Ep. 653 - Stop Saying Sorry
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Summary
Last week was a busy one for the cancel culture. Morgan Wallen and Donald McNeil were both accused of using the N-word on tape, and a New York Times reporter resigned in disgrace. Also, the Washington Post is concerned that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers mascot may be normalizing piracy.
Transcript
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, the cancel culture claims three victims last week.
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Prolific week for the cancel culture. We'll talk about the latest cases and discuss
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what might be done to finally put an end to this madness. Also, five headlines,
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including the most notable events from the Super Bowl, if there were any. Speaking of the Super
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Bowl, the Washington Post is concerned that the Buccaneers mascot may normalize piracy.
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Yes, I'm not joking. We'll talk about that as well and much more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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This past week was one of the cancel culture's busiest and most productive to date. It began
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with the country superstar Morgan Wallen getting suspended by his record label, pulled from hundreds
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of radio stations, and disqualified from receiving country music awards after he was caught saying the
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N-word on tape. And it ended with Donald McNeil Jr., famed science reporter, veteran journalist of 45
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years, being forced out of his job at the New York Times after a revelation that he had also used
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similar, quote unquote, racist language. And in between, old accusations of inappropriate behavior
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by another New York Times staff member, Andy Mills, prompted him to also resign in disgrace. Now,
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getting into these specific cases, in Mills' case, he had apparently engaged in some inappropriate
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flirting with women at a previous job several years ago. Now, this was all known. This was known and it
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was dealt with at the time, apparently. But after it was decided by some people on Twitter and some of
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his colleagues that Mills had not received his fair portion of the blame for a separate incident in which
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the Times had to retract key portions of a hit podcast that he had helped produced, these other
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unrelated allegations were made to, as they say, resurface. As for Morgan Wallen, as we covered on the show on
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Friday, he did say the N-word, but it was uttered drunkenly in jest to a friend and secretly recorded by a
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neighbor and then sent immediately to TMZ. Donald McNeil used the same word, though it turns out that
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he said it one time two years prior while on a trip with students to South America, and he didn't so
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much as use the slur as refer to it. Now, as he explained in his resignation letter, he, quote,
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was asked at a dinner by a student whether I thought a classmate of hers should have been suspended for a
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video she had made as a 12-year-old in which she used a racial slur. To understand what was in the video,
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I asked if she had called someone else the slur or whether she was rapping or quoting a book title.
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In asking the question, I used the slur itself. Now, this incident was investigated internally by
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McNeil's employer right after it happened, and it was determined that he had no malicious or racist
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intent. He was just referring to the word. He was talking about it and trying to be understood, and in
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the process, he used the word, or rather referred to it. But once this was all made public two years after
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the fact, the Times brass quickly lost their nerve. Now, adding to the pressure from the social media
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mob were 150 Times staffers who sent a letter to their leadership professing to be outraged and in
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pain. Outraged and in pain because someone had referred to a racial slur two years ago. They
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demanded his removal, quickly got what they wanted. Executive editor Dean Beckwett, who initially defended
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McNeil but collapsed like a folding chair the moment real pressure was applied, wrote a letter to his
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colleagues on Friday announcing McNeil's departure and stating that the company does, quote, quote,
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does not tolerate racist language regardless of intent. This is the common thread between both
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Wallen and McNeil's cancellation. The insane, unjust, wholly indefensible notion that intent
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doesn't matter in human communication. All that matters to the cancel culture and to the quaking,
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gutless jellyfish who cater to it is how a word or action makes somebody feel. Now, in second thought,
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I should rephrase. It's not that the feeling matters more than the intent. You know, that would assume
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that those 150 staff members who said they were in pain because of a word that Donald McNeil said two
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years ago were being sincere. If we say that all that matters is their feelings, then that is to assume
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that they were actually feeling in pain. It's to assume that they are merely oversensitive, emotionally
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unstable babies whose psychological fragility has driven them close to madness. But that's not the
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case. See, one of the hallmarks of the cancel culture, what makes it distinct and also modern,
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is that the angry pitchfork mob is rarely angry. They ruin lives, they ruin reputations, they ruin careers
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as a matter of course, more indifferent to their victims than angry at them. They're motivated by
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cruelty, callousness, ideological conviction, and they're empowered by the institutions that run our
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society. That's the other thing about the cancel culture that must be understood. It is inherently
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a left-wing phenomenon. You cannot really cancel anyone, that is, ruin their career and turn them
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into social pariahs. That's what canceling means, right? Unless you control the institutions and the
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culture itself. As covered last week, the right may complain, and justifiably so, about, for example,
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Nick Cannon calling white people animals and savages. But the reason he got his job back after a brief
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vacation is that the institutions don't really care what conservatives think or how they feel.
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The institutions do care very much about what leftists think and how they feel or pretend to feel.
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And this is a fact that the leftist mob is well aware of and uses to its advantage.
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That's how cancel culture works and what it looks like. It is cruel. It is callous. It is vengeful.
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It is emotional only in a performative sense, and it is intensely ideological.
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What cancel culture is not, what it is the opposite of by definition, is forgiving, merciful.
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And that's precisely why the groveling public apologies from its victims are always so impotent,
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as they were in the most recent cases. Morgan Wallen sent a statement to TMZ saying that he was
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embarrassed and sorry and apologizing and promising to, quote, do better. McNeil published his own
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statement conceding that he originally thought he could defend the use of the word based on context,
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but now he realizes that context doesn't matter. He now realizes how, quote, deeply offensive and
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hurtful his language was, and he's sorry to his colleagues and regrets letting them down.
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But what McNeil should have said, and might as well have said, is the truth. As an adult,
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a professional, and a human with a rational brain, he knew in the past and still knows that context
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matters when it comes to language or anything else. In fact, when it comes to language, especially
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context is the only thing that matters, or it's one of the only thing that matters.
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You can't possibly know what someone is trying to say, what they're trying to convey, unless you do
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an honest assessment of the context of that language. He also knows that his colleagues who lined up to
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stab him in the back and feed him to the wolves after nearly five decades in the business are not
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deserving of an apology. They are the ones who should apologize to him for their wretched,
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callous, evil, manipulative behavior. As for Wallen, the neighbor who filmed him was obviously
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not so traumatized as to prevent him from immediately sending the video to TMZ. You know,
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traumatized people, that's not what they do. They don't send videos to TMZ. And the social media mob,
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if you read what they've been saying about Wallen, they don't appear to be upset or injured at all.
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Their attitude is more of a, ha, we got another one, variety. So who was he apologizing to exactly?
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You'll notice that ever since the advent of the cancel culture, there has never been one apology
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accepted. There has never been one example of reconciliation and forgiveness. And that's because
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the apology doesn't matter. It's all part of the performance. The mob does not listen to it.
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They don't consider it. They just claim it as a trophy and a scalp to nail to their walls. That's
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all it is. The apology is coerced under public pressure, delivered to parties who are not injured
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by the offense, if there even was an offense to begin with, and then gloated over or else snidely
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disregarded by the people who demanded it. I can't say what will end cancel culture, or if anything
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ever will. But what I do know is that it certainly will never end and will only get worse as long as
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its victims keep apologizing. As long as they keep laying down and offering themselves up as carcasses
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for the vultures to pick apart. Now, I believe in apologizing in the correct context. That is,
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when you've done or said something to actually hurt another person, and the apology is given sincerely
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and voluntarily to the injured party. But this ritualistic public apology thing has to stop.
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Even if you were wrong for whatever you did or said to provoke the mob, still, you should not
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apologize to them. Not to them. Never to them. You should be as indifferent to the mob's fraudulent
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displays of offendedness as they are to your whole life and reputation and career and existence.
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They don't care about you at all. They'd be fine seeing you destroyed. They don't care if you go
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off and kill yourself. They really don't. And you care about their feelings? Why?
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The only way this ends, if it ever does, is if the targets of the cancel mob stand up for themselves
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and display the righteous indignation they certainly feel and have every right to feel.
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And if they absolutely refuse to submit and kiss the feet of people who are the real villains here.
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The cancel culture mob, they're the real villains.
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In the movie The Crucible, after John Proctor refuses to sign a false confession admitting to
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witchcraft, thereby signing his own death warrant, right before he's taken off to be hanged,
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he kisses his wife and he says to her, give them no tears, show them a stony heart and sink them with
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it. Those are his last words to his wife. Pretty great last words. And this is the advice that I
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give anyone targeted by the mob. Show them no tears. Don't pretend to care about the emotional
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well-being of sociopaths who want to ruin your life just for fun. Many people in your life may deserve
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apologies from you for many things that you've done. God knows, I know that's the case for me.
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But not these people. Never them. So stop apologizing. And this may not stop. This may not
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stop your life from being ruined. If your time comes up on that stage that nobody wants to be on,
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where you're getting torn apart, yeah, I mean, your career, your reputation, it might all be done.
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And there might not be anything you could do about that. So at least keep your dignity
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and respond the right way. And if enough people do that, then eventually, maybe, this ends.
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podcasts. Okay, the Super Bowl happened on Sunday, in case you didn't hear. Patrick Mahomes loses in a
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blowout. I mean, it really might be time for the Chiefs to consider moving on from him. I don't know.
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I think that they tried it. It's not working. Probably offer him up for a trade. Might be able
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to get a third and fourth rounder for him or something like that. We'll see. Meanwhile, Tom
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Brady wins his seventh Super Bowl, which I think definitely cements his status as the second best
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quarterback of all time behind Colin Kaepernick. So he's right there behind him at this point.
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But, you know, here's the main thing, though. As I was watching the game and I was, you know,
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looking at some of the reaction on social media, because the game itself was not very
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interesting. So, you know, you look for other things to be interested by. The commercials
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also weren't great. We'll have more on that a little bit later in the headlines. But looking
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at some of the reaction and everything, and there's a lot of discussion about the game,
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everything associated with it. But for me, the thing that stands out and that I'm troubled
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by, frankly, is that a lot of very upset Chiefs fans are complaining about the officiating,
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right? They're saying that the Bucs were getting too many pass interference calls going their way
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and so on. And you hear this complaint anytime Tom Brady's involved in a game. There's always the
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claim that the refs are on his side and everything. Well, I couldn't help but notice that this was
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also the first Super Bowl to have a female ref. So the sexism of Chiefs fans is just unbelievable
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here. To complain about the job that the refs are doing only because a woman is doing it?
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I mean, you're telling me this is a coincidence? First time a woman is officiating and now all of a
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sudden people are complaining about the refs? Never heard those complaints before.
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Strikes me as sexist. The sexism in Kansas City is
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really upsetting to me on a deeply personal level. All right, moving on. Number two,
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this is from KSL News. It says, investigators are struggling to build a federal murder case
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regarding fallen U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, vexed by a lack of evidence that could
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prove someone caused his death as he defended the Capitol during last month's insurrection.
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Authorities have reviewed video and photographs that show Sicknick engaging with rioters amid the
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siege, but have yet to identify a moment in which he suffered his fatal injuries. This,
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according to law enforcement officials familiar with the matter. Soon after Sicknick died on January
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7th, prosecutors in Washington opened a federal murder investigation dedicating a team inside the
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U.S. Attorney's Office to build out a case. To date, little information has been shared publicly
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about the circumstances of the death of the 13-year veteran of the force, including any findings from
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an autopsy that was conducted by the D.C.'s medical examiner. And it goes on a little bit later. It
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says, according to one, this is very interesting, according to one law enforcement official, medical
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examiners did not find signs that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma. So investigators
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believe that early reports that he was fatally struck by a fire extinguisher are not true.
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Uh, one possibility being considered by investigators is Sicknick became ill after interacting with a
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chemical irritant like pepper spray or bear spray that was deployed in the crowd. But investigators
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reviewing video of the officer's time around the Capitol haven't been able to confirm that in the
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tape. Um, or at least they haven't been able to do that so far. So this is a, this is a case that
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it's, it's, it's odd how little we've, we've heard at least when you, when you consider the assumption or
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the reports early on, as mentioned here, that officer Sicknick was, you know, in fact, you, you still see
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the way it's portrayed on social media, the way the media talks about it, you know, the phrase that
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we've seen is, uh, is Brian Sicknick was, was beat to death by the rioters or something like that.
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And you hear about that. And it's of course, awful. Either way, it's a terrible tragedy because a
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police officer lost his life. But if he was beat to death by a crowd in DC, you, you would think
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there'd be video of it. I mean, hundreds of video cameras all around people in the crowd filming
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security cameras. I mean, there's just cameras everywhere. And it sounds like there's plenty of
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tape for the investigators to look at involving Sicknick. And they've been looking at it and they
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haven't, and they haven't been able to find this particular incident. Um, so it's just, it's
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strange how little we've heard. And then you consider it, what makes it harder, at least for us
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in the public to sort of sort through is of course, we, we know how the media, we know what conclusion
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the media wants. After all the media, what they've done is they've actually tied three officer deaths
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to the riot. There's officer Sicknick and then two others that they've tied to the rioting.
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Even though there's two other cases, those were officers who committed suicide in the days and
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weeks after the riot. Now to turn that into a riot death is just so cynical and misleading that it's
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almost unbelievable. It's almost, it almost is shocking that you would have people doing that
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with no basis. I mean, what, what even is the insinuation there? You're, you're assuming that
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they committed suicide because they were so upset by what happened at the riot. I mean, that's,
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that is quite an assumption to make without having any information. There are unfortunately lots of
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reasons why people do this. Um, and without knowing anything about these, uh, these officers to just
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assume that it was connected somehow to the riot is, as I said, cynical and totally dishonest and
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disgusting, but this is what the media is doing. You know, they want to get the riot body count up
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and they want to be able to say that it was a deadly riot, which is what they are reporting.
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Now we know first of all, that, that no matter what, it was a deadly riot, because we do know for
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sure, at least one person, we have video evidence that at least one person was directly killed by
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violence in the riot, but that was Ashley Babbitt who was a rioter herself and she was shot and
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killed. She was an unarmed woman who was shot and killed by a police officer. But I think when the
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media calls it a deadly riot, they don't want that to be the only fatality they can directly connect
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to the rioting. And there were three other people who were at the protest to, um, who, and I say
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protest because there's, you know, not everybody there was engaged in a riot. Okay. Despite again,
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how it's portrayed by the media, there were three other individuals who were at least part of the
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protest who died. And I believe we know in two of those cases, those were medical emergencies
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after the fact, someone had a stroke. There was someone with a heart condition. The third case,
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I'm not sure, but that's sort of the point that there's just, it's just, we're hearing five people
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died in the riot, but we're just not being told very much information about any of these cases,
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except for Ashley Babbitt, who's just sort of being ignored completely. And it does matter.
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Now I talked about this on Twitter yesterday, and there were some people getting upset for some
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reason and saying, well, how dare you ask these questions about officer Sicknick? Well, what do
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you mean? Of course it matters. Either way, it's a terrible tragedy. Nobody denies that. I least of
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all deny that. Now, in fact, people on the left who are mourning Sicknick, in fact, I actually don't
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believe that they see it as a terrible tragedy because he is the only dead police officer that these
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people have ever mourned. They have never shown any concern ever for any other police officer except him.
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So I do actually doubt the sincerity of their feelings. But as for me, I am supportive of the
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police, always have been. So I, of course, it's a terrible tragedy. But why he died and how he died,
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I would say that matters very much. It would matter to me if I was the family. It matters legally. It
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matters in every sense. And yet the way the media reports it is, well, he died, rioters killed him.
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Don't ask any questions. Okay, number three, let's see here. Ibram X. Kendi, anti-racist expert,
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got himself into some hot water with the woke crowd. That's his crowd because of some comments
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he made about gender recently. This was during some sort of Zoom meeting or seminar that he was
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involved in. Now, you all know, I've talked about before, the victim hierarchy and how that works on
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the left and Ibram X. Kendi, you know, his position on that hierarchy, that gives him the freedom to say
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a lot of things, but it does not give him the freedom to speak freely about gender, the way the
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hierarchy works. So he's not at the top of the hierarchy. And that's how he got in trouble for
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saying this. You know, obviously talking about race, even talking about gender, you know, I think it was
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last week, my daughter came home and said she wanted to be a boy, you know, which was horrifying
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for my wife to hear, myself to hear. And so, of course, you know, we're like, okay, what affirmative
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messages about girlhood, you know, can we be teaching her to protect her from whatever she's hearing in
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our home or even outside of our home that would make her want to be a boy? And I suspect it's the
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same thing with, you know, kids of color in which they're regularly hearing these messages that may
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may want them to want to be white or even white children who are like, I'm happy I'm white.
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Right. You know, what affirmative messages are we teaching them to break down those ideas?
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Now, the thing is almost everything he said there was correct, except for the last part at the end.
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I didn't quite understand what he meant at the end. It sounded like he was saying
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that it's a problem for a white child who's happy to be white. Taking that aside, everything else he
00:24:27.080
said, you know, if your daughter comes home and says she wants to be a boy, yeah, that is horrifying.
00:24:35.260
That is horrifying because number one, this is your child saying that she doesn't want to be who she
00:24:42.840
is. She's not happy with who she is at such a fundamental level. As a parent, of course,
00:24:47.840
that's a problem. And that's what he's touching on here. It's a very good point. It's a point that
00:24:52.560
I've made, many of us have made many, many times that if your child, you know, we hear so much about,
00:24:58.480
well, we have to help kids accept themselves for who they are and be themselves and all these things.
00:25:03.260
And yeah, you're right. But if a boy is saying that he's a girl, telling him that, yeah, you're a
00:25:11.540
girl, that is not helping him accept himself. That is helping him reject himself. So the problem that
00:25:20.600
he has is that he's not happy with who he is, or he doesn't fully understand who he is, especially if
00:25:27.020
we're talking about a kid who's like four years old saying, a boy saying, I'm a girl. This is a
00:25:31.320
child who just doesn't understand. There's nobody's talking about. Doesn't really know anything about
00:25:35.760
the world and very little about himself and his own identity. So he's confused. As you get older,
00:25:42.840
the child comes home from public schools and middle school or high school and is saying this,
00:25:46.240
well, this is someone who's, this is a child who's dealing with something, dealing with despair,
00:25:51.340
dealing with confusion, dealing with, you know, self-loathing, all of these things.
00:25:58.640
And if you really love them and care about them as a parent, then what you're going to do is help
00:26:03.700
them to accept who they are. Your daughter comes home and says, I wish I was a boy. What's the correct
00:26:09.980
message from a loving parent? The correct message is, no, you're a girl. That's a beautiful thing.
00:26:16.060
That's a wonderful thing. It's wonderful to be a girl. That's the message.
00:26:21.340
But of course, not allowed to say that. Even Ibram X. Kendi isn't allowed to say that.
00:26:30.120
And he has participated in making this woke brainwashed culture where those kinds of
00:26:37.700
very common sense and important insights are not allowed to be uttered.
00:26:45.280
Number four, Biden, President Biden on Friday was talking about the need for another stimulus
00:26:50.180
and I still think somehow that these people are missing the point. Here's what he had to say.
00:26:57.300
There's only 6,000 private sector jobs have been created. And at that rate, it's going to take
00:27:04.140
10 years before we get to full employment. That's not hyperbole. That's a fact. We're going to be in a
00:27:11.080
situation where it's going to take a long, long time. And I appreciate you all coming over because
00:27:18.400
and the urgency with which you're moving. This is about people's lives. This is not just about
00:27:23.320
numbers. This is about people's lives. People are, I don't tell any of you, they're really hurting.
00:27:28.360
People are being evicted. Just look at all the number of people who are needing and seeking mental
00:27:34.800
health services now. Suicide's up. People are very, really, really drug abuse, violence against
00:27:41.640
women. People are really feeling the hold. They don't know how to get out. You've given them a lot
00:27:45.960
of hope, a lot of hope. And with the, as they say in Southern Delaware, the grace of God, the good
00:27:51.500
will of neighbors are quick, not rising. We can really begin to do something consequentially.
00:27:55.660
Yeah. This, the way that the people who lead this country don't understand anything about human
00:28:02.820
beings and human nature, that, that is, it's troubling to say the least. I mean, he's, he's
00:28:08.920
right that suicides, drug abuse, all these things are on the rise. Obviously they're tied to the
00:28:16.620
lockdown. The fact that people have been isolated, the fact that people have had their careers and
00:28:22.120
businesses destroyed or kids that I just, just, we just ripped them away from their education,
00:28:27.420
from their friends, from their lives, from, from sports. You know, there's so many elements,
00:28:32.580
especially to what we're doing to kids that it's, it's hard to focus, to give all, to give each
00:28:36.740
specific element the focus it deserves. But even just that, I mean, I, I, I, I've been talking about
00:28:41.180
this for a long time with what we're doing to kids with the lockdowns. And I realized that I hadn't
00:28:45.860
thought much about this particular element of it, even just the sport part of it.
00:28:51.000
I mean, you take a kid who's, uh, maybe a junior in high school when all this started,
00:28:57.040
been working at a particular sport, maybe hoping for a scholarship. They've been, you know, working
00:29:01.740
for a, for a long time, 10 years of starting in little league or whatever it is and rec league
00:29:06.720
and then going in high school. And then we just, we just take that away from them. Well, what happens
00:29:12.720
now? Can they still get the sports scholarship? Can they go back and maybe the last one or two years
00:29:17.880
playing the sports, take it away? So that's one, one thing along with everything else we've taken
00:29:23.720
from kids and from people generally. Yeah, that's a, that's a huge problem, but you're not going to
00:29:30.240
solve that problem by simply continuing to give people money. I'm in favor of, of giving financial
00:29:41.100
help, the government giving financial help to the people that it has financially ruined because they
00:29:45.920
owe that help. I'm in favor of that, but that's not the solution. Especially if you're something
00:29:51.500
like despair, loneliness, a $2,000 check is going to do absolutely nothing for that. Not one thing.
00:30:02.400
The way to solve that problem is to open up the country again and let people get back to their
00:30:06.160
lives. That's the way you solve that problem. Although you can never totally undo the damage
00:30:10.980
that's been done. Number five. Okay. Back to the Superbowl. A couple of the things I wanted to
00:30:15.860
mention. Um, first of all, the, uh, there was a big deal being made about, um, a show debuted on CBS
00:30:24.680
after the game, a reboot of the equalizer. And that was originally a show, I think from the eighties
00:30:31.300
about a retired kind of ass kicking guy who uses his special skills to, you know, bring bad guys to
00:30:37.100
justice equalize to equalize things. And then there was the film with Denzel Washington. And that film
00:30:44.240
had the, a real gritty kind of violent vibe to it with Denzel as the no nonsense, take no prisoners
00:30:50.360
hero. Um, and now the TV reboot and the person in that role, which debuted yesterday after the show.
00:30:57.280
And I watched, I think I watched maybe, um, 75 seconds of it before I turned it off. But the, in the
00:31:03.260
reboot, the person in that role that was most recently filled by Denzel Washington is, uh, Queen
00:31:08.760
Latifah. And I know we're not supposed to say this, even though we all think it, but I cannot take a 50
00:31:17.780
year old woman seriously in the role of a gritty, violent, ass kicking action hero. I can't, I just
00:31:25.580
can't. Um, I'm, I'm sorry. We've got the woke PC stuff and girl power stuff. It's like, there's a limit
00:31:32.600
with it. And I think we've now reached that limit when Queen Latifah is stepping in for, for a, you
00:31:38.560
know, a role most recently filled by Denzel Washington. Um, in the preview, the first scene
00:31:43.360
of the preview, she walks into a room with a bunch of gun toting bad guys and beats them all up with
00:31:48.760
her bare hands. This 50 year old woman. I mean, you know, I understand it's, it's fiction. Okay. I get
00:31:54.940
that. But the problem with putting women in all these roles is that when you do that, all semblance of
00:32:01.180
reality must be removed from the story. And yeah, it's a, it's fiction, but you want it to be,
00:32:07.380
especially if you're going for gritty action kind of thing, drama and all that, you want it to be
00:32:12.820
related to reality in some way. You want it to exist in a universe that's recognizable to the viewer.
00:32:21.120
Otherwise it's hard to really get invested in the story. And so in order to turn all of these things
00:32:26.300
into girl power type shows and movies, you have to make them glossy and cartoonish.
00:32:34.300
There's another scene in the preview where, um, uh, Queen Latifah standing up on a roof
00:32:39.340
where we know in shows that that's where all the important meetings happen for some reason
00:32:43.620
is on a roof. I've never had a, I've never had a meeting with anybody on a roof ever, but, uh,
00:32:48.280
I'm not sure I've ever even been on a roof really, but she's on a roof and another guy comes up
00:32:52.940
and, uh, and she says to the other guy, well, what are you doing up here? Why'd they send you?
00:32:59.060
And he, and he says to Queen Latifah, well, you would just kill anybody else who came up here.
00:33:04.040
And you're looking at it. It's like Queen Latifah. It's, it's hard to take that seriously.
00:33:07.300
We're supposed to be intimidated. It's supposed to be intimidating sort of figure. You could buy
00:33:11.680
that for Denzel Washington, tough, no nonsense guy. All right. That's the first part. The other thing,
00:33:17.800
um, that was after the show, before the show, Amanda Gorman, who's the slam poet,
00:33:25.060
who we were told was a sensation because she performed at the inauguration. And now apparently
00:33:31.200
we're doing slam poetry before Superbowls too. And so she performed before the Superbowl. And
00:33:35.480
here's a little bit of that. Today, we honor our three captains for their actions and impact in a
00:33:42.900
time of uncertainty and need. They've taken the lead, exceeding all expectations and limitations,
00:33:50.640
uplifting their communities and neighbors as leaders, healers, and educators. James has felt
00:33:57.860
the wounds of warfare, but this warrior still shares his home with at-risk kids. During COVID,
00:34:05.260
he's even lent a hand live streaming football for family and fans. Tremaine is an educator who works
00:34:13.100
nonstop, providing his community with hotspots, laptops, and tech workshops. So his students have
00:34:20.080
all the tools they need to succeed in life and in school. I mean, isn't that, so that's talking.
00:34:28.440
She's talking. Good job with the talking. It's not bad talking, you know, as far as talking goes,
00:34:37.080
pretty good. I give it a solid B plus in the talking department, but that's, you're talking
00:34:44.060
with emotional, with an emotional background music. That's it. That's just not poetry at all.
00:34:52.640
There's, there's, there's, in no way is that poetry. I don't know. I just, so I, I continue,
00:35:00.160
I continue to be flummoxed by, by, uh, by this. Cause yeah, like I said, pretty good talking,
00:35:06.900
but I'm supposed to be, I'm supposed to be impressed. I don't, what am I supposed to be
00:35:10.880
impressed by? Maybe someone can explain it to me. I don't quite see it. I also not sure what I'm
00:35:15.960
supposed to be impressed by here. The, um, this is making a lot of waves. Bruce Springsteen
00:35:20.600
was, uh, involved in a Jeep ad. And, uh, this is supposed to be, we all, we all love the inspiring
00:35:27.640
commercials. A lot, a lot of inspiring statements made by the corporations. Corporations always make
00:35:32.580
inspiring statements. They made a lot of inspiring statements during the Superbowl. For example,
00:35:36.340
before we get to the Jeep ad, um, Anheuser-Busch, the, uh, the makers of Budweiser beer, they made a
00:35:42.420
big deal before the Superbowl that they were not going to play any, they were not buying any time for
00:35:47.220
Budweiser ads during the Superbowl because they wanted to make a statement about the severity of,
00:35:52.400
uh, COVID-19. They were going to dedicate all that money to raising awareness about the vaccine.
00:35:57.220
Um, and so they weren't going to play any Budweiser ads and it was a great, great thing,
00:36:01.500
but they still had Bud Light ads. And they also ran an ad for Anheuser-Busch.
00:36:08.100
And in the ad, it featured people drinking Anheuser-Busch products. So that might be the
00:36:14.320
emptiest and most pointless example of corporate virtue signaling I think we've ever seen, which is
00:36:20.080
saying quite a lot. Make a big deal about not running ads for this one product, but then the
00:36:26.020
company that makes the product still ran an ad for itself and for its other products. So very
00:36:31.420
inspiring. Um, this too from Jeep and, uh, Bruce Springsteen. I don't know. You tell me if you're
00:36:35.900
inspired by it. Let's watch. There's a chapel in Kansas standing on the exact center of the lower 48.
00:36:52.600
It never closes. All are more than welcome to come meet here in the middle. It's no secret.
00:37:04.600
The middle has been a hard place to get to lately between red and blue, between servant and citizen,
00:37:12.600
between our freedom and our fear. Now fear has never been the best of who we are. And as for freedom,
00:37:23.160
it's not the property of just the fortunate few. It belongs to us all. Whoever you are,
00:37:32.100
wherever you're from, it's what connects us. And we need that connection.
00:37:38.100
Okay. There you go. Yes. It's what connects us. Uh, we, we all have to come together by buying a
00:37:45.300
Jeep. See, that's the thing. Even if I were to be, even, even, even, even, even if I were tempted to
00:37:50.140
be inspired, it always comes back to the fact that, yeah, well, they're trying to sell a Jeep though.
00:37:55.000
That's, that's really what this is about. They're just trying to sell a car, a vehicle. Um,
00:38:00.480
and so it kind of, it kind of detracts from the inspiring message, but also this is, this is,
00:38:07.220
of course, nonsense coming from Bruce Springsteen from a corporation when they say, Oh, let's meet
00:38:13.520
in the middle. Let's unite. Let's, let's come together. What they mean is where we're meeting
00:38:18.980
is not really in the middle. It's on the left. That is always what it means. What they are inviting
00:38:26.260
you as someone who is wrong and backwards and stupid, they are inviting you to give up all of
00:38:32.120
your wrongness and your backwardness and your stupidity and to come join them, um, in all of
00:38:36.980
their rightness and the, in the glory and light of their rightness. That, that, that's what that
00:38:40.500
means. But then the thing is, even that is not really sincere because we've, we found that, that
00:38:45.860
even if you were to do that and abandon all, all of it and try to come join them, they're not really
00:38:50.860
going to let you be part of the club or at least before they'll let you, you have to, you have to,
00:38:56.060
you know, uh, express your, your, there, there are, there's atonement that needs to be done
00:39:02.780
for all of the horrible things you have done in the past. And by horrible things you've done in
00:39:06.460
the past, we mean just the fact that you have disagreed with them for so long.
00:39:12.420
So that's the real message. We're not meeting in the middle. We're meeting on the left.
00:39:17.620
You're invited to come over to the left. Maybe if first you atone for all of your sins and even then
00:39:24.720
you still might not actually be allowed. Not as inspiring when you put it like that.
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Okay. Today for our daily cancellation, um, come on down, Jamie LH Goodall. You're next up for
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cancellation. Jamie Goodall is a staff historian at the U S army center of military history. But what
00:42:47.880
brings the cancel hammer down on her today is a piece she wrote for the Washington post a couple
00:42:52.300
of days ago in the lead up to the super bowl. The headline was the Buccaneers embody Tampa's love
00:42:59.080
of pirates. Is that a problem? And then the subheading, how brutal outlaws became romanticized.
00:43:06.460
Yes. Good, uh, Goodall is, is concerned that we're romanticizing and normalizing pirates.
00:43:11.720
She is after all an expert on this subject as she has a giant tattoo of a sexy pirate on her arm.
00:43:17.020
And no, I'm not making that up. She really wrote about the problem of romanticizing pirates
00:43:21.280
with a romanticized image of a pirate imprinted permanently on her body. But I'm not going to focus
00:43:27.400
on that aspect of the issue too much. After all, we can't expect her to have a consistent view on
00:43:32.500
the crucial issue of pirate romanticization. I mean, it's something we've all wrestled with
00:43:37.400
and found ourselves on different sides of, I think. Um, I myself went through a heavy
00:43:42.480
pro romanticization phase. I used to walk around with an eye patch and everything. I told everyone
00:43:48.200
to call me captain Brownbeard, even spent a few years swashbuckling, buckling on the high seas,
00:43:53.440
just a normal teenage phase. And I have grown out of it, uh, as so many kids do,
00:43:58.780
but I still prefer to be called captain Brownbeard if you don't mind for the record.
00:44:02.200
But in any case, uh, Goodall writes of Tampa's pirate mascot. She says,
00:44:07.540
while this celebration of piracy seems like innocent fun and pride in the local culture,
00:44:12.860
there is danger in romanticizing ruthless cutthroats who created a crisis in world trade
00:44:18.300
when they captured and plundered thousands of ships on Atlantic trade routes between the Americas,
00:44:21.840
Africa and Great Britain. Why? Because it takes these murderous thieves who did terrible things
00:44:26.660
like locking women and children in a burning church and makes them a symbol of freedom and
00:44:30.720
adventure, erasing their wicked deeds from historical memory. These were men and women
00:44:35.220
who willingly participated in murder, torture, and the brutal enslavement of Africans and indigenous
00:44:40.240
peoples. Goodall then finishes with this thought. She says, perhaps time has dulled us to the
00:44:47.760
atrocities committed by these 17th and 18th century outlaws, which side note, I mean, yeah,
00:44:53.360
it has, it's actually really normal and healthy for the emotional impact of atrocities to be dulled
00:44:58.680
after 400 years. I mean, you really shouldn't be actively upset about anything that happened
00:45:05.300
four centuries ago, which isn't to say that you should approve of everything that happened four
00:45:10.140
centuries ago. It just means that 400 years is a very long time and it's not where we should focus
00:45:14.940
our emotional energy. Anyway, she continues. Um, or perhaps it's the fact that if pirates of the
00:45:21.620
golden age were bloodthirsty, so too were the nations who opposed them. They willingly and
00:45:25.880
purposefully massacred millions of African and indigenous peoples in the name of colonization.
00:45:30.340
Pirates then are seen as romantic heroes, the underdogs fighting the establishment,
00:45:34.540
whom historian Marcus Redeker refers to as proto-democratic, egalitarian, and multicultural.
00:45:40.820
Should we celebrate their complicated legacy? It's a question Tampa Bay has to contend with as we
00:45:46.340
collectively contemplate other major sports mascots with dubious legacies like their Super Bowl rivals
00:45:51.800
in Kansas City. Okay. Um, no, Tampa does not have to contend with that. They really don't. There are a lot
00:46:00.280
of things that Tampa does have to contend with, like alligators and mosquitoes, but the legacy of
00:46:06.420
piracy. No, not really. See, there's a term we're starting to hear more and more often on the left,
00:46:13.140
especially among academics. And the term is problematize. Okay. And what this means literally
00:46:20.400
is to make something into a problem, to take, to take something that is not a problem, or they would
00:46:26.420
say is a problem, but isn't seen as a problem and get people to see it that way. The left believes that
00:46:33.040
it must do a lot of problematizing because we're all too stupid to see when something's a problem.
00:46:37.960
We're so dumb and so clueless that we go about our daily lives completely oblivious to the great
00:46:43.100
threat posed by 17th century pirates. And that's why we need them to explain to us that this is a
00:46:50.920
problem in our lives, even if all evidence points to the contrary. But in truth, of course,
00:46:56.420
there is no problem. Not until they create one. You know, most people don't think much at all about
00:47:03.280
pirates, I assume. But if they do think about pirates, they're quite aware that pirates were
00:47:09.280
humans, not actual cartoons. They're aware that pirates were criminals and killers and thieves and
00:47:13.880
so on. People know this. People might also be fascinated by the idea of adventure on the high seas.
00:47:19.820
People can be fascinated by that while also intellectually recognizing the moral shortcomings
00:47:27.120
of pirates. These are thoughts that the average person can hold in their head at the same time.
00:47:32.580
It's not a problem. And if the average person enjoys reading stories about pirates,
00:47:37.560
it's because they're interested in that period of history and yes, the people in it. So what?
00:47:44.060
See, that's really the point here. And it's one of the big problems, real problems. I mean,
00:47:48.220
not manufactured, problematized problems with this never-ending effort to remove all popular
00:47:53.400
reference to historical characters and historical periods. The problem is that if anyone is actually
00:47:58.580
influenced by a reference to a pirate or let's say a Viking, because we'll get around to the Vikings,
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of course, they were unsavory characters too sometimes, or a cowboy or a civil war general for
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that matter. If people are influenced by these references, they aren't going to be influenced to
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imitate whatever bad things those people may have done. If they're influenced, they'll be
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influenced to discover more about these people and the era in which they lived and to learn more
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about them and therefore develop a fuller understanding of history and their own place
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in it. If there's any influence, that is what the influence will be. The mascots, the monuments,
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the school names, all of these references to history, cartoonish or otherwise, for most people,
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you know, these things have no impact or resonance at all. Most people pass by the monument every day
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without noticing it. They see the mascot. They don't think about it. They attend a school named
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after a historical figure and never wonder who that guy was. But for the 5% who do stop and look at the
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statue or consider the mascot or wonder about the dead guy whose name is on the building, they're going
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to be influenced to read, to research, to learn. That's a good thing. That should be encouraged.
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You see, that's the opposite of a problem. The problem is the absence of that, the lack of
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learning, the disinterest in history. And the people who want to get rid of the mascots and
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statues and building names and so on, what they really want is a population that lives as though
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human history started five years ago. They're trying to breed ignorance and disinterest, which
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might seem like an odd claim to make about, you know, the writer of this article, as she's a historian
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who apparently specializes in pirates. But it seems that that wokeness has deluded her to the
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point that she deluded her so much to this point that she wants to reduce public exposure to the
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very subject she spent her life studying. An even better example would be the San Francisco School
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Board, which recently voted to change the names of over 40 different schools, effectively canceling
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dozens of historical figures all at once, including Abraham Lincoln. Well, the New Yorker has an
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interview with the head of the San Fran Board of Education, Gabriela Lopez. And it's clear through
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the course of the interview that this woman, Gabriela Lopez, simply has no clue about the people
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that she wants taken off the school. She doesn't really know anything about them or about American
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history in general. And she wants to make sure that the kids in her schools are as ignorant as she
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is. So here's a sample question and answer from the interview. Question. I think a lot of the
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commentary about the school names is focused specifically on Lincoln. It seems to be the
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thing that a lot of people are the most upset about. Do you have any thoughts about Lincoln and how we
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should view him? Here's the answer from the head of the Department of Education. She says, I think that
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the killing of indigenous peoples and that record is something that is not acknowledged. It's something
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that people are now learning about and due to this process. And so we just have to do the work of that
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extra learning when we're having these discussions. And later she continues, I think Lincoln gets more
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praise than the, how can I say this? Yeah, I don't know. I don't think that, well, Lincoln is not
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someone that I typically tend to admire or see as a hero because of these specific instances where he
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has contributed to the pain of the decimation of people. That's not something that I want to ignore.
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It's something that I'm learning about and that I know is not spoken enough about.
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Now, weeding through that, that just jumble of buzzwords and nonsense, the translation here is
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this moron doesn't know a damn thing about Abraham Lincoln. And she's typical of the people waging
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this battle against American history. They are utterly ignorant of the thing they want to erase.
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And ignorance is the goal. Disinterest, apathy, anything that makes history intriguing,
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any figure who committed the sin of being interesting or important, all of that must be forgotten.
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Just erase American history completely. Of course, for schools and for historians,
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their goal should be the opposite of that. But again, they've been so deluded by wokeness that they're now
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doing the opposite of what they should be doing. And for that, the history cancelers are themselves
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