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The Consequences of Woke Parenting · THINK BEFORE YOU SLEEP

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Speaker 1: My name is Asa.
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Speaker 2: I am six years old and I do drag. Asa
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Speaker 2: is a baby drag queen.
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Speaker 3: He started doing this four, five, now six years old.
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Speaker 4: He is by far the youngest performer we've seen.
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Speaker 2: There's even adult performers that sometimes we can outperform.
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Speaker 4: I wouldn't be surprised if this is the next RuPaul.
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Speaker 5: Did anyone think to ask if this was age appropriate? Anyone?
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Speaker 5: Are we just letting kids do whatever they want with
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Speaker 5: no parenting at all? Or are these kids actually being
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Speaker 5: used as a means to an end to fulfill some
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Speaker 5: kind of weird fantasy of the adults around them? But
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Speaker 5: maybe there's something I'm not seeing. What do you think
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Speaker 5: the biggest misconception of Asa and what he's doing is?
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Speaker 4: I think there's a few.
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Speaker 2: People who don't like what we believe can sometimes be violent.
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Speaker 5: I love the way that Vice edited this. The interviewer asks...
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Speaker 5: What do you think the biggest misconception is? Followed by, well,
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Speaker 5: there's a few misconceptions. People don't like us. Good job, Vice.
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Speaker 5: Excellent way to start the video with a non-answer. Eventually,
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Speaker 5: they do answer the question over 10 minutes later at
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Speaker 5: the end of the documentary, after their critics have already
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Speaker 5: been demonized as unreasonable. They say, a misconception is that
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Speaker 5: our son is being forced to do this. While that
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Speaker 5: does sound like a reasonable argument because maybe some people
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Speaker 5: are saying that force is a factor, In reality, this
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Speaker 5: is actually a strawman argument because force is not the
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Speaker 5: main concern from critics. The main concern is that kids
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Speaker 5: are being manipulated into willingly doing inappropriate stuff like this
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Speaker 5: by adults who are creepy. With that said, this interview
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Speaker 5: is from a Vice series called Child's Play. It features
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Speaker 5: Aaron and Jen and their six-year-old son Asa, who does drag.
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Speaker 5: While Vice appears to portray this family favorably by labeling
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Speaker 5: all critics as hate mobs without showing their arguments, this
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Speaker 5: whole situation begs the question of why? I have no
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Speaker 5: problem with people identifying with or being a part of
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Speaker 5: the LGBT community, but if you want to do things
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Speaker 5: like drag dancing on stage, why can't you just wait
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Speaker 5: till you're older? What's so urgent? Why do kids have
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Speaker 5: to be exposed to and participate in drag? More importantly,
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Speaker 5: how does a six-year-old even know what this stuff is?
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Speaker 2: One of Asa's favorite pastimes since he was a toddler
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Speaker 2: was dancing.
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Speaker 3: He would watch a lot of Kidz Bop videos, and
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Speaker 3: then we noticed that he's trying to do the dances
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Speaker 3: that they're doing in the music videos.
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Speaker 5: I was fully unaware that Kidz Bop was still a thing.
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Speaker 5: I thought that brand died in the 2000s. Despite that,
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Speaker 5: what you'll see happen throughout this video is that Jen
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Speaker 5: and Aaron are very dishonest in the way they portray
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Speaker 5: what they're doing. Clearly they are used to pushback and
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Speaker 5: have scripted responses to common objections that people have to
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Speaker 5: their behavior. So they start the conversation by saying, This
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Speaker 5: isn't anything strange. He was just dancing along to Kidz
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Speaker 5: Bop videos. What's wrong with dancing? Now that his behavior
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Speaker 5: has been portrayed as innocent because obviously there isn't anything
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Speaker 5: inherently wrong with most forms of stage dancing like tap, ballet,
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Speaker 5: or break dancing, but there's a difference between stuff like
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Speaker 5: that and stuff that is not child-friendly like pole dancing
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Speaker 5: or twerking. That being said, how do we go from
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Speaker 5: kids bop to drag?
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Speaker 2: I would say the real conversation about drag started the
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Speaker 2: first time that he went to Pride with us.
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Speaker 3: The first time that we took any of our kids
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Speaker 3: to Pride, Asa was four. We thought it would be
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Speaker 3: a good way to bring our kids in and let
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Speaker 3: them see the diversity of the world around us. The
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Speaker 3: music came on for the main stage. Asa was like,
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Speaker 3: what's that music? I want to know and grabbed me
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Speaker 3: by the hand and there was a drag performance going on.
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Speaker 3: He's just sat there kind of watching in awe and
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Speaker 3: he turned to me and said, could I do that?
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Speaker 5: You took your six-year-old son to a pride parade at
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Speaker 5: four years old? Why the hell would you take a
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Speaker 5: young child to pride? Pride parades are about celebrating sexuality,
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Speaker 5: and a four-year-old does not need to be learning about
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Speaker 5: sexuality or diversity in a place where people are displaying kinks.
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Speaker 5: In fact, a four-year-old should know nothing about sex. Contrary
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Speaker 5: to what a lot of people still seem to believe,
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Speaker 5: kids are not tiny adults. You can't expose them to
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Speaker 5: certain information until they get older because that information is
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Speaker 5: traumatizing to them, and they'll develop pathological behaviors in adulthood
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Speaker 5: like addiction if they're exposed to certain stuff too early.
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Speaker 5: Stop exposing kids to the adult world. It's not good
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Speaker 5: for them. I mean, I can't even show a lot
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Speaker 5: of the stuff that commonly goes on at pride parades
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Speaker 5: on YouTube without getting penalized, so I can't imagine why
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Speaker 5: it's legal to publicly display things like sexual kinks out
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Speaker 5: on the street where everyone can see it. I mean,
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Speaker 5: these are some very irresponsible parents.
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Speaker 3: I was still kind of new to the concept of
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Speaker 3: the LGBTQ community.
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Speaker 4: I'd never really been exposed to it, never been around it.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I don't believe that at all. There's no way
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Speaker 5: this guy is straight. Even the people in the comments agree.
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Speaker 5: But you're a terrible liar, Aaron, and even if you
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Speaker 5: are being honest, it's still irresponsible to take your kids
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Speaker 5: to Pride. It would be like, gee, I've never been
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Speaker 5: to a nightclub before, but I thought I would take
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Speaker 5: my kids there so they could experience diversity in people's
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Speaker 5: behaviors and learn about intoxication. This whole feigning ignorance thing
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Speaker 5: they're doing is ridiculous.
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Speaker 3: I'm all about our family being allies, but it never
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Speaker 3: occurred to me that we'd be a part of that
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Speaker 3: community at this point in our lives.
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Speaker 5: It never occurred to you? He literally brought a four-year-old
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Speaker 5: impressionable child to the event. The only reason he knows
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Speaker 5: about this stuff is because you were very forward about
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Speaker 5: exposing your kids to diversity. And when the four-year-old kid said,
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Speaker 5: can I try drag dancing? Instead of saying, no, that's
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Speaker 5: for adults, you asked him if he wanted a dress.
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Speaker 2: Following that, for the next year, Asa was just obsessed
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Speaker 2: with drag dancing. And so the conversations led to would
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Speaker 2: Asa ever want to wear a dress?
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Speaker 5: Did Asa say he wanted a dress or did you
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Speaker 5: ask him if he wanted a dress? Because if you
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Speaker 5: asked him if he wanted a dress, that's you leading
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Speaker 5: him into the behavior and not a natural proclivity because
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Speaker 5: he likes kids bop dances. Also, were you continuously exposing
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Speaker 5: him to RuPaul? Are you allowing him to view content
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Speaker 5: on TV that's not age appropriate? Or was he asking
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Speaker 5: to watch drag shows so much that you just couldn't
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Speaker 5: possibly bear it? because it seems a lot more likely
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Speaker 5: to me that he was led into this stuff in
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Speaker 5: the disguise of exposing him to diversity instead of naturally
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Speaker 5: desiring it. Their whole game plan is to make it
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Speaker 5: look like they are good and supportive parents by saying, well,
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Speaker 5: we're just doing what he wants, when in reality, they're
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Speaker 5: actively pushing their kid towards drag, or at the very least,
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Speaker 5: they're ignoring the fact that kids want to do things
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Speaker 5: that are bad for them all the time, And it's
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Speaker 5: a parent's job to say no.
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Speaker 2: And the answer to that request should be no. You're
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Speaker 2: a child, and this is not appropriate for a child.
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Speaker 2: Stop publicly posting pictures of your kids online. That's how
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Speaker 2: creeps get access to them.
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Speaker 5: I mean, this is so bad. Some parents thought it
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Speaker 5: was a good idea to film their five-year-old daughter doing
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Speaker 5: a squat from the back and put it on Instagram.
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Speaker 5: I don't think YouTube will let me get away with
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Speaker 5: showing the comments, but needless to say, there were a
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Speaker 5: lot of people in the comment section that should be
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Speaker 5: in jail. If you post your kid dancing in drag,
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Speaker 5: you're going to attract this kind of audience as well.
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Speaker 5: But as I said, though they won't admit to it,
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Speaker 5: it's clear that Aaron and Jen are pushing their son
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Speaker 5: Asa into drag by rewarding it with praise and attention.
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Speaker 2: It was a year after their first performance. I took
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Speaker 2: him to go perform. It was an amazing performance.
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Speaker 5: Wow, that crowd cheered very loudly after he removed his cape. Interesting.
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Speaker 5: What do you call it when a person is praised
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Speaker 5: for removing clothing while dancing and then receives money for
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Speaker 5: their performance from the audience? Nobody sees a problem with this?
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Speaker 5: After seeing that Asa wanted to upload a drag video
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Speaker 5: to Facebook for likes and then seeing the massive amount
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Speaker 5: of attention that he gets from crowds, Nobody is concerned
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Speaker 5: that he is merely engaging in this because of how
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Speaker 5: much praise he's receiving. The amount of gaslighting here is
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Speaker 5: just ridiculous.
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Speaker 2: If he was a girl doing these exact same things,
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Speaker 2: no one would be saying anything.
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Speaker 5: Are you kidding? It absolutely would not be fine. In fact,
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Speaker 5: leftists have rightfully been screaming about child beauty pageants for years.
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Speaker 5: where similar behavior occurs with little girls. I mean, this
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Speaker 5: actually is.
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Speaker 6: A perfect representation of the whole, like, we must protect
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Speaker 6: our children fucking move, you know what I mean? This
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Speaker 6: wave of right-wing content creators that are, like, gross, creepy
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Speaker 6: perverts who fucking defend child beauty pageants, who defend fucking
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Speaker 6: child brides, for example, say insanely sus shit, like, oh,
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Speaker 6: the most fertile a woman is is when she's 16
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Speaker 6: years old, like, Those fucking freakazoids are also the same freakazoids.
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Speaker 5: Who are like, oh yeah, we gotta protect our children
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Speaker 5: from trans people existing. Though I don't like the whataboutism
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Speaker 5: from Wokies trying to use child beauty pageants as a
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Speaker 5: way to own conservatives on child drag shows, when the
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Speaker 5: reality is that both of these things should be illegal.
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Speaker 5: They are both bad for children. So anyway, let's get
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Speaker 5: to the part where the parents wave their kid around
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Speaker 5: to achieve their political goals. A part of this Vice
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Speaker 5: piece talks about a bill in Nebraska that would ban
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Speaker 5: minors from being present at drag shows and Aaron and
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Speaker 5: the family go to protest that bill.
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Speaker 3: On that day, it was just going to be the
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Speaker 3: two of us speaking. He did want to come, and
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Speaker 3: he did want to wear his fancy new dress that
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Speaker 3: he had just gotten.
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Speaker 5: Your son wanted to go to the meeting? Yeah, right.
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Speaker 5: I can just imagine him saying, You know what, Dad?
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Speaker 5: I would love to sit through a four-hour council meeting.
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Speaker 5: Forget how inappropriate it is to use your child to
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Speaker 5: push your politics, because there is no way a six-year-old
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Speaker 5: is volunteering to go to a government meeting.
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Speaker 3: Jen got her turn to speak. I got my turn
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Speaker 3: to speak. Asa turned to me and whispered in my ear,
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Speaker 3: can I sit in the chair and speak too? And
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Speaker 3: I said, yes, you can. And he said, yeah, I
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Speaker 3: do want to speak, but can you sit next to me?
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Speaker 3: And I said, that's not a problem. I'm sure they
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Speaker 3: will allow that.
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Speaker 4: I knew that I had to give him some questions.
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Speaker 5: I knew he wouldn't produce a testimony good enough to
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Speaker 5: impress people, so I had to prompt him with questions
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Speaker 5: to make him sound better. Is it really Asa speaking,
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Speaker 5: or is it just you trying to get a child
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Speaker 5: to say what you want him to say? I'll note
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Speaker 5: that Asa didn't speak until 3 into the meeting, and
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Speaker 5: he was prompted by his dad the entire time he spoke. Also,
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Speaker 5: I don't know if this is how the parents framed
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Speaker 5: it or it's how Vice edited the video, but from
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Speaker 5: their statements and from what was shown, you would conclude
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Speaker 5: that mom spoke, then dad spoke, then Asa asked to
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Speaker 5: speak because he was inspired by his parents. What actually
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Speaker 5: happened is that Asa spoke first, then his mom right after,
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Speaker 5: and then his dad like 30 minutes later. This framing
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Speaker 5: from the documentary suggests that they were kind of trying
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Speaker 5: to make a spectacle of Asa's speech, and Vice tried
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Speaker 5: to hide that by making people think his parents spoke
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Speaker 5: before he did. They're taking advantage of people's ignorance here.
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Speaker 5: As for the actual meeting, I did happen to sit
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Speaker 5: through the whole thing, and while there were many people
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Speaker 5: who opposed the anti-drag bill who said completely ridiculous crap,
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Speaker 5: The most reasonable concern was that the bill was just
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Speaker 5: too broadly worded and could make any instance of performance
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Speaker 5: in front of minors with clothing that does not represent
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Speaker 5: your biological sex as illegal, like, say, a school play
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Speaker 5: where a girl dresses as Peter Pan. I did read
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Speaker 5: the bill, and I do agree that it's too vague
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Speaker 5: and should be reworded to go after what is actually
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Speaker 5: the problem, which are the very many cases of sexualized
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Speaker 5: performances that have been filmed occurring in front of children.
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Speaker 5: I have serious doubts that parents like Aaron and Jen
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Speaker 5: don't know about these performances, considering that they cited libs
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Speaker 5: of TikTok during the Vice documentary, and libs of TikTok
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Speaker 5: has shown a lot of evidence of inappropriate drag happening
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Speaker 5: in front of kids.
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Speaker 2: There is indecent drag, but it doesn't happen in front
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Speaker 2: of children.
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Speaker 3: It's not like, surprise, there's kids in the front row now.
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Speaker 5: I actually watched a lot of the opposers of the
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Speaker 5: bill deny these performances existing, even though they are on
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Speaker 5: camera and well-known. There's nothing inherently sexual about drag.
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Speaker 1: There's nothing sexual about it. Sometimes we push the limits,
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Speaker 1: but those are not shows where minors are present.
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Speaker 4: Children are generally not present at drag shows.
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Speaker 1: Hosted in bars. There's nothing inherently sexual about dress. There's
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Speaker 1: nothing inherently sexual about clothes.
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Speaker 5: I really don't see why we can't all agree that
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Speaker 5: performances like these are wrong, no matter what ideological team
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Speaker 5: you're on. Now that the nuance of this has been explained,
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Speaker 5: I still find it appalling that Asa's parents had him
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Speaker 5: testify at this hearing. Personally, I would take any testimony
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Speaker 5: from a child with a grain of salt because we
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Speaker 5: don't know what's going on in the home that led
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Speaker 5: to this behavior. Even victims of extreme abuse such as
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Speaker 5: this one from the We're All Insane podcast will avidly
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Speaker 5: defend their abusers while they're being abused and even promote
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Speaker 5: their abusers' ideology only to realize how awful the situation
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Speaker 5: was years later. I'm not saying this is happening to Asa,
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Speaker 5: but it is very easy to coach, manipulate, or coerce
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Speaker 5: a kid into saying what you want them to say,
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Speaker 5: and that's why children should not be involved in politics,
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Speaker 5: especially young children like a six-year-old. And certainly, these parents
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Speaker 5: have no problem with lying or distorting the truth multiple
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Speaker 5: times during the documentary, like this moment here.
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Speaker 3: I knew that I had to give him some questions.
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Speaker 3: He said, how does drag make you feel? He went
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Speaker 3: to that mic and he said, does it make you
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Speaker 3: feel good? When he said powerful to me, that was like...
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Speaker 3: The weight of that word just hit me so hard
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Speaker 3: because I still wasn't sure where I was at with
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Speaker 3: performing drag at that point.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, that's actually a lie. You knew exactly where you
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Speaker 5: were with Asa performing drag because you pretty insistently claimed
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Speaker 5: that you would make sure that Asa does drag whether
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Speaker 5: this bill passes or not. If this bill were.
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Speaker 3: To pass, we will not stop allowing him to dance
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Speaker 3: in a dress in our home.
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Speaker 1: He has.
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Speaker 4: performed already in other states. He will continue to perform
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Speaker 4: in other states.
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Speaker 3: He will continue to perform in Lincoln and Omaha as
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Speaker 3: long as he is allowed to legally.
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Speaker 4: We want him to be the most affirmed child that
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Speaker 4: he can be.
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Speaker 5: Someone might point out that he spoke after Asa, and
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Speaker 5: those words could have been inspired by what Asa said.
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Speaker 5: To that, I'll say, remember that they or Vice tried
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Speaker 5: to hide the fact that Asa spoke first. Second, you
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Speaker 5: can see he's reading off a printed out script. Actually,
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Speaker 5: both him and his wife read off a script, So
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Speaker 5: he already planned to say that stuff. Here's them distorting
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Speaker 5: the truth again.
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Speaker 2: It really is no different than anything that happens at
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Speaker 2: a dance recital.
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Speaker 5: Yes, because at a dance recital, kids commonly have dollar
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Speaker 5: bills given to them by the audience. Personally, I can
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Speaker 5: think of only one other place where that kind of
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Speaker 5: activity occurs. And if you think that's the only time
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Speaker 5: this kid has been given money for drag, you'd be wrong.
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Speaker 5: Here's another example. There's one here too. And here's one more.
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Speaker 5: Being that money is involved, how do we know that
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Speaker 5: this kid isn't being heavily driven to do these performances
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Speaker 5: because he's getting a bonus in his allowance? Even so,
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Speaker 5: we all know it's being mimicked here, and what part
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Speaker 5: of this is child-friendly?
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Speaker 4: We get told a.
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Speaker 2: Lot from performers and people in the community that people
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Speaker 2: do kind of see Lulu as hope of what's to
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Speaker 2: come for the future in the community.
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Speaker 5: Well, considering the material, the people who have that take
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Speaker 5: probably need to spend some time behind bars. But it's
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Speaker 5: not like this is all a new thing. Boundaries around
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Speaker 5: children have been pretty poorly protected throughout the ages. You
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Speaker 5: think stuff like creeps at Nickelodeon using LGBT as a
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Speaker 5: disguise to expose children to inappropriate stuff is new? No,
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Speaker 5: these companies have been doing that stuff for years. Have
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Speaker 5: you ever investigated why the logo for Nickelodeon used to
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Speaker 5: be a foot, or why there were a number of
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Speaker 5: gags on kids' shows that involved kids playing with their feet? Well,
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Speaker 5: one of the higher-ups at that company, Dan Schneider, had
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Speaker 5: a foot fetish, so if you didn't already know that,
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Speaker 5: you're welcome for ruining your childhood. Speaking of iCarly, this
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Speaker 5: actor in this kissing scene is 23, while Miranda Cosgrove
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Speaker 5: is 16. How about Zoey 101? Here Victoria Justice is 14,
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Speaker 5: and the actor she's doing the kissing scene with is
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Speaker 5: either 20 or 21, depending on when they filmed the episode,
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Speaker 5: because the episode was filmed around his birthday. Who in
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Speaker 5: the hell thought this was appropriate? And remember, they shoot
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Speaker 5: these scenes a ton of times with a crew of
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Speaker 5: adults watching and giving direction. This whole thing begs the
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Speaker 5: question of, If there are thousands of people trying out
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Speaker 5: for these roles, then what's the issue with just finding
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Speaker 5: actors who are the same or close in age? Or
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Speaker 5: just don't do the scenes at all? It's no wonder
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Speaker 5: people like Hannah Pearl Davis have these weird boundaries when
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Speaker 5: it comes to minors. The sad thing is that though
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Speaker 5: this stuff you see involving kids on lives of TikTok
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Speaker 5: is bad, personally, it's not even the thing I'm most
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Speaker 5: concerned about when it comes to protecting children. I think
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Speaker 5: a big part of the reason that so many people
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Speaker 5: can roll their eyes at this stuff, ignore it, or
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Speaker 5: outright support it, is because the next thing they're thinking is, well,
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Speaker 5: look at what kids have access to on their computer
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Speaker 5: and their phones. This was a comment that was said
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Speaker 5: quite a lot during the recent Twitch event where they
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Speaker 5: allowed artistic nudity, which basically turned it into a camgirl
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Speaker 5: site within a few hours, and a place where people
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Speaker 5: were drawing full-on pornography and titling their videos as if
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Speaker 5: they were on the internet's favorite adult hub website. Let's
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Speaker 5: keep in mind that Twitch is a website where they
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Speaker 5: play games like Fortnite, Among Us, or Fall Guys, which
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Speaker 5: are all games that young children play. Considering that the
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Speaker 5: Just Chatting section is the most popular category, those kids
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Speaker 5: are just one accidental click away from being exposed to
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Speaker 5: adult content without even having to click on a box
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Speaker 5: that says, Are you 18? During the time period when
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Speaker 5: artistic nudity was allowed, there was inappropriate content uncensored right
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Speaker 5: in the thumbnails. These are viewable without clicking any form
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Speaker 5: of age verification or consent, and you don't even have
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Speaker 5: to be logged in. By the way, these inappropriate thumbnails
17:19
Speaker 5: can still currently be found on Twitch in the Just
17:21
Speaker 5: Chatting section, as well as the art section, which still
17:24
Speaker 5: has a lot of people drawing lewd content. Basically, there
17:27
Speaker 5: are always multiple creators drawing hentai in the art section
17:30
Speaker 5: of a website that children use, and those artists aren't
17:33
Speaker 5: always drawing characters that are adults. But it's okay, because
17:37
Speaker 5: most of the time, the girls technically have clothes on.
17:40
Speaker 5: Not that it even matters, because you can simply just
17:43
Speaker 5: click yes to the RU18 question and proceed to view
17:46
Speaker 5: the content. You don't even have to log in. Yes,
17:49
Speaker 5: I'm aware that you're supposed to be 13 to be
17:51
Speaker 5: on Twitch, But considering that they don't require you to
17:53
Speaker 5: sign in for even the most restricted parts of the website,
17:56
Speaker 5: you know that plenty of kids that are far younger
17:58
Speaker 5: than that are on Twitch because children's games are being streamed.
18:01
Speaker 5: The fact that no one went to prison for artistic
18:03
Speaker 5: nudity on Twitch just baffles me because if that was
18:06
Speaker 5: done in a public square, you would have been locked
18:08
Speaker 5: up and put on a registry for a number of years.
18:11
Speaker 5: Yet if it happens on the internet, it's totally fine.
18:13
Speaker 5: And people say, what about the parents? It's the parents'
18:16
Speaker 5: responsibility to keep their kids away from this stuff. And
18:19
Speaker 5: to that I say, it's so easy to access adult
18:21
Speaker 5: content on every avenue, even with parental controls, that I
18:25
Speaker 5: honestly don't think it's possible for even the most vigilant
18:27
Speaker 5: parents to keep their kids from being exposed to it.
18:30
Speaker 5: Unless you, like, isolate your kids from the rest of society.
18:33
Speaker 1: Personally, I was exposed to adult content when I was
18:37
Speaker 1: 8 years old at a friend's house. Um... And it's
18:42
Speaker 1: something my parents would have never been okay with. I
18:44
Speaker 1: did not have a smartphone. They did everything they could
18:49
Speaker 1: to protect me from that sort of thing.
18:51
Speaker 5: To put this in terms of a metaphor, access to
18:53
Speaker 5: internet pornography is like this. Imagine if you put like
18:56
Speaker 5: a lemonade stand next to a middle school that was
18:58
Speaker 5: full of free unlimited beer. No one is at the
19:01
Speaker 5: stand to check your age. You can get the free
19:03
Speaker 5: beer at any time of the day, be it 12 p.m.
19:05
Speaker 5: or four in the morning. And the only thing you
19:07
Speaker 5: have to do to take the beer is is check
19:09
Speaker 5: a box on a clipboard that says yes when it
19:11
Speaker 5: asks you if you're 21, and sometimes you don't even
19:14
Speaker 5: have to do that. If this was the case with beer,
19:17
Speaker 5: don't you think a lot of kids, if not pretty
19:19
Speaker 5: much every kid, would have access to alcohol far before
19:22
Speaker 5: the age of consent? And that's not even a fully
19:24
Speaker 5: accurate metaphor because adult content is much easier to access
19:27
Speaker 5: than that. That being said, it's no wonder that porn
19:30
Speaker 5: addiction is such a common subject of discussion these days.
19:33
Speaker 5: Which brings us to this video here by Gerbert Johnson.
19:36
Speaker 5: I'm not super familiar with this channel, but I believe
19:39
Speaker 5: he is a nofap slash blackpill YouTuber. Don't quote me
19:42
Speaker 5: on that, though. We actually aren't going to watch the video.
19:45
Speaker 5: We're just here for the comments. Looking through these, it's
19:47
Speaker 5: shocking how many people were exposed to adult masturbation. at
19:50
Speaker 5: 10 or younger. Actually, I believe it was every comment
19:54
Speaker 5: I read where they gave an age. This one says,
20:09
Speaker 5: Even as a woman, I struggle with this. I still
20:11
Speaker 5: remember the first video that I watched at around 7
20:14
Speaker 5: or 8 years old. There were actually a shocking number
20:17
Speaker 5: of women in this comment section. I expected it to
20:19
Speaker 5: be mostly men. But contrary to the popular counter-argument of,
20:23
Speaker 5: you have no idea what 13-year-olds have access to on
20:25
Speaker 5: the internet these days, it's actually not 13-year-olds. It's 7, 8, 9,
20:30
Speaker 5: and 10-year-olds getting access to this material, and none of
20:32
Speaker 5: the mainstream companies are doing anything to stop it. You
20:35
Speaker 5: have Pornhub here that didn't even age-verify their actresses until
20:38
Speaker 5: like 3 years ago, after massive pushback, and had to
20:41
Speaker 5: remove 80% of their content because a lot of it
20:43
Speaker 5: was illegal. Even still, in the Arden Young Project Veritas-style expose,
20:48
Speaker 5: they admitted that you could just bypass that by showing
20:51
Speaker 5: someone else's ID and then not showing your face in
20:53
Speaker 5: your videos, so I'm sure trafficking is still rampant on
20:56
Speaker 5: that website.
20:57
Speaker 1: The most shocking thing, and honestly the first thing that
21:02
Speaker 1: I recorded, was Mike Farley telling me about this upload
21:07
Speaker 1: loophole where the content reviewers internally at the company find
21:14
Speaker 1: it absolutely impossible, because it is impossible, to match a
21:17
Speaker 1: face on an ID to a body in a video,
21:21
Speaker 1: because many videos don't contain faces at all. So there's
21:27
Speaker 1: a lot of guesswork and, oh, you know, just push
21:31
Speaker 1: it through, it looks about right, where really you don't
21:34
Speaker 1: know if someone's 14, 16, 20, many times you can't tell.
21:40
Speaker 1: So when Mike Farley started talking about that loophole, I
21:44
Speaker 1: was shocked. And not only that, but the fact that
21:48
Speaker 1: he said it was enough of an issue to him
21:52
Speaker 1: that he sat down and recorded a meeting of him
21:55
Speaker 1: telling the executives about this loophole. And they were told
22:00
Speaker 1: he was told to F off and shut up about it.
22:03
Speaker 5: If you want to hate that website, then you can
22:05
Speaker 5: just watch the people who run it getting surprised interviewed.
22:08
Speaker 5: And yes, they admitted to wanting kids to watch the website.
22:11
Speaker 5: But it's not just the hub that's the problem. The
22:14
Speaker 5: world's most popular search engine, Google, doesn't even require you
22:17
Speaker 5: to log in before you turn SafeSearch off. Of course,
22:20
Speaker 5: there are still ways for a kid to get access
22:21
Speaker 5: to explicit material, even if they're logged in, but the
22:24
Speaker 5: whole idea is to make accessing the content as difficult
22:27
Speaker 5: as possible. This is a principle in marketing. The more
22:30
Speaker 5: difficult it is to buy your product, the less people
22:33
Speaker 5: will consume it. It's also why politicians fight so hard
22:35
Speaker 5: to be put on the ballot, because while yes, you
22:38
Speaker 5: can just write the person's name in, having to do
22:40
Speaker 5: that extra step when it comes to a population of
22:42
Speaker 5: millions makes it so you'll basically never win an election.
22:46
Speaker 5: The more you have to teach a person to make
22:47
Speaker 5: it possible to engage with you, the fewer people you'll
22:50
Speaker 5: get when it comes to large-scale groups, which in terms
22:53
Speaker 5: of what we're talking about here, it could mean that
22:55
Speaker 5: simply requiring a login before a safe search can be
22:57
Speaker 5: deactivated could save hundreds of thousands of seven-year-olds from being
23:01
Speaker 5: exposed to adult content. Since the age to view adult
23:04
Speaker 5: content is 18, the goal is to implement a system
23:07
Speaker 5: that makes it so kids are as close to that
23:09
Speaker 5: age as possible before they are first exposed to the material. Obviously,
23:13
Speaker 5: that number will never be 100%, but a person viewing
23:16
Speaker 5: adult content for the first time at 16 is not
23:19
Speaker 5: nearly as bad as seeing it for the first time
23:21
Speaker 5: at 7. With that said, the protections for children against
23:24
Speaker 5: this stuff are dismal, and while plenty of people are
23:27
Speaker 5: outraged about this online, Nobody is really willing to take
23:30
Speaker 5: actual steps to make it harder for kids to get
23:31
Speaker 5: access to this content. Except Utah. They signed in a
23:35
Speaker 5: law that requires ID verification to access adult content in
23:38
Speaker 5: their state. Personally, I think that's a step in the
23:41
Speaker 5: right direction. However, the methods of ID verification that they
23:45
Speaker 5: proposed look like they were written by boomers and either
23:48
Speaker 5: require expensive software with dubious accuracy, or they require you
23:52
Speaker 5: to reveal a ton of personal information to some of
23:54
Speaker 5: the biggest degenerates on the planet. refer back to the
23:57
Speaker 5: Arden Young interviews for the kinds of people who run
23:59
Speaker 5: adult websites, or note that since the beginning of the internet,
24:03
Speaker 5: adult websites have been riddled with spyware and viruses designed
24:06
Speaker 5: to steal people's info to commit identity theft. Jeez, one
24:10
Speaker 5: of these says that you put in your social security
24:12
Speaker 5: number to age verify. Are you kidding me? If you
24:16
Speaker 5: do that, then scammers are just going to design an
24:18
Speaker 5: ad that looks like the spot that you're supposed to
24:20
Speaker 5: age verify in, and instead of asking for the last
24:22
Speaker 5: four digits, they'll trick people into giving out the whole thing.
24:26
Speaker 5: the identity theft business is going to be booming. Not
24:29
Speaker 5: to mention that the government will probably use this as
24:31
Speaker 5: an excuse to implement a system that will connect your
24:34
Speaker 5: real-life identity to your internet use, and then that can
24:37
Speaker 5: be used to destroy anonymity and free speech. So all
24:40
Speaker 5: this is not a great plan. This is why you
24:42
Speaker 5: don't allow boomers who don't know how Wi-Fi works to
24:45
Speaker 5: make laws about the internet. Also, if you start attaching
24:48
Speaker 5: people's ID to their internet history, a lot of people
24:51
Speaker 5: will resist societal changes that protect children, because they don't
24:54
Speaker 5: want people knowing what sites they visit. So here's how
24:57
Speaker 5: we actually solve this problem. We can do ID verification
25:01
Speaker 5: for websites in person. All you have to do is
25:03
Speaker 5: sell it in the form of something like a gift
25:05
Speaker 5: card at places like liquor stores. You show your ID
25:08
Speaker 5: to the store clerk, buy the card or cards for
25:11
Speaker 5: $ 1 each, make an account for the website, put the
25:13
Speaker 5: code in, and now you are age verified. Also, the
25:17
Speaker 5: cards are single use, so some kid can't just steal
25:19
Speaker 5: one out of his dad's wallet and pass it around
25:21
Speaker 5: at school. Plus, it being single-use would limit exposure in
25:25
Speaker 5: the case that a minor does get one, because you
25:27
Speaker 5: would only have access to one account on one website,
25:30
Speaker 5: instead of every website, along with things like Google Search. Yes,
25:33
Speaker 5: you should have to age-verify to turn off SafeSearch and
25:35
Speaker 5: view age-restricted content on search engines. Last, single-use cards make
25:40
Speaker 5: it more difficult for porn addicts to relapse, because if
25:43
Speaker 5: they revoke their ID verification or delete their accounts, they
25:46
Speaker 5: now have to drive to the store and enter codes
25:48
Speaker 5: for every website they used to use, instead of being
25:50
Speaker 5: able to access adult websites instantly anytime they have an impulse.
25:54
Speaker 5: But the whole point of this is that it's very simple,
25:57
Speaker 5: it's anonymous, and if it were implemented, the numbers of
25:59
Speaker 5: kids getting access to adult websites would plummet. Are there
26:03
Speaker 5: ways around this? Yes, but it's far better than what
26:05
Speaker 5: we have going right now, which is basically zero protection.
26:09
Speaker 5: It's time to start actually taking steps to keep children
26:11
Speaker 5: from getting access to content they shouldn't be seeing, instead
26:14
Speaker 5: of just saying it's wrong on social media, and then
26:17
Speaker 5: forgetting about it. Anyway, thanks for watching, follow me on Twitter,
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Speaker 5: and I'll see you in the next video.