WEBVTT - 061524 The Attack on Political Correctness became the Attack on Woke (Part 1) 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Broadcasting from the Hip Hop Weekly Studios. I'd like to 0:00:02.880 --> 0:00:05.440 welcome you to another episode of Civic Cipher, where our 0:00:05.440 --> 0:00:09.440 mission is to foster allyship empathy and understanding. I'm your host, 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:10.240 ramses Job. 0:00:10.320 --> 0:00:13.320 He is Rams's Jaw. I am q Ward and you 0:00:14.280 --> 0:00:15.440 are tuned in a Civic Cipher. 0:00:15.520 --> 0:00:17.880 Yes you are, and we have a very special show 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:22.079 in store for you. June teenth is just around the corner, 0:00:22.160 --> 0:00:24.799 and so we're going to spend a decent amount of 0:00:24.840 --> 0:00:31.040 time talking about June teenth. So first up, this will 0:00:31.040 --> 0:00:32.560 be for the second part of the show, but we're 0:00:32.560 --> 0:00:38.280 going to discuss how to celebrate June teenth. Juneteenth is 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:43.800 still a relatively new federal holiday, and we recognize that 0:00:43.920 --> 0:00:52.519 there are there can be some apprehension in engaging and 0:00:52.560 --> 0:00:54.800 in celebrating. But you know, when you think about it, 0:00:54.800 --> 0:00:57.760 if you celebrate single Demile, whatever you do, if you 0:00:57.800 --> 0:01:01.720 celebrate Saint Patrick's Dave, you celebrate you know, any number 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:06.120 of holidays that are really based around a particular ethnicity 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.600 or national origin or something like that that is outside 0:01:09.600 --> 0:01:13.840 of you know, America. Here you have learned how to 0:01:13.959 --> 0:01:17.000 celebrate that and you can do so without fear that 0:01:17.040 --> 0:01:19.240 you might offend someone or overstep or anything like that, 0:01:19.280 --> 0:01:22.040 whereas with June Team it's a little newer. So we're 0:01:22.040 --> 0:01:24.840 going to hopefully provide you a little bit of a 0:01:24.840 --> 0:01:30.319 framework to approach the holiday and you know, and enjoy 0:01:30.360 --> 0:01:32.520 yourself because it is a holiday for all of us. 0:01:33.160 --> 0:01:36.040 We're also going to be talking about June Team for 0:01:36.040 --> 0:01:37.560 our Way Black History factor, so you definitely want to 0:01:37.560 --> 0:01:40.039 stick around for that as well. And first up, we 0:01:40.080 --> 0:01:45.800 are going to be talking about political correctness and woke 0:01:45.880 --> 0:01:50.640 miss and how we went from PC to woke or 0:01:50.680 --> 0:01:54.160 the label went from PC to woke and the constant 0:01:54.200 --> 0:01:58.000 attacks from the right on how they reframe the language 0:01:58.320 --> 0:02:01.440 so that it can be attacked. But before we get there, 0:02:01.600 --> 0:02:03.800 we are going to, as always start things off with 0:02:03.840 --> 0:02:06.600 some ebony excellence, shall we? I think we shall. 0:02:06.760 --> 0:02:10.600 Today's Ebony Excellence sponsored by Actively Black There is greatness 0:02:10.600 --> 0:02:14.360 in our DNA. Visit actively black dot com. The story 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:17.440 comes from the Grillo. Jalen Hurts etched his name in 0:02:17.560 --> 0:02:21.200 NFL history books, securing a record breaking five year, two 0:02:21.280 --> 0:02:24.440 hundred and fifty five million dollar contract and becoming at 0:02:24.440 --> 0:02:28.200 the time, the highest paid player in the NFL. This 0:02:28.320 --> 0:02:31.800 landmark includes a whopping one hundred and seventy nine point 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.960 three million dollars in guaranteed money and a no trade 0:02:35.000 --> 0:02:39.560 clause binding Hurts to the Philadelphia Eagles until twenty twenty eight. 0:02:40.000 --> 0:02:44.320 Now the more important part of this story, more impressively even, 0:02:44.360 --> 0:02:47.760 is that a black woman, Nicole Lynn of Clutch Sports, 0:02:47.840 --> 0:02:50.960 negotiated the deal. So happy for my little brother at 0:02:51.040 --> 0:02:55.080 Jalen Hurts on becoming the highest paid player in NFL 0:02:55.240 --> 0:02:59.680 history end quote, Lynn said in an Instagram post, she said, quote, 0:02:59.680 --> 0:03:02.119 thank you for trusting me with something of this magnitude. 0:03:02.440 --> 0:03:04.680 I remember sitting in your old high school interviewing to 0:03:04.680 --> 0:03:07.000 be your agent. I am a dreamer, but I'm not 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.680 sure I could have ever imagined this is where we'd land. 0:03:10.760 --> 0:03:11.160 Quote. 0:03:11.480 --> 0:03:13.920 The partnership between Hurts and his agent is nothing short 0:03:13.919 --> 0:03:17.720 of groundbreaking at just thirty four years old, and Colon 0:03:17.880 --> 0:03:22.360 is the only It's sorry, not only a prominent figure 0:03:22.360 --> 0:03:24.880 in the industry, but has made history in more ways 0:03:24.919 --> 0:03:27.760 than one. After starting her career as an NFL agent 0:03:27.760 --> 0:03:30.840 in twenty fifteen, she quickly made a name for herself 0:03:30.919 --> 0:03:33.680 as the first woman to join Players Rep, one of 0:03:33.680 --> 0:03:35.880 the league's top agencies at the time. Little did she 0:03:36.040 --> 0:03:39.960 know that. Years later, one Instagram DM would lead her 0:03:40.000 --> 0:03:43.760 to become the first woman of any ethnicity to represent 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:49.520 a Super Bowl starting quarterback. This story happened last season, 0:03:50.280 --> 0:03:53.200 but I was with Nicole over the weekend, told her 0:03:53.240 --> 0:03:56.760 how proud of her we both were, and just told 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:59.800 her to keep pushing forward on her legacy. Nicole, keep going. 0:04:00.080 --> 0:04:11.960 I love that, all right. Woke, wokeness, wokeness. You know 0:04:13.320 --> 0:04:15.040 we're going to get into the nuts and bolts of this, 0:04:15.560 --> 0:04:21.560 but think about this for a second. In my lifetime, 0:04:21.880 --> 0:04:29.200 I remember being woke meaning being educated, being enlightened, being 0:04:29.320 --> 0:04:33.280 being aware, aware, right, informed, informed, That's a great way 0:04:33.279 --> 0:04:41.680 to say it. And there was a degree of being 0:04:41.720 --> 0:04:45.920 sort of like spiritually in tune as well. Right. In 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:50.800 other words, woke went beyond just you know, being informed, 0:04:50.839 --> 0:04:53.520 being aware, that sort of thing, But it also implied 0:04:54.320 --> 0:05:03.919 a degree of forgive me, but spiritual connectedness, concern, empathy 0:05:04.080 --> 0:05:08.400 for each other. Right, So, wokeness or if you were woke, 0:05:08.440 --> 0:05:10.599 it meant that you were knew what was going on 0:05:11.320 --> 0:05:15.320 in the world, but you also had a predisposition toward 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:20.359 making things better for yourself, your people, your community, you know, 0:05:20.480 --> 0:05:26.840 et cetera. So if that was what woke meant, and 0:05:26.880 --> 0:05:30.560 it never the meaning never changed. That would have been perfect. 0:05:30.600 --> 0:05:33.920 That's great. Right, Now we can go back a little 0:05:33.920 --> 0:05:41.640 bit further or discuss indeed the actual meaning of woke, 0:05:42.600 --> 0:05:47.720 which means to be what not asleep, to be awake awake, right, 0:05:49.360 --> 0:05:56.080 which for anyone having an intellectual conversation of philosophical debate, 0:05:56.920 --> 0:06:03.279 anyone who's engaging politically social you know, you need to 0:06:03.279 --> 0:06:06.560 be awake for that. Anyone who's aware of what's going 0:06:06.600 --> 0:06:08.400 on in the world, you need to be awake because 0:06:09.000 --> 0:06:13.440 the idea of being asleep kind of implies that you 0:06:14.240 --> 0:06:20.440 are unaware literally or figuratively. Sure, So, woke has always 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:25.239 historically meant something positive, something good, something. 0:06:25.080 --> 0:06:29.520 Always had a positive connotation until it was hijacked. 0:06:29.200 --> 0:06:35.680 Right, And we're going to discuss something. This is not 0:06:35.800 --> 0:06:39.840 the first time a word has been hijacked or a 0:06:40.720 --> 0:06:50.080 concept has been represented to us. We branded under something 0:06:50.200 --> 0:06:53.159 that was more attackable. In other words, if wokeness means 0:06:54.400 --> 0:07:01.560 a general awareness and empathy, the term has been taken 0:07:01.960 --> 0:07:05.480 and rebranded. Right. So I'm going to tell a little 0:07:05.480 --> 0:07:07.160 bit of a story and then we're going to get 0:07:07.400 --> 0:07:11.000 into more of the nuts and bolts here please, So 0:07:12.360 --> 0:07:16.480 this is how we went from political correctness to wokeness 0:07:16.520 --> 0:07:21.200 and how both of those things ended up becoming bad things. 0:07:21.960 --> 0:07:24.400 And Q knows all this, so she's going to jump 0:07:24.400 --> 0:07:26.160 in a few times, but I'm going to do the 0:07:26.200 --> 0:07:30.520 reading here. And this came from Quora, of all places. 0:07:30.600 --> 0:07:32.320 You know, this is a kind of a forum where 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:36.560 people kind of share ideas on the internet. So this 0:07:36.600 --> 0:07:41.040 isn't necessarily a scholarly source, but the information is accurate, 0:07:41.120 --> 0:07:45.000 absolutely accurate. I just love this one individual's interpretation of 0:07:45.040 --> 0:07:48.040 the events. Right. So this individual's name for if you 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:50.720 wanted to go check it out. His name is Douglas Whiteside, 0:07:51.720 --> 0:07:55.560 and he's answering the question why do liberals love wokeness? 0:07:55.800 --> 0:07:59.320 So here's his response. So here's what happened. A couple 0:07:59.400 --> 0:08:03.680 of decades go. Some Republicans decided that being polite was 0:08:03.800 --> 0:08:08.559 interfering with their agenda. They needed to make Democrats sound 0:08:08.640 --> 0:08:12.080 like radicals, even though the Democrats were offering popular and 0:08:12.200 --> 0:08:16.280 reasonable policy proposals. So they needed a weigh to make 0:08:16.360 --> 0:08:23.080 politeness itself sound silly and delusional. Enter the phrase political correctness. Right. 0:08:23.840 --> 0:08:29.840 I want to stop here real quick, because political correctness 0:08:30.480 --> 0:08:34.000 and you mentioned this to me when political correctness first 0:08:34.360 --> 0:08:38.200 became a term that was used in popular culture. You know, 0:08:38.240 --> 0:08:40.880 you mentioned that it was not a bad thing. It 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.880 wasn't a scary thing. It wasn't used as an attack. 0:08:42.920 --> 0:08:45.880 Oh you're just being PC. No, it was like, hey, listen, 0:08:46.000 --> 0:08:50.000 we all need a degree of political correct It was 0:08:50.040 --> 0:08:53.720 an inclusive way of instructing society at large to be, 0:08:53.880 --> 0:08:58.280 as you said, polite. It was not deeper than that initially, 0:08:58.600 --> 0:09:01.440 but that's kind of the point. Even the term political 0:09:01.440 --> 0:09:05.040 correctness had to have some acceptance first before it could 0:09:05.040 --> 0:09:08.840 be rebranded and weaponized. They said, if they called it 0:09:08.920 --> 0:09:12.000 something ridiculous, they would have been viewed that way themselves. 0:09:12.520 --> 0:09:16.480 So they had to first construct this thing that they 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:20.600 could then rebrand however they wanted. And that you start 0:09:20.640 --> 0:09:25.040 to see how unfortunately brilliant it is, because again, you 0:09:25.080 --> 0:09:30.320 can take a word like woke. There's no bad way 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:33.800 to interpret the word woke. But now it's about how 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:35.840 is that a bad thing? 0:09:35.920 --> 0:09:39.800 Yeah, we saw them do something similar with critical race theory. 0:09:39.840 --> 0:09:43.120 There you go, right, let's change the entire meaning of that, 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:46.640 make it mean something else, make it negative and pejorative, 0:09:46.640 --> 0:09:50.319 and then attack it. It is a masterful thing that 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:54.319 they quote. They, for those who are listening and not watching, 0:09:55.520 --> 0:10:01.360 have done throughout history very effectively, sadly, very effective to 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:05.080 all of our detriments. Because for those that know, those 0:10:05.120 --> 0:10:10.240 that actually are woke, we're aware that critical race theory. 0:10:11.440 --> 0:10:15.160 In their definition, those on the far right, in their 0:10:15.240 --> 0:10:20.959 definition and their estimation is simply American history. But they 0:10:20.960 --> 0:10:25.120 could not They can't attack American or attack Americ American history. 0:10:25.200 --> 0:10:28.840 So they had to rebrand a section of American history, 0:10:28.880 --> 0:10:34.680 which is ours rebranded and under the umbrella race theory. Yeah, 0:10:35.000 --> 0:10:39.120 and critical race theory is a collegiate level pursuit that 0:10:39.320 --> 0:10:46.040 connects systemic elements to outcomes for marginalized people. Right, it's 0:10:46.080 --> 0:10:48.440 not in your schools, not in your public so no, 0:10:48.520 --> 0:10:50.040 none of that sort of stuff. This is a class 0:10:50.080 --> 0:10:53.960 that you have to sign up for in college and 0:10:54.040 --> 0:10:56.680 they took like and if you don't know this, it 0:10:56.840 --> 0:11:01.240 shows how far they went with the rebrand. See I 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:06.040 know this, doctor Westernberg is our teacher up hear being cute, 0:11:06.240 --> 0:11:08.720 So we knew this, but so many people don't know this. 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:13.200 And the craziest part about it is that the specific 0:11:13.240 --> 0:11:15.960 group of people that don't know this on the right 0:11:16.840 --> 0:11:20.200 don't care because you could educate the know. Some know 0:11:20.320 --> 0:11:22.640 and don't don't care, right, but you could educate those 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:23.120 that don't. 0:11:23.120 --> 0:11:27.480 They've taken advantage of those that don't know and doctrinated them, 0:11:27.640 --> 0:11:32.080 and in the way that some would protect and pursue 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.720 their religious ideology. You can't tell them that it's wrong. 0:11:36.920 --> 0:11:39.079 And then again, there are those, like you said, who 0:11:39.120 --> 0:11:40.040 simply don't care. 0:11:40.200 --> 0:11:45.280 Yeah, yeah, absolutely, rather dig in than be enlightened or awaken. 0:11:46.600 --> 0:11:48.200 All right, so let's read a little bit more from 0:11:48.360 --> 0:11:52.840 Douglas Whiteside's response. Again, why do liberals love wokeness? So 0:11:52.880 --> 0:11:56.920 continuing on now, he says, obviously, since nearly all of 0:11:57.000 --> 0:12:00.840 us were raised to be polite and respect politeness, it 0:12:00.880 --> 0:12:04.440 isn't possible to attack politeness itself. But if you can 0:12:04.480 --> 0:12:08.320 relabel it first, then it's much easier to attack. So 0:12:08.400 --> 0:12:13.440 being polite to others became political correctness, and political correctness 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.920 became a bad thing. Now the same thing is happening 0:12:18.160 --> 0:12:24.800 to empathy. It's very very important data here. Basic human 0:12:24.880 --> 0:12:30.000 empathy is a good thing. Like politeness, empathy helps us 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:33.760 survive as a society, but it also leads to governmental 0:12:33.760 --> 0:12:38.520 policies to help disadvantaged people. Obviously, this is something Republicans 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:43.679 cannot appide. But how can they attack basic human empathy. Well, 0:12:43.840 --> 0:12:48.600 the same way they attacked politeness, relabel it, so empathy 0:12:48.640 --> 0:12:53.560 is now called wokeness and that can be attacked. So again, 0:12:54.240 --> 0:12:59.240 they took something that already existed, right, something that wasn't 0:13:00.080 --> 0:13:10.280 widely used in terms of its uh, its role, its 0:13:10.400 --> 0:13:14.400 place in the in our lexicon. Right, Wokeness was something 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:16.560 that was shared. It was like kind of arcane knowledge. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.080 Not everyone wasn't walking around talking about yeah, woke or 0:13:19.480 --> 0:13:22.560 are you know we're woke? You know, people weren't saying that. 0:13:22.559 --> 0:13:25.880 That was just a few people that would talk like that, 0:13:26.320 --> 0:13:29.280 you know, people that wear unks, people that are well 0:13:29.600 --> 0:13:33.280 educated that understand, people that were very engaged politically those people, 0:13:33.320 --> 0:13:36.760 but you know, the masses would not walk around saying 0:13:36.880 --> 0:13:40.120 woke or wokeness or anything like that. It wasn't popularized. 0:13:40.480 --> 0:13:43.239 So this was this really tiny sliver of the population 0:13:43.440 --> 0:13:46.480 using that term in the same way that a very 0:13:46.559 --> 0:13:50.840 tiny sliver of the population was using critical race theory. 0:13:50.960 --> 0:13:54.000 I'm so glad you mentioned that, because, again, a very 0:13:54.000 --> 0:13:58.800 tiny sliver of the population actually goes to college and 0:13:58.920 --> 0:14:01.280 gets to the point in college where they even have 0:14:01.440 --> 0:14:06.240 access to enroll in a class that teaches critical race theory. 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:14.880 But because that term existed, Republicans as often as you know, 0:14:15.679 --> 0:14:18.960 at one hundred percent of the time, let me be honest, 0:14:19.360 --> 0:14:24.960 can find this term and then discuss this term as 0:14:25.040 --> 0:14:28.680 though everyone is using it, as though everyone is taking 0:14:29.000 --> 0:14:30.560 critical race theory class. 0:14:30.400 --> 0:14:33.480 And as if they have some innate understanding of the 0:14:33.600 --> 0:14:35.360 term in the way that they use it. 0:14:35.520 --> 0:14:39.760 But they don't, because to them, it means American history. 0:14:39.840 --> 0:14:41.720 To them, it doesn't mean that. It doesn't mean that 0:14:41.800 --> 0:14:46.080 you're right, you're right, good catch, But they want it 0:14:46.160 --> 0:14:49.200 to encompass American history so that they can attack the 0:14:49.240 --> 0:14:52.520 specific part of American history that includes us from being 0:14:52.800 --> 0:14:55.560 taught to younger students in the classroom. Right, So we 0:14:55.640 --> 0:14:59.280 lose the term because they've been successful at rebranding it. 0:15:00.320 --> 0:15:08.520 I want to add something else here, Okay, the American flag. 0:15:09.160 --> 0:15:13.720 The American flag. Funnily enough, the same woman who was 0:15:13.760 --> 0:15:18.680 our teacher, doctor Camilla Westernberg. I went with her to 0:15:18.720 --> 0:15:26.360 meet with Jesse Jackson. Isn't that cool? And at that meeting, 0:15:27.080 --> 0:15:28.440 you know, I wasn't the only person, there was a 0:15:28.480 --> 0:15:30.840 lot of people there. They had these flags, these little 0:15:30.880 --> 0:15:38.200 tiny flags that they would give out. And lately the 0:15:38.320 --> 0:15:46.840 past four years, maybe eight year, past twenty years, well, 0:15:47.120 --> 0:15:50.080 let me let me, let me, let me delineate a 0:15:50.120 --> 0:15:55.120 specific amount of time. So since let's call it twenty sixteen, 0:15:55.200 --> 0:16:01.520 twenty fifteen, right when Donald Trump was campaigning for the presidency, 0:16:02.400 --> 0:16:07.640 my relationship with the American flag has changed. There are 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.520 still moments when I will watch movies, you know, and 0:16:11.600 --> 0:16:15.680 I'll see, you know, the soldiers at the end mount 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:18.080 the flag and feel that sense of pride, or I'll 0:16:18.120 --> 0:16:20.600 watch the astronauts plant the flag and I'll be like, yeah, 0:16:20.720 --> 0:16:23.840 you know, we did it, you know. But if I'm 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:26.560 being honest, my relationship with the flag has changed because 0:16:26.560 --> 0:16:29.240 there's a whole entire new facet that has been introduced 0:16:29.280 --> 0:16:32.600 since the Trump presidency, which is, as we've discussed on 0:16:32.640 --> 0:16:42.960 the show many times, a very angry, right leaning group 0:16:43.000 --> 0:16:48.200 of people using the flag almost to intimidate people who 0:16:48.280 --> 0:16:51.680 are not white, almost to say that we're in America 0:16:51.720 --> 0:16:56.480 their country, not we're in America full stop. And then 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:59.280 we've seen the flag in places where the flag normally 0:16:59.320 --> 0:17:02.360 doesn't go, like if you go to a post office, Yeah, 0:17:02.360 --> 0:17:04.159 that's a federal agency. The flag should be there. You 0:17:04.200 --> 0:17:06.320 go to a public school, yeah, fly the flag. That's 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.719 a government building. Right. But when you go to like 0:17:11.880 --> 0:17:14.960 an outing in the park and you see some some group, 0:17:15.160 --> 0:17:19.080 a group that's you know, they're using a you know, 0:17:19.080 --> 0:17:23.080 one of the picnic tables and they just have a 0:17:23.080 --> 0:17:27.200 flag there or on the bed of the pickup truck 0:17:27.280 --> 0:17:29.280 next to you in traffic. Sure, that sort of stuff 0:17:29.280 --> 0:17:31.680 where it's like, I mean, I know where we are, right. 0:17:32.240 --> 0:17:34.960 So anyway, my relationship with the flag has changed. My 0:17:35.080 --> 0:17:37.399 point is that when I went with doctor Westernberg to 0:17:37.440 --> 0:17:40.200 meet with Jesse Jackson and they were handing out these 0:17:40.200 --> 0:17:43.240 little flags, she said, no, Ramses, you take one of 0:17:43.280 --> 0:17:47.600 those flags and you wave that flag. That flag belongs 0:17:47.680 --> 0:17:52.240 to all of us. Don't let them take the flag 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:56.320 from us. We fought for that flag too. And you 0:17:56.359 --> 0:17:58.359 know how she talks. I mean you in all people 0:17:58.400 --> 0:18:01.800 now she talks so and what do you say to 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:05.040 her other than yes, ma'am right. For those that don't know, 0:18:05.119 --> 0:18:08.920 doctor Westernberg is an old black woman. She would get 0:18:08.920 --> 0:18:10.320 mad at me for me. She would get mad at 0:18:10.359 --> 0:18:13.040 me for describing her that way. She is wisdom in flesh. Yes, 0:18:13.119 --> 0:18:16.000 there you go, That's how I describe her. But you know, 0:18:16.400 --> 0:18:19.240 for us, we you know there, if I close my 0:18:19.280 --> 0:18:21.640 eyes and imagine God, it may as well have doctor 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:23.959 Westernbrook's face on it. Right, that's the closest that we 0:18:24.000 --> 0:18:26.240 get to God on this earth. Is something we always say. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:32.680 So she was saying, don't let them take the flag. 0:18:33.160 --> 0:18:35.720 And I think that on some level she knew how 0:18:35.760 --> 0:18:40.320 they tend to take these things and rework the angles 0:18:40.440 --> 0:18:43.280 around them and use them against us. Right, And so 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.159 at present there is a flag in front of my 0:18:45.200 --> 0:18:50.399 house that is waving, and there are neighbors around here 0:18:50.440 --> 0:18:52.439 who have the flags waving in front of their house too, 0:18:52.480 --> 0:18:56.600 I suspect for different reasons. My job is to reclaim it, 0:18:56.720 --> 0:18:59.040 just like I'm trying to reclaim woke. It's like I'm 0:18:59.080 --> 0:19:03.080 trying to reclaim p These aren't bad things, all right, 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:06.960 So let's continue. So empathy is now called wokeness. When 0:19:07.119 --> 0:19:10.360 a Democrat calls for measures to help protect minority citizens 0:19:10.359 --> 0:19:13.760 from police violence, it isn't because of empathy a good thing. 0:19:14.160 --> 0:19:17.919 It's because that Democrat is all woke a bad thing. 0:19:18.680 --> 0:19:22.440 It isn't simply liberals loving wokeness. It's that liberals are 0:19:22.520 --> 0:19:26.600 generally liberal because they have basic human empathy. Now, this 0:19:26.640 --> 0:19:30.560 is this other person's words, not mine. Republicans hate basic 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:33.120 human empathy because it will eventually lead to the uber 0:19:33.160 --> 0:19:35.040 wealthy having to pay their fair share of taxes to 0:19:35.040 --> 0:19:38.280 help the less fortunate. Republicans cannot stand even the thought 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.760 of that happening. That's probably an oversimplification, and I don't 0:19:43.760 --> 0:19:46.760 want to be unfair to Republicans. I wish you guys 0:19:46.760 --> 0:19:49.840 could see my face. You know that we have to 0:19:49.840 --> 0:19:53.399 have good faith debates, even though this is what this 0:19:53.440 --> 0:19:54.000 is who we are. 0:19:54.040 --> 0:19:57.240 We have to have good faith debates in the absence 0:19:57.280 --> 0:19:59.040 of good faith on the other side of the debate. 0:19:59.080 --> 0:20:01.679 That is a very differ sessions. I know to be 0:20:01.800 --> 0:20:04.240 in it all the time. But listen, that's why we 0:20:04.320 --> 0:20:09.240 keep you around. You're the enforcer man. Now, I want 0:20:09.240 --> 0:20:13.120 to share something else that I think illustrates this point perfectly, 0:20:13.119 --> 0:20:17.240 and illustrates a lot of Q's points perfectly. This is 0:20:17.720 --> 0:20:20.119 from Fox thirteen news dot com if you want to 0:20:20.160 --> 0:20:22.200 check it out. I'm just pulling a paragraph from the 0:20:22.280 --> 0:20:26.800 article talking about Ronda Santis, the person who's known for 0:20:26.880 --> 0:20:30.440 attacking wokeness right in the state of Florida. So Ronda 0:20:30.520 --> 0:20:34.879 stantis the governor's general Council, Ryan Newman said in a 0:20:35.080 --> 0:20:38.240 in general, and he's trying to define wokeness because he 0:20:38.320 --> 0:20:41.800 was asked what wokeness means. So this is the governor's council, okay, 0:20:41.920 --> 0:20:45.679 Ryan Newman, He says, in general, it means quote, the 0:20:45.800 --> 0:20:49.760 belief there are systemic injustices in American society and the 0:20:49.800 --> 0:20:53.000 need to address them in quote. He added that DeSantis 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:56.560 doesn't believe there are systemic injustices in the country reports 0:20:56.720 --> 0:20:57.919 Florida politics. 0:20:58.680 --> 0:21:03.919 So so again, is very difficult to have good faith debate. 0:21:04.000 --> 0:21:06.640 You're not wrong on the other side is not You're 0:21:06.680 --> 0:21:08.080 not wrong with faith, you're not wrong. 0:21:08.119 --> 0:21:10.120 The only the only reason why I do that, though, 0:21:10.520 --> 0:21:15.040 is because I recognize that we funnily enough, you know this, 0:21:15.200 --> 0:21:17.280 We have a lot of people who listen to our 0:21:17.359 --> 0:21:21.840 show who are those deeply conservative people, right, and for 0:21:22.000 --> 0:21:25.359 us to remind them, well, not to remind them, they know, 0:21:25.480 --> 0:21:29.560 but for us to condemn them further, I don't think 0:21:29.600 --> 0:21:33.200 that that really creates the pathway to having the types 0:21:33.240 --> 0:21:35.840 of conversations that even those people who are listening to 0:21:35.920 --> 0:21:38.240 try to pick us apart might be willing to have 0:21:38.359 --> 0:21:40.760 at some point in the future. So it's a strategy. 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.760 I'm not delusional. And for all of you who are 0:21:43.840 --> 0:21:47.040 listening to to me, yeah, I mean, there's my hand, 0:21:47.400 --> 0:21:49.520 but we love you and we'll get there one way 0:21:49.600 --> 0:21:49.960 or another. 0:21:50.680 --> 0:21:53.840 I'm glad you believe that. I think optimism is necessary 0:21:53.840 --> 0:21:54.959 because I don't possess it. 0:21:55.200 --> 0:21:57.000 Yeah. Well that's why there's two of us. You know, 0:21:57.040 --> 0:22:00.480 you're you're the enforcer man, You're you're the You're you 0:22:00.600 --> 0:22:02.520 take care of me, you protect me man, so you 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:05.199 allow me to be what all butterflies and rainbow as 0:22:05.240 --> 0:22:09.040 you describe it. So anyway, I just thought it was 0:22:09.080 --> 0:22:15.159 really interesting that in those discussions, and you know behind 0:22:15.200 --> 0:22:18.480 those doors, you know, when you ask those people what 0:22:18.520 --> 0:22:22.760 does wokeness mean, that they can give an answer that's 0:22:22.760 --> 0:22:25.679 so encompassing like this, as you mentioned, they know exactly 0:22:25.680 --> 0:22:26.400 what they're talking about. 0:22:26.440 --> 0:22:29.159 That's the thing that's so terrifying about what's happening with 0:22:29.240 --> 0:22:33.439 our courts. Our courts are the last place where you 0:22:33.520 --> 0:22:36.359 have to mean what you say, where you have to 0:22:36.400 --> 0:22:38.239 back up what you're you have to back up what 0:22:38.280 --> 0:22:40.600 you're saying. You have to give facts, You have to 0:22:40.640 --> 0:22:44.800 give evidence to support what you're saying, and now seeing 0:22:45.680 --> 0:22:49.600 our leaders and politicians allow for even that place to 0:22:49.600 --> 0:22:52.920 be corrupted by money is a very very scary place 0:22:52.960 --> 0:22:55.000 for not just us but all Americans. 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:59.400 Well, I feel like we'll get there.