Aug. 7, 2019 - Slightly Offensive - Elijah Schaffer
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This Needs to Be Said
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I don't normally record things like this in the morning, not in a studio and without having gotten ready to some extent.
But I woke up this morning and I made my typical cup of coffee.
Still a little too hot to drink.
And I looked at the news like I normally do just to see what's going on in the world.
And I realized that there's something that needs to be said.
And the ridiculousness that's going on right now in the country that seems to be blaming people on the right wing for all of the world's problems and specifically this country has just gotten out of hand.
It seems like every single day we're finding out that something else is blamed on Republicans.
It's Donald Trump's fault.
You know, it's these God-fearing people that are bigoted and homophobic and hate everyone.
And that's what's destroying the country.
You know, and I could tell you, every single day since the shootings happened this last weekend, all I've read about is how white supremacy is the enemy of the nation.
And if we don't stop this radicalization on the right wing, you know, the country's going to fall apart.
But of course, then I wake up and I'm greeted to what?
I'm greeted to mainstream media news articles, which of course are the only things that are recommended by Apple News for some reason.
Sorry about the barking.
There's homeless people that walk down this street and they carry boomboxes and their dogs attack people and stuff.
It's just LA stuff, but ignore the sounds.
Anyways, other than homeless people dying on the streets of LA, the mainstream media had consistent articles, you know, that said, I woke up, it says, you know, Trump's racist comments are basically destroying the country from CNN.
And I start reading the article thinking it's an op-ed just to see what's being said.
And it's talking about, oh, how the El Paso shooter said things that Trump said, which then ties Trump into the shooting.
And I go, oh, this is an op-ed.
Yeah, this is just an opinion.
I go up and I look at its headline news.
It's an actual article.
Like, what's being passed off today as news is anything that promotes the idea that everyone that's right-wing is evil and complicit in murder.
As if, like, people who vote Republican are that way.
But it gets even worse.
I'm actually going to be releasing a video about kids in cages.
And you thought that idea died.
This idea that Trump hates children, he hates Mexicans, that Republicans just hate everybody.
They're all bigoted white people that go to church and ignore the people who need help.
And I saw this article here.
It's going to be backwards because it's a camera, but it's from Huffington Post.
And it's titled, It Might Be Time to Cut My Right Wing Trump-loving in-laws out of my kids' lives.
This is a real title.
I'm going to repeat that again.
It might be time to cut my right-wing Trump-loving in-laws out of my kids' lives.
It's by this woman named Hannah Sellinger.
Of course, she says she's half Jewish, but of course she's white.
Because a lot of the divisions that are actually happening in America are happening because of rhetoric by white people.
And I would say that it's not rhetoric by the white people on the right.
This party of tolerance and love is just getting obnoxious.
And it's getting out of hand.
It literally says right here, I'm going to link this in the description.
She said, I don't want my sons to grow up without grandparents, but I also don't want them to grow up thinking it's okay to put kids in cages.
And so this woman, Hannah, and I'll kind of summarize this for you.
She starts explaining that her in-laws, her husband's parents, live in Florida and they're retired.
They're in their 70s.
So first of all, you know, the great target of white people, young liberal white people, of course, is these older white people, which they say are destroying America.
Peaceful people who are living in these communities, these Fox News watching people, these Generation X, these are the people that are ruining the country.
And this frigid, cold, I don't want to, I could just say it, she's a frigid, cold bitch.
And she comes on there on Huffington Pope.
This is trending, by the way.
This is what the world's considering news.
Says that, you know, she doesn't want her kids to be exposed to the bigotry.
Why?
Because her grand, her father-in-law or whatever, thought that two men kissing in a show was disgusting.
And he said under his breath and walked away.
As if like a straight old man would like, what, find two men kissing to be attractive?
Does everybody need to love to watch gay people kiss?
Do gay people like to watch straight people kiss?
No, I don't think so.
I don't think it's something to get off to.
That's why there's a thing called gay porn and straight porn because people like to watch different types of sexual interactions.
But of course it gets worse.
She starts talking about how she's no longer going to allow her in-laws to watch Fox News in her room as they spew bigotry.
She's not going to allow her kids to be to be exposed to such racism and blatant intolerance.
And then she goes on to say that, you know, but it's, you know, her husband isn't as understanding because he's not as likely to want to cut off his parents as she wants him to cut off his parents.
You know, like she's like saying, it's so sad that like my husband won't just cut off his parents because I asked him to because they watched Fox News and voted for Donald Trump.
And this girl, and I'm, you know, and I hate to use the language, but it's just sometimes needed, you know.
This woman who's coming out and saying that she's trying to build a tolerant world for her kids so that they can have acceptance and hope.
And the way that she's going to build tolerance and a world of acceptance is by just cutting people off and destroying her family and dividing people.
And you see this really totalitarian thing writing up.
This story is such an example of the way our country is moving right now.
You know, when you look at what's going on, there's this post by Educating Liberals Instagram, and he said, you know, Maxine Waters calls harm to Trump supporters.
Madonna wants to blow up the White House.
Kathy Griffin poses with a bloody Trump head.
Snoop Dogg makes a video executing Trump.
Johnny Demp wants Trump assassinated.
But the rhetoric from the right is causing the violence.
Yeah, you know, this is what I'm trying to say is that the people on the left are saying a few things.
The people on the right are trying to be exclusionary.
They're trying to set people away, send people away that they don't agree with.
They're trying to exclude people of color.
They don't like the LGBTQ community.
But I don't see any actual rhetoric on the right except for these nuanced, supposed racist tweets from Trump that they keep saying are out there, which I'm not seeing.
The only type of division I'm seeing is from the left who are saying, hey, it's time to destroy this family.
And I'm proud of it, she says.
I'm proud to destroy this family because it's needed to protect the next generation.
And it just blows my mind.
You know, we've had three mass public shootings, whatever you want to define that as, in the last couple of weeks.
So I need a couple more sips of coffee for this one.
You know, they always get these names.
These mass shootings get these names, right?
We have Charleston and we have the Garlic Festival and Dayton and El Paso and, you know, and this whole idea.
So we have all these killings that happened this weekend and in the last week.
But what does the news focus on?
Only El Paso.
And even though lives were killed in all the other shootings, we heavily focus on El Paso.
Because that shooting specifically involves somebody who allegedly did not like Hispanics, which is a terrible tragedy.
And if a person targeted Hispanic people because they were Hispanic, I don't know a single soul, even in the Republican Party, that doesn't think that that's trash and absolutely racist.
I mean, how could you deny that?
Even Donald Trump is like, the racist Donald Trump is gonna be able to say, yeah, if you targeted Hispanics for being Hispanic, that's really, really wrong.
But the problem is, is that the news claims to say, we care about mass shootings.
We want gun control because white supremacy.
And you go, you look at this and you go, what?
White supremacy is the biggest problem facing America when fatherlessness in black families is over 73%.
And the greatest killer of black men in violence is other black men.
When you're telling me that the things in our country, like obesity and heart disease, are killing more Americans than like alcohol and cigarette abuse.
And these food companies are ragingly just creating all this food that's being marketed relentlessly to our children.
You're telling me that we took God out of school, that these people that you look at them, they were picked on and destroyed in their classes because young Americans don't know what it means to be an American anymore.
They don't care.
They don't say the Pledge of Allegiance.
Americans don't care about their fellow countrymen anymore.
There's no national unity.
You're told that by the left constantly in movies and TV that everybody in the middle of America is evil and they're racist and they're bigoted.
And then you tell the people in the middle that they don't matter, they don't have a voice.
You exclude them off social media.
You censor them off websites.
You shut down even message boards like 8chan.
You completely silence these people until they become an explosive powder keg.
And you wonder why people are popping off and exploding.
You wonder why there's racial division.
It's not because of white supremacy that we have a threat in our country.
White supremacy, yes, of course, can cause problems, but there's a real threat and there's a real divide in our country.
And it's the divisiveness of the left who is telling young people that fellow Americans who don't accept a radical progressive agenda, who don't want to erase all guns and institute socialism and communism, are not only not Americans, but we're starting to see, you should just cut them out of your life.
Pretend like they don't exist.
And yes, there are people that are insane on the right wing.
I've met some.
I mean, look, there's people I don't associate with on the right wing, specifically.
People I've been in contact with.
Man, that's good.
Because they don't have good ideas, but those people don't have platforms.
People on the right don't give those people platforms.
That's what's important about this.
When people are crazy on the right, right-wingers know that because we work in facts and logic.
I happen to consider myself more of a centrist, but sadly, I've been grouped to being a radical right-wing person just because I don't want to cut my future son's dick off.
You know, and that's what's so bizarre about this.
It's like, you know, it's like, well, one, you're mad about your dad in this article not wanting gay, like thinking it's gross for people to kiss that are gay.
What, your dad's not allowed to have an opinion?
I mean, with pornography, there's so many fetishes out there, right?
There's this problem with them creating so much pornography.
Why?
Because certain people are into certain things.
And maybe it doesn't surprise me that a 74-year-old Caucasian male, straight male, who's retired in Palm Beach, doesn't find it attractive when gay people tongue each other.
Does it make him a bigot?
No, it just means that he's probably a straight, right, 70-year-old, four-year-old male.
You know?
And it's like these people are so bubbled.
And what strikes me the most about this narrative is that these people are buying the narrative from the media.
They're writing articles about it.
And it's this self-conflated machine that's destroying our country.
And it's like, it's like this weird backwards paradox where the people that are trying to fix it are getting labeled as racist.
And it's like racism is the worst thing you can be called today.
You know?
I've always thought that was weird.
It's like you can go out and call people racist with no evidence, with no actual understanding, with no definition of what racism is.
Use it to marginalize them, exclude them from the public conversation, and then you just get away with it.
It's sad, it's pathetic, and I don't buy it, and a lot of Americans don't.
And to watch this author, Huffington Post, BuzzFeed, CNN, MSNBC, all of these news outlets, Slate, Vice, Vox, just collude together with corporate interests in the purpose of redefining this country in a way that is Marxist, socialist, totalitarian, anti-liberty, anti-individual rights, and then say that we are the ones.
We're the ones who are destroying this country.
That is BS.
You said that Trump is excluding people.
He's putting kids in cages.
Well, you know what a real cage is?
The cage you're putting around your kid's mind when you're bringing Black Mirror, that episode where the mom censors her daughter, check it out, to real life.
You're putting your kid in a fake mental cage.
And do you know who's separating families?
You are, Selinger.
You are.
By dividing your own family and putting pressure on your husband.
I hope he wakes up and he realizes that you are a terrible person and so does America.
And you're proud that your article's trending.
And just like you and every other cocky other blue checkmarked, you know, journalist and writer and person getting praised by the left who thinks because you're getting clout because of what you're saying.
You know what?
Stalin got applauses too.
Do you ever know that Hitler got standing ovations as well?
Totalitarians and evil people who spread bad ideas often get praised because they force into subjection the people under them to praise them.
Praise doesn't equal support.
Praise doesn't actually equal that you're right.
Praise just means that people are afraid to stand up to you, but I'm not.
Americans aren't.
And we're going to continue to fight for this great nation.
I appreciate you guys, you know, accepting this low-quality video and realize that this just needed to be said.
My name is Elijah Schaefer, your favorite gay black woman in Whiteface, reporting to you from Hollywood, California.
