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Liberal Pathology, Trucks, and Men · Mechonomist Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: liberals hate trucks is what I found out today.
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  SPEAKER_00: I've been on threads recently and there's so many people complaining about big trucks,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: Tundras and F-150s and Chevy Silverados.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they're like, nobody uses them.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't use them as trucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's actually not true.
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  SPEAKER_00: 28% of people who own trucks use them as
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  SPEAKER_00: to haul regularly and 37 percent use them to haul at least occasionally so that's
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  SPEAKER_00: it's not nothing it is not a majority but it is a significant amount of people who
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  SPEAKER_00: own trucks use them as trucks but what it really is is it's a hatred of redneck men
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  SPEAKER_00: so let me explain they associate big trucks with redneck men they don't actually
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  SPEAKER_00: hate the trucks
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  SPEAKER_00: They hate the drivers of the trucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And you can tell they hate the drivers of the trucks because they always talk about
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  SPEAKER_00: them compensating or having small dicks or whatever.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's clear that they don't envision the drivers of the truck as a,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: mousy college professor,
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  SPEAKER_00: mousy male college professor or a woman of any kind.
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  SPEAKER_00: There's clearly a stereotype associated with it.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's not untrue.
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  SPEAKER_00: Because big trucks are a redneck cultural artifact in the same way that donks with
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  SPEAKER_00: 24 inch rims are black cultural artifacts and the way that drift 240s are Asian
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  SPEAKER_00: cultural artifacts.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're sort of working class modification of vehicles.
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  SPEAKER_00: and is sort of a working class art form of such.
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  SPEAKER_00: So when liberals get so up in arms about the size of trucks and the drivers of
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  SPEAKER_00: those big trucks,
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  SPEAKER_00: they're actually showing that deep seated pathology of liberalism,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is classism.
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  SPEAKER_00: They hate people who modify vehicles.
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  SPEAKER_00: They hate especially rednecks who modify big trucks,
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  SPEAKER_00: who put different suspensions on trucks and make the engines high horsepower.
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  SPEAKER_00: And there's also people who complain about trucks being loud.
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  SPEAKER_00: Well,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: do you hate the loudness of the trucks or do you hate the drivers of the loud
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  SPEAKER_00: trucks and cars?
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  SPEAKER_00: It's interesting because I posted this video on threads arguing that there is a
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  SPEAKER_00: good reason to have a truck,
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  SPEAKER_00: and it got almost 200 comments and 2,000 views,
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  SPEAKER_00: and liberals were just flipping out,
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  SPEAKER_00: man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And it's really interesting how that sort of redneck Trump supporter who drives a big truck
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  SPEAKER_00: just sets liberals off in a way that is deeply pathological and it's because they
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  SPEAKER_00: associate that person with everything that they stand against because liberalism
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  SPEAKER_00: has told them that the redneck who drives a truck is everything you stand against
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  SPEAKER_00: which is just a stereotype rednecks are as diverse as any group of people
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  SPEAKER_00: politically um you know most rednecks don't even vote
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  SPEAKER_00: And as you can see, I have my Cornell West shirt on.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to vote for Cornell.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they despise them because of that association and also because it just seems beneath them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Now look,
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  SPEAKER_00: conservatives,
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  SPEAKER_00: they have their things about Priuses and Subarus and Teslas and all these vehicles
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  SPEAKER_00: that are associated with the elites.
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  SPEAKER_00: So all of these
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  SPEAKER_00: vehicles have a class dynamic and a class marker to them.
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  SPEAKER_00: And big trucks are coded redneck working, working class men.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because, and people don't really, they're not really against the trucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: They're really against the drivers of the trucks.
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  SPEAKER_00: And because those drivers stand for everything that they believe they stand against,
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  SPEAKER_00: which is Trump and conservatism is just,
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  SPEAKER_00: absurd type logic and everything has become so political in our country that nobody
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  SPEAKER_00: can even drive a working vehicle without it being politicized in a way that people
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  SPEAKER_00: will hate the drivers of the truck without even knowing who they are or meeting
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  SPEAKER_00: them or anything.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's just, I see a lifted Tundra and I hate that person because I associate them with a low class, uh,
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  SPEAKER_00: white, so-called white, a low-caste, so-called white man.
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  SPEAKER_00: And those are the people that you're supposed to be against if you're a liberal.
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  SPEAKER_00: It's a deep-seated classism that's twisted in with the identity of liberal elitist.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, you know, it's really interesting because, you know, what they said to me was that my truck was fine.
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  SPEAKER_00: but that other trucks were not.
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  SPEAKER_00: And they said that my truck was fine because I, uh, use it for hauling shit and I use it.
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  SPEAKER_00: I have my tools in it and stuff.
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  SPEAKER_00: And what they're really saying is that I'm good at being a man and they like men
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  SPEAKER_00: that are good at being men,
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  SPEAKER_00: but men that are not good at being men and that don't drive a useful truck,
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  SPEAKER_00: uh,
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  SPEAKER_00: Or are so-so at being men,
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  SPEAKER_00: but maybe want to express their male identity through their vehicle much the same
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  SPEAKER_00: way everybody else expresses their identity through their vehicle.
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  SPEAKER_00: They don't like them.
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  SPEAKER_00: Only a certain type of man passes the bar of approval of the liberal elitist.
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  SPEAKER_00: So,
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  SPEAKER_00: That's the pathology.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are good working class men who drive smaller trucks and use them to haul shit
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  SPEAKER_00: and are good at being men.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the people who maybe don't have that same type of skill set but still want to
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  SPEAKER_00: express their masculinity through their vehicle are not as good at being men.
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  SPEAKER_00: So, that's the liberal pathology, trucks, and men.
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  SPEAKER_00: And we'll see y'all next time.
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  SPEAKER_00: Peace, y'all.