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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of The Load Seaters for Wednesday, the 17th of February, 2021.
	I'm joined by Callum, and we're going to be talking about the decolonizing of England, which is obviously something that needs to be done, the demasculinizing of men, which is also something that needs to be done, and the weirdly unconnected phenomenon of Trump supporters being irresistible to leftist women.
	Gutted I didn't bring my MAGA cap today, but never mind, what are you going to do?
	First, though, first, we're going to let you know that we have amazing reporting on LotusEaters.com.
	There is actually a fantastic article that went up today about the unemployment aid fraud that in the rush to give everyone COVID money, Hugh goes to a brilliant report about how it looks like, well, $100 billion worth of money has been lost to fraud in this endeavor.
	What a surprise.
	If you start pumping out money, money machine goes burr, and you start throwing it at people, it turns out that a lot of it just disappears.
	It's the same in the UK.
	I had a call from someone who I think they applied for the business loan, It's not like they run a restaurant or something.
	Yeah.
	And they said to me that they found it really strange that they could just answer like five questions and money.
	Yeah.
	No background check.
	No making sure I'm lying.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	Weird.
	Weird, isn't it?
	Really, really interesting.
	When everyone goes into panic mode and starts throwing money around, suddenly money just goes missing.
	Hopefully they get it back, but they probably won't.
	Of course they're not.
	It's gone.
	It's gone forever, and nothing's going to happen to the people who have taken it.
	But yeah, check out lotuses.com, and we will be expanding our news team as well, even though it's already brilliant, but we're going to make it better.
	But anyway, let's talk about the decolonizing of England.
	So, decolonizing the curriculum.
	This is the new buzzword of the day for the leftists.
	It's been bumbling around for a fairly long time now.
	But it's sort of finally coming to fruition, so I thought we'd go over it a little bit.
	Because there was a singular story which has recaptured this issue.
	Because there's actually been a lot of pushback from the academics, interestingly.
	I suppose it's worth us beginning by stating our position that it doesn't seem to be rational to decolonize a country that wasn't colonized.
	So the narrative from the left on this is that England is a colonizer and therefore all of its writings and culture and everything else is of a colonizer and therefore we must decolonize England by decolonizing their curriculum and how they think and so on and so forth.
	Okay, but in normal terms that would mean the colonization of an indigenous culture.
	Hmm.
	Because the culture of England is, of course, indigenous to England.
	And so when these foreign ideas come from outside and come into English institutions and say, right, we need to start tearing down your cultural icons, we need to start tearing down your cultural heroes, all of the cultural works that you think are good, like Shakespeare, blah, blah, blah, they'll have to go.
	That seems to be the sort of thing that ISIS would do.
	Yeah, and it's the sort of thing a colonizer would do.
	And the left actually had a term for this back in Chomsky's years, which they used to call it cultural imperialism.
	It was a criticism of the United States, that the United States would burst into a country that has no American principles and enforce its culture upon them.
	Well, what does it look like when it's woke American ideology, though?
	Can we still call it cultural imperialism?
	Which I think, yes.
	The French certainly will, won't they?
	Yeah, let's get into it.
	So this is an article from The Guardian proclaiming how awful it is that only a fifth of UK universities say they are, quote, decolonizing their curriculums.
	So they wrote to every university that they could think of, and about 20% of them got back and said, yes, yes, we are decolonizing our curriculum.
	So a fifth of UK universities are utterly and irredeemably corrupted with leftism.
	Gotcha.
	So some quotes from this just explain their position.
	The disclosure comes as universities are under pressure to modernize their syllabus and address the attainment gap between white students and those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds.
	So they're saying that brown-skinned students are performing less academically, therefore the solution to this is to decolonize the curriculum, which means...
	Therefore drag the other students down with them.
	That's the solution.
	And I'm sure that this, like, the term brown excludes Asian, right?
	Well, black and Asian minority ethnic, but in England, Asian means Pakistani.
	Yeah, I'm not allowed to use the word oriental, am I? Well, you can.
	There's nothing wrong with the word.
	Well, I think it's a great word.
	I think it's an...
	Yeah, John's given me an oriental pass.
	You've got an O pass, huh?
	Yeah, but I think it's a nice word, too.
	Yeah.
	It sounds exotic and interesting.
	It is actually a...
	It sounds flattering.
	Like a pleasure, yeah, a flattering word.
	Anyway...
	So, continuing here, they say that the campaign for decolonising the curriculum will give a fuller version of British history that reflects injustices and lords the contributions of black people who also won widespread support.
	This movement has also won widespread support from the Black Lives Matter movement.
	Right, okay.
	So this is expressly political out of the get-go.
	Don't be fooled by this if anyone was.
	If Black Lives Matter are in support of that, I'm probably against it.
	The Black Students Officer at the National Union of Students, because of course there is a specific black officer for these things, gave a statement talking about it.
	Decolonising the curriculum means providing an accurate portrayal of history and providing students and staff with the tools to critically identify how the university reproduces colonial hierarchies.
	So the way the university works is producing hierarchies, and that's bad.
	Hang on, hang on, hang on.
	Let me finish the quote.
	Okay.
	This will empower them to confront and reject the status quo and ensure knowledge production reflects our diverse societies.
	Right.
	How can a university operate without a hierarchy?
	Can't.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the teachers surely are superior to the students in knowledge, which is why they're teaching the students, which is and of itself a hierarchy.
	Yes.
	Okay.
	So that's just absurd.
	But also, there's a hint there, he wants to get rid of the status quo, and I'm just like, yeah, I know what you're at, but...
	This is Kehinde Andrews' university.
	Yeah, it is his.
	His department, it sounds like.
	I think so.
	Correct me if I'm wrong.
	If it is not in the strategic plan, it's not considered important to the university.
	So every university needs to do this, says the race grifters.
	Surprise, surprise.
	So it's not enough just to argue endlessly, as every university does, 100%, and including government organizations, that diversity, inclusion, and inclusiveness, and equality, and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	you know the buzzwords, are already in their charters.
	They have plans for them.
	They have departments who work on them endlessly.
	They get paid very handsomely for doing this pointless work.
	And that's not enough.
	We don't need to go after the curriculums themselves.
	So it's not enough to just pray the priest.
	Like all of your stuff has to be in line with the doctrine of wokeness.
	So that reference, by the way, is a reference to a premium podcast that we recorded yesterday.
	It's not up yet, but it will be up.
	Talking about the religious aspect of medieval guilds in England.
	And how it very strongly reflects the sort of pseudo-religious aspect of wokeism in universities and things like that.
	And companies, yeah.
	And companies, yeah.
	It's really shocking how parallel these things appear to be.
	But that'll be up probably later this week.
	Whenever I get it done.
	Yeah.
	But it's a good one.
	So you can get the point here that this is definitely coming out of lesser thought and it's bubbling around.
	But it got adopted by the Labour Party a couple of years ago.
	So I'll play the first clip here.
	This is a representative of her constituent Labour Party who went to give a talk about this.
	And she mentions decolonising the curriculum.
	For black, Asian and minority adults, black, Asian and minority ethnic children.
	An inclusive and equitable national education service requires an ambitious and overarching plan for black, Asian and minority ethnic students, staff, including migrant children, adult learners and refugees.
	This is crucial in a time of rising racism.
	As part of the review, an expert panel will consider how climate change and its impact are taught from primary school onwards.
	This is in paragraph 3, page 33 under curriculum.
	Teaching about climate change is vital.
	And will have increasing significance.
	Reforming the curriculum should take account of this.
	However, the current debate around Brexit has exposed dangerous divisions in how we understand migration, including climate migration, climate refugees, belonging and empire, and how these issues affect us all.
	They all need to be taught as part of a broader project of decolonising and diversifying a curriculum God, what a word salad.
	But it sounds sinister to me.
	Yeah, it is.
	I mean, when we're talking about doing this from primary school upwards, she's talking about climate change there.
	But this kind of cultural engineering, just like scientific cultural engineering, it's like, look, most culture isn't scientific.
	So anything that comes into contact with it, you're instantly going to go, as racist is bad.
	It has to go.
	But that's everything about the aesthetics of England.
	The thing that makes England English is the way it looks and feels and sounds and thinks and acts.
	And you're like, no, that's all racist.
	It has to go.
	I mean, that is what they're arguing.
	That's the Labour Party conference.
	God, it's so cancerous.
	I love how bad they are.
	And they just live stream it.
	You can watch it on YouTube.
	And they don't realise how embarrassing they are.
	Yeah, so cringe.
	And it's then got adopted by Labour MPs who are pushing for this in the Parliament, because of course they were.
	So this is Dawn Butler, who used to be the Education Secretary.
	I think the subsequent one is also signed on to this.
	But she gave a statement.
	It's not David Lammy, is it?
	I can't remember.
	At the moment, history is taught to make one group of people feel inferior and another group of people feel superior.
	And this needs to stop.
	We need to look at history and we need to improve it.
	History needs to be decolonised.
	So that's part of a speech you gave in Parliament.
	I'm always up for improving history.
	How does that even make any sense?
	Oh, it's totally not the sort of thing they would have done in Nazi Germany or in Soviet Union or something like that.
	Sanitise history because it was ideologically incompatible with what they're trying to project.
	Absolutely not, sir.
	That would be ridiculous.
	History is the things that have happened.
	You can't alter them.
	So how do you improve them?
	Oh, well, they've got ways.
	They've got ways and weens.
	I also love here, she says that our current education system teaches people that one group is inferior and one group is superior.
	I agree, Dawn Butler.
	I actually agree with this because we have government policies that literally discriminate against white British people who apply for jobs in this country.
	I think if you get your way and some of what's already in the education curriculum, the way you teach these things is to make people feel that way.
	So it's...
	That part of which is racist is the woke ideology, which is already at play.
	Yes.
	So, then, this sounds absurd, but what does it look like in practice?
	Well, it's been put into practice, so it's all been a bit of fluff, people signing on to it, but then this happened.
	So, University of Leicester decolonized their curriculum and actually enacted what they were suggesting, and there was a lot of anger towards this with the article states.
	Hang on, just a thing.
	So decolonising an English curriculum surely means removing Shakespeare.
	Yes.
	Let me explain.
	COVID happens, universities can't pay their bills because they haven't got enough students coming in.
	So this university decides, right, we're going to bail a bunch of people off.
	Perfectly fair.
	Whatever.
	Who cares?
	It wouldn't be a story, really.
	But they decided that they would lay off 145 people, and this would affect the English department, mathematics, business, psychology.
	So it's like, right, this is bad, but okay, if you need to lay people off, fine.
	Are we getting rid of Newton?
	No, they were just laying off people.
	But then they also issued a statement at the same time that the university is facing anger in response to this because they dropped the English language and medieval literature modules of their English courses and introduced a decolonized curriculum.
	The University of Leicester said it was considering cutting subjects after a drop in demand and instead focusing on ethnicity, sexuality and diversity.
	Under the restructuring, the English department would no longer teach medieval literature due to a drop in demand for undergraduate and postgraduate students in the recent years.
	If adopted, the changes would also mean that the university would be discontinuing bachelors in English with an English language and masters in English language with linguistics.
	The university said that they planned to introduce a range of modules, so in replacement of those modules, and the modules would be exceedingly innovative, focusing on subjects such as race, ethnicity, sexuality and diversity.
	So they're lying.
	They're saying, right, we need to take cuts, that's fine, but then the cuts they're applying to the English language department is getting rid of medieval English literature and then replacing it with modules on wokeism.
	Sexuality, diversity, ethnicity, race, okay, this is just propaganda.
	Yeah, I mean, I love the argument.
	It's like, oh, look, essentially, you know, the English curriculum is racist, let's replace it with race.
	As if that's any kind of substitute.
	Yeah.
	So we know they're lying.
	That's why I'm trying to get it.
	So you mentioned Shakespeare.
	I think some of Shakespeare is cancelled here because all teaching on canonical texts before 1500 would cease because they're getting rid of the medieval English language section.
	So this would include the poem Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the Canterbury Tales would go, and the father of English literature, Geoff Chaucer, would basically not be included in anything in the English language section.
	Man, that is a deeply, deeply disappointing thing as well.
	Because, I mean, like, Beowulf and Gwaine and the Green Knight are both beautiful poems.
	Like, they're really interesting.
	And Gwaine and the Green Knight in particular is really amazingly written.
	The descriptions of the landscape that Gwaine goes through to meet the Green Knight are actually, they're so poetic.
	Like, they're incredible.
	It's a genuine pleasure to read these things.
	So it's like, right, okay.
	So if you're taking an English language module, a degree, you'd expect to focus on those kind of things, you know, English language throughout history and how it developed.
	No, no, those are not important.
	Those modules will be replaced with wokeism.
	But that's literally erasing the indigenous history of England.
	That is what decolonization looks like, apparently.
	The erasure of English culture.
	Doesn't sound like decolonizing, sounds like colonizing to me.
	It does.
	I mean, and I keep emphasizing the word indigenous because this culture didn't evolve anywhere else.
	It came from England.
	Yeah.
	So some good pushback on this from Education Secretary we spoke about before, Gavin Williamson.
	He referred to this whole thing as an absolute madness.
	Yep.
	So, good.
	That's a start, yeah.
	And then the defence from the university, so they give there a fair shake, they gave a spokeswoman who came out and said, For example, many reading lists are dominated by white authors.
	This ignores many great BAME authors, who also mean that BAME students do not see themselves reflected in what they are being taught.
	What?
	Why would that be relevant?
	She said that the work was unconnected to the prose redundancies and removal of courses.
	So she's a liar.
	Yeah, well, yeah.
	But, like, I mean, I don't see myself reflected in Beowulf.
	But...
	I'm just saying, I mean, like, 8th century Saxon story about a Danish warrior is not something I feel represented in, but I don't have to feel represented to find it interesting.
	It's not the same skin tone as you, so apparently you do.
	Oh, I guess so.
	I guess so.
	You can't ask the students, I guess.
	But also the absurdity here of saying, if students are studying medieval England, and they do not find black faces, therefore they feel unrepresented, therefore we must destroy the module.
	But imagine if you go to the, I don't know, the Japanese Studies Department, and you've got the white kids from Birmingham studying Japanese Studies.
	I mean, are they going to start demanding the removal of medieval Japanese studies?
	You've got no choice.
	Logically, I'm not represented in this.
	I mean, we're going to really be reducing the amount of history that can actually be taught here, aren't we?
	Which sounds like exactly the point, doesn't it?
	Yeah, it is exactly the point.
	And I was just trying to make the point there.
	This only goes one way.
	It's not going to go any other way.
	You would not turn up in Nigeria and demand, I don't know, of Nigerian history be destroyed because I don't see any white faces here.
	I'm being underrepresented in Nigerian history.
	There are no white faces in Nigerian history until, like, the 19th century.
	Therefore, scrap it.
	That would be ridiculous.
	Yeah.
	So I wanted to mention the vice chancellor of this university who has been part of the group that made this decision that they would do this.
	This is him talking in an interview a while back during the George Floyd protests were kicking off.
	So this has been brewing for a long time.
	It's not just something he's decided.
	So he's saying here that the student body is 52% BAME, but of the teaching staff, only 14.2% have brown skin.
	In what university?
	University of Leicester.
	Right, okay.
	But then it's like, why do we care what the student body is?
	Like, if you're obsessed with representation, like surely you should do the national representation or something like that, right?
	But no, as soon as the BAME number is bigger in the local area, then we have to use that one instead.
	So presumably he wants to hire 50% people with brown skin, and then that'll help his university be better somehow, because he just...
	You are in England.
	Even if you have brown skin, you should probably learn about the history of the country you're in.
	But, you know, priorities.
	I mean, if I was in a different...
	Sorry, people can't hear each other.
	If I was in a different country, I would expect to learn about the history of that country.
	But also, I don't know, like, take us moving to Nigeria en masse, and then a university in Nigeria has 50% white students because we can afford to go there because we're the rich of the world.
	And then all of a sudden we're demanding that 50% of the teaching staff in this Nigerian university are white.
	Yeah.
	That's colonization.
	This guy pays a quarter of a million for this job.
	Just keep that in mind.
	Of course he does.
	So, a quote from him.
	When you have a large population of ethnic minorities, like in Leicester, we need to make sure that they can identify with that curriculum.
	But I think there is still a lot more of work that needs to be done to truly decolonize the curriculum.
	What?
	Like, because there are white faces in English history, that needs to be fixed by doing what exactly?
	But also, we have suddenly turned up in the last few generations and now we want this changed.
	Again, it just sounds like colonisation, doesn't it?
	And there's also some of the absurd racist practices that are going on here.
	The university has launched a £1.5 million annual scheme to create three funded PhD scholarships and ten postgraduate scholarships to attract students from BAME communities into academia.
	So specifically targeting people with brown skin on the basis that they have brown skin.
	So racial hiring practices.
	Racial privileges.
	And then for some reason, because ITV's in on this, they're the ones doing this interview.
	Of course they are.
	They also mention at the end, around 300,000 students have signed a petition calling for The Good Immigrant by Nikita...
	I can't say the name, sorry.
	And why I'm no longer talking to white people about race to be added to the GCSE reading list.
	It's like, this is a conversation about universities.
	Oh god, I wish that was the case.
	Could we not talk about race?
	I mean, I'd love for that to not be the conversation we have to have on a daily basis with race grifters.
	But that's the thing, they're hinting to there, because this is a university vice-chancellor, this isn't going to stay in the universities.
	As soon as this is adopted by the universities, it will become part of the secondary schools and then the primary schools.
	And not only that, it will become part of the sort of ethic of the people taught by them.
	They'll think that it's okay for us to have a particular focus on race in every aspect of our lives.
	And essentially all history before brown people exist in England is going to be void.
	White supremacist?
	Yeah, it just is by definition and therefore needs to be improved by only representing modern history.
	That's insane.
	Absolutely.
	Again, just sounds very Soviet to me.
	So the pushback on this actually came from the academics at the university.
	They were the ones who were losing their jobs, though.
	So, well, yeah, I guess they're invested.
	So there's one lady here who gave up an honorary doctorate.
	So among those who opposed to the challenges, Professor Isabel Armstrong, a fellow at the British Academy, who was returned her honorary doctorate from the university in protest of them getting rid of these modules.
	Yep.
	An examiner of the university's English Studies Department, Professor Catherine Clarke, has also resigned in protest.
	She's like, this is ridiculous.
	There is no way you're doing this.
	And then the next link here is the union at the university of those academics passing a motion of no confidence in the vice-chancellor for doing this, which I'm a bit blackpilled on.
	They are only doing this because of their layoffs.
	They don't care that they're pushing propaganda and destroying history.
	But, you know, I mean, it's something, I guess.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so I wanted to look into something a little more homegrown to myself, to try and understand the decolonize the curriculum thing more broadly.
	Because this won't just stay in academia, it won't go into companies.
	You'll have to decolonize Shell and decolonize BP and whatever else, right?
	And everything.
	Yeah, like with everything else, with inclusion and diversity departments.
	So this is an Instagram page I got.
	So this is the University of Kent, the Afro-Diasporic Legal Network.
	Because I jotted this down ages ago, because it's amazing.
	They issued a statement in which they were demanding a bunch of stuff because they claimed that the local campus security were targeting them for being black, and it was like, there's no evidence, but okay, whatever.
	And in those claims, they're saying they're making reference to decolonize UKC, and therefore this is where the claims come from.
	So, just some quotes.
	Many disciplines are void of black, queer, feminist, social, political thought in theory.
	Good.
	Why?
	What?
	If you're taking medieval history, you need to shove in their black, queer, feminist, social-political thought.
	Why?
	Why would you?
	When I'm studying physics, I need that, do I? Because you're a black, queer feminist who specializes in socio-political theory.
	That's the only reason you'd do it.
	So they also, talking later on, this means adhering to recommendations that already exist, which focus on decolonizing our curriculum, the institution making an active effort to decolonize itself, and instead co-opting the work of decolonized UKC, and can be critical of the curriculum that prioritizes whiteness and white supremacy.
	So basically anything white needs to go.
	So anything English needs to go.
	Anything English.
	That's the thing.
	Using the term white, it conceals what they're actually doing.
	It's targeting a particular ethnic group here.
	Because there's an ideology that comes from United States campuses, which speaks in terms of white and black.
	Which is totally irrelevant in Europe.
	In England makes no sense.
	You can talk about English and Scottish if you want, or Welsh and Irish or something.
	Higher representation of Scottish writers would make sense.
	Yeah, sure.
	And I would oppose that in principle.
	LAUGHTER They also say that we demand the implementation of a physical BME student space that can be used for BME societies and collectives as a student community service hub.
	So, a separate space for non-white people.
	They want a separate space from the whites in which they can hold their...
	Jesus.
	Brown skin societies on the basis that they have brown skin, so they can talk about, I don't know, how bad white people are, I guess.
	We demand the immediate hire of BME counsellors within student support and well-being that can facilitate their weekly drop-in sessions for BME students.
	Okay.
	You need to hire brown counsellors on the basis for coddling of brown people.
	If they're making demands, the question is, what are they threatening us with?
	Not much.
	Exactly.
	There's nothing there.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So the answer's just no.
	But that's the thing.
	No, the university will buckle on this.
	They buckle on everything else.
	So, you know, every university is buckled on these things.
	I mean, looking at Leicester, literally deleting their own sections.
	So, I just wanted to mention here, the Islamic Society and the UKCLGBTQ Society also endorse this message.
	UKCLGBTQ. Yeah, the alphabet people.
	And the Islamic Society.
	It's like, hmm.
	Islamo-leftism rise again, huh?
	Macron's right about Islamo-leftism.
	I also wanted to mention the Islamic Society on campus.
	I went to a few of their events.
	I got given a Quran by them, and I just wanted to mention it's Wahhabist.
	So it has notes about what the Quran really means, and it's talking about covering up in there.
	There's a section called in there.
	And the notes there are like, the woman must cover up all of her body except her eyes and sometimes her hands.
	Sometimes her hands?
	So meaning you would wear gloves, but sometimes you'd have to take the gloves off.
	Right, okay.
	It's like, wow, this is extreme.
	Very progressive.
	Very progressive.
	So then I went to Decolonise UKC's thing to look at what they were demanding, so primary source text, because it's always the best going to the source because you get the most crazy stuff.
	Look at the way this is being represented!
	God, just a fist!
	A multicoloured fist!
	So I just wanted to go through a few of the demands because it's a long-ass document that's very boring.
	But it's on white paper.
	I mean, that's racist.
	So one of the things they demand is a list of BME members of staff that are accessible to all students.
	What?!
	So you would get, like, every student would get a list of all the brown teachers.
	It's like, what do you want me to do with this?
	Like, why do I need this?
	I feel like they're dog-whistling to the racists.
	I honestly do, because it strikes me that in another universe, a parallel dimension, a bunch of racists are demanding the university gives them a list of the blacks and non-white staff.
	Like, I can't help but feel that's going to be the case.
	Like, I wonder if it's like Douglas Murray talks about the lack, what is it, the supply and demand problem for Nazis.
	Oh, yeah.
	They're like trying to make some Nazis, you know, do some things and then they can claim.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	I like the way you credited that to Douglas Murray and not me, but carry on.
	Oh, is it?
	You made that up?
	Of course I did.
	Douglas.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Anyway, so they also want BME counsellors, mentors and health advisors, or trained in BME issues, even if only available for specific slots on campus.
	Again?
	What the...
	Again, this is just what the Nazis would be demanding.
	Give me a list of Jews.
	Is that okay?
	Well, no.
	Student support through discussions on literature produced by staff of colour or from the Global South and a list of critical race learning modules, e.g. race, religion and law, available as additional options and publicised.
	So they want a list of Australians.
	I also want a list of Australians.
	Global South.
	This is the most absurd thing I've ever heard.
	Like, I hate this term.
	It just means third world, but they don't want to say third world.
	So it's like, shut up.
	Okay, mate.
	They also want to set up a race slash racialized religion equality network to support staff.
	So explicitly saying we want a racialized network to support us.
	It's like, okay.
	I guess the Nazis would have asked for the same thing.
	And then they ask for any staff enforcing the prevent duty, so the anti-terrorism duty, should undergo Islamophobia training to develop cultural competence in order to tackle racial profiling slash biases and understand the impact of prevent as a form of radicalization towards Muslim students in particular.
	So trying to prevent people from radicalizing is itself a radicalizing factor.
	But you'll also notice there that Prevent isn't explicitly about dealing with Islamist terrorism.
	No, it's not.
	It's not.
	It's meant to deal with all kinds of terrorism.
	But they associate it only with?
	With Muslims, which, hmm, interesting.
	And then they also mention that they're talking about the attainment gap, so the fact that brown-skinned students are not performing as well as white-skinned students.
	Of course, where are the Asian-skinned students, shall I say, of the oriental type?
	Yes.
	I don't know.
	Well, they've been...
	They're not part of the graph.
	They've been folded into the white people, I think, at this point.
	They're in the white ooma now, I guess.
	Which is good, because it's raising our average statistics.
	Our IQ just went up.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Thanks, John.
	The last thing here.
	There was also a lack of awareness of black scholarships, including for students in Stage 3 looking forward to convert to a Master's or PhD programmes, and the lack of full funding for students from the Global South is a major obstacle.
	This is part of a blockage in the career pipeline for students of colour at the University of Kent.
	Why do you want scholarships on the basis of your skin tone?
	Why can't they just get a normal scholarship?
	You tell me.
	Because they're brown.
	Is it because I'm brown?
	Are these universities really so racist that they won't give black people scholarships on the basis that they're black?
	No, apparently they're so racist they will give money to black people on the basis that they're black and not give that money to white people on the basis that they're white.
	Well, I mean, if they end up giving them the separate drinking fountains that they're asking for, then maybe we can confirm that they're racist.
	There's a different space in which they can hold themselves.
	Maybe we can actually call them racist, then.
	Give them entire separate universities, perhaps, that are separate but equal.
	I mean, is that what UKC wants?
	Like the Trump administration did with their universities, where they're like, oh, we're institutionally racist.
	Like, are you?
	Maybe the Conservatives could do the same thing.
	That's literally it.
	And they will fold on this.
	They've folded on everything else that I've seen them ever fold on.
	But this is what these people are asking for.
	They're asking for segregated spaces.
	They're asking money for only black people.
	Support networks for only black people.
	Lists of black people.
	Lists of black people for God knows what reason.
	And we're meant to sit here and think this is normal.
	Abolishing English history in English universities.
	As they were doing that, the complaint wasn't even about that.
	The complaint was about, we've lost our jobs.
	It's like, yeah, but you don't...
	This stuff doesn't annoy you?
	Really?
	You've got nothing to say on all of this.
	Absolutely nothing.
	Cowardice.
	It's pathetic.
	But that's what the decolonize movement is about, in case you're ever wondering.
	And it's been rampaging through the pipeline, and now it is being enacted.
	And the inaction is destroying English history, culture, and everything else, on the basis that they don't have the skin tone that I have.
	That's really disappointing because I love English history.
	I think it's great.
	Too bad.
	I think it's really interesting.
	I like the aesthetics of it.
	I like the story of it, the narratives, the suffering that the English have had to go through in the history.
	It's all really interesting.
	Honestly, reading some of the Anglo-Saxon poems about the Viking evasion is harrowing.
	You know, you can tell this is just tremendously dark time in English history.
	I mean, Alfred the Great literally begins one of the letters he wrote by saying that England used to be a happy place and then the Vikings arrived.
	And it's like, wow, you can really get the sense of, like, you know, something has been lost.
	With all of this going on.
	And then if you read The Wanderer, it's this inspired Tolkien in Lord of the Rings because it's about a man who has lost his hall, his lord.
	He's lost his family, he's lost his comrades, and everything that gave him safety and security in the world has been destroyed by these Viking invasions.
	And he's lost and wandering through the world.
	And it's tragic.
	It's so, so heartbreaking.
	And it's like, okay, that's got to go.
	Sorry, this deep look into the human condition, that's not good enough.
	No.
	Have you considered they have the wrong skin tone?
	I hadn't.
	Everything you just said is garbage, because they don't have the right skin tone.
	I hadn't considered it.
	I just didn't think about it.
	And the Canterbury Tales, oh my god.
	I mean, again, these organisations get, you know, every university gets public money, so we're funding this as well.
	We are paying for the rope that will hang us, with the Conservative government in charge.
	I mean, I'm glad to see Gavin Williamson saying this is utter madness.
	Okay, now do something.
	Yeah, like you have done with the free speech stuff.
	Good boy, you did a good thing there.
	We'll do something here.
	You are not going to get public money if you start destroying English history.
	Yeah, but more importantly, you need to address their arguments on the merits.
	You have to come out and say, look, you can't decolonise England.
	That can't be done, because England was never colonised by the rest of the world, in the way that you're thinking of.
	You know, England, for the good or the bad of it, was the coloniser, correct, and therefore we agree now that colonisation is bad, sure, then we stop.
	But anyway.
	My personal response to that would probably be a quote from Henry V, I think.
	I can think of many of them, actually, and I'm not even going to start, I'm just going to carry on.
	Well, they're against YouTube's terms of service.
	No, it's not even against YouTube's terms of service.
	It's just I'd get angry and start yelling.
	So, right.
	So, we've got a couple of things here that I think bleed into one another.
	The first thing is the leftist attempt to demasculinize men.
	Now, this is not new in any way, shape, or form, as I'm sure everyone listening to this will be well aware.
	You've got loads and loads of examples.
	I've just pulled a few out.
	So, one of them was this in 2018.
	Where the University of Texas in Austin declared that masculinity was a mental health crisis, and they wanted to develop a healthy model of masculinity, and it was a critique of restrictive masculinity.
	Which is a good start, because at least they can acknowledge that not all masculinity is evil, and there is something that is a healthy masculinity.
	However, a leftist is going to try and define it, which I don't trust in the slightest, but at least they accept that there is something there.
	But, um...
	It's, you know, it's as cringe as you expect, where they're just like, oh god, masculinity is difficult and it's essentially oppressive.
	It's like, yeah.
	It can hurt boys, in fact.
	Well, you're just like, yeah, good.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You need to be oppressed.
	Do you know why?
	Because you're not good enough in your current state.
	No one is good enough in their current state.
	You, listening to this now, you're not good enough.
	Go and lift some weights.
	Go and get to work.
	Go and do something productive.
	And tomorrow, you'll be better than you were today.
	And take the same attitude the next day and the next day and the next day.
	And in 10 years' time, you'll look back and go, wow, I'm actually a lot stronger and smarter and fitter and more sensible and more accomplished than I was back then.
	Because back then, like I said, you are not good enough.
	This is the essence of masculinity.
	Improve thyself, right?
	And this attitude apparently hurts boys.
	Yeah, good.
	Because if we don't, they might end up turning into cat boys, and I'm not accepting it.
	They might not turn into men.
	Exactly, exactly.
	Men are not born, they are made, right?
	But anyway, this was traditional masculinity can hurt boys, said the American Psychological Association.
	Yeah, hopefully.
	It did not have a guide for working with males, in part because they were historically considered the norm.
	And so it proved its first official set of guidelines.
	And they said that men who are socialized conform to traditional masculinity ideology are often negatively effective in terms of mental and physical health.
	Yeah, right.
	Yeah, right.
	It's being men and being respected as men that's hurting them.
	It's not saying that men are bad.
	And by the way, you're a man, by the way.
	So you're bad.
	It's that.
	That's what it is.
	Right?
	And they acknowledge that ideas vary across cultures and age groups, but they point to common themes like anti-femininity, achievement, eschewal of the appearance of weakness, and adventure, risk, and violence.
	Yeah, sounds great, doesn't it?
	Yeah, John's cheering in the corner.
	Yeah, come on, let's do this.
	Adventure, risk, and violence.
	That sounds like a good time, to be honest.
	But this basically has enabled the left to, as Vice magazine has shown us here, say that all masculinity is toxic.
	There we go.
	That's where we wanted to get to.
	Thank you, left-wingers.
	It's not that there's a good masculinity.
	It's not that there's a bad masculinity.
	No, it's all toxic.
	Why?
	Because it produces, you know, competent achievers who like doing things and are not afraid of the world.
	And if you're strong, then what use do you have for leftist ideology?
	Not much, actually.
	But yeah, so this was obviously written by a very manly man called Wilbert Cooper, who says, it seems like manhood is being redefined.
	The push could be the response to our abuses revealed by the Me Too movement.
	Ah, yes.
	Every man is basically, they heard about the Me Too movement and thought, oh God, that represents me, not that represents Hollywood, you know.
	Anyway.
	But anyway, he goes on, blah, blah, blah, blah, right?
	Conservative critics use the term bemoan its use because they believe it unfairly implicates all men and worry about those who are using it, awaiting a subversive war on masculinity as a whole.
	Well, it seems that they're correct then, doesn't it?
	I mean, it does seem to be a subversive war on masculinity as a whole that is being waged by the left.
	That's not subversive, they're doing it publicly.
	Yeah, I mean, yeah, it used to be subversive, and then you started publishing articles saying all masculinity is toxic.
	Of course, most think-peace writers, activists, academics who employ toxic masculinity go out of the way to clarify their intention is not to castigate all representations of manhood, just to reform the bad.
	The Trumpy parts.
	As Salon's Amanda Marcotte pointed out, and I love Amanda Marcotte, the modifier toxic inherently suggests that there are some forms of masculinity that are not toxic.
	So I was surprised and intrigued when I came across the powerful ideas of John Stoltenberg.
	Do you know who John Stoltenberg was?
	Or is?
	You tell me.
	Andrea Dworkin's husband.
	Do you know who Andrea Dworkin is?
	That rings a bell, though.
	Oh, yeah.
	She's one of the prime movers of the original feminist man-hating movement.
	She, I believe, was one of the first feminists to say that all intercourse is rape.
	Sounds feminist.
	Yep.
	Very feminist.
	I love the way this is written.
	His theories, Stoltenberg's theories, they kind of epitomize the fears of paranoid conservatives and undercut the more tepid critiques of machismo made by my fellow SJWs.
	In the past, the prominent feminist scholar has openly equated the idea of healthy masculinity with the oxymoron of healthy cancer because he sees manhood as an identity built entirely out of oppression.
	Yes!
	You oppress yourself so you're not weak and useless.
	Any other questions, Mr.
	Stoltenberg, before I have to start bullying you too?
	But the interesting thing about this, right, is we've come to the point now, so we've pathologized and demonized masculinity.
	Masculinity is oppressive, it's evil.
	And apparently it drives violent extremism, not ideology.
	According to the Washington Post's review of a chap called Michael Kimmel's new book, when it was new when this came out, I don't remember what the date was, but it wasn't too long ago there, Healing from Hate, How Young Men Get Into and Out of Violent Extremism.
	The book's about young men who find purpose in the unlikeliest of places.
	If you've ever wondered why nearly all the people you read about who are joining the Islamic State or neo-Nazi groups or the white nationalist alt-right are men, Kimmel contends it's no coincidence.
	He believes that gender, specifically masculinity, is both the psychological inspiration that sends young men into these groups and the social glue that keeps them involved.
	To a man, the ex-Nazis, jihadists and white supremacists felt like failures as men.
	But instead of turning that sense of emasculation inward towards depression, interpersonal violence, suicide or self-medication through drugs and alcohol, these young men were somehow convinced to externalise their sense of emasculation, turn it into righteous political rage and lash out at those forces that they came to believe were responsible for their emasculation.
	The failure was not theirs as individuals, it was something done to them by a host of others.
	Well, I mean, you've literally just gone, well, it was subversive in the previous articles.
	Masculinity's bad, it hurts people, and we need to get rid of it, it's all toxic.
	So, I mean, I'm just saying, you seem to have created the narrative they have picked up and run with, right?
	And so what does this mean?
	This means that articles like this one from Vice, straight guys, here's why you should give pegging a chance...
	Up for that, are you Callum?
	I'll pass.
	Pass.
	Or the next one, which is straight people don't exist, of course.
	It's fluid for women, but men apparently, I mean, I love the way they've got you here, right?
	Do you know how you know you're not straight, Callum?
	We show straight men a picture of a woman masturbating and they respond like a straight guy.
	But when you also show them a picture of a guy masturbating and their eyes dilate a little bit, so we're actually able to show you're gay.
	Okay.
	Ironically, that's their argument, right?
	I wonder what happens when you show a gay man a woman masturbating.
	Ah, you're straight.
	Gotcha.
	But they say there are aspects of male sexuality along the continuum, just as we have always recognised with women.
	Men have gotten so much cultural crap put on them that even if a man does have some sexual attraction to guys, they would never say it.
	Yeah, right.
	Maybe 50 years ago, but certainly not now.
	This next one is an example of how masculinity has been...
	Modified, shall we say?
	Perhaps subverted, we could also say.
	This is, of course, some singer called Harry Styles who had a Vogue cover in a dress and conservatives were outraged.
	And it's like, well, they are outraged for a reason.
	It looks like your demasculinization is creating Nazis.
	At least by Mr.
	Kimmel's research has shown that the attacks on masculinity are unironically creating Nazis and jihadists.
	So maybe there could be a form of healthy masculinity that means we can prevent this from happening.
	Because I don't want people to become Nazis or jihadists.
	I also don't want communists to continually attack the concept of being a man.
	Anyway, this, I think, has really sunk in to Generation Z. We can see from the embarrassing catboys on the internet and also people on TikTok.
	This is from the New York Times.
	Everyone is gay on TikTok, apparently.
	Huh, that's good.
	So they feature Connor Robinson, a 17-year-old British TikTok star who has been producing videos on TikTok that's set to a lewd hip-hop video.
	By him and a fellow teenage boy called Elijah, who they video themselves doing some grinding session, a make-out session or whatever, which gets millions and millions of views.
	But the thing is, these two guys aren't gay.
	They're just doing it because it gets the views and because it gets promoted in the New York Times.
	And they get told, oh yeah, what you're doing here is fantastic.
	Is that okay?
	I mean, I don't care about people being gay or straight or anything like that.
	I'm not really that bothered.
	But why are you pretending?
	Yeah, but you're doing it because the culture has pushed you in that direction.
	You know, this isn't the idea of the 17-year-old boy.
	This is the 17-year-old boy responding to the incentives that are around him.
	I mean, he's just not gay.
	so it's like just doing it for the money young men on tiktok feel free to push the envelope of homosocial behavior because they've emerged in an era of declining cultural homophobia even if they don't recognize it as such says eric anderson a professor of masculinity studies the university of winchester in england by embracing a softer side of manliness
	they are rebelling against what mr anderson called the anti-gay anti-feminine model attributed to the youth cultures of previous generations so against manliness and masculinity itself What a homophobic thing to say as well.
	Like, if you're gay, you have to be feminine.
	You can't be masculine.
	Yeah.
	Weird, isn't it?
	I never even thought about it like that.
	But that's a good point.
	Why can't gay men be masculine?
	I mean, you've seen Douglas Murray's arms.
	He's been lifting.
	He's doing good.
	Yeah.
	But the interesting thing as well, it's like, why would gay men be attracted to feminine men?
	Wouldn't gay men be like, I'm into the macho Douglas Murray type?
	Ben's a man.
	I guess so.
	I guess it does.
	Um...
	But yeah, so this has led us to the point where it becomes political, because it turns out that weak men are likely to be socialists.
	Are you surprised?
	Not really.
	No.
	There's a reason this is all getting labelled cultural Marxism, and the folks who are trying to masculinise men are cultural conservatives, pushing cultural conservatism.
	I love it on Wikipedia as well.
	If you look up cultural Marxism, first line, far-right conspiracy theory, look up cultural conservatism.
	No, it's just a movement to try and make people more conservatives.
	Yeah.
	Well, there we go.
	But the funny thing about this is they've got a poster of Stalin there.
	Stalin is the manliest man who's ever manned.
	Look at him.
	He looks very masculine.
	There's no doubting.
	I don't really think a thug is a good man, to be honest.
	I'm not saying he's a good man.
	No, no.
	He's a man, like a proper man.
	Yeah, I'm not saying he's good as a man.
	I'm saying that he has the aesthetics of a man.
	He looks masculine, right?
	He doesn't look like a wimpy leftist.
	But anyway, as the Atlantic say, if you're a free market enthusiast, it may be satisfying to think of men who tweet Bernie would have won as wimpy weaklings.
	But is it true?
	Yes, it's true.
	It's absolutely true.
	And they've been complaining about this for some time.
	A study was recently published in the Journal of Evolution of Human Behaviour where they recruited 171 men, measured their shoulders, chest, and flexed biceps.
	The men were then asked to squeeze a dynamometer to measure their grip strength.
	And they also gauged how the men valued redistributive economic policies because they agreed on statements like high incomes should be taxed more than others, blah, blah, blah.
	And they obviously found that the stronger men didn't want redistribution, and the weaker men did.
	There are a bunch of studies on this.
	Like, if you're a gym bro, you're probably right-wing.
	There are.
	Loads and loads of this.
	And there have also been, not studies, but many, many, many cases of left-wing women complaining that gym bro guys have been lying about being left-wing in order to get some.
	This is something that's a common cultural phenomenon.
	They're angry.
	It's like, well, what are the alternatives?
	Well, the alternatives is to go for a man you can be sure as a genuine left-winger, like the Try Guys from BuzzFeed, who famously did a testosterone test.
	We can get that up, John.
	Possibly.
	Wasn't this the embarrassing one where all of them were lower than...
	What were they lower than?
	Literally.
	Apparently, the average testosterone score for men aged 25 to 34, which these chaps fell into, is 617 ng slash dl.
	Nanograms per deciliter?
	Whatever.
	I don't know.
	It doesn't matter, right?
	The 617 number is the important thing, and not one of the BuzzFeed beta men met the average.
	In fact, they all tested below the level of a typical 85-year-old.
	Which is 376.
	Jesus Christ.
	And I recall looking at this back in the day, some of them were on like 200 and something, and only one of them broke 300.
	But even then, it was still lower than the 85-year-old.
	They've got lower testosterone than an 85-year-old man.
	Yes.
	And then when you look at them, you look at their features, and their features are very soft.
	They're very...
	Feminine, frankly.
	And so this continual sort of progression of masculinity bad, men bad, you know, let's emphasize femininity, let's de-emphasize physical competition, all of these other things.
	Well, it seems that it has actually come to the point where Left-wing men are actually quite demasculized.
	And it seems to be a generational thing.
	Because looking at the 17-year-olds and their thing, they look kind of evaminate to me.
	And so it's one of those things where you can see the results of the ideology having worked its way through generations.
	And now it's left young men in a position where they're not very manly at all.
	But it's one of those interesting things as well.
	The ideology, when put into the state, obviously has interesting outcomes that are predictable.
	Socialism comes to mind and always ends in failure.
	But the ideology being applied to individuals as well does seem to have tangible outcomes that you can measure.
	Yep.
	This is why we've got the pull-up bar in the office and things like that.
	We're not having any low-T BuzzFeed Try Guys here, I'll tell you that.
	LAUGHTER So yeah, this is interesting, and coincidentally, and I'm sure totally unconnected, with the fact that left-wing women find Trump supporters absolutely irresistible.
	They can't work out why.
	They don't know what it is about these evil, horrible...
	Sexy right-wingers who keep going to the gym with their MAGA caps and they keep telling me that they don't care about feminism and, oh, I just can't stop myself.
	Literally what is happening?
	Over and over and over.
	It's like, what was wrong with the Try Guys?
	I thought you wanted a sensitive, caring man.
	No, it turns out women don't.
	It turns out women are animals as much as everyone else and there is a genuine sort of animalistic human nature here that the left just doesn't want to accept, right?
	What's wrong with the Eldar man?
	I want an orc.
	Anyway.
	That's...
	Literally what's happening here.
	Anyway, so this, of course, begins with the rise of Trump.
	And in 2016, you get things like, oh, you should break up with the Trump supporter that you're dating.
	Are you dating a Trump supporter?
	There's never been a better reason to return yourself to single status.
	And this is, you know, the complaint like, oh, it's happened to me.
	I've had to break up with my boyfriend or divorce my husband because of support Trump and all this sort of stuff.
	You didn't have to.
	You just did it.
	You didn't have to.
	And let's be fair, it was this kind of latent Trumpism that Probably attracted you to him in the first place, actually.
	But, you know, they sit there and go, yeah, but you're going to say, well, my boyfriend isn't a racist or a sexist or anything like that.
	Doesn't matter.
	He supports Trump, therefore, right?
	Many men, most men, of course, are not abusive, but many are soft misogynists.
	The kind that like and even love women, but when you scratch the surface, don't see women as 100% equal.
	Well, there we go.
	You didn't marry a communist?
	They're not.
	Like, biologically, we are different.
	We cannot be equal to one another.
	Hey man, you're the feminist.
	I'm just representing the feminist position.
	I'm not...
	But when your boyfriend or husband supports Trump, he's answering that question too, which leads you to another one.
	Is this the man you should choose?
	And the answer is, of course, ideologically, philosophically, no.
	Obviously not.
	That's brutish, savage, primal, sexy, right?
	Okay, no, I'm not joking, because that's J.J. Lewis.
	This has been the best thing in the world.
	Because at the end of the day, the reason I love dunking on weak leftist men is because, A, they're not going to come and beat me up over it.
	And, B, it's an irrefutable truth about reality.
	Like, literally, I'm just going to be like, okay, well, let's settle it like men, then.
	But, oh, God, I don't do that.
	It's like, well, then shut your mouth.
	You know, because literally, you know, I know that your girlfriend isn't sat there going, oh God, those thin arms, that weak wrist action, I can't wait to get that guy in bed.
	It's just not happening.
	It's just not happening.
	Irrefutable truth about human beings, right?
	But anyway, so the partisan divide in whether people should or shouldn't date outside of their political spectrum is actually documented.
	Pew Research showed that 71% of single and looking Democrats probably or definitely would not have a relationship with the Trump voter, whereas only 47% of single and looking Republicans wouldn't date a Democrat.
	Which, again, I like the kind of predatory implication there.
	So the Trump supporter's like, yeah, I'll date a Democrat, I'll convert her.
	But what is that?
	That's almost a 30-point difference there.
	That's huge, isn't it?
	So, I mean, that's a massive piece of evidence for tolerance among Republicans there, that they don't really give a toss.
	Yeah, but it's...
	It's even more a piece of evidence that Democrats are just lying, especially the women who are involved in the survey, right?
	Because we know that they do, because they keep coming out and saying, I keep sleeping with Trump supporters.
	I don't know why.
	But you've got this one, right?
	Did you fall and slip?
	What's going on?
	Exactly, right.
	But before we get to that, it's like, I would never sleep with a Trump supporter.
	And this is a Psychology Today article.
	He's like, let's take the liberal woman mentioned above.
	She does not consider her disagreement with Trump a matter of politics as much as a matter of good versus evil.
	Hence, though, she would never sleep with a Trump supporter.
	She slept with a few Bush supporters.
	Apparently, her opposition to Bush's conservative policy was indeed a matter of politics rather than profound moral lines.
	So, yeah.
	The revealed preference is show otherwise.
	He's okay with Bush.
	Okay.
	But yeah, then you get to these ones where it's like, I accidentally slept with a Trump supporter.
	Yeah, did you fall and slept?
	No, you didn't.
	Well, let's read her story because this is great, right?
	My name is Diana.
	I'm a 27-year-old bartender.
	I met this guy on Tinder about two months ago, a few days after I'd moved from Toronto to San Diego.
	We'd been chatting for all of a day, and we agreed to meet in the bar downtown.
	We were just going to play Big Buck Hunter and have some drinks.
	It was very short notice.
	I showed up at the bar, and he was super handsome, like really tall, 6'4", or something absurd.
	We were wearing matching leather jackets.
	This guy looked badass.
	We went to some other bars, had some more drinks.
	I was really into this guy.
	He was cool as hell.
	We hooked up.
	up.
	I was completely smitten.
	At some point, I got up and sauntered over to his bookcase because I wanted to see what he was into.
	I saw a few photos, then a David Sedaris book I loved.
	I asked him about the book and said he hadn't read it yet.
	But then right beside it, I saw a book about Donald Trump.
	It wasn't Art of the Deal.
	It was In Trump We Trust by Ann Coulter.
	So I asked him about it.
	I was like, haha, this is funny.
	And he responded, well, the guy actually raises some valid points.
	Mexicans are taking our jobs.
	He started talking disparagingly about Black Lives Matter.
	The entire conversation happened in five minutes while I was frantically getting dressed to leave.
	I wasn't there to argue and I felt deeply uncomfortable.
	Yeah, but it was.
	Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!
	It feels taboo to sleep with a Trump supporter, but here's the thing.
	I've slept with a lot of people in my life.
	I believe it.
	This guy right here.
	This guy ranked in the top five.
	She sounds like a catch.
	I mean, it sounds like he dodged a bullet here.
	Yeah, you can't stop thinking about him, can you?
	You can't stop thinking about him so much you wrote a bloody article telling everyone how much you couldn't stop thinking about him.
	And how great the sex was, and how amazing this guy was.
	But that's not the only one.
	Again, you just can't stop yourselves, can you, left-wing ladies?
	The next one, help, I can't stop hooking up with Trump supporters.
	I just don't know what it is.
	They're just so handsome and manly.
	Like it's an addiction.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's exactly it.
	Like it's an addiction.
	They just can't stop it.
	And the excuses as well.
	When someone asks me about my worst hookup, I have plenty of options to choose from.
	I believe it.
	But inevitably I tell him the same story.
	It's the one where I started arguing with a Trump supporter at a bar and before I knew it, I was waking up the next morning in his bedroom.
	I bet you were.
	Try guys are just sat there in the bar nursing their alcohol-free beer.
	Oh dear.
	To my own surprise, we kept hooking up, despite the fact our political opinions were diametrically opposed.
	It didn't feel weird.
	When we texted, we'd naturally argue about politics and also about other things.
	But when we met up in person, that pent-up anger would turn into frustration, which would turn into a sort of competitive tension that resulted inevitably in sex.
	Just can't stop herself.
	Weird.
	So you don't get this with left-wing guys, for some reason.
	It's only those Trump supporters.
	I assumed it was a one-time experiment, but shortly after we ended things, I started sleeping with yet another Trumpster, who I was inexplicably attracted to.
	I love everything about this.
	Well, she must have been going to bars, getting into arguments about BLM or something, and then being like, right, I know what I'm doing tonight.
	Yeah, with the guy who's wearing a red MAGA hat.
	Inexplicable.
	This is, I'm sorry to say, after Trump secured the nomination, so it's morally unjustifiable, but she couldn't stop it.
	In an odd way, sleeping with Trump supporters reaffirms my own political and personal values.
	What?
	That does it!
	What the fuck are your values, man?
	I don't think I could ever have a serious relationship with one, but I can't stop myself.
	Is this a sustainable pattern?
	Probably not.
	For one, it occasionally brings me added stress and it isn't really the kind of relationship I want in the long run.
	But for now, I can highly recommend hooking up with someone whose politics you hate.
	I imagine random hookups aren't good for you.
	No, not generally.
	Especially when we're with people you can't stand.
	You just can't stop yourself.
	They're just irresistible.
	I love it.
	I love it.
	So this fetishizing of Republicans isn't actually new either.
	This is something that has been on the mind of Democrats for a while.
	This is an article from 2012 from the Chicago Tribune.
	It's a man fetishizing, a left-wing man fetishizing right-wing women, which is interesting.
	He says, I'm afflicted with a persistent sexual fantasy that I'd rather not have.
	In recent years, I've developed a slightly unhinged attraction to Republicans.
	I'm your typical college-educated urban elitist lefty.
	I want saved whales, married gays, and socialized everything.
	So, he's one of the BuzzFeed try guys, right?
	It is much more of a role-playing thing, because in the fantasy, I am right-wing too.
	That's interesting, isn't it?
	I fantasize about being right-wing, even though I'm a soy boy.
	You could become right-wing.
	You could go to the gym, eat a steak, go for a run.
	You could do it.
	It's possible, soy boys.
	You can do it.
	You don't have to be stuck as manlets and weak little leftists your entire lives.
	It's not inevitable.
	You can change this.
	But anyway, I love everything about this phenomenon that's been going on.
	It actually makes sense with your data as well, though, that you would get an extremity of it.
	Because it's like, if you look at the, I think, I've spoken to John about this, maybe testosterone or IQ or something like this.
	Like, if you look at any of those differences between men and women, it's not that big as a curve.
	Like, the curve's, you know, women's slightly lower.
	But on the extremities, you look there, and it'll be 95% male.
	Why do they make up all the prisons and also all the CEOs, right?
	At this point.
	So if you take the data towards extremes, you just have a slight deviation in a group.
	But on those extremes, it'll all be...
	Because I'm sure there's the reverses, where you find, like, right-wing men who really want to sleep with a Democrat woman for some reason.
	But you don't find it like this, though.
	And the numbers of them.
	I mean, and the thing is, I know...
	Because they wouldn't find it so repulsive.
	I mean, your data was showing they didn't really give a toss.
	They were just like...
	No, but I mean, a lot of left-wing women probably aren't exactly desirable catches from a right-wing perspective.
	There's not a problem there.
	Yeah.
	So, I mean, I guess right-wing men don't really spend much time, you know, fantasizing about the fatphobia movement.
	I was just saying they probably exist somewhere in the ether.
	If they do, I've not seen them.
	But the thing is, the thing I find funniest about this is that I know loads of left-wing women online who just kind of openly admit, actually, yeah, the right-wing guys are kind of, I'm kind of into the Trump supporters and say, yeah, you are.
	The thing that tells me as well is it doesn't seem to be a, I want to go looking for this, it's that they're disappointed with their surroundings.
	Yeah, it's they can't help it.
	If they had their choice, the Try Guys would be the sexiest men in the world, but unfortunately they're not, for some reason.
	Inexplicable.
	It's almost like humans are biological entities, and that this biology has a real effect on everything about a human.
	Including your psychology.
	I mean, your point there about, you know, what is a right-wing man and one another left-wing woman?
	Well, you know, one of the cultural problems of left-wing movements is that women do not embrace femininity.
	Femininity is attractive in the same way that masculinity is attractive to the opposite as well.
	No question of it.
	And there's nothing they can do about it.
	Except Stu in there going, well, look, I can rationalise.
	Why, despite all of my political instincts telling me this is bad, oh god, it was the best sex ever.
	You know, it's so funny.
	But again, it's the same problem.
	Socialist ideology being like, you know, again, masculinity and femininity shouldn't be attractive.
	Bumping up against reality and being like, yeah, but...
	Yeah.
	But more importantly, it's like, look, you have adopted an ideology that's specifically anti-reality.
	Like, reality is the problem for left-wing ideology.
	And it always has been, and always will be.
	And maybe you should think about that.
	But, right, so we've got a few video comments.
	So, correction from yesterday, I said the silver tier can do video comments.
	I was wrong.
	That's something that will be coming, but it's not implemented yet, for whatever reason.
	So, at the moment, it's only the gold tier.
	And so let's see if we've got any soy boys in our video comments today.
	Carl, having watched your stream last night with Shad, I agree that it's important for men to be the heroes of their own stories.
	To try and make a positive case for masculinity and to bring back manliness in general, would you advocate for reintroducing apex predators to the UK? Full Jurassic Park style?
	Maybe just the predator if we can do it scientifically.
	I'm actually quite against introducing Apex Predators to the UK for different reasons, not because I think it's questions of masculinity.
	We've got to kill them all.
	Well, that was the point.
	We became the Apex Predators.
	It's actually very, very interesting.
	The history of the extermination of the wolves of England.
	In 1390...
	It's the earliest I can find where people are lamenting that there are no wolves left in England because they want to buy wolf skins for various things.
	And so England becomes a safe place.
	And so the countryside in England is like an extension of our own back gardens then.
	There's nothing dangerous out there.
	And that means that, you know, that's one of the things that fox hunting is about.
	People don't like it because it seems cruel, but foxes are a pest.
	They do kill chickens and various other, you know, things.
	And so the function that wolves would have performed is being performed by the fox hunters, right?
	And it's symbolic, it's kind of mythological, but it also has a practical reason.
	But the reason I bring this up is because the chap asked the question, but also I was watching an interview on Novara Media.
	In fact, I watch a lot of Novara Media.
	Well, there's left-winging women now.
	Yeah.
	LAUGHTER I'm just saying, I bet they hate Watch Us too.
	But one of them was interviewing a chap who had written a book about England from a left-wing perspective, and he couldn't understand the English relationship with the countryside.
	And I say this because in 1390, there were no walls left in England, so there's nothing dangerous here.
	And literally, in the same century, or in the 15th century.
	Paris is under siege by starving wolves.
	We're literally like something like 30, a pack of wolves was besieging Paris.
	And eventually they had to kind of let the wolves into Paris, trap them in an area and then kill them all.
	And it was terrorizing them for weeks.
	And it's like, okay, you can see the difference, right?
	And so this guy was like, well, you know, anyone can just go out for a walk in the countryside.
	And it's like, this guy's from England.
	And it's like, look, that is the most privileged thing you've ever, you can't even think about it, right?
	Do you think that in Russia, they're just like, I'm just going to go for a stroll in the woods?
	No, you're going to take a gun.
	You're going to take some sort of protection.
	You're going to be aware of what's going on.
	I mean, A, the weather's going to be bad enough, but B, there are wild animals.
	Same with, like, in the Sahara.
	I'm just going to go for a walk in the wilderness.
	No, there are scorpions and spiders and dangerous things.
	Rattlesnakes in America, things like that.
	The countryside is not safe like it is in England, so we have a different relationship with our countryside than foreign countries have with their countryside because of the safety of where we live.
	The rather uniqueness of us being on an island as well.
	Like rabies is exterminated in the UK. It doesn't exist.
	Exactly.
	You can literally let your kids go walking in the countryside and nothing will happen to them.
	It's amazing.
	It's a magical, magical place that we live in.
	I'm not even joking.
	It's a genuinely right thing.
	So reintroducing bears and wolves would be kind of ruining something we've created?
	Yeah.
	Exactly, and we've had for a very long time, and it is like a core part of our culture that we don't really analyse very often.
	But I don't think it's related to the decline in masculinity.
	I think the decline in masculinity is related to our acceptance of a lack of competition in public life and in our own personal lives, and the fact that there's been a left-wing attempt to destroy the concept for decades now.
	But yeah, I don't think it's about apex predators, and I don't particularly want them back.
	I don't want to have to worry about them when I'm out for a walk with my kids.
	Have we got another one or is that the only one?
	Right, okay.
	But what I like about that oil guy is he's not a soy boy.
	Good man.
	Daniel Christmas...
	I don't know if you're a fan, he's a good boy.
	Yeah, he's a good lad.
	And we need to do a hangout for this month actually.
	He was on the previous couple.
	He's a good guy.
	Yeah, so if anyone wants to send us comments, Vicky has been picking out good comments and, you know, relevant comments from the webpage that the podcast has streamed to.
	If you remember, you can go and post us a comment.
	But there are probably quite a few, so we can't do them all, of course, and then we'll do some of the Super Chats.
	We're...
	A little bit over time, as always.
	Daniel Christmas says, I got in a discussion with a uni-leftist lecturer about masculinity.
	By the time you read this, I'll be in it, just in case.
	Any questions you want to add?
	Going to listen to the section on masculinity and go from there.
	Oh, and I'm going to ask her, what is a woman?
	Should be fun.
	Yeah, I definitely want to hear what the definition of what a woman is.
	Report back, please.
	Yeah, yeah, definitely.
	I want to hear what she says.
	But any questions...
	I don't know.
	Ask her why she wants to create Nazis.
	Because it turns out that attacking wholesome masculinity that's in a non-politicised setting creates Nazis, according to Michael Kimmel.
	So why is she in favour of that?
	Nicholas Malson.
	I can't believe it's episode 69 plus 1.
	Nice.
	I keep thinking the first episode was only a week ago.
	Time flies so fast.
	Well done on the continuous great work.
	Honestly, you make my days less miserable.
	Thanks.
	And that's really what we were aiming for.
	One of the reasons I wanted to do this at like 1 o'clock in the afternoon is because I remember when I was working in the public and private sector in offices, the early afternoon was the hardest hump to get over.
	I hated it.
	In the morning, because you've got there and you've got to figure out what's going on.
	You've got to, what have I got to do?
	And then by the time after lunch, you're like, okay, now I'm just in the grind.
	Now I've got four hours until I can leave.
	Oh, God.
	And so we were hoping this could be something that at least does something to alleviate some of that tedium.
	But anyway, I'm thinking about moving to gold tier, but honestly, I hate being on camera.
	I just don't find myself presentable at the moment, although I'm working on it.
	What other features does gold tier give me?
	It means you can join our monthly Zoom chats.
	That we have with you folks.
	And basically we just hang out for an hour and just chat about things.
	It's not recorded at all for record and all that sort of stuff.
	It's just a bit of fun.
	Make the assumption someone on there might be recording as well.
	Well yeah, I guess.
	But it's not live streamed.
	Yeah, but we don't really have any thoughts about things that we don't say publicly anyway.
	Yeah.
	It's one of the interesting things about Trump.
	Like everyone, all of the Democrats think that he has faults behind.
	Yeah.
	That he keeps to himself.
	No, no, they're lying.
	Everything's public.
	Yeah.
	We can see exactly what the problem with Trump is.
	We don't have double lives.
	Here's my opinion.
	You guys hate it.
	Yeah, that's funny.
	Yes, they do.
	I talk with LGBT people on various social media and find that many of them are very serious about personal defense and are drawn to masculine hobbies such as guns, cars, computers, agriculture, tech, etc.
	But are turned off by the intolerant dialogue from others in these groups.
	Many gun-related groups, discord groups I frequent, always devolve into identity politics.
	With the leftist narrative being so pervasive in every aspect of life, how am I supposed to red pill these people when the moment they go out on a limb, some Bible-thumping chud confirms all their biases and ruins my hard work?
	I think the Christian right is the biggest boat anchor to what I'm calling the greater freedom movement.
	I think as long as a person upholds the notions of personal responsibility, freedom, constitutionalism, and patriotism, it shouldn't matter how they choose to express themselves.
	Well, I agree, to be honest.
	I'm actually pretty tolerant in all things when it comes to this sort of stuff.
	I mean...
	I don't want to try and make people feel bad about stuff, but when you have an organized and very well-funded and incredibly wide-reaching attempt to destroy the concept of masculinity, I'm afraid that we can't really criticize the chuds for being chuds.
	It just seems that that's the case.
	It doesn't seem to be the same threat.
	Yeah, I mean, I understand that it definitely will turn some people off.
	But I think you maybe start explaining to them that this is about tolerance, right?
	You've got to be tolerant of some people being chuds.
	In the same way that they'll be tolerant of you not being chuds.
	Things like this.
	I don't really know, to be honest.
	So they don't have a bad tolerance.
	You don't have to like it.
	Yeah, you don't have to like it.
	Yeah, but you have to accept it.
	But that's the thing.
	The problem is the leftists themselves, if they are in the sort of leftist cultural spheres, I mean, how can they come to accept masculinity even though they are interested in self-defense, right?
	Right.
	It's one of those things that...
	I don't know.
	I don't have the answer.
	I know.
	We remember the antivar groups where all the men were practicing throwing the Molotov cocktails and all the women were making the Molotov cocktails.
	And they're like, oh god, we've recreated patriarchy.
	It's like, yeah, I guess you have.
	Let me think.
	So...
	I think...
	Obviously, when you see someone...
	Being belligerent in an unnecessary way, it's probably incumbent on you to try and restrain their excesses in an appropriate way, right?
	So if you see some guy who's being...
	Loud and inconsiderate and things like this.
	It's probably worth your time and worth everyone else's time to gently try and get them to be more considerate of others, right?
	And when you've got someone who is naturally not very big and naturally not very strong and maybe is a bit timid, it's, you know, worth trying to be sensitive to that, I think.
	But it's also worth trying to get them to be less timid and trying to improve themselves, trying to understand that it's actually not good to be what they are because, I mean, they can see themselves I think the main thing as well is that improvement is always an option.
	There's never a time when you can't improve something.
	We can't pretend like everything's fine at the very lowest level.
	Edward of Woodstock.
	I find it rather odd that students come up with demands, as if the students have provided anything to society yet.
	That's a great point.
	You can make demands when you have something to withhold.
	The plebs seceded from Rome to withhold service in the army, so the reply should be no.
	See what they do and respond accordingly.
	Yeah, totally agree.
	When you say no to these groups on campus, they literally just...
	I remember there was one group who was complaining about the union.
	They literally just stood outside, shouted with some microphones, and then went home.
	Nothing happened.
	We're going to call you racist.
	They don't have anything else.
	Yeah, what's new?
	It's children screaming.
	Yeah.
	Harry and Glative.
	Hey, man.
	How you doing?
	Decolonization equals colonization of British institutions and must be stopped before, say, the University of Leicester decides to remove Joffrey, father of English poetry, Chaucer, from the English curriculum.
	Oh, wait...
	Yes.
	Yes, exactly.
	Also, a bit of insider info.
	Leicester Student Union are paying up to £250 to students for the pleasure of telling professors their curriculum is racist and to help decolonise it.
	And we have a link that...
	John, can you get that?
	What is Leicester colonize?
	Let's decolonize.
	Can we scroll down a bit?
	It's a lobbying group at the university.
	It's the best companies.
	Incomplicit in the climate crisis and oppression.
	I hate how leftist organizations word things.
	Everything has to be matched together, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	Jesus Christ.
	If you want to argue about one thing, just argue about that thing.
	Become a curriculum consultant.
	£250 reward upon completion.
	Wow.
	I'll sign up.
	I would like a £250 reward to be a curriculum consultant.
	And I could do some good consulting too.
	They're paying you to be a commissar.
	I mean, do they check what you've written?
	We could all just write, nah, Chaucer is based.
	Yeah.
	And they get 250 quid.
	We'll try it out afterwards, see what happens.
	Heathcliff Flowen says, The problem with media is it's so bad it's hard to see a way out.
	My father is 73 years old and likes Trump, Brexit, etc.
	However, even he thinks that Trump incited violence because of the lies broadcast on all British channels.
	Also, despite being a real liberal, he is being brainwashed to think that we should wear 75 masks for the rest of our lives.
	I have to remind him of the truth every time I see him.
	Well, that's the problem.
	That's the reason that we started this, and that's the reason why you should support us, by signing up at lotuses.com.
	Because what other options do we have?
	I just don't know what the alternative is.
	Michael Markoski says, My nephew told me he wants Canada to have open borders, while also hates that white people have stolen native land.
	That's a good contradiction.
	Can you give me some advice on how to explain his hypocrisy without sounding like I am insulting him?
	Well, I mean, you seem to have really exposed the problem there in and of itself.
	What right to come into Canada does a Somali have?
	Yeah.
	What right does a Somali have to steal the native land that was stolen by Canadians?
	Well, not even steal, just the entry point here.
	Because in the same way, you have no right to go to Russia.
	It's up to Russia to let you in.
	And it is the same in reverse.
	It is up to Canada to decide who comes in.
	And if you're just saying, no, we should have complete open borders because anyone has a right to be here, of course they don't.
	Then on what grounds could you criticise the English settlers?
	If nobody has a claim to prevent or allow people to enter into a country, then there's no problem with Canada existing.
	White people didn't steal native land because there's no such thing.
	What, you want borders between natives and whites?
	Exactly.
	Don't be a racist, right?
	But then, if you want then open borders, what you're saying is, okay, let's assume this was stolen land.
	If you want open borders, then you want even more of the world to come and occupy even more of that land, which is surely not good for the Native Americans.
	I mean, it seems you've already hit on it there, to be honest, Michael.
	But I guess without sounding like you're insulting him...
	But I think the best way with that, because we're talking about open borders, get off the topic for Stolenland for a minute, just point out to him, what right do you have to go to France right now as a Canadian citizen?
	You don't.
	It's up to the French government to let you in as a representative of the French people democratically elected.
	I think he might be French-Canadian.
	Fine, but then we'll use Italy or Japan or something, right?
	Use that, yeah.
	Use whatever...
	Use Japan, because it's sufficiently foreign.
	But yeah, but without sounding like you're insulting him...
	Be nice.
	I don't know.
	Use gentle language.
	I don't know how much the leftist he is.
	But you've got to take these things slowly, I would say.
	Alice Crowley.
	Fellow Zoomer here, maybe more men are into femboys because women no longer act like women.
	Well, I completely agree.
	And this is one of the things that Shadow and myself were talking about.
	If women are going to...
	Not only not act like women, like, the thing that was important, I think, from that conversation was to value yourself, and that means holding things back, right?
	Not doing all of the things to the most extreme degree, and reserving yourself, and sharing that only with one person, and that's what makes that relationship special.
	That's what makes it unique and deeply personal.
	And you've built something with someone else that doesn't exist with anyone else.
	And it's that uniqueness and particularness and exclusivity that makes the thing valuable.
	And if women don't do that and just say, go on OnlyFans and sell pictures of their buttholes all day, then why would a man think that he could build this kind of exclusive personal relationship with her?
	And I can completely understand why men wouldn't think they can and therefore turn to catboys.
	But this is something that needs to be bullied out of them.
	Talking about the attractiveness of femininity as well.
	I mean, we've had this.
	When we went to Poland, I went to Russia with John.
	You just look at the cultural difference, the fact that the women were far more feminine.
	Yeah, closely.
	And it was kind of like, okay, why do I keep seeing beautiful women?
	And then that was the connection.
	It was like, oh, because the women here are far more feminine.
	They try to be feminine.
	You know, that's the thing.
	Again, why are we not seeing a spate of Republican men saying, God, I really want those leftist women?
	The answers present themselves.
	Thug Life Bear.
	It's sexy men becoming Trump supporters, not Trump supporters becoming sexy men.
	The logic only goes in one direction.
	I suppose shrimpy Trump supporters could work on themselves, but that wouldn't qualitatively make them any different from Bernie bros going to the gym.
	Well, I don't know.
	I think that there's an impetus in the ethic of the Trump supporters that is towards self-improvement.
	I think the Bernie supporters have this kind of belief that actually people are acceptable as they are.
	The ideology of weakness.
	It is.
	The ideology of the slay.
	It is.
	And it's the ideology of you are perfect, right?
	That's the way everything begins.
	All of it.
	All of it.
	The fatphobia, the anti-fatphobia movement.
	All of these things.
	I'm born perfect and do not need to improve.
	It's the rest of the world that needs to change to accommodate my perfection.
	I think this is also kind of like, not exactly, but some of Nietzsche's criticisms of Christianity, like when he was being like that.
	Basically, it's an ideology of saying like, oh, being the slave class is fine.
	It's like, no, improve yourself.
	Exactly.
	And so it could well be that being a Trump supporter is what makes you sexy, because it gets you going down the gym, gets you lifting weights, doing exercise, being...
	But it's not the supporting Trump here, but it's just that ideology does have incentives.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And Trump is appealing to that kind of ethos.
	He's appealing to that view.
	Not to be vulgar, it's almost hilariously sad, says Chris, that after even a bout of the family dual cancer and losing one, that I'm still okay on testosterone levels.
	What is wrong with the BuzzFeed guys, then?
	Leftism.
	Based dude.
	Like, he's still going.
	Yeah, yeah, exactly.
	See, like, dude, you know, sorry to hear it, but glad you overcame it.
	And like you say, you're still fine on testosterone levels, so the BuzzFeed tryhard guys have got no excuse at all.
	Bilbo Bagaines says, do you think gym bros tend to be more right-wing as training helps develop and hard work pays off attitude that eventually transitions over to real life?
	You won't get swollen gym socialism, otherwise known as having your spotter lifting the weight for you.
	I think that it's probably, and Josh is probably a much more educated person to say, Yeah.
	It just makes them gravitate to Trump support rather than they made the conscious choice to be a Trump supporter.
	And then, you know, blah, blah, blah.
	Thomas Clarkson.
	Hello from Puerto Rico.
	I'm taking class on Western civilization, which requires us to write a research paper on your choosing.
	I was wondering if you know any books I could read about the Byzantine Emperor Justinian to use the sources for this essay.
	Thank you and keep up the good work.
	Are they devs?
	I couldn't name a book on Justinian, but there are bound to be loads out there.
	And Justinian is a fascinating character as well.
	Really interesting character.
	So I can't name any off the top of my head, but I mean, honestly, just put into Google books on Justinian.
	You're going to find loads.
	It's quite well documented, as I understand it.
	David Cooper.
	I have a pretty lean build and favor competitive running and cycling and the top 1% of men for fitness.
	I feel most manly when I've improved my endurance and speed.
	However, my upper body strength is below average at best by being too hard on myself for feeling unmanly about this.
	No.
	What?
	Why are you asking me?
	Of course I'm going to say no.
	It doesn't matter how good you are, still no.
	Yeah, you're not good enough.
	You'll never be good enough, but you can be better than you were yesterday, and that's what you're aiming for.
	But this is a problem with long-distance runners anyway.
	My dad's pretty much the same.
	He was always a runner, and so he wasn't big on upper body strength.
	I don't think that makes you unmanly though.
	It doesn't mean that you're weak.
	It doesn't mean you're incompetent or weak or anything like that.
	What means that you're weak is when you're afraid to try and when you're afraid to even consider that you need to improve.
	You know, being fit and healthy is good enough.
	And I don't think you actually have to be like some huge Balkan guy to be a man.
	A lot of being a man is about how you behave, how you carry yourself, how you think of yourself, things like this.
	So I don't think you should feel unmanly just because you're not like some hyper buff guy.
	That doesn't mean you're unmanly.
	As Joe Rogan put it, women want a man who will be able to protect them when the barbarians turn up.
	Doesn't exactly conjure up images of the Try Guys, does it?
	No, it does not.
	So Jason McConnell for 100 Canadian dollary-do's says, this week's Dick Masterson show is the best Sargon joke ever.
	The guy is trying to threesome his wife and her friend.
	The wife suggests watching YouTube videos and the husband thinks, Oh yeah, let's check in on what Sargon is thinking about now.
	That's awesome.
	I don't know who Dick Masterson is.
	He's a comedian.
	I spoke to him once.
	He was alright.
	He's just a funny guy, really.
	But I like the way that that's what the husband's thinking.
	Harry the human substitute...
	I can't even read the rest of it.
	Related to me making notes for the politics of AOT. What's AOT? Politics of...
	He doubtless asked us about this and I can't remember what it is.
	Using child slave soldiers in war and letting them remove their military uniform and making a false surrender for making a sneak attack is a war crime correct Carl.
	I have no idea dude.
	I've absolutely no idea whether that's a war crime or not.
	Nathaniel Larson says, when you erase history and make it better, people rely on entertainment for their history.
	My wife watches old shows and says women had it so hard back then, and all I say is, we weren't there, we don't know.
	Yeah, the...
	The past is a different country.
	People do things differently there.
	And you're right as well.
	Attack of the Titans?
	Oh, Attack on Titan, right.
	I'm guessing.
	I don't even know.
	It probably is.
	But I don't know.
	I haven't watched Attack on Titan.
	I watched the first three episodes and didn't get into it, so I stopped watching it.
	It's a sign of how narcissistic young people have become when they need to see themselves in everything they read.
	Do not lose your culture, Brits.
	It's an amazing history that has lessons for all nations.
	Well, thank you, Adrian.
	And I think that's a really interesting point, actually.
	Because I've never at any point, like in all of the fantasy I've read and all the games I've played, ever once had the thought, I'm not represented here.
	That's a great way of putting it when you take it to its logical extremes.
	Because they're saying, it's not the same skin tone as me, therefore I can't identify with it.
	Well, okay, if that's the case, why just skin tone?
	How far does the movie have to go before literally every character is you, played by you, acting like you, and then you can identify with it?
	And unironically, the reason I watch science fiction and fantasy and read novels and things like that is because I don't want to read about myself.
	Like, you know, when I'm playing Warhammer 40,000, I've got my Tyranid army out and I'm like, I'm not represented here at all.
	This is so weird.
	It's such a weird thing.
	And it's very strange.
	It speaks to a lack of empathy, doesn't it?
	What race is Optimus Prime, says John?
	Exactly.
	Great question.
	I used to love Transformers.
	Starstream and Megatron do not represent me.
	I'm just saying.
	But that's the thing, isn't it?
	Anyway, the point is it seems to speak to a profound lack of empathy.
	Why do you have to see yourself in the thing?
	Why can't you put yourself in that person's position?
	Jack Zeppo for £17.76, exactly the right amount.
	I remember years ago arguing with my brother over diversifying the English curriculum to de-emphasize a supposed Shakespeare monopoly.
	If only I'd know where this would lead.
	Yeah, right.
	FumbleGudget says, regards your chat with Shadowversity.
	As someone who trained as a pick-up artist, now happily married, I recommend that men meet lots of attractive women.
	You'll start to see them as people.
	Good.
	Andrea Dworkin's husband, wasn't he gay?
	I recall that she lived with a gay man until she died.
	I also recall that they never married, even though he was named as her partner.
	Well, it's just what the article said.
	I didn't look into it.
	I just assumed that they were correct about it.
	But, yeah, I can't imagine their sex life was up to much if she was like, look, all penetrative sex is rape.
	So it's like...
	So let's get it on.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, if I was a man, I'd be like, okay, I think I'm done.
	But is she not kind of dropping your hints there that she's going to sue you as soon as you engage in sex?
	Yeah, it's like, okay...
	I don't want to go to jail.
	Bye.
	Yeah.
	Have you considered that our only laughing and commenting using social media at the absurdity of it all is a form of catharsis which has caused us to not take meaningful action against our own destruction?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's definitely a form of catharsis that prevents worse things from happening.
	In their defense, Middle and Old English is cancer.
	No, it's not.
	It's just...
	Right, so when you're reading these things, you've got to get into the...
	There's a kind of accent that you put on in your own head.
	Especially...
	No, no, I'm not joking.
	There is, right?
	Because the...
	No, that's great.
	It's like whenever you're listening to someone from a region, you have to get into that region.
	Yes, because when I was reading through the old Robin Hood and King Arthur tales, they're in Middle English and you can kind of read them, right?
	You just have to know what the intonation on the word is.
	Because often it's spelt differently, and they'll be using words that sound strange now, but are still modern English words, just in contexts where you otherwise wouldn't have expected them.
	But if you put on a certain kind of accent in your head, you get actually quite fluid at reading them, and you can completely understand what they're trying to tell you.
	What old English, though?
	Is that a lot like...
	Ununderstandable at this point?
	No, no.
	That's what I'm saying.
	You can read it, it's just...
	Old English, 5th century.
	Oh, well, no, yeah, that would be totally unreadable.
	There's a great YouTube video of a guy who's learned how to speak in Old English.
	Yeah, and he goes over to the Netherlands or something, doesn't he?
	No, I don't think...
	You think of a different one.
	But he's explaining how they thought, you know, using the words in their sentences, and it's really weird to listen to.
	Because you can make out every, like, 5th word, and it sounds like someone who's Dutch.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, well, that's the thing.
	Like, if you go to the sort of, like, that sort of north coast of the continent, I watched one where this guy had learned enough Old English to be able to go up to this guy in, like, Friesland or whatever it is, and ask him about the price of a cow, and the guy could, speaking in Old English, understand what he had said.
	And he gave him a reply, and he's like, I don't understand the reply.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But this is why it's important to point out that English is an indigenous language to England.
	The language we speak now was not created anywhere else, and it is unique to these islands.
	Anyway, Nonna Tagiv says, further yesterday, kids are filled with BS. They have no skills and abilities to get a job.
	Any wonder why industry needs to look overseas for recruitment?
	Probably lots of reasons.
	Student of History.
	Basically, yes.
	Well, maybe they can't, but I don't want to get arrested.
	So I'm just going to pay my taxes.
	It's just not worth my time to be with that one person.
	And I don't think we could organize a large enough tax boycott to make it work.
	So, unfortunately, I'm just going to keep paying.
	But I approve the sentiment.
	John has just told me I need to shill an interview we have on the second channel, which is our interview with Daisy Cousins, which goes live at 3pm.
	She interviewed me recently, and it was a really good interview, because she had done a really great video called The Darkest Timeline, just predicting what could happen if things don't go very well.
	And honestly, it feels like we're actually sort of curving towards that.
	And so I did an interview with her.
	It'll be up at 3pm.
	It's really, really good.
	Totally worth your time.
	You look like you want to say something there.
	No.
	It is also, of course, on Lotuses.com, as John pointed out.
	Speaking of dismantling masculinity, says Cool Frog, I think Joe Biden allowed trans people in the military with makeup to create an army of right-wing femboy death squads to be deployed into Syria.
	Do you want to talk about the femboy phenomenon among the far right?
	Like, why are they doing this?
	It's disgusting.
	It's weird.
	This is why I want to bully them.
	Just for fun.
	No, no, no.
	I mean, the fact that it's fun...
	Half of fun, but also for constructive reasons.
	It's for their own good.
	Clearly, it's for their own good.
	Like, when you're lovingly looking at a cat boy in an ice cream parlor, no, you need to be...
	What would J-Reg call it?
	Like, homofascism?
	That's what J-Reg would define it as?
	Probably, yeah.
	Yeah, and that's bad.
	Weird, anyway.
	Well, the fascism part is obviously bad, and the, like, decline of masculinity in, like, fascist circles, like, okay, I'm going to bully the lot of you.
	I just don't care.
	You deserve it.
	Like, dadism forbids this, I'm telling you.
	Is your dad happy?
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, exactly, Nick.
	Is your dad, like, oh, I'm proud of my son for being in love with a cat boy?
	No, he's not.
	I'm telling you that, you know?
	Anyway, King Tesseract.
	I once came across a YouTube comment that said, a man's job is to keep a woman in their place.
	If you can't do your job, they will open the gates and find some barbarians to do the job for you.
	Thoughts?
	Ooh, disavow.
	I don't have a single race in me or a single history to the Western world.
	Thank you.
	Well, yeah, same here, actually.
	I don't have a single race in me.
	Well, no, I'm multiple races.
	It just sounds sexual.
	Yeah, it just sounds kinky, doesn't it?
	But to the Western world, thank you.
	I feel exactly the same way.
	We were mentioned on James O'Brien's show on LBC yesterday.
	I was mentioned.
	And the way, again, like, we were recently deplatformed from a college in, what was it, Cambridge, or it was Oxford.
	I can't remember which one.
	I don't want to go into it now.
	I don't want to go into it, but it was, it's not, that's not worth talking about.
	The thing that's worth talking about is the same attitude that James O'Brien had, which was as if we represented, like, Leninism or something.
	Like, we have some sort of revolutionary philosophy that they can't even speak about and they don't even bring up.
	But we're also close to overthrowing the state or something?
	Yeah, it's really weird how they talk about us like the liberalist revolution is on the cusp of happening, comrades, and we just need a bit of social instability before we can overthrow the state.
	It's like, I'm guessing it's because they know they don't really have any arguments against liberalism.
	Well, that's the point.
	And therefore, they're kind of backed up where they're just like, as long as we can ignore it, things will be fine.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Like the old kings of Italy being scared of the liberals rising up to form the Republic of Italy.
	Yeah, that's exactly the tone and tenor of, like, the conversation.
	Oh, God, I just don't want to, you know, don't bring that forbidden name up.
	It's like, okay.
	Give us a call, James.
	Happy to talk.
	But anyway, thank you everyone for joining us.
	If you'd like more content from us, there is fantastic premium content and non-premium content on lotuses.com.
	It's totally worth your time.
	And I think I'm really proud of that, actually.
	I'm really proud of the content we've got, especially the premium content, because that's stuff I've made, and Callum and various others.
	But anyway, we'll be back same time tomorrow.

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