Ep. 680 - How To Drug And Rob People And Not Get Canceled
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As people are canceled for tweets and jokes and opinions, we ll consider the major pop star who admitted publicly to drugging and robbing men, and yet has not been canceled for it. What does that tell us about cancel culture? Also, five headlines including Columbia University working towards racial equality and equity by holding segregated graduation ceremonies, Sharon Osbourne facing the repercussions of briefly disagreeing with the left about something, and Marvel announcing their new gay Captain America. Finally, in our Daily Cancellation we ll discuss the rampant cultural appropriation that is taking place today on St. Patrick s Day.
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Today on the Matt Wall Show, as people are canceled for tweets and jokes and opinions,
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we'll consider the major pop star who admitted publicly to drugging and robbing men
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and yet has not been canceled for it. What does that tell us about cancel culture? Also,
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five headlines including Columbia University working towards racial equality and equity by
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holding segregated graduation ceremonies and Sharon Osbourne facing the repercussions of
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briefly disagreeing with the left about something and also Marvel announcing their new gay Captain
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America. That's historic. Finally, in our Daily Cancellation, we'll discuss the rampant
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cultural appropriation that is taking place today on St. Patrick's Day. I, for one,
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will have none of it. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.
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So after Cardi B took to the Grammy stage in what appeared to be a costume from a never-aired
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Showgirls Power Rangers crossover film and writhed about on a large bed while lip-syncing
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to her X-rated hit WAP, many people pointed out the obvious irony. Here was a major pop star
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flopping around on the stage, screaming about her genitals during primetime on a major network,
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even as certain Dr. Seuss books, Looney Tunes characters, Muppet films, and Disney cartoons
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have recently been criticized, censored, or taken out of publication completely for their supposedly
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objectionable content. It would seem that our culture has a rather confused idea about what
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sorts of material might be damaging to impressionable children or impressionable adults,
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for that matter. Now, it might be more accurate to say that our culture doesn't really care about
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protecting kids from damaging material and only uses those concerns as a vehicle to enact sweeping
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cultural changes. Either way, the contrast between WAP and Dr. Seuss is as instructive as it is
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depressing. And it's also the kind of conversation that would cause previous generations, if they
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looked through a crystal ball and overheard it, to throw themselves off of cliffs en masse. Yet,
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the really profound cancel culture hypocrisy as it relates to Cardi B can be found not in her music,
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but in something else. Recall that the singer only a few years ago confessed on camera to drugging and
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robbing men. In a deleted Instagram video, she boasted of having lured men, she didn't say how many,
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but it would seem that there were numerous victims, from the strip club where she worked back to a hotel
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room where she committed these felonies against them. Now, the clip is kind of hard to understand,
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You gotta put in that rent. I did it with my money. So for a bitch to say that I don't motherfucking deserve it
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because I don't put in no f***ing rent. Now, that's when I feel like n****s is bugging.
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Because I did it myself. N****s must have forgot, my n****s, the s*** that I did.
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So motherf***ing survive. Like, I had to go straight. I had to go, oh yeah, you want to f*** me?
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Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let's go to this hotel. And I dropped the s*** up and I robbed them.
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That's what I used to do. Nothing was my n****s getting to me. My n****s. Nothing.
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So for a f***ing motherf***ing say that I don't deserve s***, that's when I know that they're
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f***ing bugging because they do not f***ing know. F***ing know what to do.
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Truly a scholar is this woman. And she's trying to prove that she deserves her success
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by telling us that she is guilty of multiple felonies. What do you mean I deserve to be
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successful? I'm a criminal. That's the logic. Now, when this video resurfaced in 2019,
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Cardi B addressed it, but never used the phrase, I'm sorry. She merely admitted that she's, quote,
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not a perfect person, which may be the only understated thing she's ever written or said,
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and explained that whether or not they were poor choices at the time, I did what I had to do to
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survive. Whether or not they were poor choices, this is a justification, not an apology. It's also a lie.
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In other interviews, the rapper has bragged that she earned upwards of $3,000 a night from stripping.
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By the age of 21, she claimed she had 20 grand in singles saved. By 22, she was starring on a reality
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show, Love and Hip Hop New York. So when exactly was she so poor and destitute that she had to
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drug and rob people to survive? It doesn't appear that Cardi B views drugging and assaulting people
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as any kind of serious action requiring desperation to justify anyway. Now, even if she did view it that
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way, she'd be wrong. But her own words suggest otherwise. In a different video, while dispensing
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some helpful relationship advice, she said that if a man cheats on her, she'll, quote, take him out,
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drug him, then enlist a, quote, tranny, her words, not mine, to sexually assault him while he's
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inebriated. This is, again, this is what she said. Let's listen to that.
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You know me? I'll be like, hi. I'm gonna take him out. We're gonna get drunk. I'm gonna get him
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all perked up and everything. We're gonna have a good time. Get him super twisted. Then bring a
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bitch around. We're gonna have a threesome. And when he wake up, he's gonna be like, what the
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fuck? Yeah, because the bitch was a tranny. I'm gonna be like, yup. Yeah, we had a threesome
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with a tranny. Yup. Yup, a tranny. Suck your dick. You don't gotta fuck another nigga to get even,
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bitch. This woman's IQ is, I mean, it has to be at least double digits. Now, it's not clear if
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she's actually done this herself or she's simply recommending it as a course of action. Nobody's
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thought to ask because none of this has been judged important by our cultural overlords.
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Now, a contestant on The Bachelor attended an Old South-themed frat party in 2018, and that past
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infraction made it around the same age when Cardi B was committing violent crimes that would land less
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privileged people in prison for three decades, has been judged so severe that multiple tearful
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apologies are not enough to rectify it. We've seen people canceled for tweets and jokes and off-the-cuff
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comments and other sins which cause no physical harm or any other kind of harm to anyone.
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We've seen people lose their jobs and their livelihoods for opinions they expressed or words
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they said, no matter the context or intent or how long ago it was. Cardi B has survived all of those
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rounds of canceling. The cancel mob has not just passed her over or looked the other way, but given
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her a pass from all present and future cancellations. She's afforded this privilege for obvious reasons.
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For one thing, the primary transgression that will get you canceled is having white skin. It's no
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coincidence that almost every canceled person you can name is white. Cardi B has not committed that
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violation. So that's the first thing. For another, the leftist cancel mob truly considers an offensive
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opinion, joke, tweet, or word to be far more dangerous and evil than drugging and robbing people,
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especially men. It's not as though they're, they're gritting their teeth and merely putting
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up with Cardi B in spite of these terrible things that she had boasted of doing. No, it's that they
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don't care or worse. They love her even more for sticking it to the patriarchy by means of violent
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felonies. In a culture where feelings are king, the worst thing you can do, even worse than violent
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crime, a lot worse is have unapproved feelings or opinions or to offend the feelings of someone who
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has approved opinions. What all this means is that, uh, well, it means a lot, but here's one thing we
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can at least put to rest the flimsy rationalization that cancel culture is really a matter of
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accountability. I mean, if that's all the mob was doing, holding people accountable, then certainly
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Cardi B would be in line for a little accountability of her own. She might at a minimum be expected to
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reach into the ample profit she's earned from singing about her body parts and repay the men
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she robbed. That wouldn't even come close to full accountability. Full accountability would involve
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her sitting in a jail cell until sometime in the 2050s, but it would be something. Instead, we get
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nothing. We focus on holding random bachelor contestants accountable for the frat parties they
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attended and newspaper editors accountable for a single word. They said on one instance,
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an entirely innocent context, two years ago, while criminal sociopaths like Cardi B carry on making
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their millions, spewing filth into our children's ears and never having to apologize for anything.
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reporter Ben Siegel. It says, um, POTUS tells George Stephanopoulos that his dog Major did not bite
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someone and penetrate the skin. He said 85% of the people there love him. All he does is lick them
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and wag his tail. We're in the process of having a training session. So there was, there was reports
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that the dog had been biting people and that they had, um, they had to send the dog to somewhere
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else, send the dog to the big doggy house in the sky. No, I don't think they did that. I think I
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sent it to Wilmington, um, which is almost as bad as being killed. But in any case now, now the,
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the Biden is defending the dog and saying, no, well, 85% of the people love him. Can I just say
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85% is not a good figure. That's, that's not, that raises some questions about the 15%.
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There are a lot of people in the white house, hundreds, 15% of them don't like this dog.
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No, if, if there is even one person, um, in an indoor environment who doesn't like a dog,
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then that dog should not be there because the indoors are for people, not dogs.
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Dogs really don't belong in the white house. Dogs don't belong in any house. Dogs belong outside
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because they are smelly beasts. That's where they belong. I don't want to hear any complaints.
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You know, I'm right. And don't tell me, well, the dogs won't survive outside. Well,
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you know, it's, if an animal can't survive in nature,
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then, then natural selection has to take its course. That's all, you know, that's it.
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I'm sure we can all agree on that. There'll be no complaints about what I just said. Okay. Let's
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go to number one here from Fox news. It says Columbia university is planning to hold six
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additional graduation ceremonies for students, according to their race and other aspects of
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how they identify the New York city schools website details graduation ceremonies for native,
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uh, for native Asian latinx and black students taking place for Columbia college,
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Columbia engineering, engineering, general studies in Barnard college at the end of April.
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Another dubbed FLI graduation is for first generation and or low income communities.
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And then the school is also hosting a lavender graduation for the LGBTQ plus community.
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So now they're, they're defending this by saying that they're still having
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a regular general, uh, graduation for everybody, but then they're going to have the segregated,
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segregated ones too on top of that. So that makes it okay. So if you had segregated drinking
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fountains, but you also had a drinking fountain that anyone could use, but that would make it
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okay. You got black and white drinking fountains. So we go back to that black and white drinking
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fountains. And then if anyone complains, we say, no, no, no, but there's, there's also drinking,
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drinking fountain across the hallway that you can, anyone can use that one.
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This is, this is, this is simple. This is segregation. This is actual racial segregation
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that is being reinstated by the left. And it does make me wonder. So if you've got the regular
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graduation and then all these other graduations, does that mean that? So what about a student who's
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a student also gay, also, um, black, also, um, indigenous, would they go to like six different
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graduations? I guess so. This is how we have, it, it, it really is amazing to witness how we've
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gone just full circle, right back to Jim Crow. And we are doing it in the name of racial tolerance
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and equality gone right back to separate, but equal. And I hate to use the, the, the, the term,
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because this is so overused and used so often by people who've never even read the book, but,
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or any of his books, but this, but it really is Orwellian. There's no other real word to describe
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it. The way that racial equality has now become synonymous with the very thing that those who,
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um, were fighting for racial equality historically, we're trying to get rid of.
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Which would be segregation. Now in more, um, racial insanity news, the Atlantic surprisingly
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enough has an editorial about the BLM indoctrination happening in our schools.
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And the article is titled what happens when a slogan becomes curriculum.
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And it starts by saying last month, a public school district that serves mostly elementary
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and middle school students in Evanston, Illinois held its third annual black lives matter at school
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week of action using curriculum created in collaboration with black lives matter activists
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and the local teachers union that introduces children as young as four and five to some of
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America's most complex and controversial subjects. For example, parents of kindergartens and
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kindergartners in district 65 were asked to spend time at home discussing a book on race
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that teachers had read aloud to their children. Teachers had already read it aloud at the school.
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And now, uh, parents are being asked to talk about this book at school. The book is called
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not my idea, a book about whiteness. And it's, it's more anti white brainwashing. Um, this,
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this book is being read by the way, to kids all over the country, not just in this one school district
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to give you an idea of what's in it. I found a YouTube video of a guy, uh, reading the book.
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And here's something that I found that appears towards the end of, um, of this book. And it's,
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it's kind of interesting. Let's listen to it. Here it is because Anastasia Higginbotham is fun
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and, and creates little things at the ends of her books. Here are some activities.
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Want to know whose liberation you're fighting for your own white supremacy has been lying to kids
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for centuries. White supremacy is pretend. The truth is much simpler. Dangerous.
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Not dangerous. Whiteness is a bad deal. It always was. All right. Here's a contract binding you to
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whiteness. You get stolen land, stolen riches, special favors. And then there's a little footnote
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that says land, riches, and favors may be revoked at any time for any reason. Whiteness gets to mess
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endlessly with the lives of your friends, neighbors, loved ones, and all fellow humans of color for
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the purpose of profit. The only price is your soul. Sign below. Dude, we can see your pointy tail.
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Yeah. Who do you think is trying to make this deal? Mm-hmm. Not an angel. You can be white
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without signing on to whiteness. Okay. So whiteness is a bad deal. And, uh, that's, that's the deal
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that in this, again, this book, they're reading two kids goes without saying, but I'll say it again,
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because I always say things that go without saying, um, that could be really be the name of
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this show. It goes without saying. So it goes without saying, but, um, there's, there's no
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universe in which they're reading a book called a book about blackness. And it contains a page that
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says blackness is a bad deal. No universe. You can only do that with white people. Right.
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But what is the, uh, what's, so what's the deal? They say, if you, if you sign on the contract and
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you say, I want to be a part of whiteness, I'm a white, I'm a white person. Whiteness is a, that's,
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that's what I want. You get stolen land, um, money and special favors. Sounds like a good deal. I mean,
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I think I'll take it actually, if that's what you're offering me, sounds pretty good. I don't know
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when I get to cash in, I I'm like a sucker. I'm paying for the land that I'm on. I haven't gotten
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any of this stuff, but I'll take it. See, let's, let's, let's put aside for a moment. The fact
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that this is totally nonsense. Um, and that this is the idea that this, this is what comes with being
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white. And by the way, if, if we are all living on quote unquote stolen land, which we're not,
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but if we are, then everybody in the country is too, not just white people.
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It's that would mean black people also are, are living on stolen land. If I'm responsible for
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stealing land, then so is my black neighbor because we're living in the same, literally on
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the same street. Right. But let's put all that aside from it. What they're, what they're telling
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us is that, well, you know, if you're, if you're white, you get all this privilege, you should turn
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that down. Why should I, why should I turn it down? See, the problem is that the left, they've gotten
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rid of any objective notion of morality. So they have no, they have no language for morality
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anymore. So they can't even really explain why I shouldn't take that deal. You can say,
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well, it's wrong. It says, who says it's wrong. You say it's wrong by your standard. That's not
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my standard. I don't care about your standard. Well, but it hurts people. Why should I care
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about that? Well, you should. Who says who? See, they've gotten rid of, by getting rid
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of morality, they, they, they, they get rid of morality. And then they tell you, if you're
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white, that you should sacrifice all of these wonderful perks that you allegedly get. Why
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the hell should I sacrifice it? Now, you know what, until you can explain to me on a moral
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basis, you want to bring objective morality back into this deal here. And you want to bring
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that back into your worldview and we can, we can live in a culture that, that, that
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is, that rests on objective morality, then fine. So that's a deal I'll make. That's my
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deal. Bring objective morality back in. And then I will sacrifice all of these supposed
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perks that I get, which will be easy because I don't have them in the first place. So I'll
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hand them over. They don't exist. I'll hand over the empty bag with my white perks. And,
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um, and that's a deal. I'll make that deal, that deal right there. But if you're, but
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if, if, if, if we're going to, if you're going to keep objective morality out of the bargain,
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then hell no, I'll take it all. Sounds great. Give me more, give me more, give me more privilege
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for my whiteness. I love it. Why shouldn't I? Number two, a tweet from the U S army official
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account. Um, and you know, probably in the army, they're reading this exact same book. I would
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think, uh, here's the tweet from them a couple of days ago. It says extremism can tear apart
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cohesive teams. Colonel Timothy, Timothy Holman is the army's chief diversity officer. And his aim
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is clear. Do what he can to help open a path for future army leaders and make the force as diverse
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as the nation it defends. So we have diversity. Now this is of course not a new phenomenon,
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at least not new in the last couple of years, but, um, we have diversity officers in the army now,
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and they, they want the, the, the force to be as diverse as a nation at defense. Why?
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Why should the, why do you want the force to be as diverse as the nation at defense? If you were,
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you know, if you're a, uh, a, a famous celebrity, you know, and you, you needed bodyguards around you
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when you leave the house and you needed, you needed guards at your actual home. Are you going to worry
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about them? Do you, are you gonna worry about them being diverse or do you just want the most
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effective people who are going to do the best job of keeping you safe, regardless of what they look
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like? Why should diverse, why should diversity matter anywhere? Why should it matter, especially
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in the military, which prior to going insane was all about uniformity being an army of one.
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They used to say, I don't even know if they have that slogan anymore. If they do have that slogan,
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they have to get rid of it because you can't be an army of one. If diversity is the most important
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thing, we want everyone to be an individual and express themselves. That was never the deal.
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That was never the point. You want people to move and be as one unit, which requires uniformity,
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which doesn't mean that everyone has to have the same skin color, but it does mean that
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diversity cannot be your primary guiding principle. We're going to get to a point. And I think we're
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there already where, um, conservatives are going to stop sending their kids into the military or
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rather they're going to stop, uh, stop encouraging and start discouraging their kids from going into
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the military. I mean, that that's going to happen. It's, it's already happening. You know, as much as I,
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as much as it kind of pains me to say it, if, if my, you know, my son is not anywhere near old enough
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yet, but if he was, if my son was 18 years old right now today, and he were to, when I get home
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tonight, if he were to come up to me and say, Hey dad, you know, I'm thinking I want to join the
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military. I would try to talk him out of it. I would try to talk him out. I wouldn't be able to
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stop him. He's 18. He could do what he wants, but I would definitely try to talk him out of it
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because you're going to go into the military and be subjected to this, be subjected to left-wing
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brainwashing that you can't escape from, that you, that you don't have the right to even object to
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in any public way. I mean, it's bad enough if it happens at work. Um, but at least there you have
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the option. You can speak up. If you get fired, you get fired. You can quit. You can leave
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and get another job. There's still a lot of risks involved there, but with the military,
00:23:13.780
if they're doing something you don't like, you can't just say, I'm done. I'm out of the military.
00:23:18.040
It's not that simple. So I would have to think as a, as a, a parent, as a conservative parent,
00:23:24.880
I would have to think, well, okay, my son's going to be subjected to this madness. Um, he's not going
00:23:30.400
to have the ability to really speak up against it or protest it. On top of that, you know, we have a
00:23:37.360
president right now who's using the military as a political prop, political pawns. They've
00:23:42.960
militarized the Capitol. Is my son going to be sent to do that? Or if not, that is going to be sent to
00:23:49.500
some far off country to die for, for, for, for the sake of spreading democracy to people who don't
00:23:55.160
want it. That's, you know, that's where my mind would be going. And I'd have to, I'd have to go
00:24:01.400
with, no, I don't, I don't think you should. If you do, I would respect it. I think it's an honorable
00:24:06.560
thing, but, um, I don't think you should. And I, and that's more and more. I think conservative
00:24:14.580
parents are saying that. And then what happens? Cause I'll tell you one thing, the left is not
00:24:20.380
going to supply enough manpower to the military to protect this nation. Not, not, not anywhere close
00:24:27.180
to that. So the military with this stuff, they are actively attacking and discouraging the very
00:24:37.500
group of people that they need. Conservative parents, conservative, patriotic families.
00:24:46.780
That's who supplies the military with its manpower. And right now their goal is to basically alienate
00:24:53.520
all of those people. Not a smart idea. Okay. Um, let's see here. Where are we?
00:25:01.420
Sharon Osbourne. Okay. Well, we'll play. So, so from, uh, from CNN, it has begun. You know,
00:25:08.140
we talked about this yesterday, the process to officially end Sharon Osbourne's career for
00:25:12.120
committing the sin of criticizing cancel culture. You know, after outrage, we talked about this
00:25:16.380
yesterday. She, she defended Piers Morgan who got fired for criticizing Meghan Markle and was accused
00:25:22.080
of being racist. And, and, uh, Sharon Osbourne spoke up during her talk show called the talk on CBS.
00:25:26.460
And she said, he's not racist. Um, and then because of this, they shut down production. They,
00:25:32.600
they, they, they, they, they're doing an investigation. And I said yesterday, she's done
00:25:37.040
like they're, they're going to, they're going to take her out now. Her career is over because of this.
00:25:42.680
And now it has started. Here's the report from CNN. It says the talk co-host Sharon Osbourne is
00:25:47.820
fighting back against accusations that she had used racist and homophobic language while speaking about
00:25:52.940
her former colleagues on the CBS talk show. The accusations were made Tuesday in a story written
00:25:57.320
by journalist Yashar Ali, citing former talk host Leah Remini, who spoke on the record in the piece
00:26:02.940
and a number of unnamed sources. And now they're, they're, um, drudging up all this stuff that she
00:26:10.580
supposedly said in the past, all these racist remarks and everything, but nobody was talking about this
00:26:14.760
before. Nobody cared about this before. Uh, and now we're going to now, right after Sharon Osbourne
00:26:22.480
expressed an opinion that the left doesn't like, now they're going to quote, hold her accountable
00:26:27.580
for all these racist things that she allegedly has been saying for years, allegedly.
00:26:33.640
And the worst thing is that they still, you know, they still act and play dumb and say,
00:26:37.620
what are you talking about? This is, this is just a story about people reporting things that
00:26:41.880
she's said over the last 20 years. Yeah. Why now though? You're doing this now to punish her
00:26:47.920
for disagreeing with you and you know, it, and that's cancel culture.
00:26:54.080
So what we're looking at after Sharon Osbourne loses her job, which she certainly will probably
00:26:57.940
by some, some point today, uh, maybe, you know, at some point today, it'll be announced if not
00:27:02.360
tomorrow that she's, she's gone. Uh, and when, when she's gone, that's going to be three talk shows,
00:27:07.460
three prominent hosts or TV hosts anyway, who've lost their job over the last couple of weeks
00:27:12.640
for criticizing cancel culture, Sharon Osbourne, Chris Harrison of the bachelor and, uh, Pierce
00:27:16.740
Morgan, three of them in like three weeks lose their jobs for criticizing cancel culture.
00:27:24.680
And yet cancel culture doesn't exist. We'll be told. Remember that in an interview with
00:27:29.340
entertainment tonight, um, Sharon Osbourne addressed these claims that are being made. Well, not so much
00:27:35.060
the, the racism claims, but she, she, she addressed the controversy trying to defend herself some more.
00:27:39.600
And, uh, here's what she said. Sharon said what unfolded on air felt like a betrayal from her co-hosts
00:27:45.800
after a pact they made in February. There was a situation in February. Carrie Ann was given a
00:27:51.880
question to ask Elaine and Carrie Ann didn't want to ask it, but it came from the producers to ask Elaine.
00:27:58.140
And it was, if black people can use the N-word, why can't white people use the N-word?
00:28:07.520
Which is a very naive question to ask. We all know why.
00:28:13.680
So Elaine got very upset with her response. Carrie Ann started to cry. So we agreed we would
00:28:20.880
never be, surprise each other with questions if we thought the other one hadn't been prepped.
00:28:27.760
And we said, we will never put ourselves in this situation again where we set each other up. So we
00:28:34.800
all agreed as women, got your back. I finished saying what I'm saying. And then Cheryl asked me
00:28:42.020
these questions, which I didn't know. And they were written questions. And then Elaine's reading her
00:28:47.860
questions. Stand up for anti-racism. And I'm like, I've been set up. Don't try and cry because if
00:28:56.740
anyone should be crying, it should be me. And I went like, how dare you all do this to me? I'm your
00:29:07.300
sacrificial lamb. So that's her defense. And not that she needs to defend herself. What she was saying
00:29:16.500
in her original comments that started all the controversy. There's nothing wrong with any of
00:29:22.540
it. So she doesn't have to defend herself. But her defense is pretty good. She could be lying about
00:29:27.940
all that, but it sounds like a pretty credible story. And she's saying, look, they sprung this on
00:29:34.160
me. And they know that we don't do that on this show. And that's something in general when you're on
00:29:40.600
a show together. Even if they didn't have a pact originally, you know you don't. If you're doing a
00:29:46.260
show with someone, someone's a co-host and you know you have a difficult question, it's going to be
00:29:48.740
difficult for them. You don't spring it on them on the air, right? And so that's what she was upset
00:29:53.180
about. Perfectly rational defense. But here's the problem. It doesn't matter, first of all.
00:29:59.820
There's no defense. And the reaction to this online, to that interview with Entertainment Tonight,
00:30:05.960
the reaction from the cancel mob and from the left, one and the same, of course, is, but oh,
00:30:11.300
well, no, she's trying to make herself the victim, huh? Yeah, she is the victim. Who else is the
00:30:15.820
victim? What, her co-hosts who are still going to have a job and are perfectly fine? They're the
00:30:21.220
victim because they had to listen to her opinion? If there's any victim here, yeah, I guess it's her.
00:30:26.040
She'll be fine. She's worth $200 million. But even so, she's the one who's going to lose her job.
00:30:31.160
And she's the social pariah. So yeah, she's the victim. Not anybody else on that stage.
00:30:36.160
But it doesn't matter because they're not going to listen. And also, you already apologized,
00:30:42.820
Sharon Osborne. She already apologized and gave the, she issued the statement saying this and that,
00:30:49.620
and I'm so sorry and everything. Too late. Too late to defend yourself. Why did you apologize at all
00:30:57.240
if you have a rational explanation, which of course you do? Because again, you didn't do anything wrong
00:31:00.940
to begin with. She should have come out from the very beginning and said, you know what?
00:31:05.520
This is BS. I didn't say anything wrong. These people sprung this on me. They know what they
00:31:12.100
did. They're the bad guys here. I don't care what any of you people think. They know what they did.
00:31:17.740
Should have said that, but you can't, you can't do both. You can't kind of apologize tearfully and
00:31:22.780
also try to defend yourself. That doesn't work. You already admitted guilt. Too late. Too late.
00:31:28.780
All right. Number five, huge news here from the New York Daily News. Big, big stuff. Huge,
00:31:33.480
huge headline news. There's a gay Captain America on the way. The Daily News reports Marvel Comics
00:31:40.760
is celebrating the 80th anniversary of Captain America with a gay teen superhero. The publishing
00:31:46.440
company said in a press release that its newest hero, Aaron Fisher, is making his debut on June 20th,
00:31:51.160
or rather June 2nd. He'll be featured in a new limited series titled The United States of Captain
00:31:55.760
America. The series will feature the original Captain America, Steve Rogers, tipping up with
00:32:00.000
Captain Americas of the past, including Bucky Barnes, Sam Wilson, and John Walker, traveling
00:32:07.180
across America to find his stolen shield. And they're going to find all these other Captain
00:32:11.060
Americas. Or rather, I think it should be Captain's America. Find these other Captain's America.
00:32:16.400
And one of them is going to be this, this gay teenager. And again, big groundbreaking. This
00:32:21.280
news article says it's groundbreaking to have a gay character, right? No, you, speaking of not having
00:32:28.000
it both ways, you didn't know, it's not groundbreaking anymore to have gay characters where there's a lot
00:32:32.600
of those all over the place. And so it's, it is no longer historic or groundbreaking or new or
00:32:38.940
anything. It's just totally normal. It's what everyone expects. Um, so they're going to have the
00:32:46.740
gay Captain America. The thing is when I first saw this story pop up on, on Twitter, I really thought
00:32:52.100
it was a joke. I kind of skimmed over. I didn't see that. I didn't see who wrote the headline because
00:32:56.580
they show the image of what this gay Captain America is going to look like. And he looks like
00:33:02.780
a gay Captain America that somebody would make up to make fun of the idea of having a gay Captain
00:33:10.840
America. And yet it's, it's for real. And the other issue, um, that I would say is when I heard about
00:33:19.880
this, I thought, okay, gay Captain America. I thought, I thought Captain Planet was already sort
00:33:26.980
of a gay Captain America. I thought that was his role. Apparently I was wrong. All right, let's move
00:33:33.140
on to reading the YouTube comments. Liam Wall says, Matt, uh, says Matt seems like the kind of guy who
00:33:38.520
could handle himself in a knife fight. I like to think I can, but please don't call my bluff on that
00:33:43.920
one. Mama G says, Matt, please make your own brand of beard care products so I can buy them for my
00:33:49.560
husband's beard. His is fine, but yours is great. Well, I appreciate that. It'd be, it'd bring great
00:34:01.040
shame and disgrace to your husband if he knew that you were, um, looking at another man's beard,
00:34:05.520
though. I have to say, uh, let's see. It says another comment says, Matt, I don't quite get it.
00:34:12.920
Sure. Praise Ellen page for being a gay white woman, but the transition without the change in
00:34:17.180
sexual preference only makes her a straight white male. Something we're supposed to criticize,
00:34:21.180
not praise seriously, Elliot go home. You've made yourself irrelevant. Yeah. Well, this is the,
00:34:25.840
this is of course is the, uh, one of the many contradictions that you get with left-wing gender
00:34:30.300
theory with, especially with their, their theories on sexual orientation and how those interact with
00:34:35.460
their theories on gender, uh, because they say that sexual orientation is immutable and cannot be
00:34:39.900
changed. Milo Yiannopoulos says that he's not a gay man anymore. And they say that's impossible.
00:34:45.040
You know, once gay, always gay. You can never be, it's, it's ingrained within you. You get,
00:34:49.220
it's not a choice. Well, yeah, but if I can change my gender, that means I can change my orientation.
00:34:55.620
No way around that. If you're saying that, cause you, you, you think it's that you as someone on
00:35:02.400
the left, you can simply declare that Milo Yiannopoulos is still gay, even if he says he
00:35:06.480
isn't. Yeah. But if he became a woman, which he can do, um, and was attracted to men, now he's
00:35:14.080
straight. His sexual orientation changed by your logic from gay to straight. If he's really a woman
00:35:21.680
now attracted to men, then that means that he is really a straight woman because he's attracted to
00:35:26.820
men. No way around it. But of course there's so many logical contradictions and, uh, their way of
00:35:35.440
navigating it is to simply ignore it. And that's all. Finally, Dan says, Matt, just checking if
00:35:41.600
you're going to get a stimmy check, hope to hear back. Um, first of all, I, I'm not even going to
00:35:48.420
answer that question. You know how I feel about the stimulus welfare payments, um, which are being
00:35:54.420
issued for no good reason whatsoever, but calling it a stimmy, I am not on board with this. I am not
00:36:02.820
okay with it. Nobody ever consulted me. We all decided to start calling the stimulus checks, a stimmy,
00:36:09.560
a stimmy. You're a grown man, presumably calling it a stimmy. This thing where, and I think this is
00:36:18.720
one of the great, one of the great crises, one of the great threats that we face as a culture where
00:36:21.760
we're grown adults, even men are shortening words by adding an E sound to the end. So like veggie,
00:36:29.140
comfy, stimmy. It's, it is disgraceful. My children don't even speak that way. Okay. My oldest kids
00:36:38.360
are seven. They don't even talk that way. If my kids were, can I have some veggies? I would say
00:36:43.780
vegetables. You mean use the whole word. Doesn't take a lot more effort. Then you hear grown men
00:36:49.680
at Applebee's saying, yeah, can I get the, can I get the steak with some veggies? Can I get some
00:36:54.900
veggies with the steak, please? With my steaky. Oh, this chair is really comfy. Glad I could buy all
00:37:00.360
this with my stimmy check. Pathetic. Horrible. Anyone who says stimmy check, they should immediately
00:37:09.620
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daily cancellation. So today on St. Patrick's Day, it falls to me as a man of Irish ancestry to speak
00:39:25.740
up on behalf of my people. I'm afraid I must inform you that if you are not Irish, then you are not
00:39:34.400
permitted to take part in today's festivities. If you're wearing green, you must remove the offending
00:39:38.020
articles of clothing at once. Do not drink green beer. Do not wear a four-leaf clover pin. Do not
00:39:42.740
make any references to leprechauns or other mythical Irish creatures. Do not eat corned beef and cabbage.
00:39:47.880
Certainly don't eat Lucky Charms just in general because Lucky Charms tastes like little chunks of
00:39:52.020
packaging styrofoam coated in sweet and low, but also because it's offensive. My culture is not a
00:39:57.620
breakfast cereal. The fact is that to do any of the things that I just listed is to appropriate
00:40:02.860
my Irish identity and culture. It is to degrade and cheapen the lived experience of the Irish and
00:40:09.940
to trivialize the historical marginalization and persecution we have suffered and to fetishize
00:40:16.940
our identity. By attempting to celebrate alongside us, you will be committing an act of unfathomable,
00:40:24.600
unspeakable bigotry. Now you may point out that non-Irish people who celebrate St. Patrick's Day
00:40:30.740
are obviously appreciating Irish culture, not stealing it. In fact, when I warned about the
00:40:35.160
dangers of Irish appropriation on Twitter last night, the embassy of Ireland, yes, the actual
00:40:39.100
embassy of Ireland, responded from their official account, taking my tweet entirely seriously,
00:40:43.900
which is great because it was serious, of course, and declared that anyone is welcome to celebrate
00:40:47.880
St. Patrick's Day. It's appreciation, not appropriation, they said. But this is a case of
00:40:52.280
internalized Irish phobia, I'm afraid to say. I mean, surely we all know that the appreciation,
00:40:57.620
not appropriation line wouldn't fly in any other context. If the Irish embassy defended white
00:41:01.940
people who wear dreads on the basis that it's appreciation, not appropriation, they would be
00:41:05.620
condemned as racist. We all know that. And so I am condemning the Irish embassy as racist against
00:41:12.600
themselves, which you really hate to see. Now, you might also argue that St. Patrick's Day isn't
00:41:18.300
solely an Irish holiday. After all, St. Patrick himself wasn't even Irish. He was kidnapped by Irish
00:41:24.240
pirates and forced to live in Ireland as a slave. I mean, he was himself appropriated, you might say.
00:41:30.440
Also, many of the traditions associated with St. Patrick's Day have developed over time and not
00:41:34.680
just in Ireland. You could argue that St. Patrick's Day, as we know it, is more American than it is
00:41:39.720
Irish at this point. You could argue all of that. But the problem is that white people who wear dreads
00:41:44.360
are accused of appropriating from black people, even though black people didn't invent dreads and
00:41:48.620
weren't the first ones to wear them. Kendall Jenner was accused of appropriating tequila for Mexicans
00:41:53.020
when she started her own tequila brand, even though native Mexicans didn't invent tequila.
00:41:58.180
This is a common theme among appropriation claims. The people who are allegedly being appropriated
00:42:02.540
from are not the unique originators of the appropriated thing. Yet it's still appropriation
00:42:08.240
in those cases somehow, just as it is in this case. Now, most of all, in objecting to my claim
00:42:13.160
that St. Patrick's Day is being appropriated, you might insist that the whole concept simply makes
00:42:17.560
no sense whatsoever. A holiday isn't a car or a bicycle or $50 in your wallet. It can't be stolen.
00:42:24.020
Styles can't be stolen. Cuisine can't be stolen. To use a popular phrase, these are social
00:42:28.780
constructs. Another person's participation in such a construct does not hinder your ability
00:42:34.100
to participate in it. You are not deprived in any way. Nobody's peeing in your pint of Guinness just
00:42:40.020
by celebrating the holiday. Unless they're literally peeing in your pint of Guinness, which
00:42:43.560
would be a whole new issue to deal with. Anyway, you might say all of this about St. Patrick's
00:42:49.080
Day, and you might even be right. But sadly, none of those excuses work when it comes to
00:42:54.180
non-white cultures, so I will have to insist that it doesn't work here. And the fact is
00:42:58.720
clear. If you celebrate St. Patrick's Day today, you are directly victimizing me. The
00:43:05.000
trauma that I feel from your St. Patrick's Day celebration is hard to put into words, maybe
00:43:11.260
because it doesn't exist, or maybe because it's so indescribably painful. As a person
00:43:18.340
of Irish descent, a PID we call ourselves, which when added to the acronym for Black and Indigenous
00:43:22.980
People of Color becomes PIDBIPOC, LGBT. As such a person, when I see pictures on social media
00:43:31.560
of non-Irish individuals eating Lucky Charms or drinking green beer, I mean, I can't express
00:43:38.600
the pain in a way that fully captures the totality of my emotional experience.
00:43:46.940
Now, do I think that you should have your life ruined for celebrating St. Patrick's Day? Do I
00:43:50.700
think that you should be labeled a bigot and cast out of society for it? Yes, I do. It's the only way.
00:43:55.960
The only way. But remember, even as I advocate for completely disproportionate penalties against
00:44:01.340
you for doing something totally innocuous and innocent, the real victim is me. Please consider
00:44:06.580
my feelings in all of this. It doesn't matter if my feelings are unreasonable. You should be
00:44:11.420
required to accommodate them anyway. After all, I'm the Irish one here. Well, part Irish. A certain
00:44:18.180
percentage. Never mind that. I'm claiming victimhood based on my membership in a group, but never mind
00:44:22.620
the question of whether I really belong to that group in any meaningful way. Those are racist
00:44:26.940
questions to ask. It's racist to ask that of Meghan Markle, just as it's racist to ask it of me.
00:44:32.400
It is racist to defy me or question me at all as I am the victim. Do as I say. That's the best way
00:44:38.120
that you could celebrate St. Patrick's Day if you must. By bowing before me and submitting yourself
00:44:42.680
utterly to my every whim. Maybe if you do that, maybe, I can finally find peace and healing.
00:44:49.080
And that's what really should be most important to you. So in conclusion, needless to say,
00:44:55.960
anybody who is not Irish and celebrates St. Patrick's Day today is canceled and should be
00:45:00.740
thrown immediately into the sea and drowned. Happy St. Patrick's Day. We'll leave it there for today.
00:45:10.060
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