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Nov. 19, 2017 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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This Week in Stupid (19⧸11⧸2017)
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Hello everyone, welcome to this week in Stupid for the 19th of November 2017.
Before we start, I just want to tell you about the Kilroy Free Speech event that I will be attending and speaking at in April 2018.
It's in Phoenix, Arizona next year, and tickets are available.
And they're doing a fundraiser because they need to pay for the event location and extra security, of course.
The event has got some really great people speaking at it.
And I'm really, really looking forward to sexually harassing Mr. Repsion while I'm there.
I've already put in my pledge of $250 because I want to see this succeed.
And I'll leave a link in the description if you'd like to donate any money to help the cause as well.
Because this is really our chance to do something.
I really think this is going to be a lot of fun.
I think it's very exciting.
Apparently, there are only 1,500 tickets.
The fundraiser was only put up two days ago, and they're almost halfway, so it probably won't take us very long to raise the necessary amount.
I was thinking about crowdfunding, and really, it's the only way that we're ever going to accomplish anything.
There is just no corporate backers for us.
There are no people who are benevolent and want to just give us money.
It's not in any of their interest to do so.
But it is entirely in our interests to make this happen, which is why I donated my money.
And I hope to see you guys all there because I think it's going to be a really good, fun time.
I imagine it's going to be pretty relaxed and pretty amusing.
And I think we'll get to hear some interesting speakers giving you some interesting ideas.
So let's begin.
Apple's diversity chief is out after an outcry.
You might remember a few months ago that Apple's diversity chief, Denise Young Smith, got herself in hot water with the priests of diversity when she said that straight white men could be diverse because being diverse is an individual life experience and life perspective that they would bring to the conversation.
She got completely smacked down for saying this and literally had to make a public apology saying, and I quote, I'm sorry, I want to assure you that Apple's view and our dedication to diversity has not changed, making it sound like she is a prisoner of social justice and she has changed her opinion under duress.
And now, TechCrunch have reported that she's going to leave the company at the end of the year, presumably because she's a fucking wrong thinker, which makes it all the more amusing that.
And I don't want to say that she got the job because she's a black woman and they were trying to promote a black woman instead of straight white man because Apple have been crippled by their own fear of a lack of diversity, but it just amuses me that the black woman that they decided to give the job to has a brain in her head and is not simply an acolyte of this religion and actually came out and started going against the narrative.
Honestly, Denise, bravo.
And I'm really sorry to hear that you're leaving your job now because you sound like you were the perfect person for the position.
The thing that really pisses me off about this is that she's been at Apple for 20 years.
She previously served as the company's head of worldwide human resources and they just don't give a fuck, do they?
You are totally disposable.
It doesn't matter how many decades of good, solid work and a prestigious career you have behind you.
If you say that straight white men are diverse, not only are you disposable, but you have to be gotten rid of.
You are a problem you thought wrong and you need to get the fuck out.
And Apple spokesman obviously came out and recanted the usual invocation.
We deeply believe that diversity drives innovation.
We're thrilled to welcome an accomplished leader like Christy Smith to help us continue the progress we've made towards a more diverse workplace.
You can just imagine this being chanted in a church, can't you?
Diversity drives innovation.
We're making progress to a more diverse workplace.
Meaningful change takes time, the company said in its diversity report.
We're proud of our accomplishments, but we have much more work to do.
Yeah, I imagine there are loads of more sensible black women and minorities at Apple who don't hate white people, and so they're probably going to have to be fired as well.
Until the company is almost exclusively straight white progressive people talking about how goddamn diverse they're trying to make their company, but for some reason, it's just not working because they've had to fire all the right thinking minorities.
This just really pisses me off because Denise Young Smith did nothing wrong.
She did absolutely nothing wrong.
She did nothing.
All she did is give an opinion which wasn't even an offensive opinion.
White men could be diverse because they all come from different backgrounds and they all have different life experiences.
The horror.
How is she going to explain this in her next job?
So what were you fired for at Apple exactly?
Well, it turned into an international incident when I said that maybe white men could also have a divestive opinion.
And that was it.
I had to be fired.
And they're like, God, well, can't hire this person.
She's against diversity.
Speaking of diversity, Mattel, the creators of Barbie, are getting really diverse by giving Barbie a hijab.
For the first time ever, Barbie will wear a hijab.
Mattel, which makes Barbie, announced Monday that the latest on its Chero collection will be modeled after Olympic fencer Iptid...
I can't pronounce that.
Mohammed.
In 2016, Mohammed became the first American to compete in the games while wearing a hijab.
I'm proud to know that little girls everywhere can now play with a Barbie who, and this is the key word, chooses to wear hijab.
This is my childhood dream come true.
It's very interesting how it's always worded in this precise way.
Oh no, no, they choose to wear the hijab.
Just because they're indoctrinated from birth to believe that they have to cover up or they're being immodest, that doesn't mean it's not a choice.
And they always choose.
And yes, there are definitely countries where it's mandated by law.
And my god, the hijab is the least of the problem in some of these other countries.
But trust me, it's a choice.
It's not done under duress.
It's all completely free and open, we swear.
Totally in line with your Western liberal values.
Now cover up your fucking hair, you whore.
They say that Barbie has been working hard to make its collection of dolls more diverse, but I think they mean Mattel has been working hard.
But this is something you have to remember.
It's only an effort to broaden the brand's appeal.
Because the marriage between the corporatocracy and progressivism is fucking cancer.
They are pushing diverse dolls and diversity, despite the fact that, in my opinion, what they're pushing is inherently oppressive and is currently oppressing millions of women around the Arab world and beyond.
It doesn't matter.
They will push this diverse bullshit because the progressives say it's right and because they'll make money out of it.
Or at least they think they will.
It's nice to see that Mattel has become complicit in women's oppression.
And in fact, they're propagating it and making money off of it.
They're promoting it as if this is some radical new step in the liberation of women.
Look at this.
A Barbie doll with a fucking hijab.
Yes, it's rather regressive, isn't it?
But the thing is, is diversity working?
Well, probably not.
In its most recent quarter, Mattel said that Barbie sales were down 6% compared to last year.
Yeah, it's probably something to do with them being highly gendered, isn't it?
You've got so many activists working against the concept of gender.
Having gendered toys.
Oh, it's a real problem.
It's going to start cutting into your sales.
You're going to have to make genderqueer Barbie next.
In fact, that probably exists.
Let me check.
So it turns out transgender Barbie doesn't actually exist, but there are artists who are trying to make her exist.
And you know, I'm fine with that.
If you want in your own private time to, you know, to make a transgender Barbie, if you for some reason feel compelled to do that, okay, that's fine.
That's your own choice.
You do what you want in your own free time.
It's your property, your Barbie.
You knock yourself out.
I mean, the thing is, if Mattel want to make a transgender Barbie, you go right ahead.
I literally don't give a fuck.
But trust me, this is not going to improve your sales.
The Hijab Barbie is the latest in the long line of progressive and diverse innovations that Mattel have been trying in order to try and appeal to what they perceive to be a large left-wing base.
But in fact, I don't think it actually is a large left-wing base.
I mean, Barbie's problematic because it's patriarchal and heteronormative for a girl to have a Barbie.
So that's obviously discouraged.
But in 2015, they launched a line of dolls that are based on prominent women that are obviously famous because they want to promote women, which is okay, fine.
In 2016, they rolled out tall, petite, and curvy versions of the dolls because being attractive is oppressive.
And then they followed suit with the Ken dolls earlier this year.
Barbie's boyfriend is now available in three body types and seven skin tones.
I think we're going to have to check out these body types.
Okay, I just want to point out that there is absolutely zero neckbeard representation here.
That's offensive, and I demand that Mattel do something about this.
I want a fat, neckbearded, gamer version of Ken, please.
Otherwise, I'm not being represented, which means that I'm being marginalized.
I love how this rhetoric works.
You can demand any stupid thing for any stupid reason.
But the thing is, you've got to remember that if you're a man, you have to deal with the fact that you're probably trash.
Because men are just trash, aren't they?
And we know this because of all of the dominoes falling in Hollywood right now.
Because Hollywood is really just a cross-section of men universally.
All men are basically like the people who are being accused of sexual assault in Hollywood.
It's entirely representative and not in any way some kind of far-left, isolated bubble of very wealthy and very toxic people.
The scope and the pervasiveness of this culture of abuse and our roles in perpetuating it, not our as in men collectively, but ourselves specifically, has resulted recently in a reflexive and unwieldy and messy and self-conscious and and and Jesus Christ excavation of memories, relationships and interactions.
A digging that has intersecting intents.
It's recoiling with what you might have done and what might currently be doing to prevent yourself from doing it in the future.
And well, it's asking yourself, how fucked up am I?
Which expressed in another way is, wait, should I be worried about this avalanche too?
I'm personally not worried because I personally don't go around just grabbing women's tits or masturbating in front of them or anything like that.
So I'm actually not worried about women accusing me of something because I know I've done nothing wrong.
But the answer, of course, is hell fucking yes.
Because for some reason, because I've done nothing wrong, I should be worried about something.
Because we're all complicit.
We are all agents of patriarchy.
We've all benefited from it.
We're all active contributors to rape culture.
All of us.
No one is exempt.
And I swear to God, this is not the feminist version of original sin.
I know it really sounds like the feminist version of original sin.
And I know this is really taking on religious overtones.
But really, you need to confess publicly via Twitter.
You need to do what Ben Affleck's done.
And I've got a big video about this coming.
And this is why I haven't really touched on this very much, but this was just unbelievable.
Ben Affleck went on Stephen Colbert yesterday, I think it was, and he said that because he grabbed a woman's tit 15 years ago, now he's giving away millions of dollars to women's charities.
It's like, wow, that was the most expensive feel of a breast I've ever heard of.
I hope it was worth it, Ben.
I hope that somehow it was worth it.
But he did get an applause from the audience.
But anyway, something to go on about another time.
We all have investments in and take deposits out of the same bank.
That's true.
And we all need to accept and reconcile ourselves with the fact that generally speaking, we are trash.
Excuse me, I think that you can do a lot more speaking for yourself and a lot less speaking for me.
I know I'm not trash.
I'm garbage, thank you.
I know it stings.
It should.
It should sizzle.
It should stun.
It should burn a hole through your fucking back.
I've done nothing wrong.
Why am I sizzling and being stunned and burning a hole through my back?
What have I done wrong?
Nothing.
It's all guilt by association because let's be fair, the people who have done something wrong here really would like to pass that on to everyone else, wouldn't they?
They would like to disperse the responsibility, spread the blame around, so they in particular are not responsible for the disgusting things that they have done.
These countless instances of abuse are the natural and unsurprising result of a culture of a world that devalues women.
It's amazing.
I just don't see it.
I just don't see it.
It seems that absolutely everywhere on earth, women are held up on a fucking pedestal.
And don't get me wrong, there are interpretations of this that vary between cultures.
I mean, in the Islamic world, they have to cover themselves up because they're too precious and they might tempt a man and things like this.
These are the rationales they give.
But it's never because they think women are shit.
It's always because they think women are fucking magical.
And personally, I don't think women are magical.
I just think women are people.
I know that's such a crazy notion, isn't it?
You don't have to put women on a platform, but conversely, don't put men on a platform either.
If everyone steps down off their pillars and realizes that they're all just people standing with their own two feet on the same fucking ground, then we can really be sharing that kind of eye-level view of the world.
Because really, even if you are better than someone else, it doesn't do you any good to actively engage with that and say, you know what, I am fucking better than those people, Anna.
It doesn't do anyone any good.
It just makes you look like a tremendous piece of shit.
I love this though.
This is a world that devalues women and considers them disposable.
We live in a world that considers women disposable.
That's amazing to me.
I mean, I don't even know how to refute that.
I would like to see a citation, I suppose.
I've seen reports where they've been like, you know, did you know that 25% of homeless people are women?
It's like, is that a problem?
Seems like it's less of a problem for women than it is for the other people, who I guess will remain ungendered.
It treats them as if agency is non-existent.
Oh, the world treats women as if agency is non-existent.
Or is it that the far left treats them as if agency is non-existent?
I mean, you constantly complain about the right saying, well, what could she have done to prevent herself getting raped?
What could she have done?
That's the right directly referencing a woman's own personal agency.
And what's the first thing the far left does?
How very dare you blame the victim?
Because the far left legitimately don't believe that women have any agency.
This is their opinion.
And they're trying to force that opinion to be your opinion.
But I'm fucking sorry, Mr. Radical Leftist.
This is not my opinion.
It's your fucking opinion.
And if you're worried about women coming out and accusing you of assault or something, that's your burden to bear because you've obviously done something wrong.
But of course, there is a way out.
You should know that trash doesn't have to mean irredeemable.
You can save your soul.
But before that can begin to happen, we have to accept how goddamn, do you mean goddamn, cavernous, this shit is and refuse any urge to absolve ourselves from it.
This is how you cleanse your soul of sin.
You believe women when they express their feelings and experiences with this.
And you better respect it as well.
And of course, believing women means expanding our definitions of what constitutes abuse and realizing that abusive behavior exists on the spectrum and isn't always aggressive and doesn't always result in visible scars.
But it is always something that you should call out someone on social media for so there can be a digital lynch mob of people who will force you to prostrate yourself and then donate unbelievable amounts of money of your future earnings.
It's sincerely wanting to divest in patriarchy and any other social construct that cultivates, maintains, and protects hierarchy.
Which is fucking ironic given how much the far left loves hierarchy.
They are such brown-nosers.
They always infiltrate every system of power, every hierarchy they can, until they get to the very top and then start implementing their social justice bullshit.
The idea that these people are going to sit there and go, oh, by the way, we're against hierarchy.
Bollocks are you?
Fucking bullshit.
I know you're not.
You literally want a hierarchy that I mean, where do you think the term progressive stack came from, you fucking liars?
You have a hierarchy of races and genders and sexualities.
Don't tell me you're against hierarchy, you fucking hypocrites.
Honestly, it's just making me want to invest in patriarchy.
What can I do to be more patriarchal?
I mean, I'm not saying that I have my beard because it makes me look more patriarchal, but that is one of the side benefits of having it.
And don't forget to pick up your feminist bibles.
It's seeking published works from Bell Hooks and Brittany Cooper and Kimberley Crenshaw and following and listening to Eve Ewing and Disha...
Fuck these names.
And so many other women I can name.
And so many others that you'll find after them.
It's digging for and discovering your blind spots and finding and reading and listening to and reading the already existing work that might help you see.
That might help you see.
As in, get woke to how unbelievably oppressive men are to women.
I just don't agree.
I just don't agree.
Then he has the audacity to write, it's treating women like people and not a person I want to fuck.
Which is weird because it sounds like treating women like fucking goddesses.
As if women are like these inscrutable higher powers that you have to salon to every day.
Otherwise, you're oppressing them.
I'm fucking sorry.
I actually treat women like people.
And you know what?
You should too.
Just treat women like you would treat a man.
And the problem with treating women like you treat a man, for feminists, not for most women, for feminists, is it's tough.
It means that you don't just get a free pass.
It means you don't just get that job because you're a diversity hire, because they have affirmative action.
It means you need to get a proper fucking education, so your degree in gender studies is fucking worthless.
But that's not my problem, that's your problem.
Get the fuck over it.
I don't think I'll ever get bored of pointing out the innate hypocrisy of SJWs.
And like I said, I've been really trying not to cover this because I'm planning a big video on it, but this was just too juicy.
Girls writer Murray Miller accused of sexually assaulting actress Aurora Perigneau.
So this actress has done the right thing and filed a report with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which I applaud her.
Good.
Good.
If someone's sexually assaulted you, you go to the authorities.
That's what they're for.
While the actress filed the report at the West Hollywood station, Los Angeles police will handle the investigation.
Miller categorically and vehemently denies Miss Perigneau's outrageous claims, says his attorney, after being contacted several weeks ago by lawyers who on her behalf sought substantial monetary damages from him.
Hmm.
Mr. Miller's legal team gathered overwhelming evidence directly contradicting these false and offensive claims.
The statement added, only after her demands for money were rebuffed did she go to the police.
Mr. Miller looks forward to sharing all evidence and information with anyone or authorities seeking truth in this matter.
It's interesting how she went to the police after she demanded money, which really is making me a bit suspicious about her story.
But the thing is, that's only because I am innately skeptical.
I don't just listen and believe.
I have a presumption of innocence for the people accused, because that's the only fair and legitimate way to do these things.
So we can then weigh up the evidence, we don't treat him like a criminal on the basis of an accusation, and then we carry on with our lives after the judgment has been rendered, he's punished or not, depending on whether he's guilty.
That's the way I think the law should work, that's the way I think society should work, and that's the only fair way to do these things.
Of course, if you're a feminist, then you probably have a different perspective.
Which is why it's really, really fucking funny to see feminist Lena Dunham come out and defend Miller against a woman's accusations.
During the windfall of deeply necessary accusations over the last few months in Hollywood, deeply necessary, I fucking love it.
We have been thrilled to see so many women's voices heard and dark experiences in this industry justified.
It's hugely important time of change, and like every feminist in Hollywood and beyond, we celebrate.
But during every time of change, there are also instances of the culture, in its enthusiasm and zeal, taking down the wrong targets.
Now, that is military talk.
They're attacking the wrong targets.
This is a power strategy.
This is a plan, a tactic, a stratagem, a way of conquering something.
That's the terminology she is using.
Just so you know, the feminists are engaged in an active culture war and they know it.
We believe, having worked closely with him for more than half a decade, you mean five years, right?
Five years, it's not that long, that this is the case with Murray Miller.
While our first instinct is to listen to every woman's story, because you're a feminist, then it benefits you to have women just believe because you are Lena, after all, or at least allegedly, a woman.
Our insider knowledge of Murray's situation makes us confident that sadly this accusation is one of the 3% of assault cases that are misreported every year.
You mean lied about, but even then, I love this.
You don't know how many allegations of rape are false.
There is no way of finding this out.
There just isn't a way of knowing without going to trial.
And a lot of the time, the trials simply don't have the evidence one way or another, and so they have to be adjourned.
So there's just, so it is total horseshit to say that you know, oh, it's only 3%.
It's only 3%.
You don't know that.
You have no fucking idea.
Shut your fucking face.
It's a true shame to add to that number.
Well, that's shaming of the woman who's adding to the number, isn't it?
Because she now is a liar through your statement, as far as you're concerned.
So you're not supporting women.
You're not listening and believing what they say.
You're actually a traitor to your gender at this point, Lena.
And that's only through feminist ideology, not my personal opinion.
I personally think you're a traitor to the human race and should probably be fired off into the sun.
We stand by Murray, and this is all we'd be saying about the issue.
Well, that's great, Lena.
But the problem is, you've got a couple of problematic tweets in your history.
Things women do lie about, what they ate for lunch.
Things women don't lie about, rape.
Which is why Lena Dunham has been reduced to the status of a man.
So the accuser's mother has denied ever asking for money from Miller.
At no time did we ask Murray for $1.
There was never a demand for money ever made from anyone on behalf of her or her family.
But I love how the clause come out.
Nothing shocks me, especially coming from someone who admitted to fondling and inserting objects into her younger sister's vagina when she was a kid.
To be honest with you, what she did when she was seven is, in my opinion, far less bad than her being a teenager and, in her own words, acting like a sex predator towards her younger sister.
That, in my opinion, is worse.
But hey, but at least we can finally agree that Lena Dunham is fucking disgusting.
I swear to God, I'm thinking about starting a segment called Meanwhile in Venezuela.
But the thing is, I don't really want to trivialize what's going on in Venezuela because it's bad.
But meanwhile in Venezuela, oil output heads to a 29-year low.
After being socialized, after being taken over by the people, unsurprisingly, productivity goes down.
It's just the eternal march of socialism.
When something's privately owned, it's entirely profitable and in the interests of the owners to make it as effective and efficient as possible.
As soon as it's collectively owned, nobody gives a shit and production goes down.
It's just the way things happen.
It's just human nature.
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