My Ms. Rachel Comments Sparked a Firestorm. Let’s Read Them.
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A few weeks ago, I called Ms. Rachael a "slot peddler" for toddlers and accused her of being a political propagandist and a "slop peddler," which means that she should be kept away from your kids as much as possible. But turns out, not everybody agrees with me.
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life insurance company a couple weeks ago i went on x and on this show and i was offering some
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criticisms of miss rachel the youtuber who makes uh content for children and i called her a slot
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peddler for toddlers which she is talks down to her audience speaks to kids in a way that nobody in
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real life does and uh and on top of that she's a political propagandist and which means that you
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should keep her as far away from your kids as you possibly can but turns out that not everybody
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agrees shockingly uh there are some miss rachel apologists out there so we'll go through some of
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the comments some that disagree some that agree kd mo says tweets she has two master's degrees in
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education but cry harder about it matt oh a master's degree wow kd kd kd two of them two master's
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degree wow i mean the only thing more impressive than two master's degrees is three why not four
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why not 12 yeah i don't care what does that have to do with anything it's hilarious to me when people
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still try to use this are you gonna try that on me you think that's gonna impress me oh she has
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she has these pieces of paper i'll have you know she has a piece of paper in a frame hanging on her
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wall well what do you say about so a master's degree in education
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and guess what i know more about raising kids and teaching them and communicating with them than she
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does i know more than the vast majority of people with with uh degrees in education
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because she read books and took courses taught mostly by childless left-wing feminists
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and i've actually raised six kids so guess who's more educated on the topic
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like i have i have daily experience uh with teaching educating raising kids
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and she has a uh she has a master's degree who cares guess who has the credentials that actually
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matter that doesn't mean that i'm right about everything that has to do with parenting i can be
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wrong we all get things wrong obviously it just means that i don't give the slightest
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about your little master's degree um another comments says i find it off-putting that she
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calls kids littles makes me think that she has an age regression fetish because that's how all those
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weirdos refer to themselves but yeah it's not a fetish thing i mean it might
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maybe those weirdos do refer to each other that way but that's not what it is i'll tell you what it is
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uh calling kids littles or kiddos it's like calling your dog a doggo
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kiddos and doggos all that it that's that's cringe millennial female jargon that's that's all that
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is every woman between the ages of 31 and 49 uses those terms i know there's gonna be women in the
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comments they're like i'm 35 and i don't use those terms yes you do yes you do you might not even know
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that you say it but you all do littles kiddos doggos i do i find it highly annoying but that
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is uh i can't blame her much for that she's 42 or something it's just i don't know what it is i don't
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know where you ladies pick this up okay because our parents generation they didn't talk that way
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my mom didn't go around saying come on look at all the doggos let's go get a doggo kiddo
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but like our our parents didn't talk that way where did you get this where did you pick up where
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where did you pick this up i really don't know but every single woman between 31 and 49 talks this
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way i don't get it brianna says all this hate against miss rachel is like saying barney would make
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your kid into a furry also most tired moms turn to a video of singing school on the bus
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while they prepare dinner just say you hate women and men are perfect also mr rogers was incredibly
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boring well no i'm not saying that miss rachel will turn your kid into miss rachel so your barney
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analogy doesn't really work i'm saying that putting the politics aside miss rachel is slop it's it's
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over stimulating patronizing slop childish and i know someone like you you're like well of course
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it's childish it's four children the fact that you think that way the fact that you don't understand
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the difference between childish and four children um that's exactly the problem and
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if you give your kids a steady diet of this slop it will turn them into dumb distractible adults
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who struggle with basic comprehension it'll turn them into basically
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you brianna i'm willing to bet that you as a kid watched earlier versions of miss rachel's slop you
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probably watched uh barney and i don't know i maybe it didn't turn you into a furry i don't know
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if you're that or not but wouldn't surprise me but it did turn you into kind of a dumb person
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so that's the problem and as for mr rogers yeah you thought mr rogers was boring because you were
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overstimulated and you needed constant bright colors and loud noises and quick movement on screen
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to keep your attention and that's exactly the issue again and look how you turned out you can barely
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write coherently you can't understand the arguments i'm making you can't structure your own argument
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uh you can't you can't make you can't form an analogy it's one one to me one of the one of
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the quintessential signs that someone is low iq is when they can't use and when they can't
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understand an analogy or use one to illustrate a point so and you're overly emotional and ridiculous
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you think all men are perfect what do you think that that's of you that anyone has yeah i think all
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men are what are you talking about brianna you actually think that that even in your cartoon
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world where all men who are right-wing or sexist and misogynist even in that world we would at least
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think that every man who's a leftist is certainly not perfect
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who do you think who do you think walks around with that view just like
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every man is better than every woman that is a view that literally does not exist on the planet
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okay you have the mentality of a child and i don't think it's entirely because of the slop you watched
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and and consumed as a child as a child but that certainly didn't help matters as we can see
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uh let's see man if you only knew the answer to who's putting youtube on for babies you'd need a
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stiff drink it's everyone you know how when you drive on the highway and literally every single
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human behind a steering wheel is watching their phone in their lap it's like that everybody with
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babies is doing this i envy the optimism born for being surrounded by conservatives who maybe don't do
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it but i promise you that is extraordinarily rare these days absolutely everybody with babies is putting
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screens in front of them and pumping this horrendous crap into their eyes and ears around the clock
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yeah i don't doubt it i mean it's not literally everyone i know you're slightly exaggerating but
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it it's um i don't doubt that it is shockingly uh horrifically disturbingly common
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um i mean obviously we all know that people that parents rely on screens way too much but
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it is i would like to think if i were naive that okay we're not starting that until at least like
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three i don't know give the kid a couple of years two three years uh before you turn them into a
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zoned out zombie staring at a screen but yeah there's parents and probably a lot of parents are doing this
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starting in infancy uh finally blippy is another creator who has similar vibes he dresses and talks
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childish i believe he had a creepy past before turning to children's television oh yeah believe
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me i've dealt with blippy i did a whole show about it you can go back and watch an episode a couple
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years ago where i was uh tearing blippy apart and you can go watch that and uh i had to go back and
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check because i haven't heard about blippy and i and it appears that blippy is still a thing
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still churning out videos but there's a bunch of new blippy so the original blippy the really weird
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creepy guy i don't know if he's still involved uh behind the scenes i'm sure he's profiting but
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now there's a bunch of them it looks like i mean i did about three minutes of research into this and
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it looks like there's a bunch of blippies on the blippy channel there's an asian one there's a bunch
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of different ones but the videos are still the same so i clicked on one video just to confirm that
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this is still happening and it's uh just as bad as it ever was and yeah it's the asian blippy
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a grown-ass man playing in some kind of playground some kind of child's play area
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riding around on a like a power wheels holding a stuffed animal and it's like a 12-minute video
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where it's just that it's this grown man playing in this looks like the play area the children's area
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maybe like a if you go to a um science center or something like that it looks like that
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and this is exactly what i'm talking about and miss rachel is not as bad as that but it's the same
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genre you've got a grown adult man acting like a child talking like a child playing on a playground
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by himself with a stuffed animal as a parent if that doesn't set off a million alarm bells i don't
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know what to tell you if you're creepy weird if you're like creepy weirdo radar isn't picking that
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up then you're totally dysfunctional as a parent and um especially for a man to be acting this way
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now i think as i've said miss rachel she's very patronizing she talks like a child to children
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and i think that that is not the right way again i don't have a master's degree but i know just from
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being a parent that's not how you talk to kids um your kids your kids are around other kids who talk
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like kids they need you to talk like an adult because the goal is for your child to eventually
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be able to communicate like an adult and if you want your child to be able to communicate
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in a mature way then you need to communicate in a mature way with them and they're going to pick up
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on that that's basic stuff but at least from you know for a for a woman to do this it's a little bit
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more uh natural i mean miss rachel goes way overboard but women it comes more naturally to sort of speak
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on the child level uh to do a little bit more of the baby talk stuff and and uh you know for so for
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for and there's there's also a kind of a an adult way of uh speaking on the level of a child uh like
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my so one example is is my wife if she if she if she wants to sit down and watch a movie with our kids
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she's going to usually want to pick like a kid's movie you know like a children's movie
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for the kids and if i'm sitting down to watch a movie then i want to pick like an adult i want to
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pick a movie that's appropriate for kids but is but is you know a movie for adults a movie a movie
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that's like a real movie that kids can also enjoy now the problem is that um those are few and far
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between these days they don't hollywood doesn't really make those kinds of movies anymore unfortunately
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they should but um but you know that's what i'm looking for a movie that is a little bit more
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uh for like an older audience but but is but is appropriate for kids whereas my my wife well she's
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going to go for the kids if we're playing a game like my my wife will sit down and play whatever like
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candyland or something or some some kids board game with the kids if i'm going to play with the kids
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well i want to play monopoly like i want to like yeah let's play a game we're going to let's play
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hearts right like i'm going to teach you how to play the game for adults and i'm going to play it with
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you and um that's and even the way that i speak to the kids from basically from infancy is i i speak
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to them in much the way that i'm talking right now i just speak the way that i speak and my wife
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because she's a woman she does more of the so that it's more natural my only point is that
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especially when you've got these men youtube youtubers for kids and they're doing this whole
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routine it's even weirder and i think it should even send up it even sets off more alarm bells
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because it's not natural it's not masculine this is a strange way for a man to act
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it's very weird for a man to relate to kids this way and that there's certainly no benefit
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to the kids it's not educational it's not edifying it's not helping them to grow
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or anything like that if it's doing anything really it's making the kid comfortable with the kinds of
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adults that they should be wary of right if you go to the playground and you see an adult man
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by himself playing on the playground it's not like he has a two-year-old with him and he's helping
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his two-year-old climb the jungle gym i'm saying you see an adult man by himself playing on a
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playground are you going to want your kid to go anywhere near that person you're probably going
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to call the cops you're going to say like get this person out of here this is bizarre and yet you
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would have your kid watching somebody like that on youtube and becoming comfortable around these
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that kind of person i think that is uh along with all the other problems it's it's unsafe honestly
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for the kids so there you go uh what i take from these comments is that i'm still right in fact i'm
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even more right than i ever thought i was that's the that's the lesson
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