Speaker 1: Broadcasting from the Hip Hop Weekly Studios. I'd like to
Speaker 1: welcome you to another episode of Civic Cipher, where our
Speaker 1: mission is to foster allyship empathy and understanding. I am
Speaker 1: your host, Rams' job.
Speaker 2: He is Ramsey's jaw. I am q Ward. You are
Speaker 2: tuned into Civic Cipher.
Speaker 1: Indeed you are, and it is a different world and
Speaker 1: it's up to us to let you know what we learn.
Speaker 1: And you know, we're not going to make sense of
Speaker 1: it with each other. And so today we are going
Speaker 1: to be talking about an increase and I guess we
Speaker 1: would call it anti woman hate speech. I guess online
Speaker 1: things that you need to know about, things that you
Speaker 1: can do to push back against it. And for those
Speaker 1: of you who love a woman anywhere in the world
Speaker 1: and respect her as well, I think that these are
Speaker 1: things that you need to know about, just because there
Speaker 1: are a lot of things that are taking place online
Speaker 1: and fortunately we can track those things and again you
Speaker 1: can be empowered and make decisions that are most appropriate
Speaker 1: for you and for the people in your life. And
Speaker 1: the second part of the show, we're going to be
Speaker 1: discussing both the political parties and their place in the world.
Speaker 1: This is something that in recent days, I've been wrestling
Speaker 1: with myself and so I expect to learn and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping that you will be able to learn something along
Speaker 1: with me. But there's there's that, and there's so much
Speaker 1: more to stick around for right here on Civic Cipher.
Speaker 1: But today we're going to have a special installment of
Speaker 1: EBNY excellence because the person we're talking about has long
Speaker 1: been deceased. But today's EBNY excellence comes from the information network.
Speaker 1: We're talking about the one and only Harriet Tubman. Don't forget,
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Speaker 1: our DNA. Visit actively black dot com. All right. Harriet Tubman,
Speaker 1: a reverend, sorry, a revered abolitionist who lead a group
Speaker 1: of Union soldiers during the Civil War, was posthumously honored
Speaker 1: as a general roughly one hundred and sixty years after
Speaker 1: her service. On Monday, which was November eleventh, Tubman was
Speaker 1: posthumously named a one starbard Grader general in Maryland's National
Speaker 1: Guard during a special Veterans Day ceremony at the Harriet
Speaker 1: Tubman Underground Railroad State Park. Per the Associated Press quote,
Speaker 1: today we celebrate a soldier and a person who earned
Speaker 1: the title of veteran.
Speaker 2: Quote.
Speaker 1: This from Governor Wes Moore, according to a statement, goes
Speaker 1: on to say, today we celebrate one of the greatest
Speaker 1: authors of the American story. In eighteen forty nine, Tubman
Speaker 1: escape slavery and settled in Philadelphia. She then established the
Speaker 1: Underground Railroad, helping lead other enslaved black people to freedom.
Speaker 1: Tubman went on to serve as a scout, spy, and
Speaker 1: nurse for the Union Army during the Civil War. The
Speaker 1: abolitionist once guided one hundred and fifty black soldiers on
Speaker 1: a gunboat raid in South Carolina. Moore applauded Tubman for
Speaker 1: her dedication to helping others achieve freedom. Quote. She knew
Speaker 1: that in order to do the work that that meant
Speaker 1: that she had to go into the lion's den. She
Speaker 1: knew that leadership means you have to be willing to
Speaker 1: do what you're asking others to do. During Monday ceremony,
Speaker 1: a reading of Tubman's official order occurred before a symbolic
Speaker 1: pinning by her great great great grand niece, Tina Wyatt. Quote.
Speaker 1: Aunt Harriet was one of those veterans. Informally, she gave
Speaker 1: up any right she had obtained for herself to be
Speaker 1: able to fight for others. She is a selfless person,
Speaker 1: and as I mentioned, normally, ebony excellence is something that
Speaker 1: we're able to highlight someone who is accomplishing something right now.
Speaker 1: But we couldn't miss the opportunity to commemorate this moment
Speaker 1: with sharing that story with you. So all right, So, yeah,
Speaker 1: this one's going to be interesting. You know, we're going
Speaker 1: to inform you of some things that you may not
Speaker 1: know about. Now. A lot of folks know that when
Speaker 1: Elon Musk took over Twitter that there was a sharp
Speaker 1: increase in h speech because he was a self proclaimed
Speaker 1: at the time at least free speech absolutist. That turned
Speaker 1: out not to be the case, especially when it was
Speaker 1: speech that was unflattering or speech that he just personally
Speaker 1: just didn't like. But all the other speech was free,
Speaker 1: and that included the N word, which you know, we
Speaker 1: famously on this show found to be exceptionally disrespectful. The
Speaker 1: increase in the amount of the usage of the inWORD
Speaker 1: on that platform. But that was one of those things
Speaker 1: that a lot of people either knew about or you know,
Speaker 1: as I'm saying it and you're hearing it for the
Speaker 1: first if that's you, it makes sense. I'm sure you
Speaker 1: know that's the first place people go when the guardrails
Speaker 1: are office, to the deepest, darkest, most hateful place that
Speaker 1: they can go on the Internet, and oftentimes that includes
Speaker 1: attacking gay people, or invoking language or black people or
Speaker 1: gay people, or invoking language that has harmed and further
Speaker 1: subjugated these two communities, often using words that is, in
Speaker 1: many cases the last words that people hear in their lifetime.
Speaker 1: So might come as a surprise to know that that
Speaker 1: is also happening with women. So I'm going to share
Speaker 1: a little bit from isd global dot org. And before
Speaker 1: there's any pushback, I want you all to know that
Speaker 1: I am whenever I come across a new website, a
Speaker 1: new source of information, a new media outlet, I do
Speaker 1: a deep dive to determine their credibility and to determine
Speaker 1: their political bias. I did so with isdglobal dot org.
Speaker 1: I implore you to check it out and do your own
Speaker 1: deep dive. But I Ramses did this. I did this
Speaker 1: prior to this recording, of course, and I can say
Speaker 1: that this is a slightly left leaning archive of data
Speaker 1: and statistics. My belief this is a personal belief this
Speaker 1: isn't anything, this isn't documentary, where my personal belief is
Speaker 1: that the truth often has a liberal bias to it.
Speaker 1: So the slightly left leaning composure of this website didn't
Speaker 1: throw me off what really is.
Speaker 2: It might also be important to point out that data
Speaker 2: doesn't lean left or right. Yeah, when you when you
Speaker 2: lead with that, it gives off the impression though you
Speaker 2: guys are using left leaning data.
Speaker 1: No, no, there's no such thing. Yeah, this is just data.
Speaker 1: This is just thesis factable. But I think that what
Speaker 1: they're trying to say because the independent you know, source
Speaker 1: that determines whether or not something's left or right leaning,
Speaker 1: which I used a couple, but the main one, which is, like,
Speaker 1: I forget the name of it right now. But in
Speaker 1: any event, the interpretation of the data and how how
Speaker 1: the data reads when when you're trying to make heads
Speaker 1: or tails with the numbers, there might be some bias there,
Speaker 1: but it was not a strong bias in the least.
Speaker 1: And again you're you're welcome to check this out. Also,
Speaker 1: I want you to know that this had a high
Speaker 1: degree of credibility. In other words, the things that I'm
Speaker 1: saying to are true and verified in so far as
Speaker 1: the checks that I'm able to perform can tell me.
Speaker 1: With that said, let's move forward. ID researchers tracked narratives
Speaker 1: targeting women and the discussion of those narrat is between
Speaker 1: November fourth and six, twenty twenty four, across X formally Twitter, TikTok, Facebook,
Speaker 1: and Reddit. The use of derogatory and misogynistic language was
Speaker 1: already rife among well noted manisphere and extremist communities on
Speaker 1: these platforms, and this activity has only gained steam in
Speaker 1: the past three days. According to the data, since the election,
Speaker 1: ISD also observed reports of these narratives being used to
Speaker 1: harass women offline, particularly on high school and college campuses.
Speaker 1: In the past twenty four hours, there has been a
Speaker 1: four six hundred percent increase in mentions of the terms
Speaker 1: your body, my choice, and get back in the kitchen
Speaker 1: on X. Similarly, misogynist language such as the use of
Speaker 1: dumb C word to target Harris television personalities such as
Speaker 1: Rachel Maddow and others, received more than sixty four thousand
Speaker 1: mentions on X from more than forty two forty two
Speaker 1: thousand accounts. On November fifth, Nick fointes an influential white
Speaker 1: nationalist podcaster appeared to be one of the early instigators
Speaker 1: in promoting the phrase. On November fifth, his ex post
Speaker 1: your body my Choice Forever has since received thirty five
Speaker 1: million views. On TikTok, female users are reporting that accounts
Speaker 1: are commenting your body my choice end mass on their posts.
Speaker 1: One TikTok creator stated quote, I had to delete a
Speaker 1: video because I was being threatened and several men commenting
Speaker 1: saying they couldn't wait until I get assaulted or your
Speaker 1: body my choice. Another stated I woke up this morning
Speaker 1: to men commenting your body my choice. In a TikTok forum.
Speaker 1: On Reddit, a user posted last night, I reported one
Speaker 1: of the many comments I've seen saying your body my choice.
Speaker 1: The comment has been left up and the report has
Speaker 1: been marked as not a violation. How is that not
Speaker 1: a violation? Okay? The phrase your body my Choice appears
Speaker 1: to have made its way offline, specifically onto schools. Young
Speaker 1: girls and parents have used social media to share instances
Speaker 1: of offline harassment. They include the phrase being directed at
Speaker 1: them within schools or chanted by young boys in classes.
Speaker 1: On Facebook, the phrase your body my Choice is currently
Speaker 1: trending with fifty two thousand posts in the last twenty
Speaker 1: four hours. One parents stated quote, today, my daughter was
Speaker 1: told three separate times on campus, your body, my choice.
Speaker 1: The third group of boys told her to sleep with
Speaker 1: one eye open tonight. And I'm going to just read
Speaker 1: the rest of these or I'm going to read one more, actually,
Speaker 1: and then we'll get to the rest, all right. On Reddit,
Speaker 1: users utilize the platform to warn others of offline harassment.
Speaker 1: One user stated, women are being harassed today at U
Speaker 1: and M and told to go home where they belong
Speaker 1: by gangs of men in maga gear. All right, I'm
Speaker 1: going to stop right there because you get it, and
Speaker 1: then we're going to get to some more data and
Speaker 1: some more instances of this. Again, we're going to call
Speaker 1: it anti women hate speech. And again, this show doesn't
Speaker 1: exist to make people fearful. I don't believe that that's
Speaker 1: the right way to be. We try to inspire love
Speaker 1: and kindness and fellowship and togetherness, but we also need
Speaker 1: to be knowledgeable about the state that we are in
Speaker 1: and the people in the world that we live in,
Speaker 1: and their capacity to inflict harm physically or emotionally, and
Speaker 1: their capacity to threaten harm. So I worry particularly for
Speaker 1: people who are raising the next generation of women because
Speaker 1: they are still determined their identity. And of course you
Speaker 1: is famously one of those people. I see you kind
Speaker 1: of processing all this right now. Yeah. My daughter.
Speaker 2: Came home from school the day after the election, and
Speaker 2: her question to me, in the most innocent, childlike way, was, Daddy,
Speaker 2: I won't use his name. He's so mean and she's
Speaker 2: so nice, So how come he won? And to a kindergartener,
Speaker 2: that logic is so sound, and I could not provide
Speaker 2: her with a articulated answer that would have satisfied that confusion. Now,
Speaker 2: as you can imagine, there's been no instances of her
Speaker 2: watching our former president behave like himself with me because
Speaker 2: I don't consume him as content. So wherever she was
Speaker 2: able to come across the former president and our current
Speaker 2: vice president, she made two determinations. One he's very mean
Speaker 2: and two she's very nice. And given those two choices,
Speaker 2: how does the very mean one come out victorious? With
Speaker 2: trying to comfort that question? And I didn't want to
Speaker 2: brush it off and treat it like it wasn't worth
Speaker 2: the conversation. I just was not capable of giving her
Speaker 2: an answer that made sense. Because I steal to that
Speaker 2: point and maybe still today have not been able to
Speaker 2: help myself understand how we got here again again. And
Speaker 2: you know, friends have made fun of me in the
Speaker 2: past for being far too consumed with our vice president,
Speaker 2: with our former president. I'm sorry, and the hate that
Speaker 2: he stoked with our country, and I've never regained comfort
Speaker 2: since the election that he won. I've never exhaled him
Speaker 2: be like okay, we're okay, because he never went away
Speaker 2: and neither did his followers. I saw people, you know,
Speaker 2: with their chest PopEd out talking about how they were
Speaker 2: glad we've talked about this on the show, that he
Speaker 2: made racist people come out of the closet, that they
Speaker 2: were glad that people were saying how they really felt.
Speaker 2: And I never understood that. I never understood this pride
Speaker 2: that we had and welcoming people to be outright, overt
Speaker 2: blatant racist, misogynist bigots, because that makes life less comfortable
Speaker 2: and less safe. Virtue signaling as if we need to
Speaker 2: know everyone's purest intentions. No, we don't. The people in
Speaker 2: my life that I love, that are a part of
Speaker 2: my family and that I actually care about, I need
Speaker 2: to know how you feel or I'd love to know
Speaker 2: how you feel. But even then, if you fake it
Speaker 2: for our entire life, run it. Yeah, it doesn't make
Speaker 2: a real mean If you're going to be nice to
Speaker 2: me in front of me for our whole life, run it.
Speaker 2: If you're gonna treat me and my family good for
Speaker 2: our entire life, and then when you go home talk
Speaker 2: to your other people about me in a way that's negative,
Speaker 2: but that has zero impact on my day to day
Speaker 2: run it. But emboldening people to be the worst versions
Speaker 2: of themselves shamelessly was always going to prove to be
Speaker 2: dangerous from the very first time it happened, from the
Speaker 2: very first time I saw it, you know, to the
Speaker 2: point now where when I see that red hat in
Speaker 2: real life, even to this day, it's staggering. I never
Speaker 2: expect to cross paths with someone that actually feels that way,
Speaker 2: So it always catches me off guard because in my mind,
Speaker 2: I don't go anywhere where people would be racist, evil
Speaker 2: mean bullies that hate women, that hate everyone that's not white.
Speaker 2: I'd never be anywhere where those people exist, except I
Speaker 2: am all the time. And once upon a time, there
Speaker 2: were two things that we could probably or that I
Speaker 2: could have said to my daughter. If she come home
Speaker 2: to me and said that someone said one of these
Speaker 2: things to her, first thing I do is take her
Speaker 2: right back to that school and have a conversation with
Speaker 2: the people in charge, Because once upon a time there
Speaker 2: were consequences for things like this. Once upon a time,
Speaker 2: people would scream things like this and hide their hand
Speaker 2: because they didn't want anybody to know that's how they
Speaker 2: really felt. Except now they wear it on their shirts
Speaker 2: and their hats, and their trucks and on their porch.
Speaker 1: So then what.
Speaker 2: If she comes home after being bullied by someone like this?
Speaker 2: What am I going to do? I have to depend
Speaker 2: on someone else to be as upset as I am,
Speaker 2: and every other person in this country is not, including women.
Speaker 1: Yeah wow. So so here's the thing. The part of
Speaker 1: this that has been challenging for me personally is that,
Speaker 1: and we'll talk about tomorrow on the second half of
Speaker 1: the show, But there's I'm trying to understand in this moment,
Speaker 1: how both political parties make the country go, how both
Speaker 1: parties make the country work. I am a like super liberal,
Speaker 1: left leaning person. That's just how my heart beats. I'm
Speaker 1: not giving a fear, I'm giving a hope those sorts
Speaker 1: of things. That's I've always been that way. You know,
Speaker 1: you listen to the show all the time, so you
Speaker 1: know who I am. But I I'm trying to understand
Speaker 1: the people that don't view the world the way that
Speaker 1: I do. And I know in my heart of hearts
Speaker 1: that there are sensitive people on that side on the right.
Speaker 1: There are people who are sensible, There are people who
Speaker 1: are measured, there are people who are kind. This show
Speaker 1: would not be on the radio right now if it
Speaker 1: were not for people who voted for Donald Trump the
Speaker 1: first time. You know what I mean. We can share
Speaker 1: that story if we want. You know, this is factual,
Speaker 1: but I think at a point it's you realize that
Speaker 1: you're voting for the person who's creating this effect. This
Speaker 1: is these numbers, this data that I'm sharing with you,
Speaker 1: that that is the Trump effect, this rise in hate speech,
Speaker 1: anti female hate speech, that the person behind that is
Speaker 1: Donald Trump and not Kamala Harris. And for you to
Speaker 1: ignore racism, because we talk about racism a lot, and
Speaker 1: for you to ignore you have to ignore a hundred
Speaker 1: things to even get here in order to ignore this too.
Speaker 1: And there's so much that half the country to your point, Q.
Speaker 1: Half the country still voted for this guy, who again
Speaker 1: results in this effect in the population. I'll finish. In
Speaker 1: some instances, women influencers that cater to traditional values joined
Speaker 1: the male counterparts. Their content included videos of women upset
Speaker 1: by the election loss of Harris, referring to them as
Speaker 1: the R word. They have also parroted Trump's remarks from
Speaker 1: a leaked Access Hollywood video in which he told a
Speaker 1: TV personality that he grabs women by the genitals. One
Speaker 1: woman influencer posted on X that Trump had just grabbed
Speaker 1: Harris by the genitals on election Day. That post received
Speaker 1: thirty three thousand views. Previous calls to repeal the nineteenth Amendment,
Speaker 1: which previously spiked on X on October twenty second, resurfaced online.
Speaker 1: Post calling for the repeal of the amendment increased by
Speaker 1: six hundred and sixty three percent compared with the week prior.
Speaker 1: The top ten posts at the time calling for the
Speaker 1: repeal of the nineteenth Amendment received more than four million
Speaker 1: views collectively. And for those who don't know the Nineteenth,
Speaker 1: the men gives women the right to vote. A subset
Speaker 1: of the narratives were threatening women with sexual assaults. ID
Speaker 1: found five posts on x that called for sexual attack squads.
Speaker 1: I'm paraphrasing here, the largest of which had eighteen thousand
Speaker 1: views and came with the phrase your body, My choice.
Speaker 1: Manisphere influencer on Andrew Tait, in a post on X
Speaker 1: on November seventh, stated I saw a woman crossing the
Speaker 1: road today, but I just kept my foot down right
Speaker 1: of way. You no longer have rights. The post received
Speaker 1: six hundred and eighty eight thousand views in under two hours.
Speaker 1: Another X user stated quote women threatening sex strikes like lmao,
Speaker 1: as if you have a say. That post has received
Speaker 1: ten million views. This is the Trump effect for people
Speaker 1: that have voted for him. It just it's heartbreaking because
Speaker 1: it's like, you know, the price of bread, the price again, No,
Speaker 1: this is fundamentally changing the country how we treat each other.
Speaker 1: And everybody knows a way if you don't know a
Speaker 1: black person, everybody knows a woman that they have to love.
Speaker 2: And these feelings didn't come out after he was elected
Speaker 2: that I can just grab them by the Yeah, that
Speaker 2: was before he became the president. So it's again, it's
Speaker 2: not like he tricked us. It's not like, oh my god,
Speaker 2: how did we vote? For this guy and not know
Speaker 2: he was so bad. No, we knew, we knew, and
Speaker 2: we let it happen.
Speaker 1: And the toughest part of this whole thing is that
Speaker 1: knowing on the other side of that Access Hollywood video
Speaker 1: that effectively half of the country voted for him three times.
Speaker 1: So these are things that I'll never understand. I think
Speaker 1: your daughter was right. Normally, the good guy wins, the
Speaker 1: nice guy wins, and yet and still here we are.