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Cancel Culture: A Deep Dive with David · D-constructing Topics

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  We doing it. we got another good one and today
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  we're talking about a little bit of introduction to the
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  i'm hoping that uh i'll do more of
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  these a little bit of introduction to cancel culture
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  and for those out there my peoples
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  my peoples who are new to
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  once again when you listen to this podcast
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  it's like saving them you know it saves your mind and
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  it saves your life so basically we got a good one about cancer
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  culture and basically what it is and with the
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  like recent news of uh jimmy kimmel being
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  suspended from his show due to his
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  comment with charlie kirk you know we're gonna
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  good stuff because once again deconstruct the
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  type of podcast oh we on a we on a roll we on a mission and we make it happen
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  that's for sure and it's one of those things that i tell people and you know
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  this is like my point of view and always my uh my observation my point of view
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  my opinion has nothing to do with any organizations that I belong to.
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  It's just that my observation and the way I see things.
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  Now, cancer culture, you know, for those, again, who are wondering what is cancer
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  culture, you might not hear or hear the word cancer culture in itself.
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  You basically have heard what have happened when either anyone,
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  it could be somebody famous, you know, musician, In this case,
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  let's say Jimmy Kimmel, the host of the Jimmy Kimmel Life, J.K.
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  Rollins, the author of the Harry Potter books, who have made comments like, how can I say?
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  So she's a feminist and she's a feminist first, meaning that she's a pro woman.
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  And it looks like she's not a fan of the transgender community in terms of those
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  who were biological men who became women.
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  You know she's her stance is that hey listen a
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  woman is a woman you know that's the final
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  you know that's it and then we'll touch bases with that and
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  then you know jimmy kimmel with the charlie kirk with
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  the you know the assassination that happened last week
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  you know still in this nation there's still kind of you
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  know no pun intended but there's still kind of
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  like residue you know from from what happened in a
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  sense you could still smell the wound to the the the
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  you know you could smell the whole
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  situation is still in there so it's one of those things that
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  now is like pow pow pow now off the bat i'm gonna say this four minutes into
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  it is that i'm not a fan of cancer culture even if i don't agree on the person
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  and i remember this as a puerto rican kid and i'll give you an example there
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  was an episode of those who remember or those who were fan of the.
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  Seinfeld, the comedy Seinfeld.
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  I think there was an episode, something about Puerto Rico that, you know,
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  something, there was a comment I should have done my research,
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  because when I do podcasts I like to just,
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  off the pause, and I do research but I like to kind of like,
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  off the pause, because I wanted to kind of like, educate people in what cancer
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  culture is, and how can we kind of fight it and avoid it, because it's one of those things where.
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  I don't like it, but I don't like it in a sense, is this.
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  And I'm going to go back to the situation with Puerto Rico.
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  As a matter of fact, let me just touch on that Puerto Rico. So basically,
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  there was something where in an episode that a lot of people didn't like,
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  especially Puerto Ricans, but basically they requested or demanded that that
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  episode would never be shown or something to that effect.
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  And, you know, Seinfeld and a Seinfeld show, they apologize.
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  So, you know, that's an example of what cancer culture is, where you basically
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  something happened that offended a group or offend somebody or something to
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  that effect. And we go on a little boycott thing.
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  And what happens is that because of that boycott or and I'm going to say that
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  if they cancel or you are, let's say, someone who has been canceling,
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  where you have to kind of take out an episode of this or you have to kind of
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  obey to the mob and so on, then they succeeded. and what the boycott is.
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  But my issue is this. And time and time and time and time.
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  And I'm going to bring politics because a lot of times the cancel culture involves politics. Many times.
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  Many times. Ideologies, at least.
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  So, you see, that's why I don't necessarily like to kind of talk about policies
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  when it comes to politics because, you know, we're going to throw in policies,
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  but it's the philosophy behind certain things.
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  Because, again, I'm in New York City, 30 years, and people in the bottom are still black people.
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  What policies have anyone created to take them out? Like, not help them,
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  but just to take them out.
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  If I decide to run for mayor, I got you. I got you, my black community, Latinos. I got you.
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  We are taking you out the hood. We are putting somebody else in.
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  Somebody else is turning. We'll figure this one out. But you already know,
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  it's just that idea that if you say something and someone get offended,
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  it's that thing where people might say, you know what, I got offended.
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  Did you get offended? Yeah.
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  And then you grab all these people, they start to boycott and that's it. Right.
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  And again, my thing is this when it comes to politics is that we're going to both sides.
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  There's two sides. And I mentioned this on the Charlie Kirk.
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  I mentioned this on the other episode.
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  In this country, there's these two ideologies, the left, liberal,
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  the right, conservative.
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  And they both add each other. And I hate that sometimes these two groups.
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  And they are groups that have means, money, to say, you know what?
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  Let's, oh, yeah, this happened in these communities. Let's just rack up money
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  and let's help this community. Let's do a toy drive.
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  Let's do a food drive. Let's do whatever it is to feed Americans because,
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  sadly, the government won't do it. But no, they spend more money going after each other.
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  And listen, that money that you're going to go after the people that boycotted Jimmy Kimmel.
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  In my understanding, it just the Jimmy Kimmel situation came that they're again,
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  but the Charlie Kirk situation is that, you know, now, if you say something
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  about Charlie Kirk, that's it.
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  And these two sides of the thing, the left and the right.
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  Hey, listen, I got to go for me. I could, that money that you guys spend going
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  after each other, hey, whoo-hoo, hey, over here.
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  You know what I mean? I got other people to feed.
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  But it becomes something of,
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  you know, in America, it's like a waste of time. It's a waste of money.
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  I want to say, let people do whatever it is. We've seen examples of the cancer
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  coach, especially with the, after the 2000s, especially with,
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  look, cancer coach has been existed for decades. Gates.
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  And it's funny because even though there are these two factions,
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  the again, I always said the white liberal faction and the white conservative faction.
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  And, you know, I say that those are the two, man. Right. Let's go to Hollywood.
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  There was a time that there was in Hollywood and Hollywood to this day is this
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  liberalism kind of leftist thing going on there.
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  I mean, for the most part, but there was a time that liberal people would work
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  with conservative producers or people of that conservative right or whatever
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  it is because they have money.
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  So there was a time where, you know, when there was certain movies where if
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  it became too violent, it doesn't matter if you're a movie star who was liberal, who was out there.
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  There was a time that they respected where they didn't want to show certain
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  things or whatever it is or say certain things because of the people that was
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  funding, you know, the TV.
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  And now there were shows, let's say, that started to open up and,
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  you know, from the 70s to 80s, what's going on with racism and so on and so forth.
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  And, you know, for the most part, there were these conservative people with
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  money who said, hey, I'm up for it.
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  But there was a time that these two factions was kind of like,
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  even if we don't agree or whatever it is, you know, they'll do shake it up and
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  let's do something for the common of all good.
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  But I think that that's gone now. You know what I mean?
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  And I bring that up because sometimes when it comes to cancer culture
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  and you know we bring example or one of the examples here was the Aunt Jemima
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  you know no for some reason so Aunt Jemima was this uh black lady with the thing
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  you know was slave with the the rag and um you know my mother kind of looked
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  like her a little bit I used to tell my mother hey mommy is that you.
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  Is that you Aunt Jemima but it's one of those things
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  that look listen if the back story was that there was that was a real person
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  then you gotta ask okay who is gonna hurt and who's gonna offend you know what
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  i mean but me growing up i remember one of the more sad cancer culture where,
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  again i'm not a fan of cancer culture but this one i kind of did not agree on
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  it because of my stance on where i was and it was the the group the dixie chicks
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  it was that country music group i I think there was like these three ladies
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  or something to that effect.
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  And these ladies, how can I say they were against the war after 9-11?
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  Because, you know, there was a time after 9-11 happened.
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  Where now, out of nowhere, the United States is going to all these different
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  countries, especially Iraq.
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  Money's being spent. Food, oil, everything is up.
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  And sadly, you know, the president at that time was George W. Bush.
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  Sadly, because the media and the media has a lot to do with this, too, as well.
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  Is that because the powers that be, the pro-war regime and the pro-war media
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  and whatever, these warmongers.
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  Sadly when these uh ladies started speaking up oh
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  my goodness the backlash you have
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  people breaking their cds you have people who
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  were fans who'd like because the the the mindset
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  or at least what the media was trying to convey back then was that the united
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  states going off you know after saddam hussein because of freedom and 9-11 you
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  know come on that you know at that time it was kind of obvious and i'm glad
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  that people started to wake up and and there were people and media,
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  fans who apologize and a couple of years
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  later when the Dixie chick did their thing my understanding is
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  that you know they had some type of success back you
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  know doing a little bit too if I'm not mistaken but at least
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  they did not tarnish their you know career that much well I take it back for
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  those years they did but the fact is that they were speaking on something that
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  America was so blinded on in China for us to wake up Phil Donahue was another
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  one that at that time and this is where I started to kind of open up where,
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  why was that cancer coaches that if you spoke against these wars?
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  And again, you know, there's a lot of Americans who are anti-war for the sake
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  of that money could be used for something else. And that's a valid point.
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  I always ask myself is this, what if America, all the powers that be, decides, you know what?
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  I will give you what you want. What is it that you want? It'll go from town to town, city to city.
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  Let's go. And we're going to spend a lot of money, whether it's federal,
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  the federal government will say, okay.
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  And then we go to war, right? Or United States, whatever.
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  And I said to myself, let's just say that if now you got what you want,
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  will you still be anti-war?
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  You know what I mean? that's an interesting thing but you know a lot of all
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  these uh anti-war things come from that and sadly there was a time that if you
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  were anti-war cancer culture you know cancer culture.
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  The hard one here and it's it's one of the ones where listen even even people
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  and this is the thing about cancer culture that even if you're standing where
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  and i and i've come across people who are in the anti-Trump bandwagon.
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  And yet their idea is that, hey, listen, hey, I'm not a fan,
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  I would never vote for Donald Trump, whatever it is.
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  But when it comes to a man is a woman, I still believe that a man is a man and a woman is a woman.
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  That's my thing because I'm Catholic, I'm Christian, whatever it is.
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  And they still, let's say, vote for Democrat, which that happens, I'm just saying.
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  That even that person who would think that they are on the so-called right side of, you know,
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  the caste culture, that you think that you will be protected because you're
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  siding with the people who are you surrounded by, but you, you know, ultimately it's not.
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  That's the thing with canceling caution itself and in general.
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  And sadly, because the situation with it's 9-11,
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  what happens, you know, obviously in Palestine, Gaza, where you take,
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  let's say, an anti-Israel, even to say, hey, I'm pro-Palestine or something
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  where, you know, you kind of point out, you know, Israel, why are they doing this?
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  You know, you're going to get canceled. Hey, no, you can't say that,
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  you know, whatever it is. And a lot of people, they'll hide behind freedom of speech.
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  And I always said the thing about freedom of speech is, once again,
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  it's more catered to the government in itself.
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  So the government find these loopholes where they get these private companies to back them up.
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  Because in reality, we're not saying that you cannot say, you know, certain things.
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  What I'm saying is this, that if you're working for a private company,
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  the private company have the rights to terminate you based on what it is that
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  you said, based on their policies, because they might have an image.
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  If again there are people that are being fired for saying
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  going out there and kind of like celebrating charlie kirk's death
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  there's companies that have fired those people people might
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  say oh but it might not protect it with uh you
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  know uh whatever the the freedom of speech whatever
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  then you know for the most part i say no you're not
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  protected again you know the protection of these
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  things is more for the government once you work for a private
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  company and i'm gonna bring an episode here um
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  future episode is this thing called corporate personhood so
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  basically when you're working for a private company or corporation it's
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  like working for another person and when you work for another
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  person is basically that's you and that person and if
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  that person let's say is the person that is your boss you know you you report
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  to that person if they have how can i say policies where you cannot they're
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  not going to specifically say what you cannot say but if it's something where
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  they don't agree with you because they got this general thing where, hey,
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  you know, when it comes to the image of the company and representation and what
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  we believe in, in our mission statement, whatever it is.
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  They're going to say, well, sadly, you know, we don't agree.
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  So just be careful out there. If you online, if, you know, be careful,
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  who are you talking about, who you're bashing, whatever it is.
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  Again, I'm going to say that I'm not a fan of cancer culture,
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  but I think that more as someone that works and been working at least two decades
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  in the labor movement and in the labor management side of things,
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  is that you got to be careful with what to say in the public areas when you're
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  working for a private company.
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  Sometimes people, I'll give an example.
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  Let's say you're a delivery person, right?
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  And you work for a big giant company. You know, you deliver food,
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  whatever it is that you do.
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  And you don't know that the CEO is Jewish, right? And I'll give an example.
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  And then you go out there online and you say, you know, you start bashing Israel,
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  you start bashing, you know, whatever.
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  And then you get a nice email from the HR saying, hey, you know,
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  your statement that's not to match our values And so on and so forth And you
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  know You probably say Hey listen.
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  Whatever it is You're upset But then you know You find out Listen The CEO of the company,
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  Is Jewish And basically If If you go on that train Then that's it You're gone
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  And I'm just saying In general I'm just using this example,
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  You know There's other examples as well That we could go on But again The cancer
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  culture For me Not a big fan And just you know To me to kind of like Break it
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  down It is what it is I get it But I don't like it Because again Americans.
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  We'll spend more money. We'll spend more energy.
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  We'll spend more of whatever it is to say once again, let's feed black communities.
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  Let's feed some of these white communities. Let's feed people's minds. Let's help people.
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  You know, holidays are coming up for those who celebrate Christmas.
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  Thanksgiving is coming up. There are people out there that might not have the
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  means to probably have a nice, good Thanksgiving.
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  And even just so you don't have to wake up for Thanksgiving,
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  I'm just saying, using an example, there's a lot of people out there that just
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  might just not cut it. And yet there's going to be more funds.
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  There's going to be more private company. There's going to be more individuals,
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  going to be more government people that would use money to once again start a pro.
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  How can I say a pro cancer culture and an anti-cancer culture campaign?
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  And there's going to be millions and millions of money that's going to be flooded
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  across the internet, whatever it is, just for the sake of something that we could just understand.
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  Your opinion is your opinion. We understand. But a lot of people got to know your opinion.
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  You don't have to tell that to people. You don't have to put it to public. You don't have to.
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  Because, again, the whatever laws out there, freedom of speech,
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  they don't necessarily apply to you the minute that you start going after private
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  companies or going to these public, you know, things.
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  Let me know what you think. You know, it's interesting. I mean,
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  I could go on, but, you know, I just want to open up to what cancer kosher is.
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  And I use a couple of samples of what have been going on with cancer kosher.
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  Sadly, it seems that the Charlie Kirk situation is being co-opted for the government
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  to say, oh, if you talk about Charlie Kirk and then it's going to follow up with these little tags,
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  these little things going on, these little phrases,
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  these words that now you can't even say it.
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  And once again, both on the both political side, Democrats, Republican,
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  liberal, conservative, left wing, right wing, all these people,
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  they all need to. You know what?
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  If there's one cancel thing, they should be canceled.
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  Those two groups, those two entities should be canceled forever.
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  And I'll guarantee we need someone like me to make sure that we cancel those
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  people because I will guarantee once we cancel those people.
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  America is going to be so peaceful and so cruel.
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  You're going to see the lbgtq community going
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  to church and you know hanging and having
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  a couple of beers but some of these right wings and right wings are going to
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  be dancing with the lbgt and then they're going to gather up and they're going
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  to go to black communities and they're going to do something but they're going
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  to do a food drive they're going to do whatever drive not a drive by hey hello
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  no matter of fact even people that are anti gun or whatever it is they might
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  join together and just, hey,
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  practice, shoot the rocks, not at people, relax there. But we making it happen.
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