WEBVTT - American Taliban 0:00:11.880 --> 0:00:14.840 Good morning, peeps, and welcome to okay f Daily with 0:00:14.880 --> 0:00:18.160 Meet Your Girl Danielle Moody, recording live from our pod 0:00:18.200 --> 0:00:21.479 stream studios in Times Square. You know, folks, it has 0:00:21.520 --> 0:00:25.360 been a couple of weeks now since the United States 0:00:25.360 --> 0:00:31.720 has withdrew from Afghanistan in their role of trying to 0:00:31.760 --> 0:00:34.800 secure democracy in an area that they really had no 0:00:34.840 --> 0:00:38.280 business in for the last twenty semite years. They have 0:00:38.440 --> 0:00:41.800 left in many ways Afghanistan more unstable than it was 0:00:41.880 --> 0:00:44.839 when they arrived in two thousand and one. There's an 0:00:44.880 --> 0:00:48.400 interesting article though, that I want to draw our attention to, 0:00:48.600 --> 0:00:51.920 which is really just using Afghanistan as a hook so 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:57.040 much as understanding the politics of nations that have anti 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.800 women agendas. And it's really interesting because I have to 0:01:01.840 --> 0:01:07.240 say this. I tweeted yesterday that some days I think 0:01:07.240 --> 0:01:12.839 about Hillary Clinton probably more than you know, most people 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:18.680 where it's I think about her walking around, you know, 0:01:18.880 --> 0:01:23.160 her home or wherever, listening to the news and being 0:01:23.280 --> 0:01:27.640 absolutely and thoroughly disgusted by the things that are unfolding. 0:01:27.840 --> 0:01:32.199 That she warned the country of a decade ago, right 0:01:32.440 --> 0:01:35.800 or more. Hillary Clinton had been talking about women and 0:01:35.880 --> 0:01:41.040 girls issues when it wasn't popular when there was no hashtag, 0:01:41.440 --> 0:01:44.640 when you know, she was being lambasted for being a 0:01:44.640 --> 0:01:46.800 first lady who said, yeah, I don't want to fucking 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:51.000 bake your pies. Right, we can applaud that now, But 0:01:51.040 --> 0:01:54.320 then an entire group of women came for her, and 0:01:54.360 --> 0:01:56.680 it would be that same group of women that would 0:01:56.840 --> 0:02:01.200 upset her ability to clench the highest office in the 0:02:01.280 --> 0:02:04.160 land in twenty sixteen, when fifty three percent of white 0:02:04.200 --> 0:02:08.280 women decided to vote against their own and instead vote 0:02:08.320 --> 0:02:14.480 for a traitorous, treasonous, misogynist, islamophobic, homophobic, transphobic, racist piece 0:02:14.520 --> 0:02:20.480 of shit Donald Trump. So what is really interesting to 0:02:20.520 --> 0:02:25.760 me is that the Economist put out an article and 0:02:27.000 --> 0:02:29.880 this was the tweet that they sent out. And if 0:02:29.919 --> 0:02:33.360 I were Hillary Clinton, I think that I would have 0:02:33.480 --> 0:02:36.920 gone out in my backyard on my balcony where whatever 0:02:37.120 --> 0:02:41.280 state she is at, and scream so loud that like 0:02:41.480 --> 0:02:46.040 it would alarm everyone in the towns nearby. This is 0:02:46.080 --> 0:02:50.720 what it read. There is growing evidence that Hillary Clinton 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:54.799 was on to something a decade ago when she said 0:02:55.160 --> 0:02:58.400 the subjugation of women is a threat to the common 0:02:58.440 --> 0:03:04.120 security of our world. Now you read this article and 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:10.200 Hillary Clinton, because she is better than me said in 0:03:10.240 --> 0:03:16.120 a tweet responding to the Economists, thanks for noticing, because 0:03:16.240 --> 0:03:19.800 all you can do right now if you are Hillary Clinton, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:24.320 is throw an incredible amount of shade at the fuckery 0:03:24.360 --> 0:03:29.600 that has maybe possibly and I guess we will see 0:03:29.720 --> 0:03:35.040 with the midterm elections, wholly and completely gutted our democracy. 0:03:35.640 --> 0:03:38.640 But the title of the article is this in the Economists, 0:03:38.800 --> 0:03:43.920 Sex and Geopolitics, Why nations that fail Women Fail. I 0:03:43.960 --> 0:03:48.600 think that it's incredibly important, and I said this last week. 0:03:49.520 --> 0:03:53.600 You know, it is not lost on me that the 0:03:53.720 --> 0:03:57.640 United States has the audacity to go around the world 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:02.480 to lambast and to shame other countries for their treatment 0:04:02.520 --> 0:04:07.720 of women. Now, while we may not have outwardly facing 0:04:07.960 --> 0:04:14.560 violent or brutal punishments for women, the policies that this 0:04:14.680 --> 0:04:19.960 country supports and upholds are just as devastating as I 0:04:20.000 --> 0:04:25.040 would say, probably potentially being stoned to death or beaten right, 0:04:25.600 --> 0:04:28.440 Because here's the thing. When we live in a country 0:04:28.480 --> 0:04:30.760 where we know that one and four women are going 0:04:30.800 --> 0:04:35.080 to be raped, right when you go on to a 0:04:35.160 --> 0:04:38.320 college campus looking to your left, your right, your front, 0:04:38.320 --> 0:04:41.520 and your back, and knowing that several of you in 0:04:41.600 --> 0:04:47.320 that orientation assembly will be raped and we do nothing 0:04:47.360 --> 0:04:50.559 about that. It is just a matter of fact. Don't 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:54.120 put your cup down, don't wear this outfit, don't go 0:04:54.200 --> 0:04:57.520 to this party. The onus always being on the woman. 0:04:58.200 --> 0:05:00.320 When you live in a country that goes on the 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:04.960 world proclaiming how important education is for girls and how 0:05:05.000 --> 0:05:07.279 we need to educate girls and how dare you be 0:05:07.440 --> 0:05:13.200 this barbaric an archaic type of government. Well, I think 0:05:13.240 --> 0:05:17.799 about how women in this country are doubly triply educated 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:22.480 in comparisons to men. I lifted up last week many 0:05:22.560 --> 0:05:26.200 analytics and reports on the fact that the pandemic, but 0:05:26.279 --> 0:05:30.440 even before the pandemic, that men were not looking for 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:35.960 higher education or attending post secondary in the way that 0:05:36.080 --> 0:05:40.200 women are and have been, And that what happens when 0:05:40.240 --> 0:05:44.599 men leave university when they dare not go into college, right, 0:05:44.920 --> 0:05:47.080 when we have a class of men that will be 0:05:47.360 --> 0:05:52.039 under educated, right and young, and possibly a lot more 0:05:52.080 --> 0:05:58.400 aggressive right towards their women counterparts that are overly educated 0:05:58.880 --> 0:06:03.120 gainfully Floyd, And what does that create in a society. 0:06:04.320 --> 0:06:08.160 You look at America in the ways that women will 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:12.320 enter into the workforce, and we all know because each 0:06:12.360 --> 0:06:15.520 and every year when we do this Women's Equal pay Day, 0:06:15.560 --> 0:06:18.160 and then Black Women's Equal pay Day, and then Latina 0:06:18.279 --> 0:06:22.960 women Equal pay Day. That we know right that women 0:06:23.080 --> 0:06:26.479 do not make equal to the amount as men, and 0:06:26.520 --> 0:06:29.640 we know that this should in fact be illegal, but 0:06:29.720 --> 0:06:32.279 we don't have a Congress and have not had a 0:06:32.320 --> 0:06:36.720 president that does anything more then read us empty mantras 0:06:36.760 --> 0:06:40.720 without backing that up with policy. So while we may 0:06:40.800 --> 0:06:43.839 not have women dressed in a particular way in this 0:06:43.880 --> 0:06:47.320 country or keep them out of school, we are most 0:06:47.360 --> 0:06:52.120 certainly keeping and holding ourselves back as a nation by 0:06:52.160 --> 0:06:55.840 the way in which we hold women back, right, because 0:06:55.839 --> 0:06:58.479 we have this false choice that we have women have 0:06:58.560 --> 0:07:01.560 to make in this country, I have a family or 0:07:01.600 --> 0:07:04.919 should I continue working, because we have not set up 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:08.640 an infrastructure that allows both of those things to be true. 0:07:08.720 --> 0:07:14.239 And less, of course, you are wealthy two million women, 0:07:14.360 --> 0:07:17.120 and I'm sure that number is much higher. But when 0:07:17.200 --> 0:07:20.680 first reported in the midst of twenty twenty, Stephanie Rule 0:07:20.760 --> 0:07:24.680 said on MSNBC that two million women had left the workforce. 0:07:25.320 --> 0:07:30.040 Why because they were strapped with having to both homeschool 0:07:30.560 --> 0:07:33.760 right as well as hold on to their own jobs. 0:07:34.320 --> 0:07:36.840 And at the end of it, when push came to shove. 0:07:37.160 --> 0:07:40.440 What did they have to give up the ability to 0:07:40.520 --> 0:07:45.680 be able to maintain building an income outside of the household. So, 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:49.960 whether or not we say explicitly like the Taliban and 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:55.760 other archaic governments, we do a lot of the same 0:07:55.800 --> 0:08:01.640 similar shit. We just use euphemisms and news. Right. It 0:08:01.800 --> 0:08:05.120 is the appearance of freedom for women, It is the 0:08:05.240 --> 0:08:09.880 appearance of equity for women, but we don't actually practice that. 0:08:10.560 --> 0:08:13.480 It is why we have so many subgroups and if 0:08:13.520 --> 0:08:17.320 you work in corporate America, you have you know, employee 0:08:17.360 --> 0:08:19.720 resource groups that are for women, that are for this. 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:22.920 Then we talk about mentorship programs and pipelines and all 0:08:22.920 --> 0:08:26.600 of these things. Why because many of the policies that 0:08:26.640 --> 0:08:28.960 we have on the books and that we continue to 0:08:29.080 --> 0:08:33.240 okay in this country are steeped in patriarchy and misogyny. 0:08:34.280 --> 0:08:38.960 So when the economists then has the audacity to say, well, 0:08:39.120 --> 0:08:41.840 you know, maybe that Hillary Clinton, you know, the most 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:45.440 qualified person ever to run for president of these United States, 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.800 says something that maybe you know, she wasn't off base, 0:08:50.960 --> 0:08:56.240 that maybe you know, this very intelligent, highly educated, strategic 0:08:56.320 --> 0:08:59.720 woman knew what the fuck she was talking about, but 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.880 no one listened to her because she was in fact 0:09:02.960 --> 0:09:06.240 a woman. So here is a bit of this piece. 0:09:06.679 --> 0:09:10.160 After America and its allies toppled the Taliban in two 0:09:10.160 --> 0:09:14.280 thousand and one, primary school enrollment of Afghan girls rose 0:09:14.600 --> 0:09:19.640 from zero percent to above eighty percent. Infant mortality fell 0:09:19.920 --> 0:09:25.600 by half. Forced marriages were made illegal, Many of those 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.000 schools were ropey, and many families ignored the law. But 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.200 no one seriously doubts that Afghan women and girls have 0:09:32.320 --> 0:09:35.360 made great gains in the past twenty years, or that 0:09:35.480 --> 0:09:40.040 those gains are now in jeopardy. The United States is 0:09:40.240 --> 0:09:44.720 quote committed to advancing gender equality through its foreign policy. 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:49.040 According to the State Department, bequeathing billions of dollars worth 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.960 of arms and a medium sized country to a group 0:09:52.040 --> 0:09:54.920 of violent misogynists is an odd way to show it. 0:09:55.920 --> 0:09:59.760 Of course, foreign policy involves difficult trade offs, but the 0:10:00.160 --> 0:10:03.760 is growing evidence that Hillary Clinton was on to something 0:10:04.080 --> 0:10:06.960 when she said a decade ago that the subjugation of 0:10:06.960 --> 0:10:09.240 women is a threat to the common security for our 0:10:09.280 --> 0:10:14.080 world societies. They write that oppressed women are far more 0:10:14.200 --> 0:10:19.720 likely to be violent and unstable. They go on there 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:23.720 are several possible reasons for this. In many places, girls 0:10:23.760 --> 0:10:28.240 are selectively aborted or fatally neglected. This has led to 0:10:28.400 --> 0:10:32.360 skewed sex ratios, which mean millions of young men are 0:10:32.440 --> 0:10:36.520 doomed to remain single. Frustrated young men are more likely 0:10:36.600 --> 0:10:40.440 to commit violent crimes or join rebel groups. I want 0:10:40.440 --> 0:10:44.439 to pause here for a minute because this is something 0:10:44.600 --> 0:10:51.240 that again we don't discuss right which is the psychology 0:10:51.920 --> 0:10:57.040 of white male rage. And I'm particularly talking about this 0:10:57.120 --> 0:11:00.400 in the context of the United States and the texts 0:11:00.440 --> 0:11:04.600 of who we look to right as being the quote 0:11:04.679 --> 0:11:09.240 unquote norm and the quote unquote mainstream, and what we 0:11:09.360 --> 0:11:12.800 have seen in this country. And again this is just 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:16.760 based on my observation, not any report that has come out, 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.840 but I'm assuming that one will, which is this, Over 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:24.439 the last ten plus years, according to the FBI reporting, 0:11:24.760 --> 0:11:27.920 there's been a rise in white supremacist groups. There has 0:11:27.960 --> 0:11:31.239 also been a rise in hate crimes and violence, oftentimes 0:11:31.280 --> 0:11:34.920 perpetuated at the hands of white men. We know that 0:11:34.920 --> 0:11:38.400 a majority of mass shootings, for instance, have been done 0:11:38.720 --> 0:11:43.840 at the hands of white men. There is also right 0:11:44.360 --> 0:11:49.080 as we have seen a either status quo for women's 0:11:49.160 --> 0:11:52.920 rights or a rollback, which we are seeing right now 0:11:53.160 --> 0:11:56.160 happen in Texas and the domino effect that is going 0:11:56.240 --> 0:12:03.680 to unfold with red state governors. Does anybody think about 0:12:03.720 --> 0:12:08.040 the parallels between the rise in the white domestic terrorists 0:12:08.040 --> 0:12:12.040 groups and violence in this country, the decrease in enrollment 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:18.559 in college and university in this country for men, right, 0:12:18.760 --> 0:12:24.120 and how these two things are actually overlapping, and that 0:12:24.320 --> 0:12:29.440 the more educated men are, right that the less likely 0:12:29.520 --> 0:12:35.800 they are to become violent, to be unstable. And the 0:12:36.000 --> 0:12:40.600 idea that the more rights right that we bestow to 0:12:40.720 --> 0:12:45.280 women to make the playing field equal, the better off 0:12:45.400 --> 0:12:49.240 in the long term our country is. And what this 0:12:49.360 --> 0:12:52.720 piece is saying is that very same thing, but looking 0:12:52.720 --> 0:12:55.880 at it on a global scale and not just looking 0:12:55.880 --> 0:12:59.040 at the United States. But you see, the thing is 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.640 is that in this country we are more interested in 0:13:01.760 --> 0:13:05.280 putting band aids on bullet holes than we are on 0:13:05.360 --> 0:13:08.959 anything else. You see, we only ever want to unpack 0:13:09.040 --> 0:13:12.920 the psychology when we're trying to invoke empathy in white 0:13:12.920 --> 0:13:18.080 male rage. We never actually decide, let's unpack the psychology 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.800 to better understand the policies that are driving this type 0:13:21.800 --> 0:13:25.400 of fucking violence and this type of increase in white 0:13:25.400 --> 0:13:30.080 supremacist violent groups, right, because they are oftentimes let us 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.439 be clear is that these white supremaist groups are often 0:13:34.200 --> 0:13:38.640 steeped in misogyny as well, which is why in twenty 0:13:38.720 --> 0:13:42.400 sixteen you would found me with my mouth agape because 0:13:42.440 --> 0:13:45.559 I'm like, how to fuck these white women? Go ahead 0:13:45.679 --> 0:13:49.080 and vote for these men that don't want you to 0:13:49.200 --> 0:13:52.040 have access to an abortion, that want to keep you 0:13:52.120 --> 0:13:56.040 locked in the household. But in your reptilian brain, you're 0:13:56.120 --> 0:14:00.520 thinking about what survival and survival only, which for white 0:14:00.520 --> 0:14:04.920 women is that the proximity to maleness right is where 0:14:04.960 --> 0:14:12.239 their power lies. So we enforce, we reinforce this continual 0:14:12.559 --> 0:14:17.959 sicular fuckery because we don't address anything actually at the route. 0:14:19.400 --> 0:14:21.600 And what they will go on to say in the piece, 0:14:21.600 --> 0:14:25.280 which I thought is really interesting as well, is that 0:14:25.320 --> 0:14:29.880 when women are locked into these violent type of domestic 0:14:29.960 --> 0:14:34.280 situations right, it is also less likely that they are 0:14:34.360 --> 0:14:39.160 going to be educating thoughtful strategic leaders for the future. 0:14:39.760 --> 0:14:44.680 So if you're thinking again about your country's ability to 0:14:45.160 --> 0:14:50.760 reimagine manifest destiny and a Taliban takeover, or if you're 0:14:51.480 --> 0:14:53.880 you know, a dictator or what have you, and you're 0:14:53.920 --> 0:14:59.080 looking to spread your wings, why wouldn't you want as 0:14:59.240 --> 0:15:03.560 many educa CAD people pushing your country forward as possible. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.960 But it's the same question that I ask about the 0:15:07.120 --> 0:15:10.600 United States, is the same question that I ask about 0:15:10.600 --> 0:15:15.160 the Taliban, which is, why wouldn't you invest in women. 0:15:15.680 --> 0:15:19.160 Why wouldn't you make equal pay the law of the land. 0:15:19.240 --> 0:15:23.479 Why wouldn't you make it so that in a country 0:15:23.520 --> 0:15:27.720 that was founded on Christian fundamentalism, that if you wanted 0:15:28.080 --> 0:15:32.320 people to actually have families, right to increase the population, 0:15:32.720 --> 0:15:34.560 then you would do so in a way that would 0:15:34.600 --> 0:15:38.240 allow there to be a mandate in private corporations to 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:41.800 have childcare right on the grounds it would be the 0:15:41.880 --> 0:15:46.160 same for the federal government and workers that childcare is 0:15:46.160 --> 0:15:48.560 a part of your package, right, just like a four 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:51.400 oh one K, just like health insurance, that if you 0:15:51.480 --> 0:15:54.920 have a child that is not of school age, then 0:15:55.080 --> 0:15:59.040 we are providing childcare for you. Because you see, that's 0:15:59.080 --> 0:16:02.800 what a logical country would do that wants to increase 0:16:02.800 --> 0:16:06.040 its GDP, that wants to be in competition with the 0:16:06.080 --> 0:16:09.240 rest of the fucking world. You wouldn't then make it 0:16:09.320 --> 0:16:14.280 so half of the global population is unable to access 0:16:14.640 --> 0:16:20.600 any type of economic individualism or community building that could 0:16:20.680 --> 0:16:25.360 make your country better. But it's the same fucking patriarchal 0:16:25.440 --> 0:16:29.840 logic that the Taliban uses that white Christian fundamentalists use 0:16:29.880 --> 0:16:33.080 in the United States. And so what pisces me off 0:16:33.440 --> 0:16:36.520 to no end is that over the last couple of weeks, 0:16:36.640 --> 0:16:39.560 right the last week or so, that we are now 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:45.360 dealing with the you know, the blast radius of Texas's 0:16:45.440 --> 0:16:51.840 new abortion band that you're turning around and you're saying, huh. 0:16:52.000 --> 0:16:56.360 People are referring to this as like y'all kata and 0:16:56.880 --> 0:16:59.800 naming it. You know, what they think is funny, pithy 0:17:00.080 --> 0:17:04.440 things that are mocking Islam. When I'm like, no, no, no, no, 0:17:04.600 --> 0:17:07.600 dear friend, this ain't have nothing to do with Islam. 0:17:07.680 --> 0:17:11.240 What is happening in fucking Texas. This is Christian fundamentalism 0:17:11.240 --> 0:17:14.440 and extremism run a fucking mock. But because it's white 0:17:14.440 --> 0:17:17.919 people with their white Jesus, you've decided to turn the 0:17:17.960 --> 0:17:22.199 other cheek or look the other fucking way. And the 0:17:22.280 --> 0:17:25.760 reality is is that they are abusing women in the 0:17:25.880 --> 0:17:29.440 same fucking way. So do not make it seem as 0:17:29.440 --> 0:17:33.280 you have this one pristine, untouchable religion and then you 0:17:33.359 --> 0:17:36.639 have oh Islam over here. It is one in the 0:17:36.720 --> 0:17:40.000 fucking same, which is about men being in power and 0:17:40.160 --> 0:17:43.200 men ruling alone. And what we have seen is that 0:17:43.200 --> 0:17:47.680 that creates war, it creates famine, and it creates instability. 0:17:47.760 --> 0:17:50.359 So when will we learn? Is the question that I 0:17:50.480 --> 0:17:54.720 have and the question that I'm sure was posed by 0:17:54.880 --> 0:17:58.080 Hillary Clinton so many fucking moons ago. 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