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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Across the country.
Speaker 2 (00:01):
More than four hundred people detained on dozens of campuses
as pro Palestinian protesters call for schools to divest from
companies that profit from ties to Israel. After nearly one
hundred protesters were arrested in causes with police at USC,
the university canceling their main graduation ceremony.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Okay, so it's about divestiture from Israel. The whole Palestinian
saying okay, all right, great, let's not get caught up
in the protesting quite yet, came across this headline cross
dresser makes children chant free Palestine during reading session at
Massachusetts Arts Center, even though Hamas tortures gaze. Yeah, it
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was it's drag Queen story hour thing. Go ahead, drag
queen for Palestine. As watching that video, We tweeted it
out the other day saying, who are the parents with
their little kids sitting there, you knows criss cross apple
sauce in the front row to watch this drag queen.
Get them to repeat Free Palestine, little children. Hell, and
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I'd like to get into the fact that Iran has
just announced a new crackdown on women and girls who
will be beaten down for showing their hair in public
as the college girls support Iran's various brutal Islamist proxies.
Speaker 1 (01:15):
It's unbelievable, but we don't have time for that.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
How about a dude addresses as a woman, you wouldn't
live a day in all?
Speaker 1 (01:21):
Yeah, torture death.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
I came across this tweet from Austin Alred, who's an
interesting guy. I was unfamiliar with him. I think, well,
I'll go ahead and follow him on the Twitter machine.
But he says it's time to repost one of my
favorite tweets ever, and I thought, okay, and it's from
this guy named Zach.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
But here's what he writes.
Speaker 3 (01:41):
One huge drawback of nuclear power is that it doesn't
dismantle systems of oppression. It only produces clean energy. I
know you got to pause there and wait, what this
makes it unsuitable for solving the climate crisis, which isn't
just about the environment. That action must be powerful and
wide ranging. After all, the climate crisis is not just
about the environment. It is a crisis of human rights,
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of justice, and of political will. Colonial, racist, and patriarchal
systems of oppression have created it and fueled it. We
need to dismantle them all. Our political leaders can no
longer shirk their responsibilities.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Ok.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Wait a minute, the climate crisis is colonial, racist, patriarchal
systems that need to be torn down. What wait, wait, Well,
here's an explanation that I thought was absolutely great from
Rick Zickgraft, who, again I don't know of his work,
but he's obviously a very bright guy.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
And this, this is so good.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Wasn't long ago when the activist left had a whole
laundry list of systems and impersonal forces that it was
battling against. Just like that last post we read sexism, homophobia,
white supremacy, ableism, you name it. The millennial left may
have nodded long to Bernie Sanders old left leaning, still
they largely abandoned the class struggle of old for a
struggle against boutique oppressions that were contingent but intersecting. Hence
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the rise of so called intersectionality. That's the once trendy
academic philosophy that relies on a view of power relations
of society. This is what we're always talking about, where
advantages and disadvantages are filtered primarily through identities. Everything is
about race and or gender, or sexual orientation all the time.
And I'm departing from his text here, but you're not
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judged as an individual based on your action, your worth,
your value to society, your morals, whatever all you are
is your skin color. And this is the left returning
to his writing. But intersectionality's old hat. It's not revolutionary
enough anymore now that it's been mainstreamed and gotten absorbed
and institutionalized by the blob of liberal media and corporate institutions, including,
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believe it or not, the Scottish government.
Speaker 1 (03:41):
And he goes into some details on that.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
So, in the wake of the shock of the massive
Israel Hamas war since October seventh, and a lack of
purpose after the political failures of left doing populism, the
Western left has found a way to get its groove
back by simplifying yet expanding its moral framework. Goodbye intersection Hello,
it's all one thingism. And when once you once you
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get this, you understand what's happening Now it's unspeakably stupid.
I mean, it's it's so anti intellectual. It makes an
ape banging a rock on a tree look sophisticated. But
they're teaching this to kids in college. He spells it
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out here. In this nebulous new cosmology, Palestinians, even Hamas themselves,
aren't just engaged in a specific geopolitical fight over territory
and resources. No, I mean, because why would college kids
be so stirred up over this and not one hundred
other conflicts?
Speaker 1 (04:42):
Right?
Speaker 3 (04:43):
No, they're the tip of the sphere of a perceived
collective liberation against the West, the global North, colonizers, whatever
you want to call the bad guys. It's a magical
world in which all politics and world affairs, once seen
through intersectionalities colorful prism, I've been flattened into, somewhat ironically,
for atheists, a more biblical view of the world, black
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and white, good and evil. Scarlet Ray, based singer songwriter
who describes herself as an anti racist mother and an
abolition feminist womanist, said in a viral tweet a couple
of months ago, Palestine is every single issue in one issue.
It's reproductive justice, huh wow, it's social justice, it's climate crisis.
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It's not just one issue, it's all the issues in one,
all one thingism explains why a group of a few
hundred mask protesters who chanted death to America and hands
off Iran. This week also employed the relatively meaningless slogan
from Chicago to Palestine. You remember that, and people are
like from Chicago to Palestine?
Speaker 2 (05:48):
What?
Speaker 3 (05:49):
Or Another viral post on Instagram by a person wearing
a Fatties for Free Palestine t shirt insisted that Palestinian
solidarity is not a niche issue. Fat liberation and Palestinian
liberation go hand in hand.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
I mean we have seen and talked about the trans
rights are Palestinian rights thing?
Speaker 1 (06:11):
Palestine right trans rights, but like just like roll my.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Like what, well, it's so obviously wrong and stupid and
like it's so like radioactivity, radioactively idiotic. You can't imagine
what they're talking about until you see this this framework.
Speaker 1 (06:35):
On a couple more examples.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
During during the Trans Day of Visibility, remember that crap
Easter Sunday, a Palestinian flag flew above the TRANS flag
during some marches, with one sign explaining that quote liberations
are linked. Some are even talking about talking up bricks
as allies. That's your that's your China, Russia, Iran, Brazil,
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Uh whatever.
Speaker 1 (07:00):
The axis of a holes maybe putin.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
And she aren't so bad after all because they're trying
to bring down the Western world too. And yes, even
looking back fondly at the Khmer Rouge, look it up.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
If you're not familiar.
Speaker 3 (07:12):
Wow, so they this crowd and this makes more sense
than not. So this crowd.
Speaker 1 (07:20):
Well it doesn't make any sense at.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
All overall, right, but it makes sense why you keep
seeing these signs about fat acceptances, Palestinian acceptance or trans
writes are hummas rice or whatever the hell? So these
nut jobs think if you could replace Western civilization, USA, Europe,
Israel led culture, all of these other things would be fixed.
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Fat people would be more accepted, climate change would get
taken care of, all different kinds of gender stuff would
be cool. How in the world did you come to
that conclusion? Because your teachers, starting in first grade through
grad school have told you the problem is Western civilization itself,
the sexism, the racism, the patriarchy, blah blah blah. The
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only way you get fat acceptance and a Palestinian state
and trans people can wave their genitals in all spaces
and electric cars and is to tear down the Western world.
Why you're not, which is why I'm always calling it
neo Marxism. That's precisely what it is. It's just instead
of workers of the world unite, it's trans people, fat people, Palestinians,
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people who want more rainforests, people want more electric cars.
I mean again, as a worldview, it's so stupid. I
lack the vocabulary to describe stupidity. But if you adoctrinate
people from a young age to believe that's true, it's
much more quasi cultish than it is anything close to
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political science, even radical political science.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
More a little bit. I think we have them in it.
Speaker 3 (09:01):
It's narcissistic identity politics on steroids.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
We're one.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Specific conditions in geography melt away completely. It's no longer
enough to have solidarity with the people of Palestinians in
their time of plight.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
You must be them.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
Are you fat, trans and live and say, Evanston Illinois,
you are somehow in a shared position with starved and
bombed out citizens of Gaza. Palestine is a flat circle.
You can almost hear, true, Detective that's an obscure reference.
And then he talks about the Atlanta stop the cop
city thing. That's another example of this. You have people
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who are like pro Palestine, trans green whatever, trying to
stop a police training center for goodness sakes, because it's
all one issue.
Speaker 1 (09:44):
Now, do you understand what's going on?
Speaker 3 (09:48):
It just makes it just it's so wrong that I
can't believe that it's going on.
Speaker 1 (09:56):
I know, I know it. I thought i'd seen it all. Wow.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
So if you could say something like I don't think
green technology is ready to handle enough of the load
that we should be investing trillions and dollars of it,
and somebody could scream you're a transphobe, and you'd be thinking,
are you psychotic? It's all one thing, it's all Western civilization.
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They're trying to tear down Western civilization. I suggest, humbly
you don't
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Let them armstrong and