Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer - Do College Students Love or Hate America?
Aired: 2018-11-30
Duration: 03:48


=== Why America Burns (03:06) ===

[00:00:00]  Did you want to share?
[00:00:01]  Do you have a good opinion?
[00:00:03]  What?
[00:00:04]  America is trash and I look forward to the day it burns to the ground.
[00:00:06]  Okay, is there any other things that you want to say other than that?
[00:00:08]  No.
[00:00:09]  Okay.
[00:00:10]  All right.
[00:00:10]  That was a good.
[00:00:11]  That was good.
[00:00:12]  Welcome to Slightly Offensive.
[00:00:14]  My name's Elijah and you're here at USC, the University of Southern California, where I guess we're talking about whether or not people love or hate the United States of America.
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[00:00:28]  Is America a good country or not?
[00:00:30]  It can be.
[00:00:32]  It can be great.
[00:00:33]  Right now, it's eh.
[00:00:34]  You have a bad opinion of America.
[00:00:36]  Why?
[00:00:36]  Because motherfuckers over here is full of shit.
[00:00:40]  Who are the MFs?
[00:00:43]  Donald Trump and his people.
[00:00:45]  You feel me?
[00:00:45]  Donald Trump and his people.
[00:00:46]  They full of s  ⁇ .
[00:00:48]  What do you think makes this country great?
[00:00:51]  Trump.
[00:00:52]  Donald Trump?
[00:00:53]  Why would you say that?
[00:00:54]  Because he's amazing and we need him and we've needed him for a while.
[00:00:58]  You think it's an unpopular opinion on this campus?
[00:01:00]  Yeah.
[00:01:00]  Do you ever feel discriminated about for that?
[00:01:02]  I do.
[00:01:03]  How so?
[00:01:04]  People get mad if I speak out, but liberal people can speak out and they are fine.
[00:01:09]  It's interesting.
[00:01:10]  So what do you think currently defines being an American?
[00:01:16]  Not freedom.
[00:01:18]  What do you think other than freedom?
[00:01:19]  Um, yeehaw, all those red states, Republican, conservative.
[00:01:26]  We're trying to outvote them, but it's not really happening until they die off, kind of.
[00:01:31]  Until they die off, kind of.
[00:01:33]  Until they die off, kind of.
[00:01:35]  A lady we just spoke to said that the biggest problem in America are conservatives.
[00:01:39]  Do you agree or disagree with that statement?
[00:01:40]  Entirely disagree.
[00:01:42]  Why?
[00:01:42]  The biggest problem we have is that people dehumanize each other.
[00:01:47]  The mere fact that she said that is a major issue.
[00:01:50]  It's not that there's conservatives that are the issue.
[00:01:52]  It's whatever she perceives conservatives to be.
[00:01:54]  I have a positive opinion.
[00:01:56]  Why?
[00:01:57]  Because I traveled around the world and it's pretty shitty some places, so I like the U.S. What is the most negative part about America and why?
[00:02:05]  Feminists.
[00:02:06]  Well, because obviously we can't get rid of all the conservatives, right?
[00:02:09]  Because it's like can't just get rid of half the country.
[00:02:11]  What do you do?
[00:02:12]  What do you do as a compromise or how could we actually make America great with the conservatives still in our country?
[00:02:19]  Having a good president.
[00:02:21]  And who is that?
[00:02:22]  Who?
[00:02:23]  Well, Michelle would be great.
[00:02:25]  Why?
[00:02:26]  Because they just are hypocritical.
[00:02:28]  Like they want to give rights to the migrant caravan, yet they don't want to give rights to like the conservatives in America and they won't let them speak out.
[00:02:35]  It just doesn't really make any sense.
[00:02:36]  You know what's funny?
[00:02:37]  Right before I talked to you, I just talked to a lady who was basically saying that the only way that we could have progress in this country is to get rid of the conservatives.
[00:02:46]  Until they die off, kind of.
[00:02:48]  Well, also talking about that we need to fight for the LGBTQ community.

=== Activism's Unlikely Targets (00:57) ===

[00:02:52]  Just gotta wait.
[00:02:52]  Also more activism, stuff like that, you know?
[00:02:55]  Like the resistance movements or?
[00:02:57]  Just like everything, all social issues, LGBTQ things.
[00:03:02]  So it was about like fighting for some people, but not like fighting for the minorities, but not the majorities.
[00:03:06]  They're fighting for like illegal immigrants, but they're not gonna fight for conservatives of this country.
[00:03:10]  They think that they need to leave.
[00:03:12]  Like it makes no sense.
[00:03:12]  It's like they care more about foreign nationals than they do about their own countrymen.
[00:03:16]  I agree.
[00:03:16]  It's pretty unpatriotic.
[00:03:18]  Yep.
[00:03:19]  I don't know about that.
[00:03:20]  Who is Trump to you?
[00:03:22]  Well, he's not my president.
[00:03:23]  He's just, he's a figure that needs to be, in a sense, controlled.
[00:03:28]  Are you not a U.S. citizen?
[00:03:29]  No, I am a U.S. citizen.
[00:03:31]  Okay, sorry.
[00:03:32]  What can you do?
[00:03:33]  First off, this is cool.
[00:03:34]  It folds up.
[00:03:35]  It folds up, which I mean, that's state of the art.
[00:03:37]  I can go into any class.
[00:03:39]  You know, I got 16 miles.
[00:03:40]  And it's got the 16 miles per hour.
[00:03:42]  Oh, shoot.
[00:03:43]  This is pretty intense.
[00:03:46]  This has been my favorite part of the day already.