.

00:43:03.040 And if you prefer to go to Wikipedia for all your information, as most of the country does,

00:43:09.140 here's what that site says about the origins of Karen.

00:43:11.680 It says, quote, there are several possible origins of the term.

00:43:14.580 One theory is that it's an evolution of an African-American vernacular English term of

00:43:19.560 referring to unreasonable white women.

00:43:21.740 The term may have originated on black Twitter as a meme used to describe white women who 1.00

00:43:26.580 tattle on black kids' lemonade stands. 0.98

00:43:29.400 Bitch Magazine, that's the name of a magazine, don't blame me, described it as a term that 1.00

00:43:34.400 originated with black women but was co-opted by white men. 0.99

00:43:37.360 Okay, so again, just get the irony here. 0.76

00:43:41.520 This is a pejorative of a certain race, of white people, but white people aren't allowed 1.00

00:43:51.340 to use it.

00:43:53.640 That's offensive for us to use it.

00:43:56.160 The point here is that without any doubt at all, this is a racial term.

00:44:01.160 The people who first came up with it and first started using it say that it's racial, and

00:44:07.640 they very much object to any attempt to de-racialize it.

00:44:11.460 The next question then is whether it is a racial term, but is it a racist term?

00:44:18.740 Is it a racial slur?

00:44:21.260 Well, to answer that question, we need only engage in a thought experiment.

00:44:24.340 Very simple.

00:44:25.660 Let us imagine an exactly analogous situation. 0.88

00:44:29.200 What if white people on Twitter started to refer to obnoxious black women using a stereotypical 1.00

00:44:34.960 black woman name? 1.00

00:44:36.360 Now, in order to properly frame this, let's use an actual name as an example.

00:44:39.860 ABC News has an article from a few years ago listing what they call the top 20 whitest and

00:44:44.660 blackest names.

00:44:46.020 Now, if you have a problem with a phrase like whitest and blackest names, take it up with 1.00

00:44:49.100 ABC News.

00:44:50.280 One of the names at the top of their list for black women is Shanice. 0.99

00:44:54.260 Okay, I'll take that as an example. 0.99

00:44:55.640 What if white people on Twitter, a bunch of a bunch of dastardly right wing white people, 0.98

00:45:00.980 let's say, started describing their encounters with black women by saying things like, oh 0.99

00:45:05.700 man, so this Shanice was up in my face, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.

00:45:09.780 Would there be any doubt about whether that qualifies as racist?

00:45:13.640 Would anyone even dare suggest that it isn't racist?

00:45:16.540 I certainly wouldn't.

00:45:19.220 I mean, in my mind, it would be absolutely 100% clear to me that using a stereotypical

00:45:23.980 black female name as a pejorative to refer to black women I don't like is extremely racist. 0.80

00:45:30.340 Everything about it is racist. 0.93

00:45:32.040 If that's not racist, then what could possibly be racist?

00:45:35.940 You're taking a stereotypical name for members of a certain race and using it as a pejorative

00:45:39.940 against them.

00:45:40.800 What could qualify as racist if that doesn't?

00:45:47.120 That's the stance I would have in the case of Shanice.

00:45:50.360 And so would everybody else.

00:45:53.400 Everyone.

00:45:54.240 You, me, everyone.

00:45:55.580 We would all agree that it's racist.

00:45:57.420 Everyone would.

00:45:58.320 And on the left, especially among the very people defending the use of the term Karen,

00:46:03.460 well, they would be apoplectic.

00:46:04.740 I mean, they, they would be writing think pieces with titles like the Shanice meme is

00:46:09.380 an attack on black womanhood, so on and so forth.

00:46:12.400 We all know it.

00:46:13.920 No reasonable person can deny it.

00:46:17.100 So does this kind of racial slur?

00:46:21.080 So what that establishes is this is race.

00:46:23.640 This is racial and it's racist.

00:46:27.020 We've established those two things.

00:46:28.540 I think undeniably.

00:46:29.700 Next question.

00:46:33.140 Does this kind of racial slur, this kind of dehumanizing, degrading way of referring to

00:46:37.300 people of another race, does it suddenly become acceptable if you apply it to white people?

00:46:44.020 No.

00:46:45.580 Objectively, it doesn't.

00:46:47.560 Subjectively, according to our culture and the way the rules are now set up, it does.

00:46:50.940 According to those rules, it's impossible to be racist against white people.

00:46:53.660 So Karen is not racist. 0.98

00:46:54.960 I mean, you could run up to a white person, call him a white devil, spit in his face and 0.99

00:46:59.060 set him on fire, and you still would not be racist. 1.00

00:47:02.340 Those are the rules now.

00:47:03.700 But I object to those rules.

00:47:05.980 And so should you.

00:47:08.800 If it's so obvious, which it is, that Karen originates as a racial slur, and it's intended 1.00

00:47:14.480 to be a racial slur, then why do so few white people, even white women, object to it? 0.88

00:47:20.040 But why is it that on the few occasions when I've brought this issue up, I've been met

00:47:25.820 with backlash mostly by white people desperately defending the slurs that are used against them?

00:47:32.260 Taking it personally, that I think they shouldn't be slurred. 0.99

00:47:37.120 The reason I think is that white people have Stockholm syndrome. 0.94

00:47:40.140 They think that they aren't allowed to object to this kind of thing.

00:47:43.300 They actually think they might be racist if they object to racism targeted at them.

00:47:47.000 They're at the point now where you could go up to them and pee in their cereal, and they

00:47:52.200 would just smile and say, hey, man, no problem.

00:47:54.020 I understand.

00:47:55.000 You know, I would never tell you to stop peeing in my cereal.

00:47:57.740 I didn't want those Frosted Flakes anyway, unless you want me to eat them.

00:48:01.600 That's it.

00:48:01.880 But, you know, it would be really obnoxious on my part to object.

00:48:04.700 Okay.

00:48:05.020 I, and if I came up and said, hey, man, that guy's peeing in your cereal, that's kind of

00:48:09.880 wrong.

00:48:10.160 Maybe you shouldn't do that.

00:48:12.140 You would say to me, hey, hey, you snowflake, get out, mind your own business.

00:48:15.460 Stop being a drama queen.

00:48:19.420 What is this, cancel culture?

00:48:21.460 Trying to cancel this person for peeing in my cereal?

00:48:23.560 Come on. 1.00

00:48:25.180 It's pathetic. 0.99

00:48:26.700 I mean, have a little self-respect, for God's sake. 0.99

00:48:29.720 You don't have to accept double standards.

00:48:32.000 You don't have to go along with it.

00:48:34.360 And you shouldn't.

00:48:36.480 Now, I know that just by pointing out a double standard, that's not enough to make it go

00:48:40.520 away.

00:48:41.440 I get it.

00:48:42.200 What's the other option?

00:48:44.880 To just accept it?

00:48:46.820 To cooperate with it?

00:48:49.400 No.

00:48:50.740 Absolutely not.

00:48:55.320 We should take the stance that racial slurs are bad.

00:48:59.140 No matter who they are applied to.

00:49:03.640 And as it happens right now, there's really only one racial slur I can think of that is

00:49:09.580 popularly used and can be used without any social consequence whatsoever.

00:49:14.940 And so that should be the racial slur we focus on.

00:49:18.060 Because all the others, everyone agrees, are bad.

00:49:20.040 This one, even the people who fall victim to it, cannot bring themselves to say that it's

00:49:26.500 bad.

00:49:27.960 But it is.

00:49:29.780 And that is why the Karen meme and all who use it have been canceled.

00:49:35.100 And we will leave it there for today.

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Ep. 650 - The 'Hate Speech' Trojan Horse

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