WEBVTT - An Icepick in Trotsky’s Eye 0:00:02.200 --> 0:00:06.480 Broadcasting live from the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio, the George 0:00:06.559 --> 0:00:12.039 Washington Broadcast Center, Jack Armstrong and Joe Getty Armstrong and 0:00:12.760 --> 0:00:17.599 he Armstrong and Yetty. 0:00:23.800 --> 0:00:26.360 Most of what we saw were crimes of poverty. People 0:00:26.360 --> 0:00:29.319 who are stealing things like tooth brats, people who are. 0:00:29.240 --> 0:00:31.600 Stealing things like you know us so. 0:00:32.440 --> 0:00:35.160 And that means if you're stealing those things, you need them. 0:00:35.680 --> 0:00:41.199 And we are choosing to protect billion dollar companies like 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:47.080 CBS and Walgreens over the people who are struggling to 0:00:47.120 --> 0:00:50.479 get by. So I would say that the true crime 0:00:50.960 --> 0:00:55.640 is that there is such incredible wealth disparity in this 0:00:55.800 --> 0:00:59.280 city that there are people who can be brown and 0:00:59.400 --> 0:01:02.120 jailson her having a biological need. 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.760 That is New York State Representative Emily Gallagher. That is 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:11.040 the current version of woke as it's evolved slightly. We've 0:01:11.080 --> 0:01:16.000 been chatting about AOC's unbelievable little statement the other day. 0:01:16.200 --> 0:01:21.640 Woke one was crazy. Yeah. So I've been on vacation 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:24.760 for a week and Joe and I always noticed when 0:01:24.760 --> 0:01:28.240 we're on vacation that there's a whole bunch of stories 0:01:29.160 --> 0:01:33.399 that were talked about among the chattering classes on cable 0:01:33.400 --> 0:01:36.360 news and podcasts and talk radio like they were really 0:01:36.440 --> 0:01:38.960 really important and when you're on vacation you miss them 0:01:38.959 --> 0:01:42.080 and you didn't miss anything because they come and go. 0:01:42.640 --> 0:01:47.000 This is not one of those ALC making her little 0:01:47.080 --> 0:01:49.840 play it again, Michael, her little flippant comment about woke 0:01:50.040 --> 0:01:54.280 Woke one was crazy that got a lot of attention, 0:01:54.480 --> 0:01:56.920 should have gotten a lot of attention, should continue to 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:00.640 get a lot of attention, because the woke mycalypse was 0:02:00.640 --> 0:02:03.760 one of the most amazing things that's ever happened in 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:11.480 my life. And to I think cleverly try to massage 0:02:11.560 --> 0:02:18.120 that issue the way AOC did is definitely worth remarking upon, especially. 0:02:17.680 --> 0:02:21.919 Because it is she and her buddies and compatriots who 0:02:22.000 --> 0:02:24.760 foisted woke one, honest, and there's still as active as 0:02:25.440 --> 0:02:27.919 ever as I was trying to hint there by playing 0:02:27.960 --> 0:02:31.639 the nice New York State representative. How recently, by the way, 0:02:31.680 --> 0:02:33.519 amazing is too neutral a term, it was one of 0:02:33.520 --> 0:02:35.600 the most horrifying things I've ever seen. 0:02:36.639 --> 0:02:40.240 Yeah, well, yeah, I was amazed, I think because, as 0:02:40.320 --> 0:02:44.040 have said many times, I never completely understood how the 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:48.600 cultural revolution could happen. I never really understood how Nazism 0:02:48.680 --> 0:02:51.480 came to prominence. None of those things made sense to me. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:56.480 I now completely one percent understand how that can happen 0:02:56.760 --> 0:02:59.119 because I lived through Woke and I saw how things 0:02:59.160 --> 0:03:03.680 went so crazy so fast, with Black Lives Matter being 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:05.880 a slogan that you either adhered to where you lost 0:03:05.919 --> 0:03:10.839 your job, the whole trans thing obviously, and so many 0:03:10.880 --> 0:03:12.240 other different issues much more. 0:03:12.320 --> 0:03:14.799 That's the very thing we're getting into. Yeah, but go ahead, 0:03:16.120 --> 0:03:17.600 that just me too. 0:03:17.840 --> 0:03:21.880 Oh my god, was me too? A craze where people 0:03:21.919 --> 0:03:25.360 were losing their jobs because they asked a woman out 0:03:25.880 --> 0:03:30.080 once years ago? Maybe well sometimes it wasn't even proven. 0:03:30.440 --> 0:03:38.160 I mean, it's just it was insane. Yeah, yeah, absolutely nuts. Anyway, 0:03:38.240 --> 0:03:40.960 let's move on. Yeah, and you're you're. 0:03:41.320 --> 0:03:44.360 A statement about Nazism and then the Cultural Revolution, the 0:03:44.400 --> 0:03:45.760 rest of it. 0:03:45.400 --> 0:03:46.040 The Holocaust. 0:03:47.440 --> 0:03:52.160 I think a lot of us assumed that way more 0:03:52.320 --> 0:03:56.400 people look at life through the lens of truth or 0:03:56.600 --> 0:03:59.200 sanity or what's a good idea. 0:03:59.240 --> 0:04:01.720 It's not a good idea, is short. 0:04:01.400 --> 0:04:05.040 Whereas way way more people are sheep than I ever dreamed. 0:04:05.440 --> 0:04:07.600 They really look at the world through the lens of 0:04:07.640 --> 0:04:10.360 Will I be accepted for believing this? Okay, I believe this, 0:04:11.320 --> 0:04:14.720 and it's just disturbing to me. It's highly disturbing. But 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:19.760 that explains all of those horrific social phenomena through history, 0:04:21.400 --> 0:04:24.560 It really does. So it's one of the reasons the 0:04:24.600 --> 0:04:28.520 founding Papas were so intent on preventing the oppression of 0:04:28.560 --> 0:04:31.520 the majority. I'm sorry, the oppression by the majority. They 0:04:31.600 --> 0:04:32.880 knew how dangerous that is. 0:04:33.680 --> 0:04:35.919 I understand the French Revolution now in a way that 0:04:35.960 --> 0:04:38.240 I never understood it before. How it could swing so 0:04:38.360 --> 0:04:41.159 far one direction and then like a month later, the 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:45.200 very people that you idolized you're now cutting their heads off. 0:04:46.000 --> 0:04:48.720 All that makes sense now, having lived through the wo apocalypse, 0:04:48.839 --> 0:04:51.960 how things can change so incredibly quickly. So that clip 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:55.680 you just played of the CBS and Walgreens they're the 0:04:55.720 --> 0:04:58.880 evil ones. How recently is that? I was like the 0:04:58.920 --> 0:05:03.560 other day, Yeah, wow, they're still on that. They still 0:05:03.600 --> 0:05:05.679 think shoplifting makes sense. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:11.839 Okay, And back to AOC and your French Revolution thoughts. There, 0:05:12.880 --> 0:05:16.280 not only are you in some cases beheading the people 0:05:16.360 --> 0:05:19.440 who you were worshiping two weeks ago, but often if 0:05:19.440 --> 0:05:23.960 those people are smart, they're screaming the opposite of what 0:05:24.000 --> 0:05:26.920 they screamed two weeks ago, and you're praising them for 0:05:27.000 --> 0:05:30.440 it with no explanation given that to me is the 0:05:30.480 --> 0:05:31.680 true sign of a sheep. 0:05:31.960 --> 0:05:34.880 For some reason, I was thinking about when Al Franken, 0:05:35.400 --> 0:05:38.120 the Senator from Minnesota who was one of the most 0:05:38.120 --> 0:05:41.720 beloved liberals in the US Senate. That picture came out 0:05:41.760 --> 0:05:45.760 of making a joke pretending the hank the hooters of 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:49.719 a woman who's asleep, and man, if beheading was a thing, 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:52.680 he would have been beheaded by his own crowd that. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:57.159 Week, right right, I came across this comment by a 0:05:57.240 --> 0:06:03.040 Canadian writer about AOC's co and what was woke, and 0:06:03.040 --> 0:06:05.520 he offered up a mega thread documenting the most deranged 0:06:05.560 --> 0:06:08.960 areas of our time because he believes that when a 0:06:09.400 --> 0:06:12.359 c declared woke went over and dismissively laughed, she was 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:15.000 sending a calculated signal to the leftist rank and file 0:06:15.480 --> 0:06:18.760 that woke is now more of a political liability than 0:06:18.760 --> 0:06:22.520 a help, and it's time to pivot from that's not happening, 0:06:22.560 --> 0:06:24.800 that never happened to Okay, it was happening, but it 0:06:24.880 --> 0:06:32.200 wasn't that bad, so let's move on now woe. So anyway, 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.280 he says, I'm creating a thread so you can all 0:06:34.279 --> 0:06:36.960 bookmarket and use it anytime says woke wasn't that big 0:06:37.000 --> 0:06:39.120 a deal, or it was just online Cooke's, or it 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:42.320 was just about having empathy and being kind, and he 0:06:42.760 --> 0:06:44.800 mentioned you'll notice that not one of the examples in 0:06:44.839 --> 0:06:47.640 this thread are online kukes. Every single one is a 0:06:47.680 --> 0:06:52.080 major media company, and despite the catastrophic reputational loss in 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:54.600 the last two decades, these companies are still very powerful 0:06:54.600 --> 0:06:57.719 and influential, and they still play a role in public opinion. So, 0:06:57.960 --> 0:07:00.359 without further ado, what is woken? We'll go through this 0:07:00.360 --> 0:07:05.240 fairly quickly. But woke was believing black people are so 0:07:05.320 --> 0:07:07.880 mentally weak in inferior. A common theme of this thread 0:07:07.880 --> 0:07:11.840 that activists pressured companies like Loreal to stop accurately describing 0:07:11.840 --> 0:07:14.400 their products for fear of what seeing the word white 0:07:14.520 --> 0:07:17.160 might do to their fragile intellects. Here's a headline from 0:07:17.160 --> 0:07:20.840 the Guardian Loreal to remove words like whitening from skin 0:07:20.920 --> 0:07:26.080 care products announcement. Announcement comes against backdrop of global anti 0:07:26.160 --> 0:07:27.280 racism protests. 0:07:27.360 --> 0:07:30.240 Oh that's hilarious. I don't know if i'd never heard better, 0:07:30.360 --> 0:07:34.360 forgotten it, but that is that is almost unbelievable. But 0:07:34.440 --> 0:07:35.280 I lived through it. 0:07:36.000 --> 0:07:38.480 Wolk was a survival guide, and he gives one example 0:07:38.480 --> 0:07:42.760 of the hundreds of university guides entitled Surviving Whiteness and 0:07:42.840 --> 0:07:47.040 white people Happen to be Colorado State University put that out. 0:07:48.400 --> 0:07:50.960 Wok was planning a genocide? When is it okay to 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.960 kill whites? Ask a and M philosophy professor Tommy Curry, 0:07:55.560 --> 0:07:58.800 and Woke was explicitly using the word genocide in the 0:07:58.800 --> 0:08:01.760 genocide planning, just so everyone heard the message loud and clear. 0:08:02.240 --> 0:08:05.280 And the professor behind the white genocide tweet says he 0:08:05.320 --> 0:08:10.240 has university support. It was canceling mozart. White mozart is 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.960 a singular symbol of the white patriarchy. Let's see what 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.640 publication was that The Times I Think. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:17.360 Of London. 0:08:18.680 --> 0:08:23.160 Reason Woke was firing museum creator curators for working with 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:23.880 white artists. 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:24.960 Here's a headline from the time. 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:29.480 Who was actually in Let's see September twenty twenty museum 0:08:29.680 --> 0:08:33.079 curator resigns after he is accused of racism for saying 0:08:33.120 --> 0:08:37.480 he would still collect art from white men, not exclusively 0:08:37.960 --> 0:08:38.640 at all. 0:08:39.440 --> 0:08:40.720 Gary Garrels of. 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:44.200 The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art was fired after 0:08:44.559 --> 0:08:48.680 irate employees said his firing is non negotiable. You gotta 0:08:48.720 --> 0:08:51.360 fire him or we're all walking out, because he said, well, yeah, 0:08:51.400 --> 0:08:53.440 I will still collect some art from white men. 0:08:53.920 --> 0:08:56.080 I think I remember talking about that, but I've forgotten. 0:08:56.240 --> 0:08:58.120 That is so crazy. 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:03.120 Woke was this headlined in the UK moment transgender singer 0:09:03.200 --> 0:09:06.200 strips naked live on Channel four and plays the keyboard 0:09:06.240 --> 0:09:10.520 with her penis. 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:11.840 Phrase. 0:09:11.840 --> 0:09:16.080 It seems like the headline woke was the phrase her 0:09:16.200 --> 0:09:19.720 penis as well as platforming fetishistic men were clearly using 0:09:19.760 --> 0:09:22.360 the extreme permissiveness of the culture to force all of 0:09:22.400 --> 0:09:25.920 us to participate in their sex lives. Woke was CNN 0:09:26.000 --> 0:09:29.760 warning parents that Paw Patrol was fascist. The headline I 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:32.959 remember this at the time, Why kids love fascist cartoons 0:09:32.960 --> 0:09:35.319 like Paw Patrol and Thomas the Tank Engine. 0:09:35.400 --> 0:09:36.480 Do you have a date on that one. 0:09:38.200 --> 0:09:41.560 Let's see December twenty two. That was actually twenty seventeen, 0:09:41.880 --> 0:09:43.520 so that was kind of early in the wok thing. 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.720 Yeah, so how much do you think? So the woke 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:51.680 thing started pre pandemic? But how much did the pandemic 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:54.440 and all the weirdness around that and people locked up 0:09:54.440 --> 0:09:59.040 in their homes and everything like that energize it all? 0:09:59.240 --> 0:10:02.120 I wonder because we were. It was a crazy time. 0:10:02.480 --> 0:10:04.840 Without Woke, it would have been one of the craziest 0:10:04.880 --> 0:10:05.680 times of my life. 0:10:05.920 --> 0:10:09.280 And it was a very online time too. Yeah, so yeah, 0:10:09.320 --> 0:10:09.760 a lot. 0:10:10.040 --> 0:10:10.200 You know. 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:12.520 Let me get to one more, just because I want 0:10:12.559 --> 0:10:14.200 to make sure we squeeze this in. Because this is 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:17.000 something I despised at the time. I ranted about at 0:10:17.000 --> 0:10:19.600 the time. I've despised it ever since. I despise it 0:10:19.640 --> 0:10:21.800 now I will despise it for the rest of my life. 0:10:22.440 --> 0:10:23.360 The ap. 0:10:24.640 --> 0:10:28.920 AP style is now to capitalize black word black in 0:10:29.000 --> 0:10:31.720 a racial, ethnic, or cultural sense, conveying an essential and 0:10:31.720 --> 0:10:35.079 shared sense of history, identity in community among people identified 0:10:35.080 --> 0:10:38.560 as black, including those in the African diaspora and within Africa. 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.760 AP style will continue to lowercase the term white in racial, ethnic, 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:46.360 and cultural senses. This decision follows the Black move We 0:10:46.440 --> 0:10:49.040 consulted with a wide group of people internally and externally 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.960 and decided this. As the writer puts it, Woke was 0:10:52.960 --> 0:10:56.320 insisting on capitalizing black when referring to black people because 0:10:56.320 --> 0:10:58.960 they have a shared sense of history, identity in community. 0:10:59.200 --> 0:11:02.439 White will remain uncapitalized because white people, being the soulless, 0:11:02.480 --> 0:11:04.079 rootless disgusting gouls that. 0:11:04.080 --> 0:11:06.040 They are do not get capitalized. 0:11:06.600 --> 0:11:09.640 Wolk was accusing fast food companies of killing black people 0:11:09.679 --> 0:11:13.080 because well salt uh high blood pressure. 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:13.280 Oh. 0:11:13.280 --> 0:11:16.320 Woke was telling a little three year old boy that 0:11:16.400 --> 0:11:19.040 he wasn't a boy, he was actually a girl trapped 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:21.440 in a boy's body, and the cure for such a 0:11:21.480 --> 0:11:24.720 condition was blocking his puberty and perhaps castrating him from 0:11:24.840 --> 0:11:30.960 NPR at age three, transitioning from jack to Jackie. Wolk 0:11:31.080 --> 0:11:33.680 was making an entire reality show and around another little 0:11:33.720 --> 0:11:35.280 boy he was told he was a girl when he 0:11:35.320 --> 0:11:38.720 was sixteen. His castration surgery provided content for the show. 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.640 Wolke was blaming white people for killing minorities because they 0:11:42.679 --> 0:11:45.480 have to breathe headline from the Guardian minorities in the 0:11:45.600 --> 0:11:48.200 US breathe and more air pollution caused by white people. 0:11:48.840 --> 0:11:53.040 This goes on for some time. That's the classic meteor 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:54.200 wipes out earth. 0:11:55.080 --> 0:11:59.679 Uh Black eminies hardest hit, hardest hip. 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:08.760 Okay, I've got my real turning point, I think in 0:12:08.840 --> 0:12:10.680 my mind. 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So one more thing, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:18.600 really really quickly, and they go into this Tremaine Carroll, 0:13:18.720 --> 0:13:22.959 violent California male prisoner decided he's a girl, and one 0:13:23.080 --> 0:13:25.880 is court battle was placed in women's prison where he 0:13:26.000 --> 0:13:28.679 promptly raped two female cellmates of his. 0:13:29.440 --> 0:13:32.840 And then Woke was also in the press coverage. 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:37.240 Using a pleasant looking, middle aged black lady probably picture 0:13:37.320 --> 0:13:40.040 in the story in the press because they knew using 0:13:40.120 --> 0:13:44.680 this rapist man's actual picture would cause less sympathy, so 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:48.480 in mainstream media they just use the trial cartoon of 0:13:48.520 --> 0:13:52.600 this lady instead of the picture of this rapist man. 0:13:53.080 --> 0:13:56.000 And then finally the final insult, when he was brought 0:13:56.040 --> 0:13:59.880 to trial for the rapes, it was Woke that demanded 0:13:59.880 --> 0:14:04.400 the rape victims refer to the rapist as her and 0:14:04.520 --> 0:14:05.920 she in court. 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:09.920 Oh my god, you'd have to shoot me to get 0:14:09.960 --> 0:14:14.760 me to do that. Yep. More on this one of 0:14:14.800 --> 0:14:16.760 the big turning points in my mind. I'll try to 0:14:16.760 --> 0:14:19.080 look up the exact date of when it happened, and 0:14:19.160 --> 0:14:21.160 any of your thoughts on the text line four one 0:14:21.240 --> 0:14:24.840 five KFTC. You know what woke means. It means you're 0:14:24.880 --> 0:14:37.120 a loser, Okay, we're discussing the whole quoke. One was 0:14:37.280 --> 0:14:45.240 crazyd it AOC trying to, you know, put an end 0:14:45.360 --> 0:14:47.560 to that whole controversy of things. We said, none of 0:14:47.640 --> 0:14:51.080 us believe that anymore or whatever. She was specifically referring 0:14:51.080 --> 0:14:54.160 to defund the police. And what a numb nuts notion 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.520 that was for anybody who said it. But loving I 0:14:57.560 --> 0:15:00.240 had forgotten this one. We talked about it a lot 0:15:00.280 --> 0:15:04.320 the time, because I've had in my mind for a 0:15:04.360 --> 0:15:08.480 long time. When The New York Times announced that intent 0:15:08.640 --> 0:15:12.120 doesn't matter, I consider that one of the big moments 0:15:12.840 --> 0:15:17.800 in the apocalypse. I mean, because that's crazy if I 0:15:18.120 --> 0:15:22.800 say something and then you misinterpreted or whatever happens and 0:15:22.840 --> 0:15:24.560 you get upset, and I said, no, no, no, no, 0:15:24.600 --> 0:15:28.320 I meant doesn't matter what I meant. Intent doesn't matter. 0:15:28.720 --> 0:15:31.760 They actually stated that explicitly, and the story that made 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:36.800 that come about was their their science reporter Donald McNeil Jr. 0:15:36.960 --> 0:15:40.640 Who got fired by The Times over this years earlier, 0:15:41.640 --> 0:15:44.760 on a student trip because he's a professor on a 0:15:44.800 --> 0:15:48.480 student trip to Peru, had used the N word when 0:15:48.560 --> 0:15:52.360 discussing language in various countries and racial slurs and how 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:55.840 they're used he used it in the context of, for instance, 0:15:55.960 --> 0:15:58.840 the N word, and said it became a word that 0:15:58.920 --> 0:16:02.160 in the United States blocksh blah blah blah blah. Years later, 0:16:02.200 --> 0:16:05.040 when the apocalypse is going on, some students came forward 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.800 and said he said the N word once and everybody 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.200 went nuts, and he said, no, no, no, I was 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.400 just discussing it. I'm not in favor of it. I 0:16:13.440 --> 0:16:16.080 was discussing it. We were having a conversation about racial slurs. 0:16:16.280 --> 0:16:18.720 And that's when The New York Times made the after 0:16:18.760 --> 0:16:21.840 one hundred and fifty staffers signed a protest letter at 0:16:21.840 --> 0:16:24.040 the New York Times. The New York Times said, we 0:16:24.080 --> 0:16:29.240 do not tolerate racist language, regardless of intent. It doesn't 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:33.920 matter what your intent was at all. It's how well 0:16:33.960 --> 0:16:37.480 I'll read their quote. It's irrelevant. What matters is how 0:16:37.520 --> 0:16:40.520 an act makes the victims feel. That's from the New 0:16:40.640 --> 0:16:44.200 York freaking Times. So Brett Stevens at the time the 0:16:44.400 --> 0:16:47.000 Conservative using my finger quotes columnists for the New York 0:16:47.040 --> 0:16:49.960 Times wrote a piece on how crazy that was. That 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:53.480 intent is everything, and basically the stuff that we've said 0:16:53.520 --> 0:16:56.640 for years that you're going pre enlightenment if you start 0:16:56.680 --> 0:16:59.720 talking about intent doesn't matter. I mean, you're into crazy. Brother. 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:02.120 He wrote a piece about that New York Times. The 0:17:02.160 --> 0:17:05.320 New York Times would not publish it. One of their 0:17:05.320 --> 0:17:07.920 own columnists, they would not publish it. The New York 0:17:07.960 --> 0:17:10.159 Posts did publish it. I remember we read from it. 0:17:10.400 --> 0:17:13.560 The guy wasn't actually fired, but he was forced to resign. 0:17:13.600 --> 0:17:21.480 He had no choice. Arm unfreaking believable that adults, intelligent 0:17:21.680 --> 0:17:24.560 in theory, adults could come to that conclusion. 0:17:25.040 --> 0:17:28.080 That is the full flower, though, of the Marxist technique 0:17:28.119 --> 0:17:31.760 that you call somebody racist, you take away their power, 0:17:31.920 --> 0:17:35.119 You take over their power. And if they say, whoa, 0:17:35.359 --> 0:17:37.520 I'm not racist, and I can prove it, here's precisely 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:40.159 what I meant. Well, that's too many smart people can 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:42.560 do that. So you tell them, and you tell the world. 0:17:42.640 --> 0:17:45.040 It doesn't matter what he says. The word came out 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:47.760 of his mouth, therefore he's guilty. Therefore we take his power, 0:17:47.920 --> 0:17:48.920 we take his job, etc. 0:17:50.119 --> 0:17:51.879 The New York freaking Times. 0:17:52.240 --> 0:17:55.600 I know, intent doesn't matter. What if the person I 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.080 don't know is paranoid, is pretending to be offended so 0:17:59.119 --> 0:18:01.320 they can get me fined, or to take my job 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:02.399 or my power or whatever. 0:18:02.600 --> 0:18:05.399 Does that matter? No, no, no, no no no. Intent 0:18:05.560 --> 0:18:08.679 doesn't matter. You're guilty. It's how you are accused. You 0:18:08.720 --> 0:18:10.919 are guilty, So you wouldn't even have to say that. 0:18:10.960 --> 0:18:13.080 You might just say the N word like I just did, 0:18:13.160 --> 0:18:17.280 using the letter. If they feel bad, then that's enough. 0:18:17.680 --> 0:18:19.520 They went so crazy. 0:18:20.600 --> 0:18:23.920 Armstrong and Getty so on the. 0:18:23.880 --> 0:18:26.119 Example we just gave from the Wolf Pocalypse, and if 0:18:26.119 --> 0:18:28.320 you didn't hear it, get the podcast Armstrong and Getty 0:18:28.359 --> 0:18:30.480 on demand. But as a famous incident with The New 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:34.000 York Times in which they stated that intent doesn't matter, 0:18:35.520 --> 0:18:42.320 which is nuts. Uh. I feel like I couldn't be 0:18:42.440 --> 0:18:45.359 pressured into that to go along with it. Nope. But 0:18:45.400 --> 0:18:47.080 am I lying to myself about that? 0:18:47.240 --> 0:18:47.439 You know? 0:18:47.520 --> 0:18:50.719 Doctor Jordan Peterson, he regularly says, if you think you 0:18:50.720 --> 0:18:54.320 couldn't have become a Nazi or part of the cultural revolutionary, 0:18:54.359 --> 0:18:57.440 I suppose this You're you're lying to yourself. Look, I mean, 0:18:57.680 --> 0:19:01.320 just history is proven people are susceptible to these waves, 0:19:01.560 --> 0:19:03.520 and you need to you need to admit to yourself 0:19:03.520 --> 0:19:05.000 that that could happen to you and to be on 0:19:05.080 --> 0:19:10.160 guard for it. But I'm given the right circumstances, Yes, yeah, yeah, 0:19:10.200 --> 0:19:13.280 maybe on a different topic or something that I can't 0:19:13.359 --> 0:19:16.959 quite imagine because I can't picture myself falling for it. 0:19:17.040 --> 0:19:20.399 But you know, I haven't been surrounded by all of 0:19:20.440 --> 0:19:23.320 a sudden all my coworkers and friends are saying, no, 0:19:23.400 --> 0:19:26.320 black is white, What are you nuts? Black is white? 0:19:26.840 --> 0:19:29.920 And I'm gonna continue to stand there and say, no, 0:19:29.960 --> 0:19:30.320 it's not. 0:19:31.760 --> 0:19:35.200 I'll bet somewhere there's some genius who's put together a 0:19:35.280 --> 0:19:38.240 matrix or a rubric, or a paradigm or an algorithm 0:19:38.840 --> 0:19:41.880 to explain, you know, the various things that need to combine, 0:19:41.960 --> 0:19:45.600 a combination of just personality type. Because there's some people 0:19:45.720 --> 0:19:49.640 you can doop into anything. They're just they're sheep. They 0:19:49.680 --> 0:19:52.440 go along to get along. There are some people who 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:56.240 aren't exactly, but they're young, they're much more impressionable. 0:19:56.680 --> 0:19:57.520 The woke thing. 0:19:57.720 --> 0:20:03.080 You know, we're both real individual lists and not joiners exactly. 0:20:04.240 --> 0:20:05.760 And it came. 0:20:05.600 --> 0:20:08.399 Along later in life. And so the idea that no, 0:20:08.520 --> 0:20:11.080 if you just out of the words, its intent doesn't matter. 0:20:11.320 --> 0:20:14.080 All of my life, experienced my philosophy, everything I've read, 0:20:14.640 --> 0:20:17.480 I mean, it just it hit a brick wall of no, 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:18.640 that's ridiculous. 0:20:18.840 --> 0:20:20.639 But you know, if you're young and impressionable and kind 0:20:20.680 --> 0:20:21.440 of a sheepy person. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:24.360 Yeah, I could see going along with it, and myself 0:20:24.440 --> 0:20:29.119 is an angry young man, say my country has been 0:20:29.119 --> 0:20:32.560 defeated in war and our economy's crumbling and exciting new 0:20:32.640 --> 0:20:35.760 leaders say you shouldn't be ashamed of who you are, 0:20:35.840 --> 0:20:38.360 you should be proud of it, and we're gonna get them, 0:20:38.359 --> 0:20:42.120 and here's who's to blame. It possible a person would 0:20:42.160 --> 0:20:43.639 fall for that, even a person like me. 0:20:43.800 --> 0:20:45.640 Yeah, I suppose so. I suppose so. 0:20:46.119 --> 0:20:49.639 I would hope whise in benevolent old graveyater did the 0:20:49.680 --> 0:20:52.240 fellas like myself, though, Mike grab me by the ear 0:20:52.280 --> 0:20:54.760 and say, dude, here's why that's wrong, which is what 0:20:54.800 --> 0:20:55.479 we're trying to do. 0:20:55.760 --> 0:20:58.359 There are different categories, and then we'll get back into 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:01.280 the wolf quacobips and how it's not something you should 0:21:01.280 --> 0:21:05.120 just be able to laugh off the way a seeddy. 0:21:06.160 --> 0:21:08.600 Oh my god, it was crazy. People lost their jobs, 0:21:08.600 --> 0:21:14.280 people got killed. Oh it was crazy. You're young, you 0:21:14.320 --> 0:21:16.959 don't know anybody. You get swept up with the mania. 0:21:16.960 --> 0:21:19.560 All your friends are doing it. Okay, that's one thing, 0:21:19.880 --> 0:21:24.280 But the New York Times management originally stood by that 0:21:24.400 --> 0:21:28.440 science reporter. Then when the one hundred and fifty probably 0:21:28.520 --> 0:21:31.760 young staffers wrote that letter, then they changed their mind. 0:21:32.280 --> 0:21:35.240 That crowd is who I hate the most. That crowd 0:21:35.280 --> 0:21:38.199 that knew better. Whether you're the people at Nike at 0:21:38.240 --> 0:21:40.600 a certain level of management or whoever you are, the 0:21:40.640 --> 0:21:45.159 people that know better, but you're freaking cowards. I hate 0:21:45.200 --> 0:21:48.920 you so much. Young and impressionable people falling for getting 0:21:48.920 --> 0:21:52.680 swept up probably could happen to anybody different category than 0:21:52.720 --> 0:21:56.760 the cowards who knew better but went along with destroying 0:21:56.920 --> 0:21:59.680 people because it was convenient for him. I couldn't hate 0:21:59.720 --> 0:22:00.280 you more. 0:22:00.680 --> 0:22:04.920 Are profitable, Yeah, yeah, I can picture the thinking inside 0:22:04.920 --> 0:22:08.480 the walls of the corporate castle. Hey, the mob is 0:22:08.520 --> 0:22:10.919 howling this, Tell him we agree with him, Give him 0:22:10.960 --> 0:22:13.040 some money and pretend we agree with him for a while, 0:22:13.080 --> 0:22:15.560 and they'll go away and bother somebody else. I guess 0:22:15.560 --> 0:22:16.280 that's the thinking. 0:22:16.520 --> 0:22:18.800