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How The Left Became Violent · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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  Speaker 1: These people aren't like fascists.
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  Speaker 2: They are fascists.
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  Speaker 3: So at this point, I don't want to hear any
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  Speaker 3: talk from Republicans about, oh, no, guys, we just have
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  Speaker 3: simple disagreements. Republicans are ugly, they're immoral, and they're fascists.
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  Speaker 3: I don't want anything to do with them. That's the
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  Speaker 3: reality of what Republicans are today in America.
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  Speaker 4: Well, that escalated quickly. Is he going to say why
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  Speaker 4: Republicans are fascist?
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  Speaker 5: Nope.
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  Speaker 4: He's just going to allude to some vague media story
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  Speaker 4: that people can't recognize anymore because it was too long ago.
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  Speaker 4: So basically, this is just a one minute short of
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  Speaker 4: the Young Turks owner and horse enthusiast, Cenk Uygur, calling
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  Speaker 4: his political opponents evil with no explanation. Is it any
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  Speaker 4: wonder why the modern left is becoming more and more
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  Speaker 4: a synonym for the word violence, especially after watching every
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  Speaker 4: reasonable person flee that party or get ousted for not
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  Speaker 4: being far left enough? But the way we got here
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  Speaker 4: is not a mystery. In fact, I think a lot
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  Speaker 4: of the progression towards radicalism is quite intentional. Speaking of
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  Speaker 4: the Young Turks, allow me to introduce you to former
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  Speaker 4: employee Jimmy Dore, telling the Young Turks audience to assault cops.
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  Speaker 2: When you're around cops, right, you're like, oh, you want
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  Speaker 2: to be like.
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  Speaker 6: Compliant, right?
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  Speaker 7: But at the same time, if you don't know they're
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  Speaker 7: going to slam your head into a car or something,
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  Speaker 7: like you don't want to be so compliant.
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  Speaker 2: So when do I fight them?
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  Speaker 7: When do I give a little resistance?
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  Speaker 4: I've watched enough body cam footage to know that almost
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  Speaker 4: every time someone's having a bad experience with the police
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  Speaker 4: is because they were violently resisting arrest after breaking the law.
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  Speaker 4: So his advice to be extra confrontational towards the police
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  Speaker 4: instead of being assertive and polite is going to get
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  Speaker 4: people killed. Now, in this specific case that Jimmy was
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  Speaker 4: talking about, the officer was in the wrong and self-defense
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  Speaker 4: would have been justified. But the issue here is that
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  Speaker 4: he applies this advice generally to police encounters while suggesting
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  Speaker 4: with no evidence that the woman they're talking about in
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  Speaker 4: the last clip was assaulted by the officer because she
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  Speaker 4: was black.
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  Speaker 3: But what's wrong with this guy? Is it like a
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  Speaker 3: power thing?
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  Speaker 8: Is it roid rage?
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  Speaker 9: Is it something like weirdly sexual?
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  Speaker 7: I would guess the woman was not white, who he
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  Speaker 7: did this to.
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  Speaker 10: Oh.
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  Speaker 4: This was said in 2013, around the time that BLM started.
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  Speaker 4: Non-white means black, because those were the types of videos
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  Speaker 4: that were going viral during that period. So the suggestion
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  Speaker 4: is that the officer attacked a woman for being black,
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  Speaker 4: and he made this assertion with no evidence. She was white.
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  Speaker 4: And the problem is that when you make this kind
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  Speaker 4: of assertion on a topic that's already been heated since
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  Speaker 4: Rodney King in the 90s, followed by saying that you
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  Speaker 4: should be violent towards police officers, you're going to inspire
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  Speaker 4: certain people to take action. Which brings us to this guy,
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  Speaker 4: Gavin Long, who is a fan of the Young Turks
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  Speaker 4: and killed four police officers. Before the shooting, Gavin had
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  Speaker 4: uploaded reaction videos to content from the Young Turks, one
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  Speaker 4: of them being where Jimmy Dore said this in response
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  Speaker 4: to a police dispute that actually involved a black woman
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  Speaker 4: this time. who was being arrested.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what I would do in that situation.
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  Speaker 7: So if you go over and you confront the cops,
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  Speaker 7: which you would do in any other situation if they
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  Speaker 7: weren't cops.
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  Speaker 10: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: In any other situation, if there were two.
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  Speaker 7: Grown men pouncing on a woman who was pregnant and
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  Speaker 7: she's screaming and she's not a threat to anybody, you
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  Speaker 7: would go over there and you would start by punching
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  Speaker 7: those guys. That's how you would start.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, retard, in this hypothetical example where you're the hero,
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  Speaker 4: do you know any of the context before you start acting?
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  Speaker 4: Are you saying that people should beat up cops because
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  Speaker 4: they hear a woman shouting? What if she had a
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  Speaker 4: gun and was threatening people? What if she was screaming
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  Speaker 4: things that were untrue to garner sympathy from bystanders? Criminals
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  Speaker 4: do that all the time, so telling people to assault
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  Speaker 4: cops based on small amounts of information that they would
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  Speaker 4: realistically have in a situation like this is incredibly irresponsible.
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  Speaker 4: The full context is on screen for those who care,
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  Speaker 4: but basically a pregnant black woman was put face down
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  Speaker 4: on her stomach and put in handcuffs for failing to identify.
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  Speaker 4: The baby ended up being fine when she was born.
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  Speaker 4: But why was this woman put into that position? Well,
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  Speaker 4: it's because she was resisting arrest. Yes, the arrest was
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  Speaker 4: unlawful because in California, you don't have to identify in
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  Speaker 4: that specific context. However, instead of educating people on how
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  Speaker 4: stupid it is to resist arrest unless your life is
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  Speaker 4: in danger, even if that arrest is unlawful, Jimmy suggests
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  Speaker 4: that basically all cops are racist and you should be
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  Speaker 4: violently hostile towards them.
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  Speaker 2: She has no reason to arrest her.
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  Speaker 7: And she's not going anywhere.
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  Speaker 4: That's not true. If you watch the footage, you can
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  Speaker 4: see her walking away from the police.
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  Speaker 7: He already said there wasn't a crime that was committed,
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  Speaker 7: yet you are black and I'm a little pissed off
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  Speaker 7: that you're not doing exactly what I said.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm going to hurt you.
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  Speaker 11: I'm going to brutalize you right.
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  Speaker 7: Now in public in front of a school. I don't
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  Speaker 7: give a fuck because I'm a cop and that's why
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  Speaker 7: I became a cop because I'm not a big thinker
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  Speaker 7: and I like brutality.
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  Speaker 4: For one, Jimmy fails to mention that the white lady
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  Speaker 4: said someone else witnessed the black girl punching her car
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  Speaker 4: and violently screaming at her, so the black lady might
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  Speaker 4: have lucked out with an unlawful arrest for failure to identify.
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  Speaker 4: She could have very well been guilty, and that might
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  Speaker 4: be the actual reason for why she was resisting. More importantly,
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  Speaker 4: and I withheld this information from earlier for dramatic effect,
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  Speaker 4: but if you go frame by frame on the body
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  Speaker 4: cam footage, which the Young Turks should know to do,
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  Speaker 4: they're a news organization, but if you go frame by frame...
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  Speaker 4: you can see the pregnant black lady is actually put
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  Speaker 4: on her side, not her stomach. She's on her side
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  Speaker 4: the whole time. So while this arrest was technically unlawful,
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  Speaker 4: the cops, in fact, were not trying to beat her up.
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  Speaker 4: The way the Young Turks reported this story, followed by
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  Speaker 4: their conclusion about cops, is actually kind of evil.
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  Speaker 7: People who join the police like brutality.
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  Speaker 2: That's why they're cops.
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  Speaker 7: They dig this shit. Those cops are brutal maniacs.
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  Speaker 4: Whether she was guilty of a crime or not, if
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  Speaker 4: the cops are engaged in an unlawful arrest, do not
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  Speaker 4: resist unless your life is in danger. Assert your rights
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  Speaker 4: and then punish them in court, not on the street.
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  Speaker 4: Going back to Gavin Long, in response to these Jimmy
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  Speaker 4: Dore clips, you can see the Young Turks fan is
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  Speaker 4: repeating the same rhetoric that Jimmy said, while also saying
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  Speaker 4: that he will beat up cops as the Young Turks
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  Speaker 4: segment he is reacting to is being reflected on his glasses.
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  Speaker 7: By the way, there's nothing to de-escalate. Nothing's happened. They
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  Speaker 7: come in, they escalate.
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  Speaker 12: The cops came in. You're supposed to be the de-escalator.
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  Speaker 12: You came in and escalated the situation.
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  Speaker 7: What if they started punching her?
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  Speaker 4: They didn't punch her, though. Even though the arrest was unlawful,
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  Speaker 4: they used minimum force considering the circumstances.
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  Speaker 7: What if they started punching her?
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  Speaker 5: Right.
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  Speaker 3: So you just let it go?
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  Speaker 10: I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: What would you do?
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  Speaker 7: At what point do you step in?
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  Speaker 12: I'm not sitting and watching.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what I would do.
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  Speaker 12: I don't know what I would do.
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  Speaker 7: I will open my trunk and get a tire iron
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  Speaker 7: and then call my dad.
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  Speaker 12: He says he'll get the tire iron. I don't know
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  Speaker 12: what I'll do, but I'm not sitting and watching. I
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  Speaker 12: would have came through. I would have not complied. I
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  Speaker 12: would have died by then.
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  Speaker 4: Protect her from what? All they did was put her
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  Speaker 4: in handcuffs. She wasn't in any danger, despite the Young
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  Speaker 4: Turks deliberately trying to make their audience believe she was
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  Speaker 4: being beat up for being black. It's like he's being
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  Speaker 4: programmed and he'll act in whatever way they tell him. Also,
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  Speaker 4: if you watch actual Justice Warriors video on it, you
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  Speaker 4: can see him saying some schizo stuff about race. So
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  Speaker 4: the fact that the Young Turks are pointing out that
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  Speaker 4: she was black and then accusing the cops of being
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  Speaker 4: racist when there's no evidence of it, is important. Two
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  Speaker 4: cops not knowing the law about identification in California and
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  Speaker 4: arresting someone for it is not racism. It's them being idiots,
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  Speaker 4: and it's something they should be punished for, but the
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  Speaker 4: evidence that it was racially motivated is entirely speculation from
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  Speaker 4: the Young Turks. The only racism that came out of
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  Speaker 4: this situation was from the Black lady herself.
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  Speaker 11: She could call the police for whatever reason.
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  Speaker 13: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Well, you know, some people just feel like sometimes they're.
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  Speaker 14: You know, so.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, well, I'm just so glad about her because she's white.
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  Speaker 11: If she's white and she's making threats to me, I
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  Speaker 11: feel threatened by her.
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  Speaker 4: So the Young Turks saying that this was a racist
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  Speaker 4: attack and titling their video, She's Pregnant and Black, They're Cops,
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  Speaker 4: You Know How This Ends, followed by telling their audience
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  Speaker 4: to assault cops is problematic because everyone has people like
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  Speaker 4: Gavin Long in their audience, some more than others.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, I was also a Nation of Islam member.
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  Speaker 4: Some, actually a lot more than others, which is why
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  Speaker 4: you don't encourage violence when you speak publicly. Young Turks
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  Speaker 4: fan Gavin Long went on to ambush and shoot six
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  Speaker 4: police officers, killing four of them about two weeks after
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  Speaker 4: the death of Alton Sterling, who lived in the same community.
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  Speaker 4: Alton Sterling was yet another black man who would still
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  Speaker 4: be alive if he had followed police orders.
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  Speaker 15: If you want to make it out of a situation
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  Speaker 15: safely and alive, listen to the officer's commands.
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  Speaker 4: Contrary to what TYT's Jimmy Dore might say, a quick
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  Speaker 4: trip to the station is not worth your life.
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  Speaker 11: Gavin Long was directly inspired by the Young Turks. Gavin
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  Speaker 11: Long saw made reaction videos to Young Turks videos about
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  Speaker 11: the police. There were calls for violence in those Young
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  Speaker 11: Turks videos. He had a specific affinity for protecting black
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  Speaker 11: women in his mind. And one of those videos in
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  Speaker 11: particular was a video where the Young Turks baselessly speculated
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  Speaker 11: that a woman slammed by the police was in fact
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  Speaker 11: slammed because she was a black woman, even though in
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  Speaker 11: reality she was a white woman.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 10: I agree.
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  Speaker 4: I think the Young Turks misrepresenting multiple news stories in
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  Speaker 4: a racially charged manner, followed by telling viewers to violently
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  Speaker 4: escalate around police, directly inspired Gavin Long to do what
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  Speaker 4: he did. They were very clearly race-baiting and encouraging their
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  Speaker 4: audience members to be violent. But here's the best part.
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  Speaker 16: And now, you want to probably know what the Young
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  Speaker 16: Turks' response was to all of this. Well, first, they
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  Speaker 16: copyright struck all of the reaction videos so that you
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  Speaker 16: can't actually go to Gavin Long's YouTube channel and see
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  Speaker 16: the Young Turks plastered all over there. So they copyright
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  Speaker 16: struck all of those channels. And then, are you ready
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  Speaker 16: for the real, real psycho twist? They said that he
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  Speaker 16: was probably a right-winger. even though they knew that he
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  Speaker 16: was a super fan of their rhetoric.
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  Speaker 4: Two days after the shooting, the Young Turks memory-hulled the
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  Speaker 4: evidence that he was a fan and tried to blame
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  Speaker 4: Republicans by calling him a sovereign citizen or other titles
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  Speaker 4: that are associated with right-wing politics.
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  Speaker 3: He was part of the New Freedom Group, apparently, an
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  Speaker 3: anti-government group.
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  Speaker 11: This is a group that is afraid of government power.
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  Speaker 3: And is, yes, they're right-wing.
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  Speaker 4: Now, this happened a while back, so you would think
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  Speaker 4: that the young Turks would have learned their lesson and
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  Speaker 4: started to lower the temperature on the type of language
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  Speaker 4: that they use. But nope, a handful of years after
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  Speaker 4: this event, you can still find them promoting violence.
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  Speaker 6: I know we're not supposed to, you know, support violence,
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  Speaker 6: but hey, sometimes it's like punching a Nazi. You just
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  Speaker 6: got to get in there and, you know, make it happen.
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  Speaker 4: During this segment, she called the guy... a terrorist at
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  Speaker 4: one point and then a Nazi during that clip who
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  Speaker 4: you should violently assault because he broke an LGBT sign
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  Speaker 4: that was near a mannequin of a child inside of
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  Speaker 4: a Target store. Gee, wouldn't it be awkward if there
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  Speaker 4: were examples of trans people destroying signs? Though I'm glad
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  Speaker 4: to see that the Young Turks has learned to calm
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  Speaker 4: down their rhetoric considering, you know, One of their fans
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  Speaker 4: committed a mass shooting after he was on camera directly
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  Speaker 4: repeating their violent messaging. But as bad as all this
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  Speaker 4: stuff is, along with the constant violent rhetoric from leftist
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  Speaker 4: media corporations and politicians, I think it's still surface-level material
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  Speaker 4: because there's actually something far more nefarious going on here
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  Speaker 4: that is quite abstract but very effective at turning people
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  Speaker 4: into radicals. And to talk about that, let's go to
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  Speaker 4: a video made by a channel called The Second Story,
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  Speaker 4: where Hillary, the channel owner, talks about what I think
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  Speaker 4: is the deliberate dumbing down of American kids, through the
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  Speaker 4: education system.
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  Speaker 10: According to the PIAAC, over 25% of adults in America
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  Speaker 10: score at or below level one literacy. Go ahead and
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  Speaker 10: rewind that if you need to, but let me say
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  Speaker 10: that one more time. Over 25% of American adults cannot
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  Speaker 10: read above kindergarten literacy, and that number is growing.
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  Speaker 4: Now, let's just sort these stats out by race because
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  Speaker 4: I don't care if people say they're offended by reality.
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  Speaker 4: And look, I think we found an issue that no
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  Speaker 4: one is shocked by. It would be horrible if someone
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  Speaker 4: pointed out that 44% of Hispanics and 50% of black
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  Speaker 4: people cannot read above a kindergarten level, which is three
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  Speaker 4: times their white counterparts. If I were a black or
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  Speaker 4: Hispanic parent, I would be furious about this.
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  Speaker 10: Let's look at level two. This level is important to
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  Speaker 10: our discussion because based on my own assessment, most published
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  Speaker 10: authors today are probably at this level. I personally would
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  Speaker 10: call this third or fourth grade literacy. This group makes
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  Speaker 10: up about 29% of the population. Combined with Level 1,
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  Speaker 10: these two groups account for almost 60% of American adults.
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  Speaker 10: Over half of American adults cannot read above a basic
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  Speaker 10: 3rd or 4th grade level and can only analyze what
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  Speaker 10: they've read in a limited sense.
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  Speaker 4: Oh, this makes so much sense. So more than half
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  Speaker 4: of Americans are basically illiterate when it comes to handling
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  Speaker 4: text more difficult than Harry Potter, which means when it
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  Speaker 4: comes to complex issues like the economy or politics, they're
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  Speaker 4: too dumb to read about it. Oh wait, it says
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  Speaker 4: that Harry Potter is a 4th to 6th grade reading level.
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  Speaker 4: Harry Potter might even be too difficult.
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  Speaker 10: Closely related to this study is this article from The Atlantic.
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  Speaker 10: The author spoke to a number of university professors and
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  Speaker 10: several students and found that professors have had to adjust
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  Speaker 10: their expectations of their students. English lit majors can no
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  Speaker 10: longer be expected to read whole assigned books. but have
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  Speaker 10: to content themselves with assigned passages of books. Several of
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  Speaker 10: these college students, these young adults, have arrived on campus
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  Speaker 10: unaware that reading whole books would be required of them.
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  Speaker 10: Several told their teachers that they didn't know how to
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  Speaker 10: read a whole book.
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  Speaker 4: Let me repeat that. English literature professors at a number
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  Speaker 4: of good colleges can't assign books that they used to
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  Speaker 4: be able to assign, like Crime and Punishment, because students
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  Speaker 4: can't read a full book. Look, I'm not going to
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  Speaker 4: pretend that some of this isn't due to diversity quotas
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  Speaker 4: in the prior statistics that I showed, but I also
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  Speaker 4: think the reason that those stats exist is because of
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  Speaker 4: a change in how reading is taught that is designed
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  Speaker 4: to make you stupid and therefore easy to manipulate. To
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  Speaker 4: address this, Hilary spends a lot of her video talking
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  Speaker 4: about critical literacy education and about the differences between phonics
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  Speaker 4: and whole language learning, which are different methods of teaching
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  Speaker 4: kids how to read. To put it simply, Phonics is
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  Speaker 4: the correct way to teach people how to read, and
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  Speaker 4: whole language learning is retarded. When you're taught phonics, you
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  Speaker 4: break down words into their individual parts and use pattern
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  Speaker 4: recognition to figure out what words are being used in
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  Speaker 4: a text. So if I'm six years old, and I
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  Speaker 4: look at this word here, I'm going to use the
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  Speaker 4: pronunciation rules by saying, and say, oh, well that's how
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  Speaker 4: you spell cat. With whole language learning, you just kind
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  Speaker 4: of memorize each word individually based on how it looks.
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  Speaker 4: which is completely stupid, and I did not fail to
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  Speaker 4: see how this method is not only highly inefficient, but
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  Speaker 4: it also stifles critical thinking skills, as kids have to
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  Speaker 4: wait until they're told how words are pronounced, instead of
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  Speaker 4: being able to accurately predict how to say new words
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  Speaker 4: based on patterns that they've learned.
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  Speaker 9: I'm 27 years old, in a corporate job, and I
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  Speaker 9: do not know how to spell. Okay? Because I'm from
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  Speaker 9: the generation where I'm in fifth grade and I had
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  Speaker 9: a laptop with spellcheck on it. So now I'm 27
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  Speaker 9: years old, listening to podcasts on how to sound out
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  Speaker 9: words and how to spell. Because I don't know how.
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  Speaker 9: Mind you, I'm educated. I have a bachelor's and I
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  Speaker 9: cannot spell.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's almost like that was deliberate. It's not the computer,
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  Speaker 4: it's the teaching methods. I grew up on spellcheckers too
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  Speaker 4: and I can spell without them because I was taught
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  Speaker 4: phonics as a kid. Now, all of this might kind
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  Speaker 4: of seem abstract to some of you in the audience,
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  Speaker 4: but trust me, as sort of like a language enthusiast,
• 14:53
  Speaker 4: this shit infuriates me. By that, I mean that it's
• 14:56
  Speaker 4: basically child abuse to teach kids something as inefficient as
• 14:59
  Speaker 4: whole language, because it puts them way behind kids who
• 15:02
  Speaker 4: learn phonics, and it doesn't work when you get to
• 15:04
  Speaker 4: more complex words. For the sake of brevity, I will
• 15:08
  Speaker 4: say that it should be obvious to anybody who has
• 15:10
  Speaker 4: studied language or foreign languages that engaging in pattern recognition...
• 15:14
  Speaker 4: by memorizing a handful of simple rules, along with the exceptions,
• 15:18
  Speaker 4: is far more efficient than individually memorizing how to read
• 15:21
  Speaker 4: the 20 or so thousand words that the average adult knows.
• 15:24
  Speaker 6: Now cue this paper. What they did was they invented
• 15:27
  Speaker 6: a whole new language script. So a bunch of squiggles
• 15:30
  Speaker 6: and lines that, when stacked together, could form words. And
• 15:34
  Speaker 6: they had different groups of students learn how to read
• 15:36
  Speaker 6: this language. The only difference is, right at the beginning,
• 15:39
  Speaker 6: group one was told to focus their attention on the
• 15:41
  Speaker 6: word as a whole. Use the image as a whole
• 15:44
  Speaker 6: to try and make sense of it. Whereas group two
• 15:46
  Speaker 6: was told to focus on the individual units within each image.
• 15:50
  Speaker 6: And what happens? Well, after training, each group was tested
• 15:52
  Speaker 6: on what they learned during their training. And it turns
• 15:55
  Speaker 6: out that when they were quizzed on words that they
• 15:56
  Speaker 6: had seen during the training phase, the whole word reading
• 15:59
  Speaker 6: group performed a little bit better than the group focused
• 16:02
  Speaker 6: on the individual letters. But here's the fun bit. When
• 16:04
  Speaker 6: both groups were tested on new words, words they hadn't
• 16:08
  Speaker 6: seen during their training phase, it turned out the whole
• 16:10
  Speaker 6: word group suffered incredibly. In fact, they performed no better
• 16:15
  Speaker 6: than chance. They were just essentially guessing. Whereas the individual
• 16:18
  Speaker 6: unit group did significantly better. They were able to take
• 16:22
  Speaker 6: words they'd never seen before and read them just fine.
• 16:24
  Speaker 4: Kids who are not taught pronunciation rules through phonics basically
• 16:28
  Speaker 4: do not have the tools to figure out how to
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: say words they haven't already memorized, which can triple, quadruple,
• 16:34
  Speaker 4: or quintuple the time that it takes to read, so
• 16:36
  Speaker 4: it's no wonder young people these days feel unequipped to
• 16:39
  Speaker 4: read an entire book. And the reason I'm calling this
• 16:41
  Speaker 4: child abuse is because the ability to read quickly and
• 16:44
  Speaker 4: comprehend what you read is a fundamental part of skill building,
• 16:48
  Speaker 4: which means that whole language learning straight up cripples your
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: ability to build a skill valuable enough to get a
• 16:52
  Speaker 4: good job. Do you know what kinds of people do
• 16:55
  Speaker 4: violent and radical shit? People who don't have good jobs.
• 16:59
  Speaker 4: But if you aren't already mad, here's where it starts
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: to get worse.
• 17:02
  Speaker 10: I want to first talk about this study from just
• 17:04
  Speaker 10: last year, 2024. This highly talked about study wasn't just
• 17:09
  Speaker 10: assessing the literacy of the average American, but of the
• 17:12
  Speaker 10: average English literature major at two widely respected state universities.
• 17:17
  Speaker 10: The study participants were instructed to read the first seven
• 17:20
  Speaker 10: paragraphs of Bleak House by Charles Dickens and then translate
• 17:23
  Speaker 10: what they read into modern language, thereby demonstrating their understanding
• 17:27
  Speaker 10: of the text. What they found was that 58% of
• 17:31
  Speaker 10: the study's participants were at about level one literacy or
• 17:35
  Speaker 10: slightly higher, which the study categorizes as problematic.
• 17:39
  Speaker 4: Let me repeat that. She's saying that more than half
• 17:42
  Speaker 4: of the university students who are English majors from that
• 17:44
  Speaker 4: study are reading at a kindergarten-slash-first grade level. Now, I'm
• 17:48
  Speaker 4: not going to lie, the first seven paragraphs of Bleak
• 17:51
  Speaker 4: House by Charles Dickens is quite a difficult read, but
• 17:54
  Speaker 4: the point was not for the study participants to be
• 17:56
  Speaker 4: able to flawlessly know every word written in the text.
• 17:58
  Speaker 4: The point was to assess critical thinking skills, knowledge of
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: the structure of language, and most importantly, their ability and
• 18:05
  Speaker 4: willingness to look up words or references they didn't understand.
• 18:07
  Speaker 4: 58% of the college English majors did that on the
• 18:12
  Speaker 4: level of like a first grader. Welcome to modern education.
• 18:15
  Speaker 4: The results were depressing, as almost nobody in the study
• 18:18
  Speaker 4: could accurately describe what was going on in the first
• 18:20
  Speaker 4: few paragraphs. Nor did they have the willingness to look
• 18:23
  Speaker 4: things up they didn't know.
• 18:25
  Speaker 10: They understood so little of the introduction to Bleak House
• 18:27
  Speaker 10: that they would not be able to read the novel
• 18:29
  Speaker 10: on their own. However, these same subjects also believed they
• 18:32
  Speaker 10: would have no problem reading the rest of the 900-page novel.
• 18:36
  Speaker 10: I want to make one thing very clear here. No
• 18:38
  Speaker 10: one is mocking these students' lack of vocabulary knowledge. I
• 18:42
  Speaker 10: have to look up words I don't know all the
• 18:44
  Speaker 10: time when I'm reading. The biggest and most significant factor here,
• 18:48
  Speaker 10: at least to me, is that these college undergrads didn't
• 18:51
  Speaker 10: even bother doing that. They had permission to look up
• 18:55
  Speaker 10: anything they didn't know, and they just didn't bother. They
• 18:59
  Speaker 10: felt they knew the meaning, assumed they were right, and
• 19:02
  Speaker 10: moved on. English majors at a major university.
• 19:06
  Speaker 4: They took society's best. English majors in college from respected universities,
• 19:11
  Speaker 4: and they still couldn't read an author who used to
• 19:12
  Speaker 4: be mandatory for high schoolers. This study took place in 2015,
• 19:16
  Speaker 4: conveniently during the time that everything started going woke, and
• 19:19
  Speaker 4: this was around two or three decades after the whole
• 19:21
  Speaker 4: language learning model got implemented, so this would be the
• 19:24
  Speaker 4: first generation going to college under that system. Not to
• 19:27
  Speaker 4: say that everyone got whole language education. I was taught
• 19:30
  Speaker 4: phonics despite being a kid during the first generation of
• 19:33
  Speaker 4: the whole language model, But for the ones who are
• 19:35
  Speaker 4: unfortunate enough to be taught in this way, we know
• 19:37
  Speaker 4: this stuff is ridiculous and ineffective, just like common core math. Well,
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: maybe it's incorrect for me to say that. Maybe the
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: whole language model actually is very effective at its intended purpose.
• 19:47
  Speaker 4: Let's get to the part about critical literacy.
• 19:49
  Speaker 6: Critical literacy.
• 19:50
  Speaker 10: Is the new literacy. Critical literacy aims to teach not literacy,
• 19:54
  Speaker 10: but rather a kind of social awareness which was using
• 19:57
  Speaker 10: teaching reading as a delivery method of sorts, as if
• 20:00
  Speaker 10: reading was just the syringe and this right kind of
• 20:03
  Speaker 10: social awareness was the real thing they wanted the child
• 20:06
  Speaker 10: to receive. One of the beginning strategies for teaching literacy
• 20:09
  Speaker 10: with whole language, according to this manual, is the use
• 20:12
  Speaker 10: of generative themes. You remember that one?
• 20:15
  Speaker 4: She's saying remember that because earlier in the video, she
• 20:18
  Speaker 4: talks about generative words, which are described as keywords in
• 20:21
  Speaker 4: a text like rice or slum or wealth, used to
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: suggest social themes around which consciousness can be raised. These
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: words are used to evoke an emotional response in the reader.
• 20:31
  Speaker 4: The core tenet of critical literacy is to engage with
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: how certain generative words make you feel as opposed to
• 20:36
  Speaker 4: what those words actually mean. Anyway, pay close attention, because
• 20:40
  Speaker 4: here's the evil that this whole thing has been leading
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: up to.
• 20:43
  Speaker 10: Which all boils down to the most important thing about
• 20:46
  Speaker 10: reading is learning the correct way to interpret a text, which,
• 20:50
  Speaker 10: by the way, has nothing to do with the author's
• 20:53
  Speaker 10: intent and is heavily, heavily reliant on your feelings. I mean,
• 20:57
  Speaker 10: think about how so many people these days latch onto
• 21:00
  Speaker 10: specific words and then spin out because those words trigger
• 21:03
  Speaker 10: them in some way. That's because those words are generative words,
• 21:07
  Speaker 10: which fit into generative themes, which are taught to them
• 21:10
  Speaker 10: in a way specifically intended to trigger their emotional analysis.
• 21:15
  Speaker 10: These people can't listen to reason at that point. They
• 21:19
  Speaker 10: see the word, and the programmed reaction is triggered, and
• 21:23
  Speaker 10: that's it. That's what critical literacy produces, specifically and intentionally.
• 21:29
  Speaker 4: She's saying that students are being trained to notice certain
• 21:31
  Speaker 4: trigger words that should elicit an emotional analysis or emotional
• 21:34
  Speaker 4: reaction to how that word makes you feel, outside of
• 21:37
  Speaker 4: its intended meaning or dictionary definition. And Hilary gives some
• 21:41
  Speaker 4: familiar examples of generative words that you might hear on
• 21:44
  Speaker 4: a regular basis later in the video. So it's all
• 21:47
  Speaker 4: being said here is that they purposefully teach you an
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: inefficient reading technique that makes it take like five times
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: longer to read a book than someone who has taught phonics,
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: which basically makes those kids not want to read or
• 21:56
  Speaker 4: educate themselves when they get older. In fact, it locks
• 21:59
  Speaker 4: them out of a lot of skill development. That same
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: whole language reading technique also makes it incredibly difficult to
• 22:05
  Speaker 4: figure out words that you don't know, so it limits
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: your vocabulary and ability to accurately communicate. And then they
• 22:11
  Speaker 4: teach you a bunch of Russian sleeper agent trigger words
• 22:13
  Speaker 4: that will cause you to go into a frenzy anytime
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: they're said. Is this why so many idiots are running
• 22:18
  Speaker 4: around calling everyone they don't like a fascist without actually
• 22:21
  Speaker 4: knowing what that word means? Is this why a section
• 22:23
  Speaker 4: of the population flips out anytime the word Trump is said?
• 22:26
  Speaker 4: Is it because they were taught critical literacy for 12
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: years and then they were given the trigger words in college?
• 22:31
  Speaker 15: I actually find it hysterical how a lot of Republicans
• 22:34
  Speaker 15: and Trump supporters like to say that colleges and universities
• 22:38
  Speaker 15: brainwash their students to be liberal when it's like, have
• 22:41
  Speaker 15: they ever just stopped to think that maybe that people
• 22:45
  Speaker 15: that graduate college and are educated with a degree are
• 22:48
  Speaker 15: more likely to lean liberal because they're smarter?
• 22:53
  Speaker 9: Right.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: But I mean, this method is so effective at creating
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: brain-rotted idiots that Portland, Oregon, one of the wokest cities
• 22:59
  Speaker 4: in America, just acquitted a black man with priors of
• 23:02
  Speaker 4: stabbing a white man because the white man called him
• 23:05
  Speaker 4: the N-word after he was stabbed. Unbelievable. This is a
• 23:08
  Speaker 4: real article, not The Onion. They said it was self-defense
• 23:11
  Speaker 4: because the white man was racist, but if you read
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: the details, it was obviously not self-defense. Outside of that,
• 23:17
  Speaker 4: this video from the second story on critical literacy education
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: is diabolical, and it's probably one of the best videos
• 23:22
  Speaker 4: that I've watched this year. I would very much recommend
• 23:25
  Speaker 4: watching the whole thing. But now we can understand how
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: people like, say, Hasan Piker come into prominence. Actually, let's
• 23:31
  Speaker 4: talk about that, because the next key component of radicalizing
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: a population is to install degenerate role models into media
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: for the population to emulate, because commenters will largely follow
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: what popular people do. That's why things like celebrity endorsements work.
• 23:44
  Speaker 4: So if all the popular people are good, then you'll
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: get more good people. But if all the popular people
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: are degenerates, then you're going to get a lot more degenerates.
• 23:52
  Speaker 4: The Boondocks was famous for criticizing them for doing this
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: to the black community and very literally painted the BET
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: network as a television channel designed to destroy blacks.
• 24:01
  Speaker 10: And there's plenty of science out there to support the
• 24:03
  Speaker 10: idea that human beings form a lot of their moral
• 24:06
  Speaker 10: opinions by ingesting fiction, especially at younger ages.
• 24:09
  Speaker 7: Right.
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: A lot of people love refusing to admit this, but
• 24:11
  Speaker 4: you do become the media that you consume and you
• 24:13
  Speaker 4: do become the average of the people that you associate with.
• 24:16
  Speaker 4: So choose carefully because you will do this whether you
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: are consciously aware of it or not. With that said,
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: Hasan Piker is basically the leader of the modern left
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: when it comes to the online space. And by that,
• 24:26
  Speaker 4: I mean the part of the left that is increasingly
• 24:28
  Speaker 4: pushing out reasonable people and becoming more radical. So there
• 24:32
  Speaker 4: are tons of people who are modeling Hasan's behavior. And
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: what kind of behavior is that?
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: Well, my understanding is that the property owners who have
• 24:39
  Speaker 3: properties there choose just not to rent it at all.
• 24:41
  Speaker 12: Yeah, kill them.
• 24:42
  Speaker 6: Kill those motherfuckers and murder those motherfuckers in the street.
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: Let the streets.
• 24:46
  Speaker 16: Let the streets soak in their fucking red capitalist bloods, dude.
• 24:50
  Speaker 4: Wow, that sounds a lot like the rhetoric that we
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: heard from the Young Turks. After seeing this, would anyone
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: be shocked if I told them that Hassan had a multi-millionaire,
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: horse-enthusiast uncle who owns the Young Turks, gave him a
• 25:01
  Speaker 4: job right out of college, and mentored him? The apple
• 25:04
  Speaker 4: doesn't fall far from the tree. And what kind of
• 25:06
  Speaker 4: person would think it's morally okay to openly encourage murder
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: to a large audience? Well, maybe it's a person who
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: abuses his pets by making them sit in the corner
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: for four hours straight like a stage prop. and then
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: shocking her with maximum voltage if she tries to move.
• 25:19
  Speaker 17: Oh, come on, Kaya. I didn't even shock you that hard.
• 25:22
  Speaker 12: You're such a.
• 25:27
  Speaker 10: Baby.
• 25:27
  Speaker 17: This is what every abuser says after they hit someone.
• 25:31
  Speaker 4: Come on, I didn't even hit you that hard. There
• 25:40
  Speaker 4: are tons of examples out there where Hasan is abusing animals.
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: You can find numerous clips of it on Twitter. And
• 25:46
  Speaker 4: I do find the amount of creators who ran cover
• 25:48
  Speaker 4: for him doing this to be quite disgusting.
• 25:50
  Speaker 18: Kaya is the most loved and spoiled and the most
• 25:55
  Speaker 18: well-trained and best little.
• 25:57
  Speaker 9: Baby or big baby that I have ever been around.
• 26:00
  Speaker 18: You would think that this kind of outrage, we would
• 26:03
  Speaker 18: have seen it towards like the genocide and.
• 26:05
  Speaker 12: Stuff, but.
• 26:06
  Speaker 4: How can you care about a dog when a genocide
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: is going on? Don't you know there's a genocide? Ignore
• 26:10
  Speaker 4: all the bad stuff I'm doing because of Palestine. I
• 26:13
  Speaker 4: think she underestimates how much Americans like dogs. Hassan is
• 26:16
  Speaker 4: never going to live this one down. It's so popular
• 26:18
  Speaker 4: that even the vice president brought it up.
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: He has this command place, which is basically if I
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: snap my finger and point, he will run to that
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: place and lay down.
• 26:26
  Speaker 8: You don't have to zap him.
• 26:27
  Speaker 2: No, no, no.
• 26:28
  Speaker 10: Hassan.
• 26:29
  Speaker 2: Not like Hassan's biker, no. If you mistreat dogs, that's
• 26:32
  Speaker 2: almost 100% sign that you're going to be a really
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: terrible person.
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: And last, for the purposes of this video and showing
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: the kind of role model he is, Hasan loves taking
• 26:41
  Speaker 4: credit for moral behavior that he didn't actually participate in.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: For those of you who aren't aware, YouTuber Ethan Klein
• 26:47
  Speaker 4: got tired of being harassed by Hasan and his fanbase
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: because they were, like, making false reports to the CPS,
• 26:52
  Speaker 4: trying to get his kids taken away, and Twitch and
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: other social media platforms have done nothing to mitigate this,
• 26:57
  Speaker 4: despite it being against the rules, so when three Hasan
• 27:00
  Speaker 4: Piker orbiters who were harassing Ethan stole his content, Ethan
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: filed a lawsuit. Because these three people were broke and
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: he is rich, Hasan made it seem like he was
• 27:08
  Speaker 4: going to financially help these three girls who have supported
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: him behind the scenes. Well, he didn't.
• 27:13
  Speaker 17: Oh, socialist, why won't he give these guys money? Trust me,
• 27:18
  Speaker 17: if I offer support, you won't know about it, okay?
• 27:22
  Speaker 5: I also want to make clear that I did not
• 27:24
  Speaker 5: receive any support, financial or otherwise, from Hasan Piker. Hasan
• 27:29
  Speaker 5: never even reached out to me privately to offer words
• 27:32
  Speaker 5: of support. Speaking honestly, I found his indifference to my
• 27:35
  Speaker 5: suffering hurtful, especially after he hinted he might help me
• 27:39
  Speaker 5: behind the scenes. It felt like he wanted to receive
• 27:42
  Speaker 5: credit from the public for him helping me without providing any.
• 27:46
  Speaker 4: He pretends to help them as he throws them in
• 27:47
  Speaker 4: the trash and spends all his money on gambling. Though,
• 27:51
  Speaker 4: as it is sort of the theme of this video,
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: I don't think there's anything grassroots about Hasan's success at all.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Hasan was basically installed into his position, yet he wants
• 27:59
  Speaker 4: people to think that he was some go-getter kid who
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: grew up in the school of hard knocks. instead of
• 28:03
  Speaker 4: the reality, which is that he grew up extremely rich
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: and was handed everything.
• 28:07
  Speaker 17: You guys probably know this, but if you don't, my
• 28:10
  Speaker 17: uncle has a YouTube channel called The Young Turks. It
• 28:14
  Speaker 17: was like a 26-person shop. It was like a tiny operation,
• 28:19
  Speaker 17: not that big, not that media behemoth or anything. So
• 28:25
  Speaker 17: I was like, yeah, I'll just go work with him,
• 28:27
  Speaker 17: do an internship with him, and I'll live in.
• 28:29
  Speaker 4: L.A., 26 employees? What kind of YouTube channel has that
• 28:33
  Speaker 4: much staff? I mean, I'm at a million subs and
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: I still do everything by myself. Not to mention that
• 28:38
  Speaker 4: the Young Turks started off with millions of dollars of
• 28:40
  Speaker 4: venture capitalist money. They're about as grassroots as the Daily Wire. So,
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: Hasan was handed a $ 60, 000 a year job right out
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: of college in like 2013. A lot of his fans
• 28:49
  Speaker 4: were like five at the time, so I don't think
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: they know how huge the Young Turks used to be
• 28:53
  Speaker 4: back in the early 2010s. He's trying to minimize their influence,
• 28:56
  Speaker 4: but make no mistake, this was a huge opportunity.
• 28:59
  Speaker 17: I was dead broke and was critiquing capitalism, and then
• 29:03
  Speaker 17: people would be like, yeah, because you're a fucking loser.
• 29:06
  Speaker 17: And now that I have money and I still do it,
• 29:09
  Speaker 17: people are like, well, hypocrite much?
• 29:12
  Speaker 4: Most of us YouTubers have to learn this stuff on
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: our own, as opposed to being mentored by a multi-millionaire
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: former legacy media pundit with a huge media corporation by
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: comparison to what other creators have. Then there was the
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: move to Twitch where he not only gained a lot
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: of his popularity by outright pirating Gordon Ramsay shows, but
• 29:28
  Speaker 4: Hasan pretty regularly violates their community guidelines and has committed
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: far more serious violations than a number of people who
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: I know who have been permanently banned off that platform.
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: Yet he doesn't get in trouble. Not only is Hasan...
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: given protection that other creators don't get, but the CEO
• 29:43
  Speaker 4: of Twitch constantly glazes him, even after Hasan continuously tries
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: to push for people in his audience to kill his
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: political opponents. The most recent example is this moment here.
• 29:52
  Speaker 14: And Destiny and Asmongold and Dan Saltman... whose addresses are
• 29:58
  Speaker 14: all readily available in the same exact websites and platforms
• 30:01
  Speaker 14: that they rely on, that their fanbases go to, to
• 30:04
  Speaker 14: find my address.
• 30:06
  Speaker 17: To harass me.
• 30:08
  Speaker 4: This is like the fourth time that Hasan has doxxed
• 30:10
  Speaker 4: people on his stream, yet there's no ban for it.
• 30:13
  Speaker 4: Like I said, he was installed into power. They don't
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: ban him for a reason. Oh, but technically he didn't
• 30:18
  Speaker 4: say the addresses. Yeah, all he did was say all
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: of his enemies' addresses are public, and not that hard
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: to find, in front of an audience that is very
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: politically radical. I mean, we watched one of these types
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: kill Charlie Kirk, followed by tons of them saying, why
• 30:31
  Speaker 4: not more? Hassan's audience is so radical that he couldn't
• 30:34
  Speaker 4: even denounce a political assassination. Hassan knows the types of
• 30:38
  Speaker 4: people he's saying this to, and he's helping his audience
• 30:40
  Speaker 4: figure out where his opponents live so they can go
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: hurt them. Because Asmongold is a fascist Nazi, right? As
• 30:46
  Speaker 4: you guys say, it's not wrong to punch Nazis. Seriously,
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: I don't know how it's legal for one of the
• 30:51
  Speaker 4: biggest streamers to openly encourage his audience to assault people.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: The laws have to change. This has to stop. But
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: Twitch allows this stuff because, like I said, Hasan's career
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: is astroturfed. He was installed into power. He didn't earn
• 31:04
  Speaker 4: it on his own, and he doesn't have to play
• 31:06
  Speaker 4: by the same rules as everyone else, especially considering that
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: Twitch banned a ton of his competition from the platform.
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: But why is Twitch doing this, you ask? Well, it's
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: because it's run by people who hate America, And Hassan
• 31:17
  Speaker 4: is a major proponent of preaching anti-American values as he
• 31:20
  Speaker 4: regularly promotes and advocates for America's political enemies.
• 31:23
  Speaker 7: Is there a country that's done socialism the way that
• 31:26
  Speaker 7: you like?
• 31:27
  Speaker 17: If ultimately the point of government is to improve the
• 31:30
  Speaker 17: material conditions of all people, I would say China is
• 31:33
  Speaker 17: probably the closest. And there are still plenty of failures
• 31:36
  Speaker 17: within China. the Chinese system as well. Plenty of issues
• 31:39
  Speaker 17: within the Chinese system as well. But that's probably the
• 31:42
  Speaker 17: closest I would say to an example that we should
• 31:46
  Speaker 17: follow and lessons that we should learn from.
• 31:49
  Speaker 9: China?
• 31:50
  Speaker 4: You mean the country that had communist values that were
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: so great that they used them to kill tens of
• 31:54
  Speaker 4: millions of their own people? That's what we should follow?
• 31:57
  Speaker 4: I'm not sure if this interview was recorded before or
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: after Hassan spent like a week or two glazing the
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: hell out of China and soy facing over a copy
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: of Mao's Little Red Book.
• 32:06
  Speaker 12: Oh, no way!
• 32:08
  Speaker 8: It's a small one.
• 32:10
  Speaker 9: It's the first version.
• 32:12
  Speaker 11: It's the first, wait.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Really?
• 32:14
  Speaker 10: Is that a Bible?
• 32:15
  Speaker 11: No, that's the Little Red Book.
• 32:16
  Speaker 12: It is basically.
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: The Little Red Book?
• 32:18
  Speaker 14: The Little Red Book.
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: It's the Red Bible is what it is.
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: Okay.
• 32:22
  Speaker 6: Some may say more important than the Bible.
• 32:24
  Speaker 2: That's crazy.
• 32:26
  Speaker 4: This is like soy facing over a first edition copy
• 32:29
  Speaker 4: of Mein Kampf.
• 32:30
  Speaker 17: You have met me at a very Chinese time in
• 32:31
  Speaker 17: my live chat. In my conscience, I have already become Chinese.
• 32:36
  Speaker 12: Okay?
• 32:38
  Speaker 17: We were already white Chinese in this chat. I've already
• 32:41
  Speaker 17: become full Chinese.
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: Okay, so Hassan is white now. And China is so
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: great that he almost got arrested for a meme on
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: his phone. But at this point, I've watched enough of
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: his content to know that he is basically a foreign
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: agent whose sole purpose is to destroy American values. I mean,
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: he lies constantly. You don't even have to understand politics
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: to see that. Just watch the dog shocking saga. He
• 33:02
  Speaker 4: got caught doing that shit red-handed with undeniable evidence Yet
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: he has still taken no accountability, he continues to gaslight
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: his audience, and now he pretends to play it off
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: as a joke. By the way, if you're in his audience,
• 33:14
  Speaker 4: he is incessantly lying to you because he thinks you're stupid,
• 33:17
  Speaker 4: and he hates you.
• 33:18
  Speaker 17: Your understanding of white supremacy is so juvenile, it's infuriating.
• 33:23
  Speaker 17: It's because I am a white supremacist. I'm moving to
• 33:26
  Speaker 17: the white supremacist.
• 33:27
  Speaker 14: Town, okay?
• 33:28
  Speaker 16: That's why I'm a white supremacist. I'm white.
• 33:31
  Speaker 11: Shut the fuck up.
• 33:32
  Speaker 17: You're so fucking stupid.
• 33:34
  Speaker 1: I hate all of you.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: I hate the woke.
• 33:37
  Speaker 3: I hate woke.
• 33:38
  Speaker 17: I hate the left.
• 33:39
  Speaker 5: I hate the woke.
• 33:40
  Speaker 17: I'm crashing out because I can't fucking stand.
• 33:43
  Speaker 11: Losers like you.
• 33:44
  Speaker 4: What are you talking about, man? This is your average viewer.
• 33:47
  Speaker 4: This is the type of guy that you are encouraging
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: to show up at Asmongold's house. Outside of this, what
• 33:51
  Speaker 4: do I mean by foreign agent? Well, Hasan is not American.
• 33:54
  Speaker 17: I don't have any sort of patriotism in my heart.
• 33:57
  Speaker 10: For America.
• 33:59
  Speaker 17: Yeah, for America, but just in general. I am not
• 34:02
  Speaker 17: even remotely nationalistic by any measure. I don't care about
• 34:06
  Speaker 17: those sorts of things.
• 34:07
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no shit. So Hasan is not American. He's from Turkey.
• 34:11
  Speaker 4: He grew up there and was raised as a Muslim.
• 34:13
  Speaker 17: I'm Turkish. I grew up in Turkey. My whole family
• 34:16
  Speaker 17: lives in Turkey still, with some exceptions.
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: But then you might ask, how is he legally in America?
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: He's from Turkey, but he's been living here for like
• 34:24
  Speaker 4: 15 years. Well, here's how he did that.
• 34:26
  Speaker 17: I was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and my
• 34:31
  Speaker 17: parents wanted to do that so that I would have
• 34:33
  Speaker 17: an American citizenship, so that one day I could be
• 34:36
  Speaker 17: the president. That second part's not true. But I then
• 34:40
  Speaker 17: immediately was shipped back off to Turkey.
• 34:44
  Speaker 4: I don't see how this doesn't count as immigration fraud.
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: They dipped his toes into the waters of America so
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: he could have citizenship, and immediately shipped him back to
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: Turkey so he would grow up Turkish. Then, when he
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: became an adult, they shipped him off to a rich college,
• 34:56
  Speaker 4: he gets trained in media through nepotism, and then he
• 34:59
  Speaker 4: continuously promotes anti-American values and domestic terrorism when he goes
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: off on his own.
• 35:04
  Speaker 17: How is this legal?
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: It's time to change the 14th Amendment because it's out
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: of date, and it was ratified in the 1800s before
• 35:10
  Speaker 4: mass transit existed. it's time to bring it up to
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: modern standards. It's time to copy places like Japan that
• 35:15
  Speaker 4: say that you can't become a citizen by birth unless
• 35:18
  Speaker 4: one of your parents is a citizen. That's how it
• 35:20
  Speaker 4: should be everywhere. Anchor babies like Hassan, who has encouraged
• 35:23
  Speaker 4: his audience numerous times to murder Americans, should not be
• 35:26
  Speaker 4: allowed to live here. There's a reason why people who
• 35:29
  Speaker 4: weren't born in America can't become president, and there's a
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: reason why when you get naturalized as a US citizen,
• 35:34
  Speaker 4: You have to swear allegiance to the country. It's so
• 35:37
  Speaker 4: we don't give voting power to foreign agent stochastic terrorists
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: like Hassan.
• 35:40
  Speaker 17: I mean, I get called a terrorist every day.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Well, you are a terrorist, so that would be an
• 35:44
  Speaker 4: accurate accusation. Stochastic terrorist sounds like a big word, but
• 35:47
  Speaker 4: basically it just means that you're a media figure who
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: purposefully riles up your audience into violent ideology, followed by
• 35:54
  Speaker 4: saying things like, hey, maybe someone should go assault some
• 35:56
  Speaker 4: police officers or some ICE agents. This describes a shocking
• 35:59
  Speaker 4: number of leftist pundits, such as Hassan or members of
• 36:02
  Speaker 4: the Young Turks. Again, the fact that there are no
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: legal punishments for this is insane.
• 36:07
  Speaker 16: That's the strategy every single time. It's misrepresent, slander, and
• 36:11
  Speaker 16: then hopefully someone in your audience goes to kill him.
• 36:14
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: Just like Uncle Chank, you call your political opponents Nazi fascists,
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: you have your news organization say it's okay to assault
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: them over and over again, and then you just hope
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: the rest works itself out over time. Now, what's also
• 36:25
  Speaker 4: insane is the last part that's making people violent. which
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: is that more and more, Americans and people in other
• 36:30
  Speaker 4: Western countries are being forced to share space with some
• 36:33
  Speaker 4: of the most violent and abusive people, and nothing is
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: being done to stop them. One of the most recent
• 36:38
  Speaker 4: examples of this happened at TwitchCon, where a streamer, Emiru,
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: was doing a meet-and-greet and was sexually assaulted.
• 36:44
  Speaker 13: I see out of the corner of my eye, there's
• 36:47
  Speaker 13: a guy walking around the side of the meet-and-greet, and
• 36:50
  Speaker 13: then he walks up to me, he grabs my face,
• 36:55
  Speaker 13: and he leans in, And Lipspuckered tries to kiss me,
• 37:00
  Speaker 13: and I start screaming. Twitch's security is, like, nowhere.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: Near me, nor be found.
• 37:04
  Speaker 13: I can see them, but they don't do anything. My
• 37:07
  Speaker 13: security jumps up and shoves the guy away from me
• 37:10
  Speaker 13: and is like, get the fuck out of here. And
• 37:13
  Speaker 13: he's allowed to walk away and leave. No one in
• 37:17
  Speaker 13: Twitch staff came up to me to, like, see what
• 37:18
  Speaker 13: was going on.
• 37:19
  Speaker 4: This whole story is a huge rabbit hole with failures
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: on Twitch's part that were so horrendous that any rational
• 37:24
  Speaker 4: person would assume they were trying to encourage this behavior.
• 37:27
  Speaker 4: Not only did Twitch provide almost no security, not only
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: did they let the guy who assaulted EmiRu get away,
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: but they did everything they could to try to cover
• 37:35
  Speaker 4: this up after it happened. By the way, this was
• 37:37
  Speaker 4: three hours into the convention. It was right at the start.
• 37:40
  Speaker 4: And thanks to Twitter being the least censored platform on
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: social media, someone uploaded evidence of this event, and it
• 37:45
  Speaker 4: went viral.
• 37:46
  Speaker 16: I'll start this.
• 37:46
  Speaker 13: By saying, shout out to the guy who filmed it
• 37:48
  Speaker 13: and put it on Twitter. Thank God someone was filming,
• 37:51
  Speaker 13: because otherwise, I.
• 37:52
  Speaker 6: Don't think Twitch would have said anything.
• 37:53
  Speaker 4: Another Twitter success story, but get this. Twitch didn't just
• 37:57
  Speaker 4: fail to apprehend the guy. Apparently he was a streamer,
• 37:59
  Speaker 4: and their initial response before they were called out was
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: to slap him on the wrist with a 30-day ban.
• 38:05
  Speaker 4: Also this.
• 38:05
  Speaker 10: You want to know the worst part?
• 38:08
  Speaker 8: Emeril had a security guard two years ago that attended TwitchCon,
• 38:16
  Speaker 8: where another fan was attempting to sexually assault her, and
• 38:20
  Speaker 8: the security guard stopped him But because Twitch staff, Twitch
• 38:27
  Speaker 8: official head staff, didn't agree with the way that he
• 38:32
  Speaker 8: stopped him, which, by the way, was just him putting
• 38:35
  Speaker 8: his hands on him and making it to where he
• 38:38
  Speaker 8: couldn't leave when the police arrived, they permanently banned him
• 38:44
  Speaker 8: from ever being a part of TwitchCon again. So the
• 38:48
  Speaker 8: security guard that did their job to make sure that
• 38:54
  Speaker 8: Emmy was safe was banned.
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: God forbid you do your job as a bodyguard, you'll
• 39:00
  Speaker 4: get banned from TwitchCon. God forbid you say that men
• 39:03
  Speaker 4: shouldn't be in women's sports, Twitch will ban you for
• 39:05
  Speaker 4: life for that, but if you sexually assault someone on camera,
• 39:08
  Speaker 4: you get a slap on the wrist one month ban.
• 39:10
  Speaker 13: I asked them, you know, like.
• 39:12
  Speaker 8: What are they going to do about this?
• 39:13
  Speaker 13: And you know what they said initially?
• 39:15
  Speaker 5: They said, oh, well.
• 39:17
  Speaker 13: He's banned from the platform for 30 days.
• 39:20
  Speaker 18: What?
• 39:21
  Speaker 13: No one gives a fuck if he's banned on Twitch
• 39:22
  Speaker 13: or not.
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: And this isn't the only time that Twitch has essentially
• 39:25
  Speaker 4: levied no punishment for this kind of behavior. Twitch regularly
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: ignores criminal or dangerous activity on its platform. The safety
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: and security of all those attending TwitchCon is our highest priority. No,
• 39:36
  Speaker 4: it's not. That's a straight-up lie. In fact, they were
• 39:39
  Speaker 4: so negligent that I think it's no longer safe for
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: any creator to attend TwitchCon in the future.
• 39:43
  Speaker 13: Some people at Twitch and Amazon watching right now, please, like,
• 39:47
  Speaker 13: please just listen. Like, people aren't saying this for no reason. Like,
• 39:50
  Speaker 13: I feel like you guys don't get it or something. Like,
• 39:54
  Speaker 13: I could have literally been stabbed yesterday.
• 39:57
  Speaker 1: Literally, like.
• 39:59
  Speaker 4: Right, she could have been stabbed. Sexual assault is bad,
• 40:02
  Speaker 4: but the real danger is that someone could have easily
• 40:04
  Speaker 4: ended her life that day. So it makes me a
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: little uncomfortable seeing this happen at a Twitch event, especially
• 40:09
  Speaker 4: when Twitch, as a platform that's owned by Amazon, is
• 40:12
  Speaker 4: at the forefront of radicalizing people into this type of behavior.
• 40:15
  Speaker 8: Twitch, you're fucking with the wrong people. and you're promoting
• 40:19
  Speaker 8: the wrong people.
• 40:22
  Speaker 10: Genuinely.
• 40:24
  Speaker 8: And it's at this level that I have to assume
• 40:27
  Speaker 8: that what you're doing is intentional.
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: I've said this a ton of times in my recent content,
• 40:31
  Speaker 4: and I'm going to keep saying it because it's important.
• 40:33
  Speaker 4: We need to make sure that criminals go to jail
• 40:35
  Speaker 4: for committing crimes, and this kind of rhetoric has to stop.
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: The way that prisons are set up in our society,
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: I would argue that they do not work. They do
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: not make us safer. The instinct is to just Take
• 40:46
  Speaker 1: that person, the source of that harm, the source of
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: that issue, and then just throw them away. Put them
• 40:51
  Speaker 1: in a cage and throw away the key. That doesn't
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: address the reason why that harm was created in the
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: first place. A lot of times people who create trauma
• 40:59
  Speaker 1: for others are those who themselves went through trauma earlier
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: in their own lives. And I bring all of this
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: up to say that, again, like when we talk about policing,
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: I don't think the system actually makes us safe. I
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: think what it does is it just removes problems out
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: of view.
• 41:14
  Speaker 5: Right.
• 41:15
  Speaker 4: And it turns out when you quarantine violent people away
• 41:17
  Speaker 4: from polite society, they can't commit crimes. Sure, they might
• 41:20
  Speaker 4: go right back to committing crimes the second they get out,
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: but at least you get like a two to five
• 41:24
  Speaker 4: year cool down period where they can't victimize anyone. And
• 41:27
  Speaker 4: that in itself lowers crime rates. It also reduces the
• 41:30
  Speaker 4: number of future criminals because as he said, hurt people
• 41:33
  Speaker 4: hurt people. And the less people you let them victimize,
• 41:36
  Speaker 4: the fewer future criminals there will be. At the very least,
• 41:39
  Speaker 4: keeping them out of jail doesn't work either.
• 41:41
  Speaker 6: And this is exactly what happens when you don't lock
• 41:44
  Speaker 6: up criminals, when you don't punish people who deserve to
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: be punished. They get more and more bold and more
• 41:49
  Speaker 6: people suffer.
• 41:50
  Speaker 4: I don't really have any sympathy for people who repeatedly
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: choose to commit heinous crimes. Sure, I think it would
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: be great to improve mental health services and try to
• 41:57
  Speaker 4: give some of these people a second chance. But personally,
• 42:00
  Speaker 4: I think a lot of these people can't be rehabilitated
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: because they don't feel like what they're doing is wrong.
• 42:04
  Speaker 4: And it's not fair to force polite society to deal
• 42:06
  Speaker 4: with them because you have empathy for the local homeless
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: guy who likes to randomly punch women. I think people
• 42:12
  Speaker 4: like Mamdani and these judges who keep letting career criminals
• 42:14
  Speaker 4: back on the streets are liars and the actual reason
• 42:17
  Speaker 4: that they're letting criminals go is to make society more violent.
• 42:20
  Speaker 4: Not enforcing the law is a radicalization technique because it
• 42:23
  Speaker 4: traumatizes more people who will then grow up to be
• 42:26
  Speaker 4: criminals and it forces polite people to live in a
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: PVP zone where they now have to be violent just
• 42:31
  Speaker 4: to survive. Outside of that, let's go back to the
• 42:34
  Speaker 4: phonics talk. The worst part of the study about the
• 42:36
  Speaker 4: Charles Dickens book was not that they couldn't understand the text.
• 42:39
  Speaker 4: The worst part is that they thought they could understand it,
• 42:42
  Speaker 4: and because of that, they put no effort into fact-checking
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: to make sure they were correct. I cannot understate how
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: much this kind of hubris ruins people's lives. Moreover, I'm
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: really disturbed by government standards that think it's more important
• 42:53
  Speaker 4: to teach you how to calculate the hypotenuse of a
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: triangle than to teach you how compound interest works so
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: that you don't become a debt slave. And what ends
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: up happening is that you know a lot of stuff
• 43:03
  Speaker 4: which makes you feel smart, but none of that stuff
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: that you know is actually useful. So intellectually, you're no
• 43:08
  Speaker 4: better than the average burger flipper despite doing all this
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: work to finish high school or college. Worse, you have
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: no idea how to tier information based on how useful
• 43:16
  Speaker 4: it is, so even if you do self-study, you'll just
• 43:19
  Speaker 4: start wasting time on crap that does not matter. I
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: think the funniest example that I've seen personally is people
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: who try to learn Japanese only from anime. They'll spend
• 43:27
  Speaker 4: countless hours memorizing words like demon lord or quirkless instead
• 43:31
  Speaker 4: of words they will actually use like bathroom or train.
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: If you want to know how people can learn multiple
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: languages when you can't even learn one, it's because the
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: people who know a lot of languages know how to
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: prioritize high-value words and grammar, and they know all the
• 43:44
  Speaker 4: most efficient learning techniques. Public school is not really good
• 43:47
  Speaker 4: at teaching that, and the downside is that if you
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: don't know how to prioritize the higher-value information, And if
• 43:52
  Speaker 4: you don't know how to learn efficiently, you will be
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: locked out of the higher levels of skill development, which
• 43:56
  Speaker 4: looks a lot like getting paid less in the job
• 43:58
  Speaker 4: market when you become an adult. It's not your fault
• 44:00
  Speaker 4: that you were taught this way, but it is your
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: responsibility to fix it. And if you do fix it,
• 44:05
  Speaker 4: you'll find yourself doing a lot of stuff that you
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: never thought you could do. Anyway, thanks for watching, subscribe
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• 44:11
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