Aug. 2, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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The E-Girl Epidemic | Ep 20
This is not a video attacking any specific person, group, organization, or company. Take your personal drama somewhere else. I'm not in the business of wasting time trying to bring down people's careers whether I agree with them or not. Nowhere in this video are we talking about exact occurrences of e-girls watering down the center, center right, and conservative movements, but instead are trying to understand how this new trend of young people entering positions of influence without any merit (mostly due to their attractive selfies and high follower counts) is changing the way young people engage in the political sphere. We took a very light hearted and fun approach to this topic with none other than Sydney Watson herself who holds this topic very near and dear to her heart. If you or a friend believes that you are suffering with symptoms of being an e-girl or enabling one, please consider seeking help and changing your ways and genuinely contributing to the betterment of this country. Redemption is always available for those who seek it. AUDIO ONLY VERSIONS OF THE PODCAST: ⇩iTunes, Google Play, Spotify ⇩ iTunes: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/slightly-offens-ve-uncut/id1450057169 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7jbVobnHs7q8pSRCtPmC41?si=iwqsjNOhQGGYgQE8_1bfjg Google Play: Search Slightly Offensive Uncut ⇩ KEEP INDEPENDENT MEDIA & JOURNALISM ALIVE ⇩ ➤ PAYPAL: https://paypal.me/slightlyoffensive ➤ VENMO: https://venmo.com/Elijah-Schaffer ➤ PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/slightlyoffensive ➤ MEMBERSHIPS: http://slightlyoffensive.com/donate/ _________________________________________________________________ ⇩FOLLOW SYDNEY WATSON AT THE LINKS HERE ⇩ YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSFy-1JrpZf0tFlRZfo-Rvw TWITTER: https://twitter.com/SydneyLWatson INSTAGRAM: https://www.instagram.com/sydneywatson__/ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/sydneywatsonofficial/?__tn__=%2Cd%2CP-R&eid=ARCLXW2GxD75iX9pR3SvpZIoUgF9eRaSr_c84S1ozX_300AyrZPVoQ-QFB871Hyp9AlDLS3UuYZRYffe ⇩ BOOKINGS & INQUIRIES ⇩ ➤ EMAIL: ELIJAH@SLIGHTLYOFFENSIVE.COM _________________________________________________________________ ⇩ SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS ⇩ ➤ INSTAGRAM https://www.instagram.com/elijahschaffer/ https://www.instagram.com/officialslightlyoffensive/ ➤ TWITTER: https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer ➤ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/officialslightlyoffensive ______________________________________________________________________________________ ⇩ OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT SLIGHTLY OFFENS*VE ⇩ ➤ MERCHANDISE: http://slightlyoffensive.com
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So I sent like my picture to all these different Instagram pages wearing my Make America Great again hat because like I love Trump, but don't ask me about any of his policies because like I don't really know.
Yeah, that was the best impression I've seen of an e-thought.
Yeah, today we're talking about how people are using the conservative movement to show off their bodies and take advantage of opportunities when they don't actually care about the issues, but we care.
We're not putting up with it any longer.
We know who you are, and we're going to expose you.
Welcome back to Slightly Offensive Podcast with your favorite gay black woman, me, Elijah Schaefer.
In a second, I'm going to introduce our guest on the show today.
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I mean, I was even reading some of our news today and I was just like, it's kind of like, it's almost as if little children are writing in all the papers.
And like we have the most ridiculous politicians as far as I'm concerned on both sides, even the side that I allegedly am supposed to support.
But they're just ridiculous.
But the average Aussie, as far as I'm concerned, is just apolitical.
They mostly don't care.
So if you try to bring it up with them, they're like, I have opinions towards my general existence.
And, you know, maybe I care about this issue over here, this issue over here.
But they generally don't subscribe to a particular ideology or anything like that, which I think is, that's fine.
I mean, it means that they're not, I guess, ideologically driven and they're not part of like a hive mind.
Americans don't have anything different, except for the fact the only difference with Americans are is that they believe the lies the politicians tell them.
So even though they don't know anything, you often, from people who don't have any knowledge, as you're probably aware of, you're actually an American citizen, they still call themselves Democrats, even though they don't know anything.
When it comes down to it, I personally value my life, as you're mentioning earlier.
And so the reason why I don't watch the Democrat debates in my personal life is just because, well, no, it doesn't make me cry.
It's just that the Democrats are such liars when after they screwed over Bernie Sanders in the 2016 election and showed us that even when the people in their party want somebody to run as a candidate, that they'll screw them over to take the establishment pick.
I go, who cares?
They're probably going to pick Kamala anyways, even though Tulsi Gabbard would be a better solution.
She's actually moderate.
She could attract people.
They're not going to pick her because she's too awesome and she's too centered.
She's not looking for socialism.
And she actually served our country and loves it, which is something that the Democrat Party is not really into these days.
You kind of have to question, though, why does she say that she's a Democrat if she loves the United States?
Because it's pretty clear at this point that the Democratic Party have zero interest in actually protecting Americans.
And that's just like, even observationally, having been here for the last six weeks, having moved and everything, it's pretty clear to me that the politicians that you have, and like I'm not saying that Republicans are by any stretch of the imagination perfect or like necessarily their value system is in line with what the Americans want.
I'm not saying that.
I'm just saying that it's really clear that Democratic candidates across the board, I don't think, necessarily care about actual Americans.
You know, there's this crazy thing that's really been frustrating me recently.
And I have to say that as conservatives, you know, it is our job and our place to totally reject what the left is doing.
The left is doing something that they are beginning to play on identity politics, or they've been playing on tribalism.
They've been giving people voices of authority, not based off the merit, not what they're able to do, not how much they can actually contribute to our country, but based on the fact that they're black or a woman or transgender.
And even more than that, they'll even ignore the weaknesses of people like Kamala Harris, who has a terrible record as a prosecutor.
She even laughed the other night about the fact that she basically put people in prison for life sentences for basic marijuana offenses, as if she was in Australia.
But they give her a pass because she's black.
Now, the conservatives have been the party, they've been, well, typically the Republicans, but libertarians, conservatives in general, have said, look, we're not going to buy into that tribalism.
We're not going to just prop people up because they look the way we want them to.
We want movers.
We want shakers.
We want people that are going to change this country.
And so they presented to the world someone like Donald Trump.
But now for the 2016 election, I think conservatives have gotten cocky.
Well, I mean, I would say now that I'm noticing that a lot of people on the right are actually engaging with identity politics a lot more.
There's a couple institutions and things and groups of people that are around that I notice will do things based solely on the way people look or like you said before, you know, being gay or being black or whatever.
And so I think that now we're sort of starting to buy into it.
Some people are.
I think for the most part, like just general everyday people like you and me don't want to buy into it.
But I think like some of the people at the top are starting to.
It's my identity, but it's not a big part of who I am.
But it's just I'm America's favorite black, gay woman.
That's a very easy title to hold.
You just have to make it up, tell people, and they believe it.
And the problem with that is that right now in the conservative movement, what you have is the leftist tactics being replicated.
But it's, this is going to sound really, really petty, but there's a problem happening right now with the influencer movement, the next generation of young people.
Okay, they're being told a message that basically not only should you be a minority, not only could you, your sexuality matters, but also even more than that, there's this space being given to all of these young influencers.
Have you noticed that?
There's all these young people that are rising up.
And you might, first thoughts might be, this is so good.
You know, we're giving all these young people the baton.
But as the famous person, the evil man in the Incredibles, what was his name?
And what's happening is people are starting to give platforms to conservatives for superficial reasons, which is undermining the substance of what we hold, which are values and truth.
And you've had some exposure to that.
Obviously, American politics are different.
You've went to conferences, you've attended things.
What have you seen is currently the state of things happening with influencers?
I think that even just talking about this topic is so tough because people come at you and they're like, oh, you're just jealous.
Or you're only saying this because you wish that you could be doing the same thing or you wish that this person over here would prop you up.
And I think in answer to your question, as a female, I obviously know that there is this sort of idea that gets perpetuated that, oh, a girl is only in that position.
And obviously, I hate coming across as like the, you know, with this, like a feministy kind of viewpoint.
But yeah, a lot of people will criticize you as a female because they're like, you only got to where you are because you happen to be a female.
There might be some truth to that in some situations.
But to answer your question, when I go to some of these conferences and when I end up, I guess, interacting with this like younger generation, all I'm noticing is that they don't do anything.
And I know that this is not entirely based around necessarily how proactive you are, but I do think that if your claim to fame is the fact that you have a pretty face, that can be hugely problematic in the long term because what do you bring to the table?
Obviously, there's a space for that, and I mean, we live in a, I mean, think about how Models could exist.
But I think that when you give these people more, and when you place more emphasis on them than they actually deserve, I think that can be problematic in the sense of what you're talking about.
You know, we give people their positions based on merit.
We don't just do it because they happen to have, you know, boobs, regrettably.
But that's sort of where we're getting to.
And it was always, but it was always going to happen.
This was always going to happen because society is so sexualized.
Of course, you're going to bring in beautiful looking people or, you know, people who act in a particular way and give them a platform.
And for those of you that don't understand what an ethos is, Google it, but if you're married, not on Google Images because you're going to get in trouble.
If you're under 18, an ethos is a lost book of the Bible and you're never going to find it.
So don't even look it up.
Anyways, speaking of the ethos, you have this thing that's happening where people are wanting to empower young people to represent the conservative movement.
And what's happened is a conservative movement has always been kind of lame.
It's been those kids that wear suits in school.
And it's not that attractive.
It was those kids who are like, I'm going to be the president.
And you're like, freckin' loser.
Like, he's like, I wear a suit to school because I'm civilized.
And you're like, dude, no wonder why kids don't, kids are trying to twerk each other and masturbate in class and things like that.
Which master, you know, I mean, if you're young, you probably know what masturbation is.
Anyways, that's what people were doing when I was in school.
And they called Republicans and people were coming in and they were like, look at who we are.
So what we should do is let's take all the sluts from the gaming industry and the live streaming industry and let's give them positions of leadership in our organizations and institutions.
And that's going to be really smart because even though they were sluts over here, they told me that they're not sluts anymore and they're actually now conservatives.
And what could go wrong with taking women who just hoard themselves out into an entire new arena that was outside of politics, was completely liberal, used lefty tactics, their entire profiles are selfies with their boobs out and everything.
And suddenly they're going to become the representatives of conservative values.
I mean, look, again, I think there's a time and place for girls to be super beautiful on the internet and to you know be conservative, super pretty hot things on the internet.
Awesome, great.
I mean, if that's that's your appropriative, right?
But yeah, it's it's definitely I found it frustrating for a very long time, I confess.
And you never want to say anything in the space because you don't want to basically attack someone else for the things that they're doing.
Because, you know, the way that I view it is just like, if you're over there doing your thing, then that's cool.
The example that we're trying to give to people, the way that we want to show people is you can have individual liberty, you have freedom, but there's still a level of a sensation of like, you have to have some merit behind you.
You got to have some reason why you rise up.
We are the side.
I mean, I consider myself more of a centrist, but I lean right on a lot of topics.
And I've always seen being right-wing as the idea of like, we're coming to you with statistics.
We're coming to you with facts.
We're propping up people like Dinesh D'Souza, who you want to listen to, but you might not want to look at.
And then I love Dinesh.
That's not what I'm saying.
I'm just saying Dinesh is just an old guy, like some, I don't even know what his, you know, Dinesh, right?
And we love Dinesh, not because he has nice tits, but because he has a good idea every single week almost, and he releases a video, writes a new book.
I don't know how that guy finds time to write.
But now what we're doing is we're saying, hey, look, we put up a big sign that said, girls with large breasts, if you really want to make it, come over here, take away opportunities from actual women who are trying to present good ideas and create content and then suck it and become a face of our organization or go out and speak.
And we're rewarding people for things like instead of like the fact that you have morals, it's like, oh, you have a lot of followers.
Or instead of the fact that you have good ideas, it's like your fake tit job was good.
Well, I mean, the problem is that how can you push back against the regressive ideology of what is, I guess, basically the democratic and I guess liberal movements at the moment?
How can you push back against that if the main spokespeople for the conservative slash right wing slash libertarian movement is are these girls?
I don't, I just don't get it.
Personally, I don't understand because I mean, the one thing that I'll say is that, and I know that we've joked about this, but I never want to be considered like that.
And I mean, people leave comments on my videos on my YouTube videos and they'll say things like, why is your toppler cut?
And I'm like, well, I mean, I don't want to be in a burqa.
But this is the thing: is like, I think people will be critical of you no matter what you're doing.
And again, like, I think, I mean, we're obviously talking about women here because I don't think that men get nearly the same amount of criticism in this sense that women do.
I mean, and I can say that as like a proud anti-femme woman.
But yeah, no, definitely, like, you're going to get criticized no matter what you're doing.
You can be like in a turtleneck and someone will be like, oh, you can see her wrist.
And she gets attacked relentlessly because she is like a hot conservative female who's super successful.
But at the end of the day, I think that regardless of what you think about someone like Tommy Laren, Tommy Laren's not an idiot.
She actually has some pretty decent ideas.
I mean, and like it just, my problem here is that we're talking about people who don't have any ideas who just basically stand back.
And that was who they regurgitate.
So, again, how can you fight against a regressive leftist ideology when the people who are doing all the talking are the ones who don't actually have anything to say?
This is what I want to bring to you: we have to look at this.
So, what we have is this resurgence.
And it reminds me a lot right now of what happened in the housing crisis in 2005 through 2007, right?
So, for people that weren't familiar with that, I mean, you weren't living in the U.S., I don't think, during that time.
Actually, Australia was pretty spared from the economic crash of the we have a different kind of bubble in Australia with housing.
Yeah, so well, we'll figure it out.
Well, we'll find out what that is one day, except for the houses that are mostly ugly.
And I don't know why the architects don't know how to design houses.
I guess it's something on the other side of the equator.
Maybe they're just like being fried, yeah, or you have no ozone above you because cow farts, and so then everybody's like getting skin cancer, and so they're all dying.
But, anyways, it's like with the crash, right?
What happened is it was like, how did the greatest housing market, the greatest asset in this country, collapse, right?
It's like this was supposed to be the apex of what it means to have wealth.
Well, obviously, um, for those that didn't watch you know, movies on it or documentaries, to sum it up, basically, bankers got trigger happy with loans.
Uh, things were backed by the government, people started giving loans to people who shouldn't have had the loans, they started packaging up a bunch of really crappy loans and they sold them as one good loans.
They take 500 C grade-level houses and then they would put them all as one loan and sell that loan to a bank and advertise it as if they were actually stable loans.
And then, eventually, what happened is too many people had loans that couldn't pay them back, too many banks bought loans of houses that they couldn't sell back on their value, and the entire housing market completely imploded.
Well, the same thing's happening right now in the conservative movement.
Everyone's like, let's grow it because the liberals are taking over the media, so we've got to grow, grow, grow this.
So, just shoo-yuga.
like oprah winfrey's you know giveaways you get a job and you get a job and you get a job But of course, there's no vetting.
And by vetting, I don't mean gatekeeping.
They're not even looking at these people.
It's like, you have 60,000 followers.
Okay, but what if you just have followers because people think you're hot?
It's like, okay, well, is it wrong to just hire someone because people think they're hot?
No, it's not.
But we're not a movement that should reward people based on appearance.
That's what we're fighting against.
We're literally fighting against rewards based on superficial.
You know, yeah, exactly.
And so then when we're coming in and we're giving these girls power, then they get cocky and they have nothing to stand for.
So, well, I mean, I guess that's the thing is, like, for every guy who's abusing the crap out of you on the internet, which obviously happens a lot, again, as a female, happens a lot.
If you go and read the comments on any concern, like Candace Owens is a great example.
When you read through the comments, you're just some of them are appalling.
Oh, so do I, but just the comments that people leave, it's just like, wow.
Even I encourage you at some stage, go and read the comments that I get, particularly on like Instagram pictures where people are just like, they just attack you.
But I think on the other side, then you have these people who jump in and are like, I'm going to defend you, which is lovely.
Don't get me wrong.
If you, it's, it is nice to an extent to have people who are in your corner, but I think it can be taken too far.
Because I mean, the reality is that some you're not going to sit there and defend yourself to every person in the world who's ever called you a name or called you out for, you know, or you're just an ethos, you know.
But I know what you, I know what you're saying, but I, it's with all this stuff, there's, there's a line.
There's like, it's fine until it's not with all this stuff.
And I think that's basically like, I don't know if that's where you're coming at it from, but that's what I'm saying.
I actually, this is one of those really, really, really, really difficult topics to discuss because, and we're probably going to get a lot of flack for this, you realize that.
And that's the thing is like, and I think people overlook this is that, I mean, think, all right, think about any woman ever who has wanted to get ahead, who's basically slept her way to the top.
What, you think that we're exempt from doing that just because everyone happens to be conservative?
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Like, no, of course that's like totally possible to do.
So I think that the whole, oh, you're just jealous thing annoys me to no end because I'm like, no, I will prop people up and I will like get behind people who I actually believe in and who have ideas that are awesome.
But if your claim, like, claim to fame and the sole thing that you do is take really cute pictures, I don't, I don't understand.
It might come off like we're just bashing these people, but that's not what's happening.
There is a space for it.
There's a time and a place for this stuff.
And it's necessary.
Because like I said before, everything is sexualized.
Of course it's necessary.
It's going to happen eventually.
You know, we're not Puritans over here, but I think that again, and I think this is your point, it should be based around ideas rather than, like you said before, you know, just random characteristics that you have no control over.
So, like, if you come out and you criticize conservatives who are supposed to be open and free thinkers and minded, if you come out publicly and you condemn anything they do, they will make sure that you don't get ahead.
So, what does that teach these people, like these young girls, young guys?
Basically, whether you're actually giving them sexual favors or not, it doesn't matter.
Make sure that you're not a true conservative, you're not a free thinker, that you just show people that you like them.
And if you present that you like people, and might I even say go a step further and get their huge podcast set and just stick it right up your mouth, you know, just boom, suck on the flag and everything, you know, literally until the white light comes down from the top of the set all over your face.
No matter what you do, that's what that's how that's how to get ahead.
That's our movement, and that's why I'm upset about this.
It's not because there's there's there isn't room for beautiful women, it's not because all beautiful women are in it for the wrong reasons.
I'm actually just as upset about the men who are enabling these people and setting a bad example to our daughters, our sisters, our friends, people who are jumping into this movement.
We are saying that we're not about substance, we're just as empty.
And you know what?
If we're empty and it's about physicality, then we're way worse than the liberals because we don't have what they have.
We don't have the media, we don't have the music, we don't have the superficial things that are cool.
We just make ourselves less full, less fulfilling, and we just weaken the movement long term.
Well, I mean, you have to consider the fact, though, that maybe the reason that this is so prominent, oh, yes, is becoming more prominent, is because that's how people think that they can basically get to the younger, like you know, the Gen Z kind of people.
We should hack the ethos since let's play lefty tag.
Let's hack ethos and post pictures of Tommy Robinson and get them deleted.
Let's delete ethos permanently.
Anyways, we are running out of time.
I really, really appreciate you for being on the show.
It has been an absolute great talk about this real problem of the right starting to adapt leftist tactics because theirs were working, but they forgot it wasn't by copying the bad, malicious, evil tactics that's going to help us.
It was our fighting with truth and appealing to what the voters actually wanted, like working on immigration and the economy.
It wasn't about, you know, I'm an American.
I borrowed this gun from my friend, took a picture, so I look like I'm an American when just a month ago I was, you know, tweeting things about that clearly show that I don't care about these issues.
Like suddenly, in 30 days, I'm now a conservative.
Well, screw you because you're not a conservative.
And those that are buying into this are just as guilty as you.
And we need to have no room and no tolerance for this.
If we're actually going to be effective, we need to reward people based on their ideas, whether it's more men or more women.
I'm not concerned about that.
Whether the people are hot or they're ugly, no matter what their skin color is, it doesn't matter.
If they're going to be good, then they're great and we want them.
