Thank you for making this! I'm a political science professor and am increasingly worried about my students' ability to use reason and fairness to evaluate these types of manufactured controversies. The level of political polarization is like nothing I've seen before. My "progressive" students automatically assume their ideological views are the only truth (and moral position) and aren't shy to shout them during class, while my conservative students are increasingly silent and alienated. I am reluctant to challenge the new progressive orthodoxy. I consider myself a liberal feminist and have exclusively voted Democrat for two decades. However, as a white woman there are just things I cannot say. Thank you for weighing in on these debates as two of the few people who have the political coverage and platform to do so. I hope the pendulum swings back to a more reasonable position in time, because I am looking at another 20 years as a college professor and I cannot imagine being able to honestly do my job if things get any worse.
I think the claimed outrage and injury is really about controlling what you say. Its about forcing you, Glenn and John to ask them permission to use the word, to get their permission to even discuss its use, and on their terms. It's a tactic to control not just the conversation but to control the language. There are a lot of people who have fallen under the Elect, whites who are trying to be "less racist" who really believe they have to be shocked and hurt when they hear the word, but the leaders of the Woke movement pretend shock and outrage to control what everyone says, and thinks.
People who try to perpetrate their outrage and shock, who pretend you're racist for referring to the word deserve what the law does not allow.
Let's see... Joe Rogan made an awful joke many years ago.
The legacy media fanned the flames of Ferguson over a completely false narrative -- proven false by Holder and Obama's DOJ -- which led to massive riots and arson all across the nation, unrest that continues to this day.
I have a weird question that it would be interesting to hear your responses to. I spent 5 years working at a liquor store where they had an incentive where if we caught someone less than 21 years of age trying to buy alcohol, we would get 200 dollars. I live in a city that has a good enough black population that it's not the "I've never met a black person, so all I have to deal with is a hypothetical," kind of situation.
So I have witnessed at least 30 cases of police dealing with black people who are under 21 doing a minor crime and over 100 white people dealing with the same crime. In my city, they treated the black people better.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as empirical evidence. It's for various reasons, not least of which, it's a minor crime and not really having much to do with the crimes we actually want to stop.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as anecdotal evidence. It's not systematic, there are biases, but it's not anywhere resembling "this guy on the street told me." You 2 are in a position where you could make a word that is stronger than anecdotal but doesn't actually mean we should take this as the law, What would that word be?
What we are seeing with Rogan is "a high-tech lynching," to quote Clarence Thomas who endured one himself. It's the left-wing fascist mob testing themselves to see if they can get him cancelled. They are deliberately mis-characterizing what he said to falsely accuse him of beng a racist. We are all racists now.
Rogan is rolling with the punches, but maybe it's time he threw a couple himself.
What's fascinating is that the proponents of extreme speech suppression are trying to destroy Rogan over merely quoting the word while there are clips of Howard Stern in black face using the word repeatedly in one of his moronic skits. But since Stern is a corporate fascist shill in good standing, he gets a walk. Unreal. Do the anti-1A people realize that people see these disparities and most figure out pretty quickly what is going on?
Another fascinating story is how the student body of Southern Illinois University polled overwhelmingly to expel whatever student was tagging racist epithets on walls around campus. That is until it was discovered that the student who did it was a young black woman trying to stir up racial animosity against white people in general. Then, all of a sudden, it wasn't treated like a hate crime. The exact same act is or is not a hate crime depending on the color of the skin of the offender. It's wrong for a white person to engage in anonymous racial harassment but not a black person, provided it was done to make it appear as if a white person was doing it.
That's not an "insane" world... its a world in which power hungry white liberals use their all too willing black props to gain even more power.
Its a power asymmetry that is loaded in favor of white liberals and their willing black slaves.. if you happen to be at the receiving end of this power play, you need to know how to fight back.. or you can always fold.
Funny how the word “willing” cancels out the word that follows: “slave”. A slave has no choice, unless we’re talking sexual bondage role play, but this is no game. I see them - these black & white performers - more as co conspirators, even if they never actually put their heads together, and perhaps with varying shapes to their motivations, but shabby self interest is the common grist.
Sorry John and Glenn but if you get to use the n word then so does everyone else. Or are some pigs more equal than others when it comes to racial slurs? For example, where were you when blacks called whites “crackers” or “white boys”? I love and admire you guys greatly; please consider that it not okay for anyone to lob the n word or the cracker word at anyone and that both should be treated with equal protest.
The policing of that word (among many others) is an attempt to gain power. When you hold people to what language they can use, and they obey those laws, then you hold power over them. This is a pretty blatant phenomenon that I think many people gloss over it, but it is very real. And damaging to the black community, in that it forces a frailness that shouldn't be there, forces generations of cultural weakness.
If people truly wanted to get rid of the word, then they would get to the heart of it, which in this case is the black community. In a similar manner, though not as widespread, is the use of the word faggot in the gay community. What it creates is an ingroup/outgroup, which does nothing to bring people together.
And, as an aside to all the people who will say "you can use the word", I know, I simply choose not to. It isn't a word I like.
Has there ever been another civilization in all of history with a word forbidden to some members of society but fine for other members? With no statute of limitations on its usage, and no regard for context. Even similar-sounding syllables are forbidden. A word that is a constant focus, too, lest it fall out of usage ala "groovy" and "copacetic."
Is the United States the very first civilization to reach this level of advancement?
Wow. I recall that Showtime POC (piece of crap, in this case) crossing my radar but it got blended in w all the other crap of its ilk. This was a quite a reminder & then some. Don’t agree w the host on all he says, but had to love where he went when I did.
Thank you for making this! I'm a political science professor and am increasingly worried about my students' ability to use reason and fairness to evaluate these types of manufactured controversies. The level of political polarization is like nothing I've seen before. My "progressive" students automatically assume their ideological views are the only truth (and moral position) and aren't shy to shout them during class, while my conservative students are increasingly silent and alienated. I am reluctant to challenge the new progressive orthodoxy. I consider myself a liberal feminist and have exclusively voted Democrat for two decades. However, as a white woman there are just things I cannot say. Thank you for weighing in on these debates as two of the few people who have the political coverage and platform to do so. I hope the pendulum swings back to a more reasonable position in time, because I am looking at another 20 years as a college professor and I cannot imagine being able to honestly do my job if things get any worse.
I think the claimed outrage and injury is really about controlling what you say. Its about forcing you, Glenn and John to ask them permission to use the word, to get their permission to even discuss its use, and on their terms. It's a tactic to control not just the conversation but to control the language. There are a lot of people who have fallen under the Elect, whites who are trying to be "less racist" who really believe they have to be shocked and hurt when they hear the word, but the leaders of the Woke movement pretend shock and outrage to control what everyone says, and thinks.
People who try to perpetrate their outrage and shock, who pretend you're racist for referring to the word deserve what the law does not allow.
Back in the 90s one could hear the "N word" on a near daily basis on Howard Stern's show. Somehow we all survived.
Let's see... Joe Rogan made an awful joke many years ago.
The legacy media fanned the flames of Ferguson over a completely false narrative -- proven false by Holder and Obama's DOJ -- which led to massive riots and arson all across the nation, unrest that continues to this day.
Yup, Joe Rogan's the problem, no doubt about it.
So sensible. Thanks.
I have a weird question that it would be interesting to hear your responses to. I spent 5 years working at a liquor store where they had an incentive where if we caught someone less than 21 years of age trying to buy alcohol, we would get 200 dollars. I live in a city that has a good enough black population that it's not the "I've never met a black person, so all I have to deal with is a hypothetical," kind of situation.
So I have witnessed at least 30 cases of police dealing with black people who are under 21 doing a minor crime and over 100 white people dealing with the same crime. In my city, they treated the black people better.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as empirical evidence. It's for various reasons, not least of which, it's a minor crime and not really having much to do with the crimes we actually want to stop.
There are all kinds of problems treating that kind of thing as anecdotal evidence. It's not systematic, there are biases, but it's not anywhere resembling "this guy on the street told me." You 2 are in a position where you could make a word that is stronger than anecdotal but doesn't actually mean we should take this as the law, What would that word be?
What we are seeing with Rogan is "a high-tech lynching," to quote Clarence Thomas who endured one himself. It's the left-wing fascist mob testing themselves to see if they can get him cancelled. They are deliberately mis-characterizing what he said to falsely accuse him of beng a racist. We are all racists now.
Rogan is rolling with the punches, but maybe it's time he threw a couple himself.
What's fascinating is that the proponents of extreme speech suppression are trying to destroy Rogan over merely quoting the word while there are clips of Howard Stern in black face using the word repeatedly in one of his moronic skits. But since Stern is a corporate fascist shill in good standing, he gets a walk. Unreal. Do the anti-1A people realize that people see these disparities and most figure out pretty quickly what is going on?
Another fascinating story is how the student body of Southern Illinois University polled overwhelmingly to expel whatever student was tagging racist epithets on walls around campus. That is until it was discovered that the student who did it was a young black woman trying to stir up racial animosity against white people in general. Then, all of a sudden, it wasn't treated like a hate crime. The exact same act is or is not a hate crime depending on the color of the skin of the offender. It's wrong for a white person to engage in anonymous racial harassment but not a black person, provided it was done to make it appear as if a white person was doing it.
That's the insane world we live in now.
That's not an "insane" world... its a world in which power hungry white liberals use their all too willing black props to gain even more power.
Its a power asymmetry that is loaded in favor of white liberals and their willing black slaves.. if you happen to be at the receiving end of this power play, you need to know how to fight back.. or you can always fold.
Funny how the word “willing” cancels out the word that follows: “slave”. A slave has no choice, unless we’re talking sexual bondage role play, but this is no game. I see them - these black & white performers - more as co conspirators, even if they never actually put their heads together, and perhaps with varying shapes to their motivations, but shabby self interest is the common grist.
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“Anti-racists” SAY they are against white racists, white racism, and white privilege.
What they are REALLY against is white culture, white civilization, and white people.
They SAY they want a world without “hate”, without “racism”.
What they REALLY want is a world without white people.
What they REALLY want is a world without YOU.
What they REALLY want is White Genocide!
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Sorry John and Glenn but if you get to use the n word then so does everyone else. Or are some pigs more equal than others when it comes to racial slurs? For example, where were you when blacks called whites “crackers” or “white boys”? I love and admire you guys greatly; please consider that it not okay for anyone to lob the n word or the cracker word at anyone and that both should be treated with equal protest.
I don't think they would really argue very hard with you. I detected a slight bit of facetiousness in John's response.
That was my impression as well. Sarcasm died in 2020, unfortunately. Maybe one day it will be resurrected.
Thank you! I bet everyone who wants to read Mark Twain or Maya Angelou or Countee Cullen out loud to her class will be very grateful too.
Great video as always, so glad to hear sanity spoken in this age of crazy.
Thanks for all your great work, Glenn and John.
I write about some related topics on my substack and the audience here may find some of the content interesting: https://interpretations.substack.com/
The policing of that word (among many others) is an attempt to gain power. When you hold people to what language they can use, and they obey those laws, then you hold power over them. This is a pretty blatant phenomenon that I think many people gloss over it, but it is very real. And damaging to the black community, in that it forces a frailness that shouldn't be there, forces generations of cultural weakness.
If people truly wanted to get rid of the word, then they would get to the heart of it, which in this case is the black community. In a similar manner, though not as widespread, is the use of the word faggot in the gay community. What it creates is an ingroup/outgroup, which does nothing to bring people together.
And, as an aside to all the people who will say "you can use the word", I know, I simply choose not to. It isn't a word I like.
This would be a good topic for John's NYT column, since their readership is made up of the type of people who need to hear it.
Especially if he mentions that there is plenty of other content, mostly music, that is so degrading to women. Where's the outrage from NOW, MeToo!!
Here's a question for the next Q&A...
Has there ever been another civilization in all of history with a word forbidden to some members of society but fine for other members? With no statute of limitations on its usage, and no regard for context. Even similar-sounding syllables are forbidden. A word that is a constant focus, too, lest it fall out of usage ala "groovy" and "copacetic."
Is the United States the very first civilization to reach this level of advancement?
I’m continually shocked and truly broken-hearted with the current state of affairs. And now this…. https://rumble.com/vucpde-disgusting-everything-gonna-be-all-white-reaction.html
Wow. I recall that Showtime POC (piece of crap, in this case) crossing my radar but it got blended in w all the other crap of its ilk. This was a quite a reminder & then some. Don’t agree w the host on all he says, but had to love where he went when I did.