April 27, 2019 - Sargon of Akkad - Carl Benjamin
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| Right, hi everyone, this is Stuart. | |
| You want me to read a statement there that you've written to challenge me. | |
| Is that correct? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Okay, great. | |
| Right, I'll read this then. | |
| Hang on a second. | |
| Right, so hello, my name is Stuart. | |
| Carl, I have a speech difficulty, might cause a problem with you understanding me, so keep reading. | |
| As possibly my future MEP, I would like to highlight quickly some issues. | |
| The only reason we can vote for you is because we won a court case that Denise Matthews won. | |
| Explain how intersectionalism is bad for equality. | |
| Right, okay, I'll do these one at a time then, shall I? | |
| Right. | |
| I'm not actually very familiar with the Denise Matthews court case, so I can't speak to that, I'm afraid. | |
| We had to fight for a court case in order to vote in the EU election because we got the British government in what, Gibraltar? | |
| Gibraltar. | |
| Oh, I wasn't aware. | |
| right okay okay well i'll tell you what i'll look at keep that yeah we'll skip that one I'll go to the next one. | |
| Explain how intersectionality is bad for equality. | |
| Well, I mean, honestly, I think intersectionality is bad because it's tyrannical. | |
| The main problem with intersectionality really is it defines everyone as part of a group by arbitrary characteristics. | |
| And the problem with defining people as part of a group by arbitrary characteristics is you can't ever leave that group. | |
| Normally we form groups by self-association, but in this case, it's someone else making a claim to you and your person based on something that you can't change about yourself. | |
| That's why intersectionality is bad because that's how it analyzes all of the world. | |
| Every characteristic that we could observe about you, they could potentially just pick up on and say, right, okay, we're talking about the oppression of blonde-haired people by brown-haired people now. | |
| You've all got brown hair, you're oppressing that poor blonde-haired guy over there. | |
| You need to check your privilege. | |
| And then the same logic applies every single time. | |
| And that's just not fair because there's no time you can stop the colour of your hair or the colour of your skin, the height, whatever it is. | |
| It's a really horrible way of categorizing the world. | |
| And so if you want any kind of equality, you're never going to get it this way because people are naturally going to revolt against what they'll perceive, I think very fairly, to be unfair treatment. | |
| It's just not fair to do this to people. | |
| And I think that's deeply important. | |
| And I think that's why intersectionality is really going to end up hurting itself as much as anything else. | |
| Disability too. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Do they own you? | |
| No. | |
| Exactly. | |
| Exactly. | |
| That's exactly the way I feel. | |
| Right, so am I aware of Claude Mereas, the Labour MEP who got kicked out of an EU committee for disputing the colony clause to look into it, even if you do not like Labour. | |
| Yeah, I am actually aware of this, right? | |
| So it was, like you say, it was something he was going to sign, wasn't it? | |
| And instead of listing Gibraltar as a British overseas territory, which is the constitutional and legal definition that we use in the United Kingdom, the European Union was trying to call you a crown colony of the United Crown colony of the United Kingdom, which is, frankly, subversive language. | |
| So it makes it sound like Gibraltar is not a legitimate part of Britain, which it is, and it has been for hundreds of years. | |
| And the people of Gibraltar have voted against changing that status repeatedly. | |
| So it's absolutely disgraceful. | |
| But again, this is, I think what this is, is a part of sort of like a long-standing EU process to basically try and grind the Gibraltars down into essentially just forcing them to accept Spanish and vicariously EU rule. | |
| And it seems, I mean, it seems that's just not what the Gibraltars want to do. | |
| Right, so the next one. | |
| In 2016, the EU passed a regulation. | |
| Oh, sorry. | |
| Sorry. | |
| In 2006. | |
| Oh, right. | |
| It said 2016 there. | |
| Sorry. | |
| All right. | |
| Oh. | |
| My mistake. | |
| Oh, right. | |
| Right, okay. | |
| No worries. | |
| No worries. | |
| So in 2006, the EU passed a regulation number 1107/2006. | |
| Oh yeah, you've got it there. | |
| It was a directive to make air travel easier for the disabled. | |
| Well, Spain excluded Gibraltar. | |
| This is not a big issue, but it shows the length Spain will go. | |
| Yeah, it shows how petty they'll be, isn't it? | |
| You know, why would you do it? | |
| Why are they targeting disabled people just because they come from Gibraltar? | |
| You know, that's again just unfair, isn't it? | |
| You know, sorry, could you stand a little bit around here so I don't have to twist around to see you? | |
| Sorry. | |
| You don't have to worry, man. | |
| You don't have to worry. | |
| To carry on the fight against copyright laws, especially feminism. | |
| It's anti-equality, but I will not go into that. | |
| Thanks for your time and God bless you, Stuart. | |
| Thank you so much, Stuart. | |
| Thank you so much. | |
| Sorry, I'll give you your phone back. | |
| Honestly, thank you so much. | |
| And thanks for coming out, man. | |
| I really appreciate it. | |
| Really appreciate it. | |
| And thanks for coming. |
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