Cancel Culture vs. Arguing with Idiots

Cancel Culture vs. Arguing with Idiots. www.watchdogonwallstreet.com

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Cancel Culture versus Arguing with idiots. Okay, story I kind
of went viral at this Idaho salon owner. Here, this woman,
and she is he's taken to social media. She lives
obviously in a red state, and her customers are leaving

(00:40):
in droves in droves, and you know, she's sticking to
her guns and I'd rather work at Chipolti than you know.
It's going off on this rant, and she's obviously looking
to some sort of support or handout from the left
basically because people are walking away again. Is she being canceled? No, no, no,

(01:04):
she's not being canceled. This is an example of arguing
with idiots. She came out and said all sorts of
terrible things about people who voted for Donald Trump, all
sorts of terrible, awful things, called them all sorts and names.
I mean, one name after another after another. These are customers,

(01:28):
and she's upset that they're not showing up. See, I've
been doing radio for a long time, and I used
to do drive time and had callers on a regular basis,
and I had a rule. I had a rule, and
I learned this. Took me a while to learn this.
I said, there's no point in arguing with idiots because

(01:50):
again they've got way, way, way too much experience at
being an idiot, and there the conversation is never going
to go above idiocy. So if you disagree with someone, Okay,
she obviously a Kamala Harris voter, fine, fine, But if
you're gonna go out and you are gonna ridicule and
make fun of and call horrible names of people that

(02:11):
you disagree with, where's that conversation gonna go? How is
that a smart business practice by any stretch of the imagination.
There's a difference between, you know, arguing with idiots and
cancel culture. Cancel cultures are bad thing. Cancel cultures when
you say, hey, you know, I don't like that, I
don't like the way that that person thinks her or

(02:34):
what they believe or they voted for Kamala Harris, I'm
I refuse to do business. Then let me give an
Examplet's see someone happen when somebody calls up, needs my help,
needs my help, may have been ripped off, scam, whatever
it may be, is a died in the wool Democrat
voted for Kamala Harris. And I'm gonna say no, no, no,

(02:55):
no no, I'm canceling you. I'm not doing business with
you because us you have a different belief system than
I do. No no, no, no, we can't. This is
what we've gone away from. And the funny thing is,
it's interesting I was thinking about this. Cancel culture has
always been around, by the way, when I talk about

(03:16):
how old cancel culture is. The Greeks. The Greeks, they
canceled Socrates, that's right, Well they killed Socrates, but they
made them drink hemlock in the end. They weren't too
happy with him rabble rousing and getting the youth of Greece,

(03:40):
you know, rallying them against the powers that be. He
was base the kind of modern you know, he was
a muckraker back in the day for them, very much
against democracy. And I can talk about that and the
reasons why another day. But some argue that he he

(04:00):
could have voluntarily exiled himself, voluntary exiled himselves rather than
drink the hemlock and die. And he didn't want to
be canceled. He didn't want to be thrown it, didn't
want to have his citizenship. Is Thatthnian citizenship taken away?

(04:20):
And we do that all too often here. I'm going
to cancel this person, can't, can't do business with that person,
whatever it may be. Cancel culture is wrong, and that's
something that's completely different. Again. It's okay to have disagreements.
It's okay to have debates as long as you're debating

(04:43):
with somebody, as long as they're not going to tear
you down, as long as they're capable of presenting facts. Again,
I don't understand that is my thing. And watch a
lot of this nonsense, and you know, people watch CNN
and MSNBC and certain ever sometimes Foxes make any difference,
And you watch these various different pundits that are there
that really don't know what the hell they're talking about,

(05:04):
and they just make it up. Was it the old
Daniel Patrick Moynihan's there. You're you're entitled to your opinion,
but you're not entitled to your own facts. Again, big
difference between cancel culture and arguing with idiots. Watchdog on
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