Ep. 678 - Military Attacks Journalist. 'Anti-Fascist' Crowd Cheers.
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Under Biden s leadership, the United States Military will now condemn and try to intimidate journalists who criticize its policies. Is that a good or bad thing? Also, a controversy over a joke about feminists at the Grammys, an onstage strip show, and the Vatican affirming church teaching that has been in place for 2,000 years. Breaking news!
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Today on The Matt Wall Show, under Biden's leadership, the United States military will now condemn and try to intimidate journalists who criticize its policies.
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Is that a positive development? I don't think so, but we'll talk about it.
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Also, five headlines including controversy over a joke about feminists at the Grammys.
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Not as much controversy, though, about an onstage strip show, however.
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And the Vatican makes headlines by affirming church teaching that has been in place for 2,000 years.
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Finally, in our daily cancellation, we'll deal with the woke school in New York that has now banned the words mom and dad on grounds that they aren't inclusive enough.
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All of that and much more today on The Matt Wall Show.
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We discussed on Friday the reaction to Tucker Carlson's controversial comments about women in the military.
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And, of course, when I say controversial, I mean that the point he made was indisputably correct and totally in line with science and basic common sense.
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As we know, you know, those kinds of comments, that would be the common sense comments, are the most controversial these days.
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So to review briefly, Carlson reacted to President Biden's announced efforts to recruit more women, including pregnant women, into the military.
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Carlson pointed out that other countries like China are trying to masculinize their militaries while we are apparently trying to feminize ours.
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You know, we know it's not good based, again, on common sense.
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Men are faster, stronger, more aggressive, more lethal.
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So it stands to reason that the more men you have in your military as a percentage, the stronger, faster, more aggressive, and more lethal your military will be.
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The less you have as a percentage, the weaker, slower, and less lethal you will be.
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Now, you don't have to have a PhD in mathematics to work out this equation.
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And if common sense judgments aren't your thing, then you can look at the empirical data.
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As mentioned on Friday, the Marine Corps did a study on this very subject a few years ago and found that all male units were better by every relevant measure than mixed gender units.
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We also know that the Navy SEALs opened up their ranks to women a while ago, but no woman has succeeded in actually becoming a Navy SEAL.
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I mean, they can attempt to become a Navy SEAL.
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They haven't succeeded in doing that, even when given the opportunity.
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And all of the, apparently, elite members of the military are men.
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Now, further on the empirical front, the Daily Wire had this report just yesterday.
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It says the United States Army is reportedly considering doing away with its new gender-neutral physical test after test results showed that the majority of women failed while approximately 90% of men passed.
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Officials are reportedly considering having different evaluation categories for men and women due to the physiological differences between the two.
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I mean, maybe there's physiological differences that make women less effective in combat.
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Continuance says research showed that the Army combat fitness test, which is the same for male and female soldiers, was leading to lower results for women with a knock-on effect for promotions.
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The Telegraph reported, an early Pentagon study showed that women were failing the ACFT at a rate of 65%.
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A report from last fall found that 54% of women failed the test, while only 7% of men failed it.
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The report said that Congress, which is controlled by Democrats, stopped the new program from being implemented, and the Army is reviewing whether it's fair.
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However, Congress does not want the test as it is currently constructed to factor into opportunities for advancement, according to the report.
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We have to ask ourselves, is it good or bad, generally speaking, when the Army is getting rid of or lowering physical standards in order to be inclusive of anyone, including women?
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Would you say that our military is more or less effective, more or less intimidating, more or less equipped to defend our nation when it lowers its physical standards in the name of inclusivity and feminism?
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Here's another question with an answer just as obvious.
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Is it good or bad when uniformed military leaders begin publicly attacking journalists who criticize government policy?
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What we've seen over the past several days is, I think, truly unprecedented, at least in modern American history.
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I can't remember anything like this ever happening.
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I mean, the military has, of course, been severely criticized by the media through the years.
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As long as there's been a media, it has criticized the military and military policy.
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We should have a media that criticizes the military.
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It's also right and proper that the military has had a policy of mostly ignoring these criticisms.
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We don't pay our military leaders to be pundits.
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But it's better if they refrain while they're still on the job.
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And this had been the precedent until the last few days, when branches of the military, including the Marine Corps, came out in an official capacity on their official social media channels and attacked Tucker Carlson by name.
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U.S. Marine Corps Master Gunnery Sergeant Scott Stalker posted on the U.S. Space Command's official government Twitter account going after Carlson, spouting a bunch of half-baked feminist nonsense.
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Then an official Marine Corps account for the MEF information group joined in, chastising Carlson, calling him a boomer, and posting a picture of a female Marine carrying a male Marine.
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Perhaps not incidentally, they didn't post a video of this happening, only the picture.
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Probably because they didn't want us to see that she carried him only for long enough to take the picture and then dropped him right away.
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This is just a partial list of people currently in positions of leadership in the military responding in official capacities to this commentator on Fox News.
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Now, the responses from the Marines are especially ironic and troubling.
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Ironic because it was the Marines' own study which found that mixed gender units are less effective.
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So, the Marines are now condemning a member of the media for agreeing with the results of their own study, which came out in like 2016.
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Also, troubling because it's the Marines, for God's sake.
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If they go full feminist, then, I mean, what hope do we have?
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But, of course, through all of this, the media has cheered the military leaders who have put on their uniforms and delivered politically motivated rhetorical attacks in their official capacities as spokesmen for the military.
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That is, the people who panicked over the rise of fascism for the past four years are now applauding military officials for behaving exactly as military officials would behave under a fascist dictatorship.
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I mean, can you imagine how the media would have reacted if military generals in uniform had chastised, let's say, Don Lemon for criticizing Trump's military policies?
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Because, again, the issue here is it's the military not simply defending itself, which, by the way, it's not its job to do that either.
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It's the military's job to defend itself and the country on the battlefield.
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It's not its job to defend itself on the battlefield of cable news.
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It's supposed to be above that and beyond that and focused on things other than that.
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It's these military leaders offending, defending rather, President Biden's policies.
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They're coming to the defense of Biden's policies because that is what was criticized.
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Now, imagine, again, if this had happened under Trump.
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If Trump had his military leaders in uniform on TV and on the Internet defending his policies.
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I mean, that would have been six months of outraged headlines right there, more than six months.
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We would have quite literally never heard the end of it.
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And the media certainly would have considered it proof of their fascism claim.
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It would be it would at least be evidence of fascism.
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Now, am I saying that Biden's government is fascist?
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But it is tyrannical and oppressive in its own way.
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And this one, as we have seen, is surely no exception.
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Well, I hope you guys are enjoying Daylight Savings Time so far.
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Well, you know, we're a couple days into Daylight Savings Time.
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Can I just say, I don't like the Daylight Savings slander and defamation that goes on.
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If I'm the only one left in the world who does, I will say, I like Daylight Savings Time.
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It's the sacred tradition of our forefathers and their fathers before them.
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We take part in this mysterious dance of changing the clock back and forth.
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Also, you know, the other thing, it's a big idea.
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You know, Daylight Savings, say what you want about it.
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We're actually manipulating or trying to manipulate time itself.
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And you don't get those kinds of ideas anymore.
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Can you imagine if Daylight Savings never existed?
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And then in the year 2021, someone suggested it.
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Like, let's say some politician suggested that we, that we do this.
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Came along and said, hey, you know, um, you know, in the summertime, it's warm out.
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We want to spend more time outside, but it gets dark around like 630.
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Well, what if we pretend that 630 is really 730?
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What if we all agree to just pretend that the clock has moved forward in an hour?
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That we get an extra day of, extra hour of daylight.
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If someone suggested that now, we would look at them like they're insane.
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Yet, because it was suggested decades ago, we all just do this.
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And I'm saying that like it's a, it's a good thing.
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Speaking of things that, um, are pointless and have no reason to be done, the stimulus checks,
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uh, have started to go out this, uh, this past weekend.
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NBC News reports stimulus checks are starting to land in Americans' bank accounts across the
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country this weekend, just days after President Joe Biden signed the $1.9 trillion American
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Um, this is, he signed the thing into law and these, and these checks started hitting almost
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People were getting them in their, in their check, in their, um, bank accounts.
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The third round of direct payments, which follows two previous sets of payments are the most
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Although some of the people included in the last deal won't be eligible this time.
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Um, those who make less than 75,000 or heads of households who make less than 112,000 are
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Individuals earning less than 80,000 and heads of households making less than 120,000 are still
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Couples who file taxes jointly qualify for the full payment.
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If they're up to 150,000 and receive partial payments, if they make up to 160,000, I don't
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I mean, if you've got the money in your bank account, you already know how much you got.
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Um, and then $1,400 or more for each child, including children over 18, including children
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Look, I already complained about this on a Friday.
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People don't like it when I complain about this because people like free money, which I
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understand, and, and we all know that, that giving millions of people who didn't lose their
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Now, I know that some of the people getting the money did lose their jobs and need the
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But also there are millions of people getting the money who did not lose their jobs and are
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not suffering any particular financial hardship.
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At least they're doing as well as they were doing a year ago before the pandemic started
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There's no just, there's no reasonable justification for this.
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Uh, and I think everyone knows that, but you also like free money.
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And of course, if you get the money, you don't want to feel guilty about it, which I've already
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said, listen, if you get the money, I'm not saying you should feel guilty.
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I'm not saying you send it back to the government.
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So I'm not saying that at all, but can we at least agree or acknowledge that this is
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totally insane to be doing this, spending billions of dollars, sending huge checks to
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And it's worse than that, in fact, because we set this arbitrary income line.
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There are going to be a lot of like single people who make under that, that income level,
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They've got, you know, they don't have any dependents.
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I mean, with this system, you could have people who got raises during the pandemic and are
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actually making more money and doing better than they were doing before and they get checks.
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Meanwhile, you could have people, heads of households, people that have dependents and
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children who suffered devastating financial losses during the pandemic, but get nothing
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because they still technically make over the totally arbitrary income threshold that was
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So it's worse than simply giving money to people who don't need it.
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You're giving money to people who don't need it instead of giving it to people who do need it.
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Instead of taking the time, putting the effort in to figure out who actually lost money during
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the pandemic, who lost their job, who actually suffered financial misfortune, let's help them out.
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Rather than doing that, we're going to give it, you know, we're going to give, we're going to send
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a check to some single guy living on his own, making $70,000 a year, doing perfectly fine.
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I can think of a lot of reasons why not, but we did it anyway.
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Of course, I didn't watch those at all because I value my time and my sanity.
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Um, I am told though, by the media that Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, I don't know if
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So Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, uh, performed their, their hit single, of course, WAP.
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And I'm told by the media, it was an X-rated performance.
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They were, it was basically a stripping on, not basically, they actually had stripper poles
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Um, and this is, of course, being celebrated and what a wonderful feminist expression of,
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of female, you know, independence and, and all of it and enlightenment and all of that.
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We've got these filthy rich people on stage performing on a strip pole network TV, you know,
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at a time of night when there are still plenty of kids that are still awake and we're doing that.
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Um, but the Muppets, we have to have a parental disclaimer on the Muppets.
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And, uh, we got to have a disclaimer on, on Peter Pan.
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Disney plus has taken Peter Pan and taking it off of the children's profiles on their,
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on their streaming service because we don't want to expose kids to that.
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And putting it on, you know, and, and, and offering that bit of insulation from, from the kids.
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Cause we don't want to expose kids to Peter Pan or the Muppets.
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Or, uh, if I ran a zoo by Dr. Seuss, don't want to expose them to that.
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But sure, these, uh, these two women on a strip pole singing about their genitalia.
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I really, you know, talk about this new version of Puritanism and these are the new Puritans.
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They get offended and are worried about the, um, the impact of cartoons, Pepe Le Pew, cartoon skunk.
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They're worried about the impact of cartoons and children's books, but not WAP.
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And I really do prefer, it's, it's this inverted Puritanism and I really do prefer the old style Puritans.
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I didn't agree with everything they thought and everything they did, but at least they were coherent.
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Now the, the, uh, the, the strip show on stage, there's no outrage there.
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All we could do, because you don't want to, you know, you have to, you have to celebrate that.
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It's a, what could we possibly say to criticize that?
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Bill Burr, while, um, introducing a Latino music category, made a joke.
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Hey, how many, uh, feminists are like going nuts?
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So how, why is this, this white male doing all this Latino stuff?
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I think it's still trending on Twitter right now.
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And also he mispronounced, because I guess he gave, he gave out a few awards for in the
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And, uh, he mispronounced the name of one of the artists with a name that, by the way,
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She lashed out against political tribalism and had a lot of people on the right cheering,
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They kind of saw it as her maybe defecting from the left a little bit, but let's, let's
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take a listen and, and, and see what we think about it.
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You know, for something called progressive, it allows for zero progress.
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And I've been thinking about this a lot, just in general.
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I just, I don't know that I want to be associated with any party.
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I really, I think I don't want to be associated with any party anymore.
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Every party, it comes with so much f***ing baggage that no ideas can be taken at face value.
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Without a common truth, how can we talk about it?
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You know, Republicans might hear an idea that they would totally agree with, but if it comes
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And of course, you know, to be honest, when I hear an idea that comes from a Republican,
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We all put, we all put too much s*** on this stuff.
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So that's, I agree with much of what she had to say there.
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Some level of insight there, which I could appreciate.
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And she's thinking about, you know, quote, her own side, criticizing her own side, thinking
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But once again, as the guy looking for the dark cloud within the silver lining, I have
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to say, some conservatives, anytime you see something like this from a celebrity, like
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And we think next thing we know, she's going to be speaking at CPAC.
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I wouldn't be surprised if they really did invite her to come and speak at CPAC, which
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would be a mistake because she's still not, I can appreciate what she's saying and agree
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with much of it, but she's still not an ally in any significant way.
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There's, if you're a conservative, there's still a vast gulf that separates you from Sarah
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She never, she probably never will be in any meaningful way because the philosophical
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And notice, and we get this a lot from some leftists who seem like they've, they're kind
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of leaving the tribe a little bit because they're criticizing their own side, but they're
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not really leaving the tribe at all because the tribe is defined philosophically.
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You see, the problem with the reactions against leftism's excesses and its extremes, and that's
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what this is here, the problem is that it's only ever a reaction against leftism's excesses
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Okay, but as the culture continues to go left, what was once considered an excess and an extreme
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And so if all you're ever doing is, if all you're worried about is leftism's, you know,
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extreme fringes, and you're saying, well, we're being too extreme over here, if that's
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all you're ever looking at, then eventually you're going to be defending leftism's extremes
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As the culture goes left, excess becomes normal.
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So what really matters, what would be really significant is a philosophical rejection of
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leftism, a fundamental rejection of the leftist worldview.
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Now, somebody does that, and okay, now they're an ally.
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But if they're maintaining that basic worldview while saying, hey, gee, guys, you know, we're
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a little aggressive here, in the end, that's not really anything, I hate to tell you.
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And not to, you know, you could kind of, I still think one of the most fundamental questions
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we could ask, there are a couple, but like, let's just take one.
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If someone is criticizing leftism for being too extreme, and it seems like they're on the
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left side, and we're thinking, oh, maybe they're defecting.
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Well, what if we were to ask them, can men get pregnant in your mind?
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I know you're worried about leftism being too extreme, but can men get pregnant?
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My guess is Sarah Silverman would say, yeah, well, they can.
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Many of the people on the left who are worried about the left being too extreme, if you were
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to ask them that question, they would say, well, yeah, sure, men can get pregnant.
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Now, if they're worried about leftism's extremism 20 years ago, they would be criticizing exactly
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Now, they hold that position while criticizing the left for being too extreme.
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They are adherents to that philosophy, to that religion.
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The Vatican decreed Monday that the Catholic Church cannot bless same-sex unions since
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The Vatican's Orthodoxy office, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, issued a formal
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response Monday to a question about whether Catholic clergy can bless gay unions.
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The answer, containing a two-page explanation published in seven languages and approved by
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The decree distinguished between the Church's welcoming and blessing of gay people, which
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it upheld, but not their union, since any such sacramental recognition, could be confused
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The Vatican holds that gay people must be treated with dignity and respect, but that gay sex
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Catholic teaching holds that marriage, a lifelong union between a man and woman, is part of God's
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plan and is intended for the sake of creating new life.
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But this, as I said, is treated as, I mean, literally, the AP called it breaking news.
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The Catholic Church does not endorse same-sex unions.
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This was breaking news, I don't know, 2,000 years ago?
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And it wasn't even breaking news then, actually.
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This has been the consistent teaching of the Church since its inception for, literally for
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millennia, this has been the teaching of the Church.
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But if you look at the reaction online, of course, people are reacting to this, like,
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I can't believe that the Church, this homophobia from the Church, what are they talking about?
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I can't believe they would arrive at this decision.
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This has been the teaching of the Church for 2,000 years.
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It's just that the left, they really can't believe that any institution in the world would
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defy them, especially on an issue like this, especially when it comes to sexual morality.
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They simply assumed that the Catholic Church would change its official position on this subject
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And to them, it's so obvious that the Church is wrong.
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Everything should be changed according to our whims, because that's all that matters.
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Throw all tradition to the side, all religion, everything, throw it to the side.
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That's not only what they want, it's also what they expect.
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And so there is palpable disappointment that the Church has not come out and reversed its
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Whereas for Catholics, we think, well, yeah, of course.
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It says, a Pennsylvania woman is facing misdemeanor charges after allegedly sending deep fake naked
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photos and videos of her teenage daughter's cheerleader rivals in an effort to get them
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kicked off the team or convince them to kill themselves.
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Raphael Marie Spohn of Chalfant was arrested March 5th, charged last week with three counts
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of cyber harassment of a child and three counts of harassment.
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Last summer, Spohn allegedly created doctored photos and videos of at least three teenage
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members of the Victory Vipers, a competitive cheerleading squad based in Doylestown.
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The image appears to show the high school girls either naked or in bikinis, drinking alcohol
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First of all, how, how do you not have child pornography charges, felonies for something
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And I'm, I'm usually the last guy to advocate that we make new laws.
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You know, I think we, we make new laws far too often, but here's one where I think we
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I think you need serious jail time, not just on the child pornography end of it, which
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of course there should be for that, but with deep fakes, this is going to be a huge
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As this technology becomes more and more convincing and when we get into video, think about how
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easy it's going to be to defame someone, slander them and how impossible it will be for them
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When you can simply manufacture a photo or a video of them doing some heinous, unspeakable
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There's got to be serious, serious jail time for that as, as, as a, as a means of dissuading
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people from this before it becomes a major problem in society.
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All right, let's move on to reading the YouTube comments.
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Uh, Jacob Lipsky says, first time watching Matt Walsh, he's much skinnier than he sounds
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I guess, you know, I'm going to take that as a compliment.
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Grace health says the vacant look at Biden's eyes is something that sadly I recognize.
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It's the look my dad had a few years ago after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
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It would never have wanted him to go through what Biden has allowed to happen to him.
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I'm grateful for Nancy Reagan who protected her husband's dignity and lived privately
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as Ronald Reagan succumbed to Alzheimer's disease.
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I mentioned the vacant look in Joe Biden's eyes when you, when you watch him giving a
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speech, he really looks like he doesn't understand what he's saying.
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I, I, I'm serious about it and it's not a joke at all.
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It's not funny that we, that this is our president and the guy has no idea.
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But if you haven't noticed that the next time you see him on TV, especially giving prepared
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remarks, which by the way, really the only kind of remarks that he'll give because they
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But when he's reading the, the prompter, look in his eyes, you, you can tell he doesn't
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If you've been around someone who struggled with Alzheimer's dementia, it is a, it's a very
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similar look because that's what it, that's what he has clearly.
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Um, Caleb, Caleb says, Hey Matt, I'm a conservative, but I'm starting to worry about this dumb QAnon
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Like yesterday, my mom said that Pope Francis eats children on an Island.
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And that of course, for, for conspiracy, there's, that is all the evidence you need.
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All you need is you need a couple little things to sort of bookend it.
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And then you can fill in the middle part with whatever you want.
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Look, there, there are plenty of people on the right who go for this.
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It's not a new phenomenon, by the way, they make a big deal about QAnon, but there's conspiracy
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Um, and it's, it's, it's, there's been a segment of conservatives, a segment of people on the
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right who've always gone for this kind of thing.
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And you go all the way back, you can, of course, you go further back than this, but think about
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It was a significant, it was a noticeable portion of people on the right who immediately
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decided based on nothing that this, that this event didn't really happen.
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And it was all a fake or these were crisis actors and all this kind of stuff.
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So this kind of, this sort of thing has always been there.
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I think we should try to engage it, try to, try to dissuade people from this.
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It can be very difficult to dissuade people from it because they're deluded.
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But we should also remember that it happens on the left too.
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It's a bigger problem on the left because the primary conspiracy theory there is the one
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that has led to the destruction of our cities, $2 billion of damage over the summer.
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The conspiracy theory that police officers are out hunting for black men to murder.
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That is a conspiracy theory just as absurd and lacking in evidence as anything QAnon has
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But the effects have been far more devastating in my mind.
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And then another comment says, you're a prime example of why decent lighting and some hair
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Well, thank you, sir, for that compliment of my lighting.
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So today we're going to cancel with a vengeance Grace Church School.
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Grace Church School achieves the double woke whammy of being both in Manhattan and Episcopal,
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which is just a long way of saying that the school is a nest of moral confusion and insanity.
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Case in point, they recently released their inclusive language guide.
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And within this 12-page screed, the reader will discover that words like mom, dad, and
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parents are non-inclusive and therefore offensive and therefore should not be used.
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Now we'll dive deeper into the guide in a moment.
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But first, here's a local news report about the controversy surrounding the guide, including
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the reaction from the expectedly pathetic specimen who runs the school.
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Grace Church School, an independent school in Greenwich Village, prides itself in welcoming
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But now it's finding itself facing criticism for encouraging words that promote an inclusive
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environment, like saying people instead of boys and girls, and grown-up instead of parent,
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since not all children are being raised by a mother and or father.
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One person tweeted Grace Church School in New York should be ashamed of themselves, saying
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that you can't use the words mom and dad, and you're supposed to use folks or family.
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We're not telling people not to call their parents mom and dad.
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That's the silliest thing anybody ever came from.
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It is rather a guide to inclusive language, if you want to use it.
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Back in September, the school posted this inclusive language guide at the request of teachers and
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parents who wanted help in making sure their interactions were affirming and uniting.
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Parents we spoke would say they're supportive of the guidelines and proud the school is also
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describing best practices for discussing faith, learning differences, and physical disabilities.
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Like choosing the words physically disabled instead of handicapped.
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We can't lump people together and assume anything about people, and that's at the core of what
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Natalie Egan is the founder of Translator, which builds diversity, equity, and inclusion
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As we look to the future, you know, it's really important that we start to, you know,
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shape our future leaders to be inclusive of all people, you know, regardless of anything.
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Well, I might critique that statement if I had the slightest idea what it meant.
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But this is what wokeness actually is most of the time, total nonsense, literally.
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I mean, nonsense in the definitional sense of the word, as in things that make no sense.
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Wokeness is, in practice, a jumble of semi-coherent buzzwords mixed together in entirely incoherent
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That's because the core idea, the only idea, really, is that feelings come before all else.
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The only thing that matters, the only thing, period, is how the individual feels.
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A very select group of individuals, as it turns out.
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Wokeness is not only incoherent, but elitist and oppressive.
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It puts the feelings and psychological comfort of a tiny minority of the population above
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the emotional and practical concerns of everyone else on earth.
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How many people on the globe, as a percentage, would actually find references to mom and dad,
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How many would profess themselves otherized by such words?
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What percent of people would have a problem with it?
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Whatever the percentage is, and whoever those people are, and however numerous they are or
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It says right at the top, the goal of this guide is to provide the community with more
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inclusive language that is aligned with the mission of Grace Church School.
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While we recognize hateful language that promotes racism, misogyny, homophobia, and
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other forms of discrimination are already addressed in our school handbooks, we also recognize
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We can use language to create welcoming and inclusive spaces.
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This guide addresses ways we can remove harmful assumptions from the way we interact with
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Then there's a chart, and on one side it says, instead of, and lists all the phrases that
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you shouldn't use, and on the other it says, at grace we say, and it lists the alternatives.
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Remember how George Davidson, the head of the school, assured us that they aren't banning
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Why, that's the most ridiculous thing he's ever heard.
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They're only suggesting different words that you can use if you want to.
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Except that in the guide, words like mom and dad are framed as, quote, hateful language
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that promotes racism, misogyny, homophobia, and other forms of discrimination.
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And the alternatives are not offered as suggestions, but as things we say at Grace Church School.
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Not things we'd like you to say, but things you will say.
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So as always with the woke brigade, they enact their insane agenda and then deny it and get
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away with denying it because the agenda is so insane that normal people can't believe anyone
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Now, looking at the chart, here's some of the banned words and their replacements.
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So it says, instead of boys and girls, guys, ladies, and gentlemen, at Grace we say, people,
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Instead of when reading a book, rather than boy, girl on this page, say child, person, character.
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Instead of using pet names like sweetheart, honey, or similar, say the child's name or child
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Rather than saying sweetheart or honey, just say, hey, kid in the blue shirt, get over here.
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And then with families, it says, instead of saying mom and dad, say grownups, folks, or
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Instead of parents, say grownups, folks, family, or guardians.
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Um, instead of nanny or babysitter, say, say caregiver or guardian.
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But just, just because nanny is a word that people have used in the past and that makes it
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offensive, let's come up with a different word that means exactly the same thing.
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And there's no reason why one is better than the other.
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Um, instead of husband, wife, boyfriend, or girlfriend, say spouse, partner, slash significant
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And then, uh, and then it gives you, so those are, those are the language guides.
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Um, instead of saying diverse or minority, say person of color.
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Well, that's important because, you know, uh, it's, they might identify as a race that
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So you got to make sure that we account for that.
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Now, a lot can be said about these kinds of Orwellian speech rules, but one thing that
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really jumps out is just how boring and sterile and flavorless they seek to make human communication.
00:45:09.980
Instead, this is why we take sweetheart, take, take away sweetheart and honey and, you know,
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the kind of pet names, especially that women will use for, for kids.
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Take all the specificity, specificity out as well.
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This is not only an oddly distanced and neutral way to refer to your own loved ones, but it
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also really doesn't tell the listener anything about them.
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You could have a partner during a science lab in 10th grade.
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Folks is a word that can be applied to your parents or to a random group of strangers.
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Yes, the real words, the better words, wife and mom and dad are exclusive, but that's
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In order for me to know what you're saying, you have to speak in such a way as to exclude
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I have to know what you're not saying in order to know what you are saying.
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So the leftist rules are not only not only lead to bland language, but the language that
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hardly succeeds in being language at all because it hardly conveys meaning.
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I said that these kinds of speech codes are meant to cater to a small minority and they
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But the idea is to make it so that eventually the small minority is not a minority.
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The language changes don't reflect changes in cultural sensibilities or tastes.
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They're meant to affect those changes, cause them.
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The school isn't so much saying that mom and dad are seen as offensive words to lots of
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people, but that mom and dad should be seen as offensive to lots of people.
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See, the rules from the left are prescriptive, not descriptive.
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The people changing the language want to change the way you see the world.
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And changing language can be an effective way of achieving that.
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We make a mistake when we boil all this stuff down to the left, just being overly sensitive,
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And for that, Grace Church School is certainly, without a doubt, absolutely canceled.
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