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Victorian Councillor apologises to the community for social media comments · The Slippery Slope

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  OK, crazy news out of Victoria. I think it's crazy news.
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  Anyway. You know, this is where our
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  society is now. We deny actual facts.
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  We deny the truth of things. There are obviously things that
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  we can debate in our society. I'm a person who believes in the
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  Bible. I have a strong Christian faith.
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  I don't mind if people want to debate with me, want to talk,
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  want to argue, even. However, my opinion, your
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  opinion, I think we can all still have an opinion.
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  We can disagree and it doesn't. It doesn't really matter.
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  I'm not. It doesn't really matter.
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  But. We we still need to be able to
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  respect each other and you don't always have to agree on things,
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  OK. However, there are some things
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  in life I don't really think are open to debate and one of those
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  things which just seems to have permeated throughout the whole
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  of society now, and it's craziness, especially in first
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  world nations, western societies.
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  You know this idea? That transgenderism is, well, it
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  It's based on fact. It's based on science.
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  The whole thing to me seems like it's a delusion in the mind, OK,
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  people are being swept away in this delusion.
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  Our young people are being brainwashed into thinking that
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  they can just change their sex Willy nilly.
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  Just, you know, wake up and they feel.
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  Like something else. You know, they they call
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  themselves these other pronouns. Speaking of pronouns, hope you
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  noticed that I my pronouns down here.
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  So obviously this the Super slow podcast, my pronouns are the
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  legend. Please refer to me as such.
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  I'm joking, hey. But anyway, so we, you know,
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  young people now. Not even just young people.
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  People my age even think that they can just wake up and refer
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  to themselves as something else, what I find even more
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  disturbing. Is when we have people in power,
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  politicians and that who they may say things that are based on
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  fact that we have hold, that we have held as a society, as fact
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  for thousands of years and now all of a sudden these things are
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  deemed as offensive. Going to get through a couple of
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  articles and listen to a short video, but let's talk about what
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  happened in Victoria. Again, Victoria is absolutely
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  losing its mind. Given over to the delusion
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  spoken about completely I think Australia all but Victoria is
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  leading the way when when going through the delusion that's
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  spoken about in in Romans chapter one Anyway so this
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  headline here I'll bring it up so we can all have a look at it
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  I it's always better always better check it out Ferguson
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  found in breach of council conduct.
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  So there she is. There she said a few things on
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  Twitter. Well, formerly known as Twitter,
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  now it's X. So Latrobe city councillor
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  Melissa Ferguson was required to apologize at the council meeting
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  last Monday after an arbitration report found her online behavior
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  discriminatory and in breach of the Councillor Code of conduct.
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  Councillor Ferguson's Twitter X actions in April earlier that
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  she were founders. Misconduct in regard to Specific
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  Clauses of the Local Government Governance, Governance and
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  Integrity Regulations 2020 Councillor Tracy Lund She's the
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  the beacon of authority. The beacon of of truth and
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  justice. Yeah.
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  Anyway, in in this story she is in her own mind.
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  Councillor Tracy Lund applied for the arbitration pursuit.
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  Against Councillor Ferguson in early June and an independent
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  arbiter in Doctor Meredith Gibbs was assigned to the case.
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  She's the she's the she's the superhero.
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  OK, Ferguson's the villain. And Tracy Lund she is the she is
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  the bringer of justice. Councillor Lund took to Facebook
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  to say as an elected representative, my commitment to
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  accountability, transparency and calling out.
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  Unprofessional and discriminatory behavior is
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  unwavering as a counselor and as a human, calling on all the all
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  the authority she's got with a counselor and a human being.
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  I will never be a passive bystander to such behavior.
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  It is my sincere hope that this finding raises the bar on
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  expectations for the behavior and conduct of those entrusted
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  with the privilege of public office.
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  So they went on the so they went after this Ferguson with the
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  also the privilege of the public purse and decided she was guilty
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  because of her Twitter activity. So Twitter activity was deemed
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  discriminatory. Let's check out what she said.
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  The arbiter Fair further found that the sentiments expressed by
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  Councillor Ferguson over Twitter to be offensive and
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  disrespectful of trans people, in the sense that a trans person
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  would reasonably find this characterization of trans people
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  as offensive and disrespectful, Councillor Ferguson received.
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  Sensitive backlash from the LGBTQR plus whatever of the name
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  community for her Twitter posts earlier this year with the
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  Gibson Pride initiative labeling them as reprehensible, harmful,
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  hateful, ignorant, and were still factually incorrect.
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  Were they factually incorrect? Let's check it out.
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  These include retweets of divisive feminist activists.
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  Rachel Wong. And Angela Jones that, the
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  arbiters report stated, did not treat members of the public with
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  dignity, fairness, courteous courtesy and respect. 3 posts
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  Tweet One was a retweet by the accounts councillor Melissa
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  Ferguson of a tweet by gays against groomers.
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  So homosexual people who are against groomers.
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  The tweet reads as follows. Predators are hiding behind the
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  rainbow and using it as a shield to prey on children.
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  Our organization will not allow our community to be scapegoats
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  for this pervasion. Perversion.
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  Sorry. And the boosts any longer?
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  OK, so that was the first one. Remember how they set up here
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  That it was factually LGBT community for her Twitter posts
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  early this year, labeling them as reprehensible, harmful,
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  hatefully ignorant? Factually incorrect.
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  So the guys, the guys against groom is the saying creditors
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  are hiding behind the rainbow, using it as a shield to prey on
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  children. Is that factually incorrect?
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  Doesn't seem so to me. Seems like there's a lot of
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  truth in it. Predators lie and use plenty of
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  things as a shield. You can't deny it and say it's
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  factually incorrect. The second piece of evidence was
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  a tweet. By Councillor Muslim Ferguson,
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  which Councillor Lund You know she's the The hero in the story
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  apparently submitted was offensive to trans children by
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  list by likening them to a gender Bender and also offensive
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  to those responsible for workplace training and other
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  similar programs, because it might, it might make them
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  realize that they are wasting their time.
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  Expressions of those opinions do not support the council in her
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  defense. Councillor Ferguson said she
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  could not be held responsible for any retweets investigated,
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  but the arbiter disagreed. In this context, well, you're
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  guilty no matter what, councillor.
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  The arbiter found that the retweeting of the tweets made an
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  explicit endorsement of approval of its contents.
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  Though councillors can express independent views through the
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  media, the arbiter said unofficial personal comments
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  must be made clear and separate from the council.
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  Despite Councillor Ferguson's Twitter name change, and by a
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  disclaimer that all tweets are her own opinion, the arbiter
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  found she states specifically, This is my own opinion.
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  The arbiter found that this further created ambiguity about
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  the role in which Councillor Ferguson was acting.
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  Like I said, she's going to be guilty no matter what.
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  No matter what. The arbiter stated that failing
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  to comply with these directions would be a serious misconduct
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  anyway, so let's have a listen to what Moira Deaning said on
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  Sky News when she was talking about how we need to stand up
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  for free speech and commenting on this this case with Ferguson.
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  Let's check it out. Two weeks ago, a Latrobe Council
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  Arbitration Court declared Councillor Ferguson guilty.
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  Of making offensive social media post.
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  She was then ordered to acknowledge guilt and apologize.
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  Joining me to discuss this is a woman who has also been pursued
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  by the gender activist for holding mainstream views on sex
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  and gender. Former Liberal MP, now an
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  independent MP Maura Deming. Thanks for your time Maura.
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  This case with counselor Ferguson again it's so sinister.
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  She what she has said is. I would think majority of
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  Victorians feel that way, whether they're Labour or
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  Liberal, and she's being persecuted for it.
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  Yeah, it's just another in a long series of total abuses of
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  power by people in authority. You know, people need to be
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  really standing up for reasonable freedom of speech.
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  You know, she's being forced to make this false confession or
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  she's going to be expelled, apparently.
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  This is what her lawyers told her.
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  And I'd just like to point out that that Latrobe City Council,
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  they published a press release saying that she was guilty.
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  Before the investigation had even happened, Did you?
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  Hear that investigation hadn't even happened, and they've
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  already pronounced her as being guilty.
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  Oh yeah, and we have such great free speech here in this nation.
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  I mean, this is insane. We have to do something about
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  this in Vic. And it's typically women who are
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  the victims of of this ideology, isn't it?
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  Oh, just just briefly. When, she says there's
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  typically, typically women, you know.
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  Typically women who are the victims of of this ideology,
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  isn't it? So she says it's typically women
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  who are victims of this ideology.
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  Did you? And you know, she's right.
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  It does seem to be women who are typically victims.
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  However, it also seems to be just.
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  I haven't checked out the exact statistics, but it does seem to
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  be women who are the perpetrators.
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  A lot of the time, women attacking women over having such
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  insane ideas. As you know, there's only two
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  agenda. 2 genders you know was learned.
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  She sees herself as the protagonist.
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  She sees herself as the hero in the story she attacked.
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  Ferguson And then they put her over to an arbitrator, another
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  female, and you know, she retweeted tweets from a feminist
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  activist. It's all the females attacking
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  each other. And yeah, they are the victims
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  in the end, but it seems like very much, I don't know anything
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  else. I'll say I'll probably sound
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  sexist, but I don't know. I don't know.
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  A lot of the time I read these stories and it seems very much
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  like women attacking other women.
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  And then the men get up. These crazy men get up and say,
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  well, you know, I'm their woman, I can do this.
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  And you see all these other women standing up for them and
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  men are just allowed to get away with it.
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  You know, it's the whole society.
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  Society's ludicrous right now. Because we're the most impacted,
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  and it's often women who speak out.
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  That's right. So not only are we the most
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  vulnerable because of these extreme laws, but.
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  When we speak up, it does seem that we are the ones that get
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  expelled from wherever we are. And look, I can't help but see
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  the similarities between her case and mine.
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  And I just my heart goes out to her and to all the people that
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  are trying to speak up on this issue because it comes at a
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  great cost, clearly. Yeah.
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  So one thing I've been thinking about is there's a reason why
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  women end up being the victims. Within these kinds of cases, I
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  think it's because men don't want to speak up.
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  We keep getting thrown under the bus all the time.
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  We're told constantly by within the from the feminist movement
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  that we we really shouldn't have an opinion.
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  Most things in this world are men's faults as well.
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  Obviously if you're a white man, you get about it, you need to
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  shut your mouth. But men in general are
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  constantly told that they are the problem.
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  So then when we see like a female counselor, report another
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  female counselor for something that they said on Twitter, and
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  then they put the female arbitrator there to decide who's
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  at fault here. Men won't come to the defense
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  because men don't want to get involved.
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  Now, because men are constantly just berated, thrown under the
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  bus, told that they are, their opinions don't matter.
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  Nothing we do matters. Everything in society is our
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  fault anyway. So we don't get the right to
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  have an opinion, especially when it comes to things that involve
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  females. That that's just what I that's
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  what it feels like to me. We're constantly in trouble
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  anyway, so men just like, well, you know what, I'm not going to
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  say anything. And like I said, forget about
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  it. If you're a wife follower in
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  this land these days, hey, this is all craziness.
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  I think there is 100% a spiritual issue going across our
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  nation. Like I said, you can deny it all
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  you want. You might think that Jay don't
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  start talking about Bible issues, but the Bible very
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  clearly says that that God gives us over to our own delusions.
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  Because we deny God, we start worshipping the created rather
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  than the creator. Women going after women, men
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  going after men. God says, well hey, I'll just
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  take my hand off you and reaping.
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  We are reaping. The reaping the rewards of our
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  own stupidity. But hey, that's just my own
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  opinion. This is a spiritual issue.
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  We are a land living in delusion.
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  Let me know what you think. Let me know what you think about
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  the men not standing up for women in these cases as well.
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  Should we just be standing up? Women are do tend to be the
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  victims, but is this a greater? Is this because of a greater
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  issue where men just don't want to speak up anymore?
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  Let me know what you think. We're on the slippery slope in
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  society, especially Victoria's leading the way.
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  That's my opinion. Thanks for listening to the
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  slippery slope.