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Speaker 1: if I got all the tools I need to do

423
00:26:11,560 --> 00:26:13,720
Speaker 1: what I gotta do, and you got all the tools

424
00:26:13,760 --> 00:26:16,040
Speaker 1: you need to do what you gotta do, just leave

425
00:26:16,119 --> 00:26:19,679
Speaker 1: us alone, and if it works, it works. If it fails,

426
00:26:19,720 --> 00:26:23,080
Speaker 1: it's my fault. But don't get in my way. Let

427
00:26:23,119 --> 00:26:26,160
Speaker 1: me make that decision, you know what I'm saying. Look,

428
00:26:26,760 --> 00:26:30,080
Speaker 1: if if it ain't no school for me, let me

429
00:26:30,160 --> 00:26:32,520
Speaker 1: figure out how to do it, and I'll make it succeed.

430
00:26:32,560 --> 00:26:33,880
Speaker 1: I don't need you all to do it. Like, look,

431
00:26:34,040 --> 00:26:35,960
Speaker 1: if I need to put more money into my local school,

432
00:26:35,960 --> 00:26:37,359
Speaker 1: I'll put my money. You don't make me put my

433
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:40,520
Speaker 1: money in my school. I'll do it. Usually, now this

434
00:26:40,600 --> 00:26:43,679
Speaker 1: is your more libertarian approach, and to be honest, with

435
00:26:43,720 --> 00:26:47,280
Speaker 1: you libertarian? Is this idea of like, look, I got

436
00:26:47,320 --> 00:26:50,840
Speaker 1: sense it, don't it don't do me no good for

437
00:26:50,920 --> 00:26:54,040
Speaker 1: me to have a seven bedroom house on a block

438
00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:57,080
Speaker 1: when everybody else is starving. That just don't do me

439
00:26:57,160 --> 00:26:59,920
Speaker 1: no good. Like I'm of course I'm gonna like, Look,

440
00:27:00,080 --> 00:27:02,359
Speaker 1: my neighbor's kids is hungry. I'm a feed him, Like,

441
00:27:02,480 --> 00:27:04,919
Speaker 1: I don't need you to tell me this because you know,

442
00:27:04,960 --> 00:27:07,360
Speaker 1: I'm like, I can't have them disease written. You know why,

443
00:27:07,359 --> 00:27:10,040
Speaker 1: because that's gonna get my kids sick. So it just

444
00:27:10,119 --> 00:27:12,560
Speaker 1: makes sense. If we're out in the forest, you know

445
00:27:12,560 --> 00:27:14,159
Speaker 1: what I'm saying. If I'm chopping wood you need what?

446
00:27:14,200 --> 00:27:16,280
Speaker 1: Of course I'm gonna give you wood, I like and

447
00:27:16,400 --> 00:27:18,320
Speaker 1: dove you need water, you'll give it to me, right,

448
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:20,000
Speaker 1: I mean, I just gave you wood. I need some water,

449
00:27:20,080 --> 00:27:22,200
Speaker 1: Like I don't understand, don't we both want to survive.

450
00:27:22,840 --> 00:27:24,840
Speaker 1: I don't everybody tell me that. I don't need a

451
00:27:24,880 --> 00:27:26,480
Speaker 1: government to tell me this. I don't need you to

452
00:27:26,520 --> 00:27:30,320
Speaker 1: take the wood from me, Like I got sense, And

453
00:27:30,359 --> 00:27:33,399
Speaker 1: if I fail, I failed. I've always said to that, Like,

454
00:27:33,480 --> 00:27:35,760
Speaker 1: if it wasn't for racism, I'd probably be a libertarian.

455
00:27:35,760 --> 00:27:37,480
Speaker 1: I'd be like, y'all leave me alone. I got sense,

456
00:27:37,520 --> 00:27:40,639
Speaker 1: I figure it out. But because racism, I can't trust

457
00:27:40,680 --> 00:27:43,840
Speaker 1: my neighbor to do the right thing. Like people like,

458
00:27:43,880 --> 00:27:49,119
Speaker 1: here's here's the The official misunderstanding of affirmative action is

459
00:27:49,160 --> 00:27:51,639
Speaker 1: this is people feel like in race called is people

460
00:27:51,640 --> 00:27:55,560
Speaker 1: feel like, Okay, you got in just because of the

461
00:27:55,600 --> 00:27:57,720
Speaker 1: color of your skin. And I'm like, are you serious

462
00:27:58,280 --> 00:28:01,400
Speaker 1: if a black man got into Yale University. I didn't

463
00:28:01,440 --> 00:28:04,040
Speaker 1: get into Yale. I'm black, I don't got the grades.

464
00:28:04,600 --> 00:28:06,680
Speaker 1: It ain't got nothing to do with It doesn't mean

465
00:28:06,720 --> 00:28:10,400
Speaker 1: that you're not capable. What it means is I don't

466
00:28:10,400 --> 00:28:13,800
Speaker 1: care how capable you are. They wasn't gonna let you in.

467
00:28:14,200 --> 00:28:16,520
Speaker 1: So what the government is coming in and saying it's like, yo,

468
00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,479
Speaker 1: I'm compelling you because they would have never chose you

469
00:28:19,800 --> 00:28:22,600
Speaker 1: no matter how qualified you are. It don't mean you

470
00:28:22,720 --> 00:28:25,040
Speaker 1: not qualified. It means they was never gonna choose you,

471
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,840
Speaker 1: whether you was qualified or not. That's how affermative action were. Now.

472
00:28:28,880 --> 00:28:31,240
Speaker 1: I remember our first time, like triving to through Memphis, Memphis,

473
00:28:31,280 --> 00:28:34,160
Speaker 1: Tennessee and really trying to understand like why y'all act

474
00:28:34,200 --> 00:28:36,560
Speaker 1: like this? And one of the os was like listening.

475
00:28:36,600 --> 00:28:38,600
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. It's like he was like, Yo, my

476
00:28:38,680 --> 00:28:41,240
Speaker 1: dad worked at the electric company thirty years, never got

477
00:28:41,240 --> 00:28:45,920
Speaker 1: promoted the manager. Why he was like, because none of

478
00:28:45,920 --> 00:28:49,160
Speaker 1: them white boys would listen to him. They would never

479
00:28:49,280 --> 00:28:52,800
Speaker 1: accept no matter how much more skilled he was. They

480
00:28:52,840 --> 00:28:56,440
Speaker 1: would never take directions from a black man. He's like

481
00:28:56,520 --> 00:28:59,240
Speaker 1: in the and and it and the bosses was like, dog,

482
00:28:59,320 --> 00:29:03,280
Speaker 1: you're right, like you are more qualified. I just can't

483
00:29:03,280 --> 00:29:06,160
Speaker 1: make them listen to you. He explained other situations where

484
00:29:06,160 --> 00:29:08,320
Speaker 1: it's like, again, I don't qualify. I don't care how

485
00:29:08,400 --> 00:29:11,760
Speaker 1: qualified you are. We just don't promote black people. I'll

486
00:29:11,800 --> 00:29:13,200
Speaker 1: be like, Danny, don't you all want to get to

487
00:29:13,200 --> 00:29:16,360
Speaker 1: the money? They're like not like this, which is why

488
00:29:16,440 --> 00:29:20,320
Speaker 1: you needed laws against discrimination. I know, I got I

489
00:29:20,360 --> 00:29:21,920
Speaker 1: know the college I went to is because they had

490
00:29:22,040 --> 00:29:25,040
Speaker 1: race quotas. I get it. It would but listen, I

491
00:29:25,040 --> 00:29:28,240
Speaker 1: still applied. So they had the grades. You know what

492
00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,440
Speaker 1: I'm saying. My cousin ain't go. He ain't got the grades.

493
00:29:32,680 --> 00:29:36,600
Speaker 1: So it's like, don't like, don't conflict this. But anyway

494
00:29:36,640 --> 00:29:43,160
Speaker 1: that that like freedom to flourish is usually the like

495
00:29:43,280 --> 00:29:47,480
Speaker 1: the libertarian approach. And then there's a third approach. That's um,

496
00:29:47,640 --> 00:29:52,200
Speaker 1: what things ought to be is the ideal. Now, this

497
00:29:52,280 --> 00:29:54,400
Speaker 1: is the stuff you hear Jordan Peterson and them say,

498
00:29:54,720 --> 00:29:59,480
Speaker 1: the ideal what things should be, That there is a right,

499
00:30:00,560 --> 00:30:03,400
Speaker 1: a right way for things to work, and it is

500
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,880
Speaker 1: outside of us. It is fixed, and it is eternal.

501
00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:10,520
Speaker 1: And what we are to do, no matter what any

502
00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:14,280
Speaker 1: of us think, is to bend our will to what

503
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:16,760
Speaker 1: is right. Yeah, and sometimes I may not like it,

504
00:30:16,800 --> 00:30:20,480
Speaker 1: but that's what that's what, that's what's right. This appeals

505
00:30:20,520 --> 00:30:24,720
Speaker 1: to the conservative and I mean clearly if you say

506
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:28,080
Speaker 1: that the those that are staunchly religious, is because it's

507
00:30:28,080 --> 00:30:32,440
Speaker 1: appealing to this ideal of a divine rightness that is

508
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,400
Speaker 1: outside of us, and it is our job, no matter

509
00:30:34,400 --> 00:30:38,120
Speaker 1: how we feel about something, to conform to that. And

510
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:41,400
Speaker 1: this is why when you look at the culture wars,

511
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:44,360
Speaker 1: we end as far as like things like gay marriage.

512
00:30:44,480 --> 00:30:46,880
Speaker 1: Right now we're really getting into the meats here, abortion,

513
00:30:47,240 --> 00:30:50,640
Speaker 1: gay marriage, trans rights. These people are gonna tell you,

514
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,600
Speaker 1: well know, I'm just saying like they're gonna try to

515
00:30:52,600 --> 00:30:54,680
Speaker 1: come with the like libertarian approach where it's like, well no,

516
00:30:54,720 --> 00:30:57,320
Speaker 1: I'm just saying that, like I don't think government should

517
00:30:57,360 --> 00:31:00,000
Speaker 1: be involved in any of our relationship. No, it's because

518
00:31:00,280 --> 00:31:02,400
Speaker 1: that's not really the way you feel. You don't think

519
00:31:02,480 --> 00:31:06,200
Speaker 1: these things should exist in a perfect world. According to

520
00:31:06,240 --> 00:31:10,720
Speaker 1: this world, everybody's hetero because that's the way, according to you,

521
00:31:11,160 --> 00:31:13,480
Speaker 1: we were made, that's the way we ought to be.

522
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:15,960
Speaker 1: Into them. It's like full dune, like I don't understand,

523
00:31:16,360 --> 00:31:18,480
Speaker 1: look at our genitals, Like what are you talking about?

524
00:31:19,120 --> 00:31:24,719
Speaker 1: Like this any sort of deviation from what is the norm?

525
00:31:24,760 --> 00:31:28,480
Speaker 1: You know, subtexts middle class white like if you don't succeed,

526
00:31:29,520 --> 00:31:36,240
Speaker 1: it's because you're the malady, You're the the the variance.

527
00:31:38,800 --> 00:31:42,320
Speaker 1: So there must be something wrong with you, because in

528
00:31:42,360 --> 00:31:47,080
Speaker 1: a proper society, you would be over there and we

529
00:31:47,120 --> 00:31:51,360
Speaker 1: would be. It just it just feeds so much naturally,

530
00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:57,760
Speaker 1: fitting perfectly with the racist white supremacists, homophobic for some reason,

531
00:31:57,800 --> 00:32:02,120
Speaker 1: it just fits so well because of their definition of

532
00:32:02,160 --> 00:32:07,880
Speaker 1: how things ought to be, and they feel like, well,

533
00:32:07,920 --> 00:32:12,440
Speaker 1: they're letting go of things too. It's like why I

534
00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:14,720
Speaker 1: wish everybody was wealthy. I wish I didn't have to

535
00:32:14,760 --> 00:32:18,360
Speaker 1: pay taxes. But you know, things fall apart. We live

536
00:32:18,400 --> 00:32:21,480
Speaker 1: in a fallen world. Some things go wrong, and yeah,

537
00:32:21,480 --> 00:32:24,000
Speaker 1: I mean, but look everybody's got to take You know,

538
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:28,200
Speaker 1: this isn't a perfect world, but if it was, it

539
00:32:28,240 --> 00:32:32,360
Speaker 1: would look like this, which but what ends up happening

540
00:32:32,480 --> 00:32:37,520
Speaker 1: is now we're not even arguing like the merits of

541
00:32:39,600 --> 00:32:43,080
Speaker 1: the right, the argument the worldview. It's like it ends

542
00:32:43,160 --> 00:32:47,160
Speaker 1: up being where you're arguing my right for existence. You

543
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:49,719
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Like it's not the only thing

544
00:32:49,720 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: I should have rights. You think I shouldn't exist, yo,

545
00:32:53,240 --> 00:32:56,360
Speaker 1: But since my non existence is not an option, you

546
00:32:56,520 --> 00:33:00,239
Speaker 1: just try to minimize my presence in your world. Right.

547
00:33:01,720 --> 00:33:05,000
Speaker 1: But with that worldview again like putting yourself in their shoes,

548
00:33:05,040 --> 00:33:07,760
Speaker 1: they're like, look, I ain't make the rules, do you

549
00:33:07,800 --> 00:33:12,840
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying. I just like, I'm just it's

550
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:14,760
Speaker 1: just this is just you know, when you try to

551
00:33:14,760 --> 00:33:17,240
Speaker 1: explain to somebody like sort of some of these these

552
00:33:17,320 --> 00:33:19,000
Speaker 1: these views that we're at, we're just like, I but

553
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:25,720
Speaker 1: I don't look, man, if you don't have corn, plant corn,

554
00:33:27,600 --> 00:33:32,160
Speaker 1: I just why should I have to give you corn

555
00:33:32,240 --> 00:33:36,080
Speaker 1: that I plan it if you ain't go outside and

556
00:33:36,120 --> 00:33:40,160
Speaker 1: plant your oh corn. This is just how it works.

557
00:33:40,720 --> 00:33:46,200
Speaker 1: That's why they begets so far it But now you

558
00:33:46,320 --> 00:33:52,440
Speaker 1: got stuff like trans people in community and rights. That's

559
00:33:52,480 --> 00:33:56,400
Speaker 1: just a brain breaker. It's not that y'all shouldn't have rights,

560
00:33:56,840 --> 00:34:00,080
Speaker 1: is that y'all shouldn't exist. This shouldn't be so in

561
00:34:00,120 --> 00:34:01,600
Speaker 1: their mind, it's like, well, if I can make the

562
00:34:01,640 --> 00:34:04,880
Speaker 1: culture like form itself to what things ought to be

563
00:34:06,040 --> 00:34:08,279
Speaker 1: in this world. Again, because you're talking about what it

564
00:34:08,440 --> 00:34:13,040
Speaker 1: ought to be. If you're a boy and you don't

565
00:34:13,120 --> 00:34:19,040
Speaker 1: think you're a boy, something wrong with your thoughts according

566
00:34:19,080 --> 00:34:24,120
Speaker 1: to them, because that's not how things ought to be.

567
00:34:24,640 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: But here's the problem. What they do exist. You you're

568
00:34:28,360 --> 00:34:32,480
Speaker 1: trying to end gay marriage, it's not because you don't

569
00:34:32,520 --> 00:34:34,479
Speaker 1: believe in marriage. Equality is not because you don't believe

570
00:34:34,480 --> 00:34:37,839
Speaker 1: in marriage. It's because you believe in marriage. Only like this,

571
00:34:38,200 --> 00:34:43,520
Speaker 1: it's actually homophobic. Now again if we're talking culture will

572
00:34:43,560 --> 00:34:46,000
Speaker 1: now getting no way, let me finish this. So that

573
00:34:46,120 --> 00:34:47,960
Speaker 1: is the third way of what you mean by justice.

574
00:34:48,040 --> 00:34:50,440
Speaker 1: Justice is what things ought to be right, And you

575
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,120
Speaker 1: might find yourself somewhere in some of these places. Now,

576
00:34:54,320 --> 00:34:57,400
Speaker 1: what a culture war does is says that anybody in

577
00:34:57,440 --> 00:35:00,239
Speaker 1: these other motifs don't get it. So that if like

578
00:35:00,239 --> 00:35:02,120
Speaker 1: like let youse, let use the gay marriage thing as

579
00:35:02,160 --> 00:35:07,000
Speaker 1: an example, right, if in this election cycle. The conservative

580
00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,240
Speaker 1: movement is gonna take this on because they they've floating

581
00:35:09,239 --> 00:35:11,600
Speaker 1: on this Roe v. Wade victory. Right, And then Clarence

582
00:35:11,640 --> 00:35:13,399
Speaker 1: Thomas was like, well, let's look at this stuff, let's

583
00:35:13,400 --> 00:35:16,000
Speaker 1: look at birth control, let's look at this right, Whereas

584
00:35:16,400 --> 00:35:20,919
Speaker 1: the majority of like the populace is like, well, I mean,

585
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,520
Speaker 1: if we're if we're talking conservative populace like following me,

586
00:35:24,520 --> 00:35:26,120
Speaker 1: they're like, well, we think it's weird. Weren't reel with

587
00:35:26,200 --> 00:35:29,920
Speaker 1: it religiously, But like, I mean, what what do I care? Like,

588
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:32,640
Speaker 1: get the taxes, you know what I'm saying, It's fine

589
00:35:33,080 --> 00:35:36,040
Speaker 1: if this is an institution that you believe. Again, a

590
00:35:36,080 --> 00:35:42,560
Speaker 1: loving family is like the cornerstone of our society, and

591
00:35:42,560 --> 00:35:45,720
Speaker 1: why would you take it away from people that agree

592
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:51,000
Speaker 1: with you, Like you have these LGBTQ couples that are like, yeah,

593
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:54,520
Speaker 1: you're right, a healthy family. I'm in love with this person.

594
00:35:55,200 --> 00:35:57,200
Speaker 1: I want to solidify it, pledge my love, and I

595
00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:59,520
Speaker 1: want to bring some children into this place. There's a

596
00:35:59,520 --> 00:36:00,839
Speaker 1: lot of people, well there's a lot of kids out

597
00:36:00,840 --> 00:36:04,600
Speaker 1: there ain't got families. We agree, but we can't because

598
00:36:04,600 --> 00:36:17,160
Speaker 1: you're the eyes. It took me a long time to

599
00:36:17,200 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: get to this part of this pot. I hope y'all

600
00:36:18,960 --> 00:36:22,160
Speaker 1: stuck through me. But like, this is where I was saying,

601
00:36:22,200 --> 00:36:24,719
Speaker 1: But what if the makes sense what they're kind of

602
00:36:24,719 --> 00:36:28,520
Speaker 1: saying the same thing. This is the perfect example of that, right,

603
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,960
Speaker 1: Or let's go back to universal healthcare. You know you're like,

604
00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,840
Speaker 1: well it sounds like socialism. Well, I mean like maybe,

605
00:36:37,520 --> 00:36:40,799
Speaker 1: but you know, if you think that this is just

606
00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:44,440
Speaker 1: like a black brown like a minority issue, It's like

607
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:50,640
Speaker 1: man talked to that toughest nail, you know, sawmill logging.

608
00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,759
Speaker 1: He ain't got no insurance, can't afford no healthcare. That

609
00:36:55,840 --> 00:36:58,560
Speaker 1: company showl ain't giving him nothing. Y'a don't see all

610
00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:04,520
Speaker 1: them commercials about Mezzo Theaoma from working in them cold mines. Bro,

611
00:37:04,600 --> 00:37:07,320
Speaker 1: you think your company care about you? Don't You wouldn't

612
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,520
Speaker 1: you like, don't you think? Don't you think it'd be

613
00:37:09,600 --> 00:37:11,760
Speaker 1: kind of cool? It's like, you ain't have to rely

614
00:37:12,719 --> 00:37:15,080
Speaker 1: on this company that don't care about you anyway for

615
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:17,839
Speaker 1: your safety. It's crazy to me to have to rely

616
00:37:17,960 --> 00:37:20,040
Speaker 1: on somebody that I know don't care about me for

617
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:24,239
Speaker 1: my security. That's ridiculous to me. I don't trust you.

618
00:37:24,239 --> 00:37:27,160
Speaker 1: You don't trust me? Why the hell would I trust

619
00:37:27,160 --> 00:37:29,680
Speaker 1: you for the health of my children? Now I need

620
00:37:29,719 --> 00:37:31,640
Speaker 1: to talk to somebody else. And then somebody else's argument

621
00:37:31,719 --> 00:37:35,080
Speaker 1: might be like, woll, why would I trust the government

622
00:37:35,120 --> 00:37:38,280
Speaker 1: for you for the health of my children? My argument

623
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:42,399
Speaker 1: would be because the government needs you, that company don't

624
00:37:42,440 --> 00:37:47,600
Speaker 1: need you. The problem is I also agree with them

625
00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: by saying, well, what government program work? Well that's what

626
00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:54,560
Speaker 1: Look you see how the options making sense to each other.

627
00:37:54,719 --> 00:38:20,800
Speaker 1: But I can't because you're the eye culture awards. Now. Lastly,

628
00:38:22,600 --> 00:38:25,600
Speaker 1: as you'll go into these voting boosts, as you'll think

629
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:30,280
Speaker 1: about where you want to go next, I would suggest

630
00:38:30,360 --> 00:38:33,359
Speaker 1: to you to not let yourself. I don't care where

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