The Michael Knowles Show - December 24, 2023


Happy TRIGGERING Christmas PART 2!


Episode Stats


Length

9 minutes

Words per minute

176.04692

Word count

1,711

Sentence count

155

Harmful content

Misogyny

4

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Hate speech

12

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Summary

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A general in the war on Christmas joins me to talk about why she doesn't like Christmas music and why she thinks it's a marketing ploy to get us to buy more stuff. Also, I'll tell you why I don't buy Christmas music.

Transcript

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Misogyny classifications generated with MilaNLProc/bert-base-uncased-ear-misogyny .
Hate speech classifications generated with facebook/roberta-hate-speech-dynabench-r4-target .
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00:00:37.920 Hello, fellow soldiers. It's Michael Knowles here, a general in the war on Christmas.
00:00:42.760 We are all part of Santa's army. Actually, Santa does have a religious connection to the holiday,
00:00:48.620 which is about the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. And the connection being that Santa's based on
00:00:52.500 St. Nicholas. There's very many interesting things to say about Christmas. And then there are a lot
00:00:55.580 of uninteresting, stupid things to say about Christmas, which is what the Libs, who are
00:00:58.880 waging the war on Christmas, say all the time. So here's our annual edition of the Liberals'
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00:01:07.500 I think I figured out why it is that I hate Christmas music. I just don't buy it. I just don't
00:01:15.280 buy it. It's nothing more than a marketing ploy to get you to, like, buy more stuff. And it's all,
00:01:21.740 like, about Christianity and Jesus Christ, you know.
00:01:25.580 I was kind of with her in the first part. I agree that a lot of Christmas music, which people just
00:01:29.720 play during Advent, is just a marketing ploy to get you to buy more stuff. It's all just about
00:01:34.600 consumerism. C.S. Lewis wrote a good essay on this, about the difference between Christmas and
00:01:38.280 X-mas. You know, X-mas is this new holiday where you just celebrate material items and no one's really
00:01:43.360 happy about it. I agree with that. Then she goes on to say, and all this Christmas music is just about
00:01:46.240 Jesus. But it's not. The problem is virtually none of it's about Jesus anymore.
00:01:50.000 Christians, Catholics, a lot of people claim to worship some sort of messiah, some sort of, like,
00:01:56.200 guru of supreme knowledge of holiness and et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
00:02:01.080 This is how you can tell this woman's brain has just been melted by, like, white liberal girl 1.00
00:02:06.480 watered down Buddhism. She doesn't even know how to approach the religion that she's describing on its
00:02:15.420 own terms. She's using words that come from the East and from the non-theistic religions. 0.86
00:02:19.960 Jesus is a guru of supreme knowledge. No serious person has ever referred to Jesus,
00:02:24.820 our Lord, as a guru. He's God. Not a guru of supreme knowledge, not some, like, yogi sitting,
00:02:30.800 you know, with cross legs while a sitar plays. Not whatever, like, hippie white dude leads her
00:02:36.100 kundalini yoga class. The God, like the one God.
00:02:38.920 Thank you to the internet. We are witnessing things as we have never before witnessed
00:02:44.560 in humanity, in the history of humanity. We're witnessing, you know, greed, slaughter in the
00:02:51.480 name of holiness, you know. Israel is doing it right now to the Palestinians, claiming that
00:02:58.180 Jewish people have the right to those lands and to get it by any means necessary. They even floated the
00:03:07.880 idea of dropping. Oh, can you put a pause here? So this woman is attacking Christianity because Jews 1.00
00:03:13.340 and Muslims are killing each other? Does that, does that make a lot of sense to you? What? In as 1.00
00:03:19.480 much as Christians are involved in the war in the Middle East, it's as victims, as a very, very tiny
00:03:25.380 minority who have no political power whatsoever in the state of Israel or in the Palestinian
00:03:30.320 territories. You're going to attack, of course, because it's politically incorrect to attack Muslims.
00:03:34.800 You're not allowed to do that on the left. They're slightly more inclined to attack Jews,
00:03:38.740 especially on college campuses. But the group that you're really supposed to attack all the time
00:03:43.120 is Christianity, even though they have absolutely nothing to do with the conflict.
00:03:46.140 Israel has already dropped the equivalent of two nuclear bombs on Palestine. So I hate Christmas
00:03:53.200 music because we, uh, I don't buy it. And we are gods right now, our money and power.
00:04:02.240 But yeah, okay. I'm now agreeing with her.
00:04:05.040 Free Palestine as always. 0.80
00:04:06.260 Well, I don't know about that.
00:04:07.060 Palestine will be free.
00:04:08.340 Yeah. Okay. I don't know about that part.
00:04:09.600 The commentary here is that this woman hates Jews.
00:04:12.340 She's kind of schizophrenic here in her take because the part right before where she says,
00:04:16.300 we're just ruled by greed and power right now. Those are the false gods that are ruling us. I
00:04:19.640 think, yeah, basically. Good point. We're principalities and powers and spiritual wickedness
00:04:23.360 in high places. Totally true. But if, if this woman hates the Jews, then she should attack, 1.00
00:04:27.500 you know, Hanukkah or something. In any case, why are you going after Christianity, lady?
00:04:31.300 Why?
00:04:31.980 I believe because that happens to be the, uh, right one. But also, even if you don't think
00:04:38.080 that, it's because this woman comes from Christendom. She comes from a civilization that
00:04:42.980 was formed by Christianity. And she's resentful of that and a lot of other things. And so she's
00:04:48.680 attacking the God who, who made her civilization great. And the neglect of whom has made our civilization
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00:06:21.760 I guess it's not really a talking point about Christmas. It's that this woman wants Palestine to 1.00
00:06:29.860 be free. And here she has a representation of the Madonna of Our Lady and the baby Jesus. And Our
00:06:38.220 Lady is wearing a Palestinian keffia, which seems pretty sacrilegious. It is simply an incontrovertible 1.00
00:06:45.280 historical fact that Our Lady and Our Lord are Jews. Sometimes they'll say, you know, Jesus is from
00:06:54.640 Palestine, which is, I guess, sort of true. And then the pro-Israel people will say, well, Palestine is 0.99
00:06:59.280 just a made-up thing, which is, I guess that's true, but all states are kind of made-up things. And
00:07:03.540 that area had been called Palestine since, what, 70 A.D.? It was called Palestine by the Romans in 136 C.E.?
00:07:13.100 But there was also the Kingdom of Israel. There was Judea. There was, before that, there were the 0.59
00:07:18.180 Philistines. And so these things go back a long ways. But trying to appropriate Our Lord and Lady for the
00:07:25.000 cause of Hamas versus the modern nation state of Palestine or Israel, for that matter, doesn't it?
00:07:31.260 It's not great.
00:07:31.660 Well, the more you know, uh, Judea Bells was not originally a Christmas song, and it was first
00:07:40.380 performed in a minstrel show. The composer of the song is known for other songs that were performed
00:07:46.000 in minstrels.
00:07:47.380 Hampton Racist, do-da, do-da. It was made to mock the way that...
00:07:53.220 Can you speak up, please?
00:07:54.380 Can we crack porn? It's quite literally about a slave.
00:07:58.940 There's a lot of racism in the roots of the United States, and it definitely needs to be acknowledged.
00:08:07.720 Go on to run all night, go on to run all day. Got my money on the bop-tail nag, somebody bet on the bay. 1.00
00:08:14.480 These songs are all great. A lot of the folk history of these songs is quite dubious. Notice
00:08:24.400 she doesn't really cite her sources here, as I suspect she cannot. But let's go even further.
00:08:29.480 She says that some of these songs were related to the minstrel tradition. The minstrel tradition
00:08:34.340 included a lot of black people. Billy Kershands was one of the most famous minstrel performers and
00:08:39.320 writers in American history, did blackface performances, even though he's a black guy,
00:08:43.300 created the Aunt Jemima character, which other white liberals canceled. Do we need to cancel his
00:08:47.460 career because some white lib in the year 2023 doesn't like it? No, these are good songs,
00:08:52.220 and they need to keep their trap shut.
00:08:54.840 Keep your damn mouth shut.
00:08:56.520 Okay.
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