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E28: Multiculturalism in America: Strengths, Threats, and the Power of Individualism · The Junto Podcast

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Hello America, welcome to the Junto Podcast, where we promote the practical
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applications of critical thinking and bold creativity.
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I am your host, Edgar Mills. Thanks for joining us.
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Hello America, welcome to episode 28 of the Junto Podcast. Thank you all so
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much for sticking with me.
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And thank you for those who have given the feedback. It is much, much appreciated.
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And yeah, that's it. So today, what are we talking about?
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Well, we're going to revisit a topic that I've talked about before last year
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when I, I don't know, it's one of my early episodes,
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but we're going to readdress some things on multiculturalism in America, the pros and cons.
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What are the pros and cons of all this multiculturalism and this welcoming anyone
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and everyone with open arms, unchecked, and things like that?
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How does it affect our society and our culture and our politics? Or does it? I don't know.
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And as always, we're going to look at this through a libertarian lens where
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we value, libertarians value freedom, individuality, that kind of thing.
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We're going to look through sort of an objectivist lens, which focuses on proof and demands reason.
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And then we're going to sort of look at through Christian principles in reference
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to sort of justice and individual dignity and that kind of thing.
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Now, what's my bottom line? Those of you that know me kind of know my bottom
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line is individualism kind of cuts through all the noise.
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Place and it lets us individualism lets
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us build real connections in the midst of all this diversity and all these different
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backgrounds and different people from different places and different ethnicities
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and different belief systems well as individuals we can cut through all that
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and get to the real the real people.
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So, let's jump into it. First of all, multiculturalism does enrich America in various ways.
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It is good in various ways.
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People from diverse, different and diverse backgrounds can and do bring fresh
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ideas to the marketplace, to business, to the arts.
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And it gives kind of a, you know, we build kind of a different energy when we
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have a multifaceted team of people around us or friends or our little,
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you know, friend circle and that kind of thing.
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And it makes us stronger as Americans, right?
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As Americans, not just white male Christian, but I mean all Americans, right?
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It makes us all stronger when we have these sort of diverse friend circles and things.
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And you can think about the early immigrants, and I'm talking about late 1800s
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that built America proper.
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You know, like they came in here and they turned America into a powerhouse,
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or at least they contributed.
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They were the fuel for that. And they
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fueled growth in the economy and the infrastructure and all the things.
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And there was people from all over the place building America.
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And when you
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have a friend circle or group or
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at least workmates or anything like that people with diverse backgrounds from
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different parts of the world or different religions even that as individuals
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helps us to develop empathy and empathy is important it is important,
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and also it helps us to create
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bonds with with unique people like you i mean i guess it's easy to create bonds
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with people who are just like you but what i've discovered in my life is that
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people who aren't just like you you you can create like very strong bonds like with those people,
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just by cutting through the subterfuge subterfuge of all the the things that
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make us different You can really focus on the things that make us the same,
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and that's good. That's good.
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I'll give you a real simplified, for instance, is diversity in America,
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how is it good? I'll give you a very simplified example.
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Food. Yeah. Yeah.
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We all have our favorite foreign foods, folks. Me and my wife love Mexican food.
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I happen to love Korean food. And I also happen to love Afghan food.
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These foods that we love, they are at their very best when they're prepared
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by people who are from the regions where those foods originate. Yeah.
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And I'll tell you this. So just the other day, I had lunch with a fellow who
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was one of my interpreters when I was in Afghanistan.
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And he is now an American citizen and lives not too far from me.
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And his wife made me, well, we all had together, we all had lunch.
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And it was Afghan rice and bread and all that.
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And, oh, my God, it was so delicious. It was so delicious because it was authentic.
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It was the real deal. It was so delicious.
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And even from biblical guidance, right, one of the best ways to build trust with someone is to what?
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Is to break bread with them, folks. That's right. To sit down for a meal and
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talk about things over a meal.
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That is one of the best ways to build trust between people and over time man
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well hey one plate at a time you know what i'm saying building that trust one
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place at a time and that and that's a good thing folks that's a good thing and
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when you sit down and break bread with folks.
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You you get past the surface level you know talking points or or whatever and
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you can start to really see the humanity in somebody or not.
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Now, if the person's an absolute bad human, that's one thing.
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But generally speaking, folks, sit down and have lunch with someone,
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have dinner with someone, really break bread with them.
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And you see their humanity. You can see the things that make these people good.
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And then you can relate to it. And that's it.
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Now in order to do that everything starts with
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being a strong individual and I don't just mean I don't
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really mean physical strength I mean in character that you know who you are
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and you're at peace with your personality and your spirituality and your demons
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and all these things that you are a strong autonomous individual and then that
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expands out to communities and.
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And then if your community reaches out to nourish this multiculturalism and
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these different humans and not isolate or reject, but reach out,
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yeah, you can build strong communities that way.
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Now, there's going to be some key words that I use here later, but just understand,
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it's not that hard to drop your facade or your tribal frigging whatever and
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talk to someone who's different than you.
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Mixing these cultures, right? I've been around the world. I've been to many,
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many countries. I don't know, probably maybe 60 or 70 countries.
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And I've seen different traditions and different habits, daily habits,
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life habits in different places and different things.
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I've eaten a lot of different food and things like that.
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That stuff really can, well, can spark creativity, for one, to go out and experience
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these other places and see the uniqueness of it.
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And speaking of creativity, yeah. The arts, for example, and I'll use jazz.
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I like jazz music. I love jazz.
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I've been listening to it since I was a young teenager anyway.
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Anyway, jazz is uniquely American, good people, but it is founded or grounded in African,
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Caribbean, European styles that are blended to create what became uniquely American, which is jazz.
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And some of the legends are out there, man. Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and
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Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong.
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Jazz was a phenomenon that endures today.
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And socially, that crossed all color lines.
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It crossed international lines. The Europeans loved it.
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Now, never mind the ills of America during the 40s, 50s, and so on.
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That really brought a culture, it really created a culture that was uniquely
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American and that everybody of all backgrounds could enjoy and appreciate and
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love and get into it, really.
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And I'll draw a comparison. I'll tell you another thing is hip hop.
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I'm not a big hip hop fan. There's a few groups that I really like,
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mainly because they're local or Atlanta originals or whatnot,
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but you know, in the late seventies, early days, man, kids from the Bronx,
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Puerto Ricans and black kids from the Bronx were scratching records and boom,
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next thing you know, hip hop and rap was a frigging worldwide phenomenon and it still endures today.
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Now it's exploited like all things eventually become exploited,
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but it still endures and And there are still true, true grassroots people out
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there doing the business.
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And another, not necessarily reggae altogether, but Bob Marley specifically
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crossed, you know, cultural lines and kind of made reggae during the 70s,
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man, kind of made reggae sort of a mainstream thing.
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You know, ska came out from reggae.
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So is that an enduring phenomenon? I don't know. There's still a group,
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you know, little small pockets of people that love some sky and reggae. Yeah.
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But why did it cross lines of culture and diversity?
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Because he's saying about common things, universal things, struggle,
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love, injustice, you know, things like that.
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We can all wrap our minds around those things.
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And you don't have to lose your individual identity to do that, do you?
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You can like Bob Marley and still be a good old boy from Rome or whatever.
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You can like jazz, despite the portrayal of jazz in Ricky Bobby Talladega Nights.
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Yeah. Politically.
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Multiculturalism when it comes to politics. That's tricky, isn't it?
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So here's one of the key words I'm going to say. This multiculturalism in politics allows people...
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Different backgrounds and different, even views, but who have similar values.
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That's the key word is values, who have similar values.
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It lets these people live free, speak free, without fear of any harsh repercussions
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or to actually try to forward a conversation versus stomp someone out.
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So this multiculturalism gives people within politics one you get some new ideas.
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And some of them may but if we
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have a similar values then those ideas can still be you can still listen you
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can hear it and you may reject it ultimately or not but and here's the other
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key word so i used similar values and then i'm going to say the word rational And I know, yeah,
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rational people from any culture, if you are rational, you can come together
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on big political projects, on big policies, like civil rights, for instance.
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If we have a similar definition of justice and we have similar values and we're
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all rational, then we can all pitch in for sort of the same,
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at least to move in the same direction, right?
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At least to move in the same direction without what
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without fear of losing our individual identity we don't have to join some tribe
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we don't have to join we don't have to be black and white or red and blue i
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think politics is largely like marriage it's made up of compromise folks,
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it's meant to be that way in america by the way it's meant to be that way so
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that we do not have tyranny of the majority.
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So those are ways we can, those are some of the ways that, multiculturalism is good in America.
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Most things in America are good, but let's go into how multiculturalism is used to undermine America.
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Yeah, it also is that, right?
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It ain't all rainbows and unicorns and chocolate rivers, folks. It ain't that at all.
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Multiculturalism, when exploited, wreaks absolute havoc and chaos.
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Yep, we see it on the Twitters and our X and the news every damn day. We see it.
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And it splits us into, it divides us up into various warring tribes identified by whatever identity,
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whatever groupthink, whatever that is.
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And it kills off that which is truly America, folks. It kills it.
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Multiculturalism doesn't kill it the exploitation of it
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does yeah because what
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is america it's meant to be liberty and justice for
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all yeah that sounds simplistic but that's
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what it's meant to be it took us a long time to even get close to that and the
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closer we got the more people started exploiting and they apply these group
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labels and you fit in this group or that group and then it It exacerbates, well, yeah,
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it just outright fabricates mistrust and long-held grudges and beefs that keeps
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people apart, that keeps people from coming together.
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Because Lord knows, yeah, there's nothing wrong.
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The multiculturalism is not the problem. It's the exploitation of.
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And that's the case with just about everything. And largely,
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folks, I'm going to go ahead and say it's political exploitation.
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But there are people, civilian, you know, these nonprofits out there who profit
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off the division, good people.
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Some colleges out there that advocate for
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separate dorm rooms by by by ethnicity
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color and they try to couch it they
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they they say it and it sounds very supportive sounds
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very like oh safe space blah blah but all
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it does is divide builds division literal literal division
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and literal isolation instead of
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providing a genuinely safe connection point you are
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now walking around college segregated and then
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you got you got the colleges pushing this madness
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and you got black students out there i'm
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not going to talk to any non-melanated people because they're exploiting me
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you got crazy shit like that that goes on all all all across uh institutes of
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higher learning and i say that tongue-in-cheek folks institutes of higher learning
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and then they they They make assimilation,
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they make that a dirty word.
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You can't, there's no, the culture must bend to you as your group, whatever that group is.
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It's unfathomable that you assimilate to the culture that you are a part of. Yeah.
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I think, I think, I think colleges have a lot of blame.
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They take a lot of that blame along with the politicians.
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Diversity quotas, folks, things like that. this dei madness
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and all these that shoves merit aside you
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no longer it's not a matter of whether you're good at a
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thing or you're the best at xyz i just your your skill the things you go to
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school to learn or whatever are all set aside for a list of check boxes and
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that turns genuine free exchange and to just fake performative parades.
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It's just a charade, not a parade, a charade, a charade.
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All faults. And then these tribes, they get locked into this group identity.
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And then even within your tribe, it ignores what you as an individual bring to the table.
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Yeah. And these tribes, and I'll use art again as an example,
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they will either promote or reject, you know, a work of art based on a person's
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ethnicity or politics instead of,
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you know, the aesthetic or the emotion that If the art invokes,
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if you, if you, when you look at a piece of art,
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now I happen to know about some of the, the older great, you know,
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artists of, of, of the past.
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But if you're standing in a, in a building, an art museum and you're looking
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or an art gallery or studio, and you're looking at a piece of art,
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but you have no idea who, who painted it or drew it or, or whatever.
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And you just let the art speak to you and you
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and you get moved emotionally and
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and you see all the colors and the and the things and it
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reminds you it puts you in a place and it you either have some feelings of nostalgia
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or romanticism or you're looking at it and you're and you're over you know you
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have a sense of of like joy like this make this feels right,
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And then you find out that the artist is, I don't know,
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someone of a different color or religion.
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And then you somehow no longer feel those same things about the art.
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Art change? No, not at all. Not at all.
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So that stuff doesn't make any sense, does it? Merit.
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Was it good art? I mean, really, that's it.
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We have a conversation around the house sometimes, especially with my daughter,
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you know, about separating the art from the artist, right?
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Because there's a lot, you know, I happen to love movies and there's a lot of very,
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very leftist actors out there pushing bizarre
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agendas and i'll use it here's an example sean
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penn man i like so so many movies that guy's in are just good i love a really
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just good and i'm thinking from the night state of grace i want to say down
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if you remember bad boys the original not not with will smith and martin lawrence
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even more recently i don't know 10 years or so ago,
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Walter Mitty, which was kind of not a remake, but sort of a reimagining of an old movie.
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But even in that, I thought he was awesome, man.
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But that guy's an absolute douchebag. His politics are absolute garbage.
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And I don't want to hate his movies. I don't. So I'll watch him.
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Yeah. I thought Walter Mitty was awesome. Yeah. Ben Stiller, same.
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His politics to me, I don't care for it Tropic Thunder Oh man Cinematic gold
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right there Cinematic gold,
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in the art from the artist.
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Don't let that stuff twist you up. Don't let that stuff twist you up.
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Politics, the red and blue, man, they twist you up.
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They want to twist identities up in order to fire up their base, right?
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Their extreme base, the true believers, the people who lack any critical thinking whatsoever.
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And that fires up greed and jealousy and oppression, racism, all these things.
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And that keeps the votes flowing their way, people.
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And they get a lot from that. The Democrats, they hype racial injustice in order
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to lock in minority votes.
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And they do that by tying any and every policy to systematic racism.
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No matter what it is, no matter what any Republican proposes,
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it's systematic racism.
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And Republicans, they do the same thing. They stoke fear of,
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like, they get the white country folks fired up because of the replacement,
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their cultural replacement, right?
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They're bussing in and flying in immigrants to replace us.
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And that might be a legitimate goal of extreme Democrats. Who knows?
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But practically speaking, that ain't never going to happen.
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I mean may i mean if you play it out long enough maybe but uh but that that's a.
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They keep us divided why so that they can conquer
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us folks that's it divide and conquer and that's the same techniques that those
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are marxist techniques and both sides use them by the way marxist techniques
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they stir up this class war this or they repeat lies over and over and over
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until they seem like they're fact.
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Yeah, repeat a lie enough and it'll become a fact. Yeah.
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And then the media, they're complicit as well. All they do is pump out manufactured
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consent in order to distract you, distract you from what's really going on.
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You know, the real, yeah.
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And they are very complicit in turning neighbors into enemies, the media.
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You got one house watching friggin cnn you know the couple hundred thousand that do,
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then you got the other house watching fox and they get all poopy over some bullshit
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that you don't see in your everyday life by the way yeah you don't you don't
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see that in your everyday so pop so politics they will twist identities they
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take this multiculturalism and instead of using it to make America really and truly great,
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they use it as a division point. Mm-hmm.
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They use it as a division point. Whatever it is, it doesn't matter what culture you're from.
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They'll put you in a little box and then tell you how you're being discriminated
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against or whatnot. Yeah.
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Nothing says progress like politicians pitting Americans against each other
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so they can maintain their insider trading options. You know what I mean?
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All right. Damn. So blind acceptance of this multiculturalism,
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without any checks and balances, without anything whatsoever,
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erodes any accountability, individual accountability.
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Yeah, it erodes that.
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Once you're in a group, you're no longer responsible for your individual actions.
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I mean, that's the working model right now.
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Yeah, once you're in a group, and I point to Antifa. Yeah, they're nothing but destructive.
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Nothing positive has come from any Antifa thing. Or BLM, by the way.
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So once you're in the group, you no longer are accountable for your actions.
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You can just go destroy things, create millions of dollars, billions of dollars worth of damage.
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Beat people up. Rob stores. Do whatever. All in the name of oppression.
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Or if you're not one of these groups, one of these activists,
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extremist groups or whatever,
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then you got people just dodging blame by hiding behind you know it's my culture
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you don't understand my culture well there's standards of behavior in all cultures yeah,
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and that shit rots away at the system and it i think it's purposeful in some
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cases at least the way the politicians do it it rots at the system in an attempt
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to invalidate the current system.
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You can say what you want, but our system is still one of the best on the planet.
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Real justice, true justice, right?
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That calls for us to own our own actions, our individual actions,
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and to live according to some set of sort of societal standards and behavior
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anyway, behavioral standards.
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And if we do that, if we take accountability for our own actions,
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then we can maintain our own individual dignity.
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If I'm a part of a group, but some dude acts like an asshole,
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but I'm not an asshole, then that's it. I'm maintaining my internal standards
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of integrity. Excuse me.
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You are still responsible for your actions. Don't let this group think collectivism
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make you believe otherwise.
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So no matter what group you're in, no matter how oppressed you think you are,
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you should and you should be judged and you should judge other people by the
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content of their character.
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Yeah, Martin Luther King Jr. said that. Not labels.
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And if you can do that, judge on individual standards then everyone will have
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to step up. Nobody gets a free pass.
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As it is right now, some people get free passes, some people don't.
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Nobody gets free passes.
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Nobody gets free passes.
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You get judged by the content of your individual character, not what your stupid-ass group is doing.
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All these forced, unnatural, you know, this group hug, frigging conformity, and this collective.
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There's no real choice there for you. If you're a part, if you put yourself
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in a part of this group, you're no longer operating on free choice.
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You got to do what you got to do with the masses, the angry mob does.
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But if you stick to your own, now I'm going to say the word rational again.
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Stick to your own rational path. Own your own wins and losses.
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Don't depend on some organization.
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Apparently, Antifa is not an organization. Did you guys know that?
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I'm hearing that these days.
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It's not even a real thing I'm hearing from people who are professed members of Antifa.
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Own your own wins and losses.
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Problem is some people don't want that responsibility. yeah that's
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the problem do celebrate your roots wherever
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wherever they're at wherever your roots are whether they're
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in did you know that edgar mills robert edgar
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mills me i'm mostly irish with english and scottish real white right obviously
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and some scandinavian some of the nordic countries i got i got dna all over
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there but you know two percent of my dna comes from,
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Cameroon in West Africa. Did you know that?
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Yeah. Isn't that crazy? The Bantu peoples of Cameroon.
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Yeah. I'd like to see where that, where that, I'd like to see where that took,
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where that happened in the timeline. Do you know what I mean?
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Probably some frigging Viking pirate down on the West coast somewhere doing weird shit.
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Anyway, by claiming whatever this group is or whatever, just black,
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white, these big, broad blanket groups, and then thinking you can just do whatever the hell you want.
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You're discounting all those little nuances, folks. You're discounting all the
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things that make you a unique individual.
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And then you're just a robot for that whatever club. And that's terrible to be that way.
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Celebrate your roots, but don't use them as an excuse or a shield to,
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to block you from your screw ups or your shitty personality or whatever. You know what I mean?
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These things that I'm talking about here as individuals,
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okay, let's, as an individual, from the individual angle, we as individuals,
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we will reach out and grab hold of different cultural things, different religious,
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different religion, or we'll embrace the ethnic differences.
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And we do this by choice in order to not to be a part of a tribe that can go
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to war with this other tribe, but to somehow put our life into context and give us some meaning, right?
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Religion, people are seeking God or seeking whatever it is you're out there
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seeking to find some kind of meaning.
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You adopt certain cultural traits from your people, from where you're from or
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whatever, just to have a memory, to hang on to that.
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My granddad did this, so I still do this.
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And it gives you that connection to your past, which is awesome.
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This is awesome. And there's nothing wrong with it. It makes our lives richer because of it.
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But we just don't need the drama of the collectivism. If we can individually
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do those things and reach out and then own it, right? I am this.
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This is what I am. This is who I am.
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And that doesn't mean you can't be who you are. You see what I mean?
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I'm not trying to shit on who you are. So don't shit on who I am.
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We should embrace variety. That's the spice of life, folks. I've said that my whole life. Variety.
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But embrace that variety for sure. but smash any attempt at exploitation of
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that variety, any propaganda that turns that variety toxic.
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And recognize when that's happening, folks.
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I'll tell you, you know who recognized that happening? Malcolm X recognized that happening.
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He went through a very interesting process as an adult in his critical thinking journey.
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And he realized that the black community was being used by liberal politicians,
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specifically white liberal politicians.
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And he warned the black community of it. And then he got murdered. But...
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Don't understand how, especially in the black community, you can latch on to
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some bullshit BLM whatever and completely discount one of the most famous icons of the civil rights.
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I mean, who is it? Martin Luther King Jr. or Malcolm X?
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Two of the most famous, most iconic figures in the civil rights movement and
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just completely disregard what he had to say. It's bizarre.
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It's bizarre but I'm going to continually remind
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you as individuals and this this is
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the way it is this is the way I I live my life I treat people yeah as as an
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autonomous individual I don't lump people in with groups like like a pawn you're
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not on the white team or the black team a pawn to be used to be sacrificed. No, I don't do that.
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I treat every individual uniquely according to that individual and our interactions.
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And if everybody did that, I think that we would slowly begin to kill off the
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ability for the politicians to exploit our differences.
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If you just outright reject any of their exploitation methods and techniques,
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they will cease to work. Yeah.
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And how can we do it, folks? How can we do it? Well, first and foremost,
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I said this earlier, we have to build ourselves first.
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We have to be strong, independent.
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We have to know who we are. So many people today don't. There is so much identity crisis.
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I used to back in the day, you know, I don't even know, 50s,
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60s, 70s, probably before that.
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But, you know, when you were in high school, you know, there was identity crisis
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for some people like you're hitting puberty or you there was weird times.
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You didn't know who you wanted to be.
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Well, that's fine in high school. You're young, especially like.
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High or middle school or whatever, where you're going through the changes,
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you know what I mean? Your little nuts are starting to drop.
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You're starting to get your little boobies.
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Your emotions are acting crazy.
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Hair's starting to grow. You're starting to smell bad. There are weird things
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going on. Yeah. And you don't know who you are.
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Well, these days you've got political activists trying to tell you who you are
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and trying to force you into whatever their their box is that they've chosen for you.
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Well, the problem now is there's adults like that as well.
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Now, there's whole books and websites
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and whole industries built about helping you find out who you are.
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That's beyond the scope of this podcast.
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But you got to do it, folks. You got to find out who you are and what you believe. And then be that.
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Strengthen yourself. And then, well, check this out, love yourself.
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And once you love yourself, guess what? Then you can build your crew.
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You can love your crew, the people in your immediate vicinity,
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your immediate family, or your close friends.
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And once you can love them unconditionally and accept them for who they are, then guess what?
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Then you can open up to the broader community. Then you can start looking at
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people as autonomous individuals.
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And then you can start to develop relationships with these other people,
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you're confident in yourself. You're good to go, right?
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You know, so you don't have to be nervous or you don't have to dance around
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issues or walk on eggshells.
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You can, and then you can start to build your community from a place of respect.
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Yeah. Mutual respect. Not trying to down talk somebody for believing this or
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that or the other, but just a general individual respect.
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Yeah, yeah, it's crazy, isn't it? So you have that individual freedom to be who you are.
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You allow that individual freedom and fairness for other people to be who they are.
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And then you start to see that, okay, well, we're different,
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and here's how we're different.
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And then instead of letting that wedge us apart, you can figure out how can
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these differences, how can we use these differences to our benefit,
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right? We might not go to the same church.
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Or whatever, but maybe we both like, uh,
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a, a thing, you know, whatever thing that is, whether it's, I don't know,
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shooting guns or, or drinking coffee, watching movies or, or PT working out,
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you know what I mean? Things like that.
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We all, we all as human, the human race folks, as the human race,
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we all share very similar wiring. We're all created.
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We all believe the same color for sure right but
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then we have different upbringings and
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things like that and our different languages
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and different our subconscious patterns are different they were developed differently
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in a different environment but we're we're developed enough that we can let
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these these cultures intermingle right we can we can we can let our cultures intermingle and grow,
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without exploiting and murdering each other, without frigging exploiting and
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murdering each other. God dang. We can.
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We have that capacity.
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And a lot of people do it all day, every day. It's just not what you see on
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TV, what you see on the socials.
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Once you're able to see the truth behind all the propaganda,
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and then you see, and you appreciate, understand.
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Understand and appreciate the value of individual identity,
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then that'll all these cultural clashes
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will turn into growth opportunities whether it
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be spiritual growth and individual physical growth friggin business
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growth or whatever it is artistic growth instead of seeing these as clashes
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we can use them as growth opportunities but you always have to beware folks
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beware of the partisan political hype machines the hidden agendas,
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usually not from the individual individuals i would
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say usually don't have the hidden agenda their tribe
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is what has the agenda and watch out the paid agitators or the blame game the
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economic blame game government shutdown because they want to spend money on
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illegals blah blah they don't want to spend money meanwhile military guys like
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them or hate them ain't getting paid you know, right now.
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Beware of the echo chambers, the non-stop, 24-7 echo chambers.
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Beware of them. Cut them off.
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Play Mahjong, man. That's one of my nighttime little things.
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I'll zone out with some Mahjong. I love that. It's like a little memory game.
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All these things keep us split on purpose. Yeah, for a very distinct purpose.
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They keep us split so that we can't come together and create a better way. Call it out, folks.
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Call it out. Be an eagle eye. Be an osprey.
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Have the eyes of an osprey and the claws, the talons of an osprey.
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Yeah, call that shit out.
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Swoop down on it. Because if you do, all these things that are seen as cultural
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clashes and cultural differences, they do become strength instead of weapons
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against each other. Weapons for the politicians.
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Yeah, that's right. That's right. When individuals, folks, when individuals
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are driving the bus, multiculturalism shines.
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And it doesn't encroach on anyone. It shines in art and business and food.
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Food and everybody wins and everybody wins yeah now it's easy to talk about
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the arts a lot I mean that's that's one of the most obvious right and food's
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one of the most obvious and business,
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well yeah there's a lot of multicultural corporations out there now you can
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be angry with the corporationy corporations doing corporationy things but at the.
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You know, I hate Apple, not because they're diverse, but they are.
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Yeah, Apple is a pretty diverse company.
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And they've got incredible worldwide campaigns that speak to wherever they're at.
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And you know who else? It's not talked about as often, but what's one of the
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biggest companies? Coca-Cola, folks.
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Yeah, they just have this America is Beautiful ad that was the anthem was sung
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in different languages. and, you know, people love that, man.
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All over the world, they love it. And that's an example of, I mean,
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it's marketing, but it's still marketing multiculturalism.
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Yeah, it's good. There are wins. There are wins with multiculturalism. There are.
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What's some of the downsides? Well,
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anything in the extreme is bad, But extreme multiculturalism loses when it's
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used and exploited to fuel rage, chaos,
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division, and literal destruction of American cities like Antifa, like BLM.
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That's the ugly side of it.
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They just dress up thuggery as heroism for the little guy. But it's not.
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They're not the little guy.
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They're not the little guy at all. And they go out and destroy,
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destroy, destroy, destroy, destroy businesses, destroyed, you know,
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literal blocks and blocks and blocks of American businesses.
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And it doesn't matter what race, by the way, who owns the business.
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Everybody gets screwed on that. Yeah. Yeah.
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You know, 2020 or 2021, when Portland was closed down, it was the Antifa versus the Proud Boys.
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These jokers were throwing Molotov cocktails, and the streets were like frigging war zones.
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CNN was reporting mostly peaceful protests.
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Regular humans were horrified. Businesses were just trashed. Yeah.
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And that's the thing. When you adopt the tactics of the people you purport to
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hate, you've not won. You've lost.
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You're no different. You're no better. That's it. That's the way it is. And that's a failure.
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If you want to hate fascists, that's great. So do I.
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But if you use fascist tactics to push your message of how much you hate fascists.
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It's falling on deaf ears the destruction kills any potential grass roots message there,
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be an individual be an individual don't feed into the group madness use your individual voice,
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yeah you can't just go out and riot and
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call it social justice and expect to
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get anywhere that it just ends with more hate and that's
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all you can't do it all right
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man i'm is it a rant i don't know i hope
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i'm saying things i mean i'm not i don't know if what i'm saying has any impact
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or not really i think it does i hope it does ultimately what i'm trying to get
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out here folks is be an individual and rational self-interest make yourself a strong individual,
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and then be selfless in the way you treat other people. Help people. Yeah. Yeah.
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Think for yourself, but work, help other people.
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On merit, on content of their character. Is this guy an a-hole or is this a good guy?
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Don't place him in a group. And if he comes out and his whole identity is whatever
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group, then you have judged him on his individuality.
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He is not an individual.
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He's a mindless pawn of a group. You didn't make that judgment.
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He told you that. You see what I mean?
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Stay out of the angry mob. Don't let TV gets you fired up with the mob rage.
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That's left and right, good people. That's left and right.
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Don't jump on political trends.
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Free Palestine, Israel, genocide. Don't jump on it, folks.
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That shit's been going on long before you and me were around.
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It's going to be going on long after.
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Yeah, there's peace deals right
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now. That's great. Don't jump on the trends, the politics of the day.
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Because all it does is divide. That's all it's meant to do. Stay away from the
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groupthink. Think individually. The internet, it's a magical place.
45:12
You can confirm or deny any shit you hear on the internet by going on the internet.
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Is it unrealistic to dream of a world where our character takes precedence over our group,
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the crowd we hang with? I don't think so.
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Be rational. Yeah, be rational. Follow your instinct.
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Hey, I read a book recently, and it had nothing to do with this at all,
45:45
but there was something in there that talked about your instinct.
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Your instincts are usually right. Now, sometimes they may be misguided.
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It depends on how much you have built up in your subconscious that's been programmed
46:03
instead of your just individual learning. but follow your rational instinct.
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Yeah. And then confirm or deny along the way what your instincts are telling you.
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Act as an individual. Hustle as an individual. Treat people individually.
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But then within a group, because we all do have groups, right? Then be fair. Always.
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You know, man, America is a mixture of freedom and fairness for all.
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Man, imagine that. Yeah.
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Be a selfless individual, folks.
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Practice being a selfish individual and then go out and spread that.
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That's what I got for you today. That's what I got for you.
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And I got that. Yeah. I was thinking about that, man.
46:54
You know, having lunch with my former interpreter, his name is Sammy.
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And he said to me, man, he, this guy's from Afghanistan, war torn, you know, Afghanistan.
47:05
And he's 30 years old, which means he grew up.
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Yeah. The war was going on already. Right. And, uh, he's like,
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man, it's tough living in America.
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I was like, ah, man, damn. Really? I mean, yeah, it's tough, man.
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Because he's still trying to, trying to grab hold. He's trying to understand
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the culture, you know, and I'm, you know, he's got some, he's got friends and things like that.
47:35
And his wife's got a good job that, well, a unique job.
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And he's got a beautiful little daughter and she's fully American and it's awesome.
47:47
And, uh, she's beautiful.
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And yeah, it just struck me that like multiculturalism, it is good because,
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Because going over and taking my shoes off and going into Sammy's house and
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sitting down in the floor and having proper Afghan rice and bread and just talking about life.
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Yeah, multiculturalism is good. And it can be great if we judge people on an
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individual basis and we act as an individual autonomous human.
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Yep, that's it, folks. Thanks for listening to my rant.
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potentially there's two seats open for that so if
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