Western Standard - Jessica Yaniv, Sydney Sweeney & the War on Beauty ｜ The Pipeline

00:00:00.000 The advertising campaign that's got everyone talking, very racist.

00:00:05.600 Jessica Yanif has great genes.

00:00:08.640 Jessica Yanif, many of you will recall, I'm glad we have a Vancouverite on the panel today.

00:00:14.020 Jessica Yanif is the very beautiful woman who took some, I think, Vietnamese ladies to human rights commissions or tribunals 0.99

00:00:25.280 for the right to force them to wax her balls. 1.00

00:00:31.020 She did ultimately lose, she, but she's in the news again. 0.99

00:00:37.040 She took some beauty pageant in Ontario to a human rights commission because they denied him the right to participate in this woman's beauty pageant. 0.99

00:00:49.480 The beauty pageant said, this pageant is for, I guess, they probably have broadly two categories.

00:00:57.080 One, you must be a woman. 1.00

00:00:58.900 And two, you must be arguably beautiful.

00:01:05.340 You know, beauty might be in the eyes of the beholder, but sometimes you can draw a pretty frickin' clear line, I think.

00:01:11.080 It's pretty obvious.

00:01:11.920 But, you know, Canadian courts, I don't have a lot of respect for them.

00:01:17.200 They get a... 0.99

00:01:18.380 They do a lot of dumb shit, but, you know, maybe it's a small sign of the times that we're returning to a little bit of normalcy, 1.00

00:01:28.680 that sanity is perhaps returning to things that... 1.00

00:01:32.380 Because I would imagine...

00:01:33.160 Actually, it's not even a court, it's a human rights commission.

00:01:34.700 These are the worst of the worst. 0.97

00:01:36.140 I'm actually a bit surprised the Human Rights Commission ruled that this ugly, particularly ugly man, 0.96

00:01:44.580 is not entitled, in fact, to participate in a woman's beauty pageant.

00:01:49.400 And there's no appeal except on process, which I'm sure they follow scrupulously.

00:01:54.280 Yeah, you know, every now and then you get surprised.

00:01:56.660 And generally speaking, I've not been a big fan of human rights commissions, but this one, they got it right.

00:02:01.940 So, good for them.

00:02:03.460 But it's this whole war on beauty, I mean, maybe you mean to get to this later,

00:02:08.340 but the reaction from the left on that whole advertising campaign from American Eagle...

00:02:16.240 We're going to transition.

00:02:17.180 We're going to transition to that.

00:02:18.360 Okay, well, I'll save my thoughts for that.

00:02:21.080 If I can...

00:02:21.660 Yeah, go ahead.

00:02:23.540 If I can just speak to Jessica's illustrious career as a, you know, an agitator, potster, 0.99

00:02:31.420 I think the process that that person has is, or the objective is always to weaken our society,

00:02:41.520 weaken our values, weaken what is truthful, and trade it out for what is not fact.

00:02:47.220 If I am correct, I believe that Jessica has had not one, not two, not three,

00:02:55.140 but four Human Rights Commission complaints, or what went forward to the Human Rights Complaints.

00:03:02.240 And if I'm not mistaken, our colleague Ezra Levent wrote a great book called Shakedown.

00:03:07.740 It's about a decade or so old, and it talks about the Human Rights Commission,

00:03:12.300 and specifically the gamesmanship that went on with certain groups in Vancouver,

00:03:17.040 and how that commission has had its own illustrious career of destroying people's lives.

00:03:24.140 It's unfortunate because, as we've just said off the top, Derek,

00:03:27.720 there are all these horrible issues coming forward regarding women and girls' safety, 0.84

00:03:32.800 paying for child rape, pedophilia.

00:03:36.060 They're not getting the sentences. 0.99

00:03:37.920 There's a turnstile, especially in Vancouver.

00:03:40.960 Women are being attacked on a pretty regular basis in Vancouver.

00:03:45.060 I can't speak to other parts of the country, but I can tell you I've never felt less safe.

00:03:50.220 And knowing that no matter what the police commissions are saying,

00:03:54.380 no matter what those leaderships are demanding of the federal government,

00:03:59.900 including my own Attorney General in British Columbia,

00:04:03.040 has demanded that the tomfoolery around pedophilia and women's rights 1.00

00:04:09.700 and sort of the reduction of women's rights must be addressed immediately 1.00

00:04:14.380 by the Justice Minister as soon as possible.

00:04:18.900 But getting back to Jessica,

00:04:20.160 Jessica, this is not a person that has anything else going on other than looking to make money

00:04:28.260 off of these, I would say, quite insidious, if not, and also ludicrous claims that she's trying

00:04:36.120 or they are trying to make.

00:04:38.520 And I would say it's a great offense to us women that have, 1.00

00:04:41.940 to feminism, to women that are dealing with serious problems that I've just outlined. 0.97

00:04:48.320 And we need to be talking about the respect of women in this country.

00:04:53.260 But Jessica has quite a career. 0.98

00:04:55.720 And I would suggest that our viewers today pick up Ezra Levent's book, Shakedown.

00:05:01.000 It's one of the best books I've read around the Human Rights Commission

00:05:04.240 and the egregious behaviors that happened there.

00:05:07.920 But also I think it's important people get really tuned in to what people like Jessica are doing

00:05:12.420 to this country and the waste of time in our justice system.

00:05:15.780 So actually, that book, Shakedown by Ezra,

00:05:18.960 that was from Ezra's time as publisher of the Western Standard in his day,

00:05:24.160 when the Standard was a print magazine.

00:05:26.260 And coming from the decision of Ezra and the Standard at the time

00:05:31.740 to run the famous or infamous Danish Muhammad cartoons,

00:05:36.380 which were the biggest story in the world at that time,

00:05:40.360 when radical Islamists were lynching people,

00:05:43.460 burning down buildings, rioting, doing all sorts of stuff 0.53

00:05:48.100 and attempt to enforce their sense of blasphemy on the West,

00:05:52.000 saying you're not allowed to have cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad.

00:05:54.720 Everyone in the world was talking about it, writing about it, reporting on it.

00:05:58.280 But no one in Canada had actually published,

00:06:00.220 well, what are the cartoons that these people are so angry about?

00:06:02.300 Are they really that offensive?

00:06:03.540 And he published them in there.

00:06:04.880 If I was a Muslim, maybe I would find them mildly offensive. 1.00

00:06:12.720 And that's what it was about.

00:06:13.660 And it was some radical Muslims who went after the Western Standard at that time.

00:06:17.100 But then Shakedown was about the whole broader grievance and complaint industry 0.89

00:06:21.200 of these just totally ludicrous attempts by people

00:06:27.420 to use the Human Rights Commissions and tribunals

00:06:30.300 to shake down businesses, churches, etc.

00:06:33.660 for personal profit and no risk to themselves.

00:06:38.040 And shake them out of their charter rights and freedoms and religious freedoms. 0.81

00:06:42.100 And if you look back at that time,

00:06:43.780 I think the three of us or the four of us would agree

00:06:45.780 that the foreshadowing of the Western Standards fight there,

00:06:49.140 if you look to where we are today, to what was happening then,

00:06:51.920 we should have taken it much more seriously.

00:06:54.220 Yeah, and the Human Rights Commissions essentially are applying the charter.

00:06:59.400 The charter should only apply to government institutions.

00:07:02.080 It should not apply to private institutions,

00:07:04.940 businesses, not-for-profits, etc.

00:07:06.840 Unless you're getting, you know,

00:07:08.320 you're essentially a quasi-government institution,

00:07:10.680 no, government rules should not apply to you.

00:07:12.760 The charter applies to restrained government, not individuals.

00:07:15.380 And the Human Rights Commission is essentially applying the charter

00:07:17.740 and government regulations to private institutions.

00:07:21.640 And that's just where it goes on.

00:07:22.700 They just shouldn't exist to begin with.

00:07:24.560 But let's, we're going to stay with this topic,

00:07:27.500 because we're, you know, I'm very proud of the pun on this headline today.

00:07:33.580 Sydney Sweeney, well-known national socialist,

00:07:40.140 doing something very controversial,

00:07:44.200 posing in jeans as a beautiful woman,

00:07:47.920 and being unashamed of being a beautiful blonde woman.

00:07:53.320 And she, you know, the slogan of the campaign is,

00:07:56.520 Sydney has great genes.

00:07:59.480 It's a pun, obviously.

00:08:02.060 No one denies that.

00:08:05.020 But the left has just had a total mental breakdown on this one.

00:08:09.960 And it, like, it's a,

00:08:10.980 they're a parody of themselves at this point.

00:08:13.280 Like, they don't even have a minor point.

00:08:14.960 Is anyone really denying that Sydney Sweeney doesn't have great genes, Corey?

00:08:22.560 It's, it's a bizarre part of their ideology where they really,

00:08:25.720 the crabs in the bucket who have to tear down from the top under every circumstance.

00:08:29.520 And they took a little thing and went too far.

00:08:31.720 I mean, I think for example, the dove campaign where it was marketing to regular women and saying,

00:08:35.840 you know, that you can be having curves and body flaws, but you're, you're a regular person.

00:08:40.360 That's, that's who we, we want to serve, but the reality and what sells to is people want to see the ones who won the genetic lottery.

00:08:48.660 They do want to see the most beautiful in models.

00:08:51.520 They want to see, when I watched the NFL, I want to see the freakishly athletic men perform who I would never even be able to come close to.

00:08:59.580 Cause we just want to see the top of the top, but it's not enough now to cater to normal people.

00:09:05.940 They're trying to say it's, it's unreasonable to celebrate the people who are exceptional, whether it's in looks or, or whatever way it's a race to the bottom.

00:09:14.940 Actually, there's much more to be read into this with that rage they're showing for her daring to say, I got lucky.

00:09:19.900 I had good genes.

00:09:21.100 I'm more beautiful than your average person.

00:09:23.100 That's just the way it goes.

00:09:24.260 And I'm selling clothing and, uh, their rage really illustrates how insecure and messed up they are.

00:09:29.900 I like, I, I, I, I, I, I'm cautious to not say, you know, 0.99

00:09:35.700 every asshole with a tick tock account is representative of that side or this side. 0.96

00:09:41.700 It's unfair when one side does that to another, but there's a pretty broad trend in the online outrage about this. 0.99

00:09:48.540 It's almost universally women who do not have great genes, who are upset about this people who did not like very much did not win the genetic lottery.

00:09:59.500 And I don't mean to be mean and ad hominem, but that's what this is, but they have very nice personalities.

00:10:04.500 I'm sure.

00:10:05.500 Yes.

00:10:06.500 They seem like such, such wonderful people who can, who could stand to be in the room of someone who just maybe got, you know, a little luckier than them.

00:10:13.500 But, uh, you can talk about this at two levels, you know, uh, Derek.

00:10:18.500 One is jeans.

00:10:19.500 Yeah. 0.92

00:10:20.500 If you want to keep the fun thing going, we can keep a fun thing going, but you know, there is, uh, this, this is wokeness raising his ugly head. 0.98

00:10:29.500 And notice it is the ugly head.

00:10:31.500 Wokeness is just the revenge of the second best upon the best.

00:10:38.500 And that's where this comes from, but there's this further level to this, and that is the whole war on beauty, which the, I don't want to get serious about this book.

00:10:47.500 So keep it short, but look, the left hates beauty, beauty and truth go together.

00:10:53.500 So whether you're looking at your architecture, your, your, uh, art music, your art, or even creative writing, they'll, they keep bringing down the average and calling that good instead of what is exceptional.

00:11:09.500 So there's a, you know, great.

00:11:12.500 Good for Sydney Sweeney.

00:11:13.500 She probably made a lot of money. 1.00

00:11:14.500 I hope people buy the jeans because it'll be a rebuke to the, all the nut bars who are complaining about it. 1.00

00:11:21.500 But it's actually symptomatic of something a little deeper in our society.

00:11:24.500 I think it is.

00:11:25.500 I mean, uh, American Eagle stock is up something like 50 or 20%, like, like from a frigate ad game.

00:11:31.500 They get a lot of earned media out of that.

00:11:32.500 I mean, she is the anti, uh, Dylan, um, Mulvaney, like who crashed the stock and market share of like, of a legendary Americana company. 0.96

00:11:45.500 Uh, she's like taking this up 50 or 20%. 0.99

00:11:48.500 And it can't, I don't think that's just because it's a good ad campaign, which it is.

00:11:54.500 It's because I, I, I think the market as I'm looking at it, the market, I think is pricing in now that, uh, American Eagles onto something that America, like, like my favorite of those ads is the one where she's got like, uh, like a GT Mustang Cobra.

00:12:12.500 Like just like my altar, it happens to also be my ultimate all time dream car.

00:12:17.500 Like I'm a billionaire.

00:12:18.500 That's the, that's the first thing I'm buying.

00:12:20.500 Um, but you know, it's just Americana, hot blonde chick, wiping grease off for onto the butt of her jeans, gets in a Mustang. 1.00

00:12:29.500 You need a break for a minute there.

00:12:32.500 You know, uh, but it's, it's Americana.

00:12:35.500 I don't think Americans, I don't think people in general ever stopped liking this stuff.

00:12:40.500 We were just told for a decade or so that this is no longer appropriate.

00:12:44.500 This is no longer in, uh, your shallow, if you like muscle cars and hot women. 1.00

00:12:50.500 And an American Eagle just grabbed it right back.

00:12:53.500 So I think it's emblematic of, of the changing times.

00:12:56.500 Wook is dead.

00:12:57.500 It sort of tells you something that she got into a Mustang and not a Prius.

00:13:01.500 Yes, exactly.

00:13:02.500 Yeah.

00:13:03.500 I mean, oddly enough, I guess if you were trying to make this a Nazi dog whistle, you would have had to make it a Volkswagen. 0.55

00:13:10.500 A Volkswagen.

00:13:11.500 Yeah.

00:13:12.500 I was going to say a Tesla.

00:13:14.500 Yeah.

00:13:15.500 I love the people.

00:13:16.500 Wearing Adidas.

00:13:17.500 I can't support, uh, Tesla because it's, uh, you know, it's founders.

00:13:20.500 I'm not wearing Adidas.

00:13:22.500 Volkswagen.

00:13:25.500 Okay.

00:13:26.500 Uh, all right.

00:13:28.500 So we're, uh, we'll keep it going on here.

00:13:31.500 Uh, I guess kind of comes to, okay.

00:13:34.500 With kind of the woke topic.

00:13:36.500 Um, I pronounce it foict.

00:13:38.500 How do you pronounce how to.

Western Standard - August 01, 2025

Jessica Yaniv, Sydney Sweeney & the War on Beauty ｜ The Pipeline

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