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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen.
	Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for Wednesday, the 31st of March 2021.
	I'm John McCallum, and we're going to be talking about the continual racialization of absolutely everything and various other things.
	But before we do, we will have the book club for Brave New World up either tomorrow or the day after, Friday.
	So, fingers crossed that'll be tomorrow, but it'll be up very, very soon.
	We're very pleased with the work.
	It's the accumulation of the conclusion of the sort of three part premium podcast that we've been doing and very pleased that this is finally done.
	It's taken a lot of work to get to this point.
	But we've also got various other premium articles and things like that.
	So if you'd like to support us, you can sign up on lotuses.com.
	You can't watch our videos on YouTube at the moment because we have had another strike for a months old video about Joe Biden and the election.
	So thanks, YouTube.
	But anyway, we'll talk about that sort of stuff in a bit.
	First, I want to get to the race report that found that Britain wasn't a racist country.
	This hasn't come down well.
	Sounds like a podcast.
	It sounds like a podcast.
	The race report.
	The race report.
	Yeah, I can imagine like flashy music and graphics to go with that.
	But anyway, so the point is this is around the ire of many people.
	Many people like Yasmin Albihai Brown.
	Now, I just wanted to talk about her because she is kind of like the premium example of what the people who think badly of this report, and of course Britain, are like.
	And so I thought we'd just go over her very quickly and some of the things that she said generally before getting to the race report, just because you can see the kind of people who are opposed to this.
	So she describes herself as a lefty-liberal, anti-racist, feminist-Muslim.
	I mean, I would say there's a lot of contradictions in that, but anyway.
	She graduated with a degree in English literature from Makareri University, which is in Uganda.
	However, she got forced out of Uganda in 1972 because of Idi Amin expelling all the Ugandan Asians, because these were the educated administrative class of the British Empire.
	What a white supremacist.
	And she fled to Britain, where she went to University of Oxford and got a degree in philosophy, a Master of Philosophy, in 1975.
	So you can see how oppressed this woman of colour has been her whole life to be able to go to Oxford University and get a degree from her elite family after they fled Uganda.
	But anyway, so you might think that she's like, yeah, Britain's a nice country for taking me in and providing me these opportunities.
	And, you know, she married a British man and she's been here ever since.
	But she kind of hates this country and it's really weird just how much she does.
	I'll go back just a couple of years just to show you like she's been writing the same article for, well, probably decades now, but at least the last like three or four years.
	This is one from 2018 that she wrote for the New European, that's called, The UK is no country for coloured immigrants.
	And why did you come then?
	Why did you stay?
	You've been here for like 40 years.
	But this in the New European.
	Yeah, in the New European.
	Most European countries, in comparison to Britain, of their views of neighbours of a different race.
	Well, don't ask the French.
	Yeah.
	Because their views on people of a different race living next to them are very...
	I'm not even going to use the word base.
	It's just really beyond the pale, to be honest.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, just listen to the venom with which she describes this country, right?
	The Wikipedia definition of perfidious Albion is an anglophobic pejorative phrase used within the context of international relations and diplomacy, blah, blah, blah, right?
	She's like, spot on, except for the weasel words anglophobic and alleged.
	So it's just...
	She's just like, no, Britain's bad, and it's not even alleged.
	Anyway, she goes on to criticise several serving politicians, including the slithery Michael Gove, not wrong, continuing that ignoble tradition.
	This was in the light of the Windrush scandal, which wasn't Michael Gove's fault, but never mind.
	The Windrush scandal has exposed other sons and daughters of Albion.
	Spectator editor Fraser Nelson, Amber Rudd, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	She goes on, and she's just...
	Truly venomous, right?
	These migrants fought for the country and were English in all but skin colour.
	So she's got the David Lammy approach here.
	In 1972, when we exiled Ugandan Asians arrived in Britain, various politicians raised loud objections and so on.
	After Brexit, Albion will become even more perfidious.
	The Iraqi refugee is going back.
	Better they kill me there than I live here where they think I am worse than a dog.
	Who said that?
	I mean, he said that.
	Nobody here said that.
	But anyway.
	Gove, Mae, Rudd, you have achieved what you wanted.
	The UK is no country for coloured incomers.
	Which is why she's still here.
	Yeah, I know.
	I don't even have an answer to that, to be honest, and she doesn't either.
	She cried when Boris Johnson was elected.
	Cried.
	Weeped.
	We can get to the next one, John.
	She said this on Jeremy Vine's show.
	Do you know, I'll tell you what happened on Friday.
	I was in a clothes shop with my husband, buying something for my daughter.
	This is in the pre-COVID times when we're allowed to go shopping.
	And I suddenly started sobbing and sobbing and I had to put my head against a wall.
	They all started staring at him, poor chap, thinking his husband had done something to me.
	They didn't know what I was weeping about.
	And they said, what's wrong?
	And Jeremy Vine was like, did you say it was democracy?
	Did you say I can't bear it?
	And she was like, no, I didn't say that.
	Let's not talk about the kind of democracy we saw in this last nasty election.
	We won't go there.
	I did say that I'm just fearful of what's going to happen.
	I am fearful.
	Does she think that Boris Johnson is going to take the Idi Amin option?
	Spelling you all back to a new gamble.
	I don't know!
	Boris Johnson's the most tepid, milquetoast patriot you'll ever see.
	He's so not a scary man, and it's just so baffling.
	Of course, she's not going to flee naturally.
	She's not going to run away, despite the fact that she thinks Boris Johnson is Idi Amin reborn.
	Julia Hartley Brewer just posted her tweet.
	If you can scroll up a little bit, John.
	It's like, the minute Boris Johnson becomes PM, I'm leaving the country.
	Here's why.
	And she's like, yeah, well, I'm just doing a Boris.
	That was then.
	You lot will not be waving me off anytime soon.
	So sorry.
	Weep and put up.
	But I thought you were genuinely scared for your safety.
	I thought you were in dire danger because the UK is no country for brown people.
	I mean, these aren't my opinions.
	These are her opinions.
	Eminently not.
	And as soon as it comes...
	It's just the nonsense she puts out, but she doesn't even believe it.
	Exactly.
	As soon as it comes to it, it's like, well, I'm not leaving.
	Where are we going to go?
	Everywhere's more racist than this place.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Well, that's funny.
	Yeah, but she wasn't...
	I mean, this didn't stop her, of course.
	During the Meghan Markle debacle, she's not surprised that Meghan fled Britain and she had no choice but to leave the racist royal family because it's insidious.
	She told Vanity Fair that, quote, She also said, I don't mean to be insulting, but most Americans have very dreamy images of this country from films like Notting Hill.
	They've seen the gardens and palaces, but they've never known the underbelly of Britain.
	And to cap it off, she says, Well, you are part of the press, so...
	Thanks for contributing to the racialization of Britain with your constant race activism.
	And I agree with you, Yasmin, that Britain is just such a racist country that it gave you refuge, education, public job, for some reason.
	A position in which you can literally just rant endlessly, Britain bad and nothing.
	And you get paid for it.
	Yeah, you get paid.
	You get paid.
	There's no real kickback at all.
	Yeah.
	Boris Johnson did an idiom in you.
	I mean, I just...
	I don't know.
	I just can't explain how you can square the things you say in public with the way that your life is.
	But she doesn't feel safe.
	This is all leading up to is now no longer feeling safe.
	I no longer feel safe in Britain.
	Minorities face daily racism and sexism, and the state does not protect us.
	Doesn't protect them, Callum.
	From what?
	Hate crimes.
	Or hate speech.
	It's literally illegal.
	Doesn't protect them, Callum.
	It's not just on the books either.
	The police enforce this nonsense.
	They even record hate incidents that are non-crime incidents.
	Not enough, I guess.
	Not enough.
	Ugh.
	My daughter had just FaceTimed me when I was depleted and spiritless.
	Hey mum, it's all opening up.
	Cheer up.
	Tears started to roll as I told her that politics and racism, not lockdown, were leaving me beaten and bowed.
	But racism?
	From who?
	You're in lockdown?
	What?
	Yourself?
	Your husband?
	What are you talking about?
	The racism of the lockdown, Callum.
	Don't be so foolish.
	It's like she's not interacting with anyone but her husband now.
	She's still complaining about racism.
	Uh...
	I think we've found the consistent link here.
	She says, I barely recognise this country, my country.
	What happened to the...
	It's her country now.
	She says, in her house, alone with her and her husband.
	I don't recognise it.
	What happened to the inclusive, cohesive, upbeat Britain of the 2012 Olympics?
	What, the Britain pre-being poisoned with identity politics?
	Yeah, good question.
	I don't know what's happened to it.
	It's a question for the ages.
	I elatedly waved our flag then.
	Now that flag represents insistent authoritarian nationalism and is becoming a shoddy way to separate true Brits from those millions who are barely tolerated and always suspect.
	Who the hell says this?
	Apart from David Lammy, I suppose.
	Maybe we should stop listening to it on LBC. Britain's hostile environment is becoming unendurable for liberals, whose commitment to ethical governance, environmentalists, minorities, recent migrants and asylum seekers, young idealists and girls and women are subjected to constant sexism.
	What are you talking about?
	What a mess of a statement.
	I'm committed to minorities.
	What does that even mean?
	Like, committed to recent immigrants.
	Why?
	Why does liberalism have to have anything to do with immigration?
	Like, it's a negotiation between the state and the individual.
	It doesn't say anything about people who are either not here or due to come here.
	What is your definition of liberalism?
	You need to be committed to environmentalists, committed to minorities, committed to recent migrants, committed to girls.
	Globalism.
	Globalism is what it is.
	There's nothing.
	It's just progressivism.
	It has nothing to do with liberal ideology.
	Yes.
	Wild cowboys are riding roughshod over progressive principles and decency in public spaces.
	God, I wish.
	To hell with progressive principles.
	I mean, there's the mask-off moment.
	Progressive principles, not liberal principles.
	Yeah.
	But the most...
	This is his bet.
	Among the most aggressive riders is Piers Morgan.
	Piers Morgan!
	Oh, the far-righter of the march!
	In the form of Piers Morgan, who's still trying to justify his diabolical attacks on Meghan Markle and his snowflakey tantrum on GMB. Well...
	She's not exactly a great person, is she?
	Never forget that Morgan courted Markle until she'd cut him off.
	I believe this brutish masculinity has been seeking revenge ever since.
	Okay.
	We all know how nasty men can turn if their overtures are abuffed.
	Again, damning indictments of her own husband.
	Just constantly.
	What even is that question?
	She thinks Piers Morgan was trying to sleep with Meghan Markle.
	Okay.
	I The new quarry for Piers Morgan is Alex Beresford, the weatherman, who like when Meghan Markle is mixed race, and that's why.
	That was it.
	Piers Morgan was like, I need a mixed race person to single out because Meghan Markle's ignoring my calls.
	You!
	Weatherman!
	I can't believe I've got to defend Piers Morgan, man.
	Anyway, Beresford's apparently being hounded online.
	Oh my goodness, if only there was something he could do.
	Like not use Twitter or perhaps block people.
	Members of this vicious club also bang on about the woke, liberal traitors and the enemies of the people.
	Well, yeah, because you guys did try to overturn a referendum for, what was it, like four years?
	Yeah.
	Because you didn't like the result?
	I mean, that does seem to indicate you're against liberal democracy.
	Each time they do this...
	In fact, she did earlier say that, didn't she?
	Each time they do this, those they name are savaged by so-called patriots.
	Yeah, but what are the so-called patriots being called every damn day by people like you?
	Not exactly good names, is it?
	I mean, like, Piers Morgan.
	If Piers Morgan...
	Okay, give him his credit.
	He is a patriot, right?
	Piers Morgan does love the sort of Winston Churchill, bulldog view of Britain.
	Fine.
	And if he is...
	Too far beyond the pale, he's the softest, wettest, leftist patriot I've ever seen.
	If he's too far beyond the pale, what chance does anyone else have in this view?
	Anyway, for those of us on the receiving end, there is nowhere to hide, no redress.
	The state itself, seized in what the actress Miriam Margoyles described as a right-wing coup, has gone rogue.
	Eh?
	The vote.
	You mean the...
	The vote, yeah.
	The election we had in which people elected Boris Johnson.
	Yeah, it's a right-wing coup that happens to have massive support across the country.
	Just like the dictator who was voted out.
	Yeah.
	And again, calling Boris Johnson right-wing is kind of generous.
	Well, anyone who writes the right of Mao is right-wing.
	Mao looks right-wing compared to Boris Johnson.
	Anyway, our Prime Minister is the shining exemplar of that descent into political perdition.
	Oh yeah.
	On Sunday morning, grief for bygone political principles and probity, trepidation about resurgent, normalized racism and sexism, and the breakdown of civil discourse made me feel overwhelmed and forlorn.
	I do not feel safe.
	I do not think minority or female rights are well protected.
	I do not have faith in the future of this country.
	It's a shame that Boris Johnson made it illegal to leave, isn't it?
	No, she has an excuse.
	I mean, maybe she's got a point.
	Well, no, it's only five grand.
	I mean, I'm sure she's got five grand.
	She can probably afford that, but I'm sure there are lots of people who can't.
	But anyway, so this leads up to the BBC's race report.
	Is this out yet?
	I don't know.
	I don't think it is fully released.
	I think it's been like, snippets have been sent to the media or something like this.
	As in, like, here's our press release for the press.
	And then they've all written about it.
	So we're waiting on the full thing, but there's multiple sources giving their interpretation of it.
	Yeah, because we were unable to find it.
	But anyway, the BBC have given us a report on this, as you say, four minutes ago.
	We're really on the ball here.
	The UK apparently should be regarded as a model for other white-majority countries on race, says the review.
	You can imagine how upset by this Jasmine is.
	The Commission on Race and Ethnic Disparities found social class and family structure had a bigger impact on how people's lives turn out.
	Wow, it's what we've been saying this whole time.
	Because that's what the evidence shows.
	It said that children from ethnic communities did as well as or better than white pupils.
	Then the problem is that they are privileged.
	And therefore we must put privileges for the white pupils, so that they can have a level playing field and blah blah blah blah blah.
	I mean, do we care about equality?
	I mean, that's the argument, but I guess that'll be dropped by the wayside now that it's not the right group of people.
	Well, I mean, how can they even address this?
	They've got to surely sweep this under the rug.
	But apparently, overt racism remained, particularly online.
	People tweeted.
	It's like, we live in a country where basically everyone treated by the content of their character, you're not stopped for your own promotions, there's no real racism in society.
	But there is advanced...
	But there are still tweets!
	Americans keep sending things!
	And they're legally allowed to do so.
	But the thing is, we have plenty...
	I mean, you've got your consistently updated article of affirmative action for non-white people.
	I wouldn't even call it that.
	It's just open racism in a lot of these cases, in which the state still just says, if you're white, you need not apply for our position, that we are sending out to the state.
	This is a state-run job.
	We're not going to give it to a white person.
	And unsurprisingly, this report has found that ethnic communities did better or as well as white pupils.
	I mean, when the government is literally saying we won't hire white people for X, Y, and Z jobs.
	Dear non-white people, here's a bunch of advantages.
	You're welcome, signed to the British government.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, the commission was set up after the Black Lives Matter anti-racism protests across the country last summer, triggered by the killing of a black man in America, George Floyd.
	Very relevant.
	Thank you, Twitter communists.
	Anyway, the main findings were children from ethnic communities did as well or better as white pupils in compulsory education, with black Caribbean pupils being the only group to perform less well.
	I assume they're ignoring the gypsy community there.
	The success in education has transformed British society over the last 50 years into one offering far greater opportunities for all.
	The pay gap between all ethnic minorities and the white majority population had shrunk to 2.3% overall and was barely significant for employees under 30.
	Diversity had increased in professions such as law and medicine, but some communities continue to be haunted by historic racism, which is creating deep mistrust, which could be a barrier to success.
	And I imagine that people like Yasmin are doing nothing to help this.
	But instead of saying, well, hang on, look, if you actually look at the facts on the ground, if you're an ethnic minority in Britain, there's barely anything holding you back, and there are loads of programmes to advantage you.
	You need not expend all this emotional energy worrying about this.
	But Yasmin is busy weeping into her latte about the fact that Boris Johnson got elected and we'd vote to leave the EU. And then she obviously puts out her articles going, Britain's bad country for non-white people.
	Based on what?
	My feelings!
	My hatred for the English.
	That's what.
	What about my feels?
	Yeah.
	Perfidious Albion strikes again!
	Someone didn't open a door for me on my way into work.
	He was white?
	Anyway.
	The Commission's report, which is due to be published later, concluded the UK is not yet a post-racial country, but its success in removing race-based disparity in education to a lesser extent in the economy should be regarded as a model for other majority white countries.
	Chairman Tony Sewell, the education consultant and ex-charity boss who led the review, said the effect of education is transformative on individuals and also their families and their communities, sometimes within their generation.
	Another revelation from our dive into the data is just how stuck some groups from the white majority are.
	Oh, I wonder what he's talking about there.
	He's obviously talking about the white working class who get no advantages and have no particular prospects.
	Well, they actively have barriers put in their way.
	In examples of the states of the BBC or the Civil Service, IMO5 or whatever, saying we will hire interns who are not you.
	Just anyone but you.
	And it's not just the state either.
	There are lots of private companies that do this as well, but I mean they're private companies.
	Even though there are laws in the books that mean you can't have racial hiring practices, but it doesn't matter.
	Yeah, well, there's an exemption in the Equality Act.
	So the start of it lays out that racial discrimination for hiring is wrong, and there's like section 127 or whatever.
	Except...
	Yeah, yeah.
	I think it might be like 228 or something, in which they just say, yeah, but if it's for positive discrimination, then it's okay.
	But positive discrimination is only ever defined one way.
	Yeah.
	I love the way it's always like, yes, this is bad, but...
	Oh, God, here we go.
	Anyway, he says, as a result, we came to the view that recommendations should, where if possible, be designed to remove obstacles for everyone rather than specific groups.
	Oh, look, he's arrived at our position.
	We shouldn't have racial hiring practices.
	We shouldn't have any kind of quotas.
	We should remove obstacles for everyone rather than specific groups.
	And unfortunately, that does mean, in Britain, white working class people.
	He added, creating a successful multi-ethnic society is hard and racial disparities exist wherever such a society is being forged.
	The commission believes that if these recommendations are implemented, it will give a further burst of momentum to the story of our country's progress to a successful multi-ethnic and multicultural community, a beacon to the rest of Europe and the world.
	Which no one was ever asked about, but I suppose that's where we are now.
	However, this went down like an absolute lead balloon.
	Dr.
	Halima Begum, Chief Executive of the Runnymede Trust.
	The Runnymede Trust, for anyone who doesn't know, is responsible for the definition of Islamophobia that we are being forced to use.
	So professional race grifters.
	You have no idea just how much of a professional race grifter Halima Begum is.
	She said she felt deeply and massively let down by the reports.
	Everyone's doing better than the white Brits.
	God, I'm so let down!
	What happens to my job?
	Yeah, exactly!
	And the government did not have the confidence of the black and minority ethnic communities.
	When asked for a view, she said, tell that to the young black mother who's four times more likely to die in childbirth than her young white neighbour.
	Tell that to the 60% of NHS doctors and nurses who died from COVID that were black and ethnic minority workers.
	You can't tell them that because they're dead.
	Right, but did any of that have to do with institutional racism?
	No!
	Not at all!
	But I love this, you can't tell them that because they're dead.
	It's like, oh, okay, okay, come on.
	You know, it's nobody's fault, but the person who happens to be obese or have other health conditions, there's no one's responsible for that.
	Nah, COVID was killing them because they're black.
	Like, it was specifically going out to kill them.
	It's not even...
	No, no, no.
	Let's not put the blame on COVID here, because that excuses the racism from the correct place, which is Britain.
	And it's structures that are institutionally racist.
	If we blame it on COVID, then Britain isn't guilty of being racist.
	So what, there's, I don't know, the figure of Britain walking around coughing into the faces of these doctors?
	I guess so.
	I guess the NHS staff, who are technically mostly white, were like, right, infect the black people.
	And they were just...
	I mean, I presume...
	I don't know how else you're getting to that conclusion.
	Yeah, I don't work at the NHS. I don't know how deeply racist it is.
	And I guess it can only be.
	Anyway, can't tell them that because they're dead.
	And institutionally, we're still racist.
	And for a government-appointed commission to look into institutional racism to deny its existence is deeply, deeply worrying.
	Well, she would say that, wouldn't she?
	I mean, she took to Twitter to continue this, and if you look through the Twitter feed, it is just race grifting nonsense.
	She says, There we go.
	Hashtag racism is real.
	Wash is white.
	This government official?
	Basically white.
	He's white on the inside is what they're saying here.
	Coconut!
	Yeah, that is literally their allegation.
	It's literally their allegation.
	Because the man tells you what the facts are and not what the race grifting is telling you to say, then therefore this guy's basically a symbol of white supremacy.
	Anyway, Dr.
	Shola, not white actually.
	Let's go to her response though.
	Exactly the response you expect from Dr.
	Shola.
	Racist Boris Johnson, race commission fronted by a token black man, Tony Sewell, finds institutional racism doesn't exist.
	A white supremacy lie to gaslight entire nation.
	Hashtag this is why I resist.
	Britain is not a model of racial equality.
	Hashtag Black Lives Matter.
	Then why do you live here?
	Like, again, you're allowed on TV. You're constantly given a platform.
	You're paid to do this to just tell the British people that they're a bunch of racists.
	Just her entire job.
	Anyway, Prim Yavda Gopal had a nice response to this.
	Again, you can see these are all verified checkmarks on Twitter.
	This lady, do you remember her?
	Oh yeah, I remember.
	We'll explain why she's notable in a second.
	Well, it's a model of racial equality, alright?
	A pretty bad one.
	Colonial Gaslighting 101.
	She's the white lives don't matter lady.
	I'll say it again.
	White lives don't matter as white lives.
	Ooh, very edgy.
	Very edgy.
	I mean, I just think you should just have that as a hashtag.
	White lives don't matter.
	I can't pronounce that.
	She was a professor at Oxford University, and in response to people pointing out that she had said this, she got a promotion.
	Because this was right after a white guy had flown a sign that said white lives matter, and then he was fired from his job, and then this lady tweeted this, and she got a promotion because she works in academia.
	If any brown women could get ahead in this country.
	Yeah.
	There's just no way it can happen.
	I just wanted to mention, we went back to, I can't remember who it was, I think it was the Running Me Trust, saying that even if there is no evidence of systemic racism, we're still a systemically racist country.
	It just reminded me of this 40k quote that I had to find.
	There is no such thing as innocence, only degrees of guilt.
	Yeah, that's what it is.
	Anyway, so BAME Labour had a nice tweet about this.
	Such as being called BAME. Good.
	Devalue the experience of everyday racism because it doesn't seem to really be existing.
	But you know in this report, this is where they recommended to get rid of the term BAME, because it's racist, and it's like, okay, BAME Labour, whatever you say, BAME Labour, gonna change that name, BAME Labour?
	Ash Sarkar posted, A government doesn't like it when people say institutional racism exists.
	Appointed a panel of people who don't believe institutional racism exists, and they've produced a report which argues that institutional racism doesn't exist.
	Well, it's only because that's what the facts suggest, Ash.
	I mean, if you want to hold to your religious conviction that institutional racism exists, then you're free to do so.
	But there's no particular reason why the rest of us should be forced to abide by this demented view of reality.
	Although I have to say, one person called Joshua Mooney replied to this.
	Saying, I just want to leave the country.
	It's exhausting.
	Unfortunately, Tories and nationalists took that away from us too, so we're trapped.
	And he's kind of right.
	You know, the COVID lockdowns are preventing these people from just leaving, which would be something they're asking for.
	So I don't know why we don't allow them to do that, Boris.
	Anyway, I'm so tired.
	So very, very tired of hearing how the country that has given them so much and pays them to exist as racial grifters is just irredeemably racist.
	I mean, I suppose they can't ever say anything different.
	Yeah, I mean, they're not.
	Otherwise they're going to have to get a job.
	Not trained to be.
	But the thing on my mind is I kind of feel bad calling them grifters, not because I think they're not saying things that they know not to be true, but because I think it's actually almost like it's...
	Like my example, they're sort of like the Inquisition of Britain.
	They're that force that gets kept around and paid handsomely to say prayers and sort of excommunicate people from the church and so on and so forth.
	And I don't know why this is funded.
	I don't know what use this has.
	At least the Christian church had a use of trying to keep the country Christian or something.
	It's the same as the flagellants, isn't it?
	It's like we go around whipping ourselves to prove that we're good and to prove that we're noble and God loves us.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm not saying I agree with that.
	I'm just saying it's why they exist.
	But it seems really pointless.
	Especially if we're just going to keep whipping ourselves over being racist when literally any piece of evidence you can find shows that the country is less than any other country.
	Well, the reason we whip ourselves is to make ourselves feel better and show God that we love him so much that we will continue to flagellate ourselves until the end of time.
	Yeah.
	Well, speaking of flagellating yourself, it's a different way.
	So, there's some stuff going down in the United States that's been ticking up that is upsetting a lot of people.
	When I say a lot of people, I mean a few people who are extreme radicals in the transgender lobby.
	So this is the first thing here, which is South Dakota's governor coming up with executive orders to require women's sports to exclusively only be biological women.
	Wow.
	So she's making sure that only girls, as she say, can play girls' sports.
	Well, that's unacceptable.
	Radical perspective.
	So she's, uh, there's, this is an article we have on lotuses.com if you want to read the full details of this, but she's not the only one.
	Like, there's a whole bunch of states who are doing things like this to make sure that, for example, only the biological sex competes in its sport, which is segregated by biological sex.
	How radical.
	That's how the sport works.
	So, I want to go here to a report about Alabama as well, in which they have joined 20 states crafting new laws to protect children from transgender drug treatments.
	Oh, so they're catching up with Britain.
	Yeah, so they are passing what is called the Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act, which would make it a felony to provide life-altering drug treatment to minors.
	Sensible, yeah.
	I mean...
	Come on, defend it.
	Hi kids, here are a bunch of untested drugs.
	Do you want us to inject you?
	No, you can't consent.
	I mean, adults can't consent because we don't know what these drugs really do.
	But you're a child, so you definitely can't consent.
	Yeah, it's also the surgery as well, which is criminalizing.
	Good!
	I mean, the drugs is a pretty easy argument.
	Arguing on the surgery, I mean, you would have thought that would be open and shut.
	Hi kids, do you want a castration?
	Yeah, I don't think that's something children can consent to.
	So they take a quote from here from a 17-year-old girl, and I'm assuming it's a girl, Uh, who's taking testosterone, and they say that this is horrible, blah blah blah blah blah, and then she gives a quote, why should some dude who has never met me, why should he get to tell me what I can and can't do?
	Because you're a child?
	It's that simple?
	I mean, that's one view of it.
	I mean, I don't know what else you want, like, you can't, I don't know what the voting age in the United States is, it must be 18.
	You can't even vote yet.
	You certainly can't drink.
	So, I mean, if we're able to say that, I mean, I don't know if you should be able to cut off your own genitalia.
	I would have thought this would be an easy argument.
	This isn't even an argument about...
	I mean, that's the thing as well.
	If you're pro trans people being able to transition and do drugs...
	Your body, your property, you do whatever you want.
	We're quite liberal on this.
	But it's the thing of like...
	Well, this is explicitly a story about kids.
	And then the question has to become of the activist promoting the other side of this.
	Why are you so interested in kids?
	Why can't you just wait?
	And the argument will be, well, this example, she has to take testosterone at this age because this is puberty.
	It's like...
	Yeah, I'm not sure I'd buy this.
	I'm not sure you couldn't just wait till 20 and then transition.
	Well, I mean, there is scientific evidence to suggest that after puberty, something like 90% of people who thought they may have been transgender stop thinking they're transgender.
	So you've got to get in there young, I guess.
	So if you don't want to lose 90% of your constituency, you kind of have to nip in before puberty.
	So this went before the Senate in Alabama and was voted 23-4.
	So overwhelming support to ban this in the Alabama Senate.
	And it's now going to the House to be voted on and will likely get voted through by the looks of it.
	So a representative from the Republicans, who's a Republican senator, gave a quote.
	Minors are not mentally capable to make this decision of this caliber.
	Correct.
	True.
	Yeah, I don't know what else to disagree with that.
	They can't vote, they can't have sex, they can't drink, they can't get married, they can't make, like, they can't drive a car, they can't make all these sort of decisions, but they can decide that for the rest of their life they want to live without a penis.
	I mean, what's the argument?
	Like, if you take the view that this should be legal, well then, you have to then say, well, everything else should also have no age limit.
	Yeah.
	And then you've just legalised paedophilia.
	What's wrong with you?
	Well, you're a leftist.
	Yeah.
	So then it turns out it's not just a few states.
	So this is sort of a, let's say, resurgent movement in the United States because the way the United States works, things going through state by state seems to be a better way of doing it than trying to enforce things on the federal level.
	So you'll see the Biden administration trying to enforce on the federal level that sex-segregated sport, for example, should be abolished and instead we should have mixed sports, essentially.
	I agree that we should definitely abolish women's sports, but then I'm the one who's the misogynist here, aren't I? Well, he's also planning to abolish women, so I suppose that'll just follow.
	Joe Biden's just thinking so far ahead.
	Such 4D chess.
	Abolish women.
	If we abolish women, we abolish feminism and Sargon wins.
	So, you know, that's what's happening on the federal level, but then on the state level, people are fighting back.
	So if we can go to the next link, and you can scroll down, so there's a map.
	So this is some advocacy group for legalizing such actions.
	And this is a map in which they list all the states that have laws on the books or going through the senates talking about what they describe as anti-transgender bills.
	All of these seem to be bills about either segregating sports, as in like the high school sports should be segregated male and female.
	Children should have male and female sports.
	Yeah, radical.
	Like, Texas there, I think, has the most number, and, like, half of them are just about, like, no, all the sports in this state will be segregated along sex lines, because that's how they are defined.
	Because otherwise women can never win a sporting event again.
	But this is the pushback, I guess.
	So this is how it's going to be done in the United States.
	It's not a small movement, either, as you can see.
	There's a lot of states here signing up to the idea that actually maybe children can't be sex.
	Most of them, in fact.
	Yeah.
	Which is actually quite heartening to see.
	So that's a little white pill for people wondering about this.
	And if you live in one of these states and you don't have one of these bills, I suppose you can do your political will and get one passed, or at least help to get one passed.
	So then there's the response to this is hilarious.
	So the ACLU is an organization that's really fallen from grace.
	Really good civil rights lobby.
	It's a mild way of putting it.
	No, but they've always been a really good civil rights lobby.
	And then very recently, they just ingested the SJW pill and decided that they need to also be free from reality.
	Like, nature is an enemy of freedom.
	It's just like, okay, this isn't going to go well.
	Like, we all know where this is going.
	We are being oppressed by nature.
	Yeah, exactly.
	So this is one of their tweets in which they said that Arkansas has become the first state to ban healthcare for trans youth.
	77,000 likes.
	Ban healthcare.
	Healthcare.
	Sorry, you transgender, no, I don't care if you've got a broken leg, you're not going to the hospital.
	So it's just healthcare for trans youth, so you can see the nonsense there.
	But I like that it's got 77,000 likes.
	We mentioned previously that there was a post from Aston Villa that was like, oh, happy Passover, and then the Jewish star.
	And then it had 30,000 reacts, 26,000 of them angry reacts, because the Muslim Palestine lobby had raided it.
	And it was a really subversive way to get their message in.
	It's a message I disagree with, but I find the tactic interesting.
	And that's why I find this really interesting, because it's like, breaking, Arkansas has been the first state to ban healthcare for transgender youth.
	77,000 likes.
	Weirdly, they're all from the same Palestine lobby.
	Hmm.
	No, it's not.
	I mean, you just look through the comments.
	It's all conservatives.
	But there are some responses in here that I saw, like, you know, left-wing people getting in on it.
	And I wanted to go to the first one, so this is someone with a totally sensible person.
	18,000 likes for this.
	I've said it before, and I'll say it again.
	Denying necessary healthcare to a political minority is, by definition, genocide.
	It's genocide for us to say that children can't consent to having their genitalia cut off.
	Hmm.
	You got us.
	I never thought I'd be described as pro-genocide, but here we are.
	But there you go.
	I mean, this is a very serious person as well.
	You can see, like, 18,000 likes.
	This was, I think, the most voted up in that section.
	But just, like, look at the character.
	So let's go to her account.
	I don't know if it's her.
	I assume it's her.
	Well, who knows?
	No, just the next one.
	So this...
	No, you should have her account.
	Let's just go back and click on her account then, because you can see, like, in the description of herself, May, she, her, very trans and queer, and con, what a shock, programmer, musician, I'm adult, years old, DMs open.
	I'm starting to feel this is turning into a map rights...
	Profile.
	Pinned tweet, my fursona, and then just images of her as a furry.
	Totally normal people who have normal opinions.
	And then the next one, which was the other comment I saw that was highly upvoted underneath.
	Another furry account, by the looks of it.
	This is genocide.
	2,500 likes.
	What is with all these communist trans genocide promoting?
	Oh, he's furry as well.
	She, her, 25, sapphic polypan, web dev and sysadmin, video disc jockey, and woofdog.
	God damn it, man.
	Twitter is just the worst thing that's ever happened in the world.
	I mean, it really is Tumblr with all the conservatives banned.
	What is left?
	It's such a mess.
	So embarrassing.
	There's the conservative response to this, which I saw in there.
	So this was one of the reasons it got so many upvotes.
	You can see this is a conservative response that got a lot of likes as well.
	So someone making the point, puberty blockers for prepubescent youth, mastectomies on teen girls, healthy breasts, and castration of young boys is not healthcare.
	It is insane that we have to say this.
	has been banned whatsoever.
	Fix your blatant misinformation.
	True.
	Seems true to me.
	I looked up the law itself and I just got like a summation of it.
	So apparently the Arkansas legislation threatens any healthcare professional who provides puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, or sex reassignment surgery to minors with losing their medical license and opens them up to lawsuits from patients who later regret the procedure.
	I mean, this is literally going to be described as a pro-genocide position by the left now.
	Because of a bunch of transgender furries on Twitter.
	If you don't want to cough a child's penis, you're pro-genocide.
	Well, because of a bunch of transgender furries on Twitter, these conservatives are going to be considered to be pro-genocide advocates.
	Yeah, I mean, that's the position.
	I just wanted to go, it's not just the hormone blockers as well.
	Like, in here they say sex reassignment surgery.
	I mean, can you think of a doctor saying to a 15-year-old, we're going to do sex reassignment surgery on you?
	And the child is like, yeah, I consent.
	And this is fine.
	This needs no more consideration.
	The child has consented.
	That's how that's going to work.
	And if you don't allow this, you're pro-genocide and you're denying healthcare.
	The fact that this is going under the rubric of healthcare is so disgusting.
	Yeah, so that's what's been going on in the US. You can see it, like, blowing up.
	It's not just a small thing.
	A lot of states are signing on to this thing.
	So that's...
	Good for the conservatives as well.
	Stick to your guns.
	Do not let them back...
	Do not make them...
	Let them allow you to backtrack on this.
	I mean, yeah, the literal Satanists in New York and California want to cut off their children's penises.
	I mean...
	That's their problem, but it doesn't happen in your state.
	So then there's the UK, so the airstrip one, who's been having some problems.
	But this is something interesting as well.
	There's significant pushback in the UK from this.
	So this is a high court ruling, which was a little while back in December.
	But trans kids will no longer be referred for puberty blockers following the high court ruling.
	So basically, children can't consent again, was the ruling out of all of this.
	So they say in here, so this is Pink News reporting it, a pro-genocide rule.
	No, no, no.
	An anti-genocide outlet.
	No.
	To be honest, I kind of want to call them an anti-gay outlet because they just become such absurdity.
	It's like Stonewall.
	They're like, there are no more gay men, just trans women.
	It's just like, what are you doing?
	Anyway.
	Good point.
	So they say in here, the verdict came in a case brought by Kira Bell, 23.
	and a mother of a trans teen so her uh daughter wanted to transition and the mother was like no i don't consent um and the child was brought up in charges of you can't consent you need your mother to agree to this yeah and it was argued that under 16s cannot give informed consent to puberty blockers and they describe it as a reversible life-saving treatment that prevents trans kids from going through the wrong puberty the wrong puberty Reversible.
	Lifesaving.
	None of these things appear to be true.
	So if we don't let children to consent, then those things will take place.
	We'll get back to the obvious lies in that statement.
	So the judges said in their ruling that it is, quote, doubtful that children aged 14 to 15 could understand the, quote, long-term risks and consequences of taking puberty blockers and then hormone replacement therapy, and it's highly unlikely that children under 13 Would be competent to give consent.
	Oh, just doubtful.
	Just doubtful.
	It's not like we have an age of consent in the UK. Just doubtful.
	I'm just not sure.
	I mean, I could be persuaded one way or another, I suppose, if 14-year-olds could be persuaded to chop off the genitals and consent to that.
	We're talking about 13-year-olds.
	Well, that's highly unlikely, but maybe...
	It's highly unlikely that they could consent.
	No, I'm pretty sure it's pretty solid.
	It's pretty solid in the West that they can't consent, mate.
	I'm pretty sure we defined it as that before we even came to this question.
	Yeah.
	Anyway.
	So this lady, Kira Bell, who brought this case, they don't give a picture of her in here, and I imagine there's a reason for that.
	So she was someone who...
	Well, we've shown her before.
	Yeah, but I want to show her again, so people who haven't seen it.
	But just like, if you scroll down to the image, you can see on this person there is stubble.
	Like, this is the reversible treatment she was given of puberty blockers and hormone changing.
	Yep.
	But she had a double mastectomy.
	She still has the stubble, for example, just on the appearance, and then the double mastectomy as well.
	I mean, it's just not reversible.
	You start chopping off bits of your body, it's not a reversible process.
	Totally reversible.
	And then we're not even getting into the various osteoporosis problems and things like this, like the bone problems.
	Okay, anyway, and cancer increasing.
	Anyway, just carry on.
	Totally reversible.
	So then she just gave a summation of her in here for people who haven't heard it.
	So she was a tomboy growing up.
	She learned about transitioning online.
	And then she says she went for three one-hour meetings with the Tavistock Clinic and was prescribed puberty drugs.
	And she's arguing that, well, I went for three meetings and you guys gave me drugs.
	Do you think something that was not reversible, we should have gone down the therapy route a bit more?
	Maybe we should be looking that we can help people without giving them puberty blockers when they're kids instead of doing that?
	And instead, they end up getting the ruling out of this that actually children just can't consent, which is right.
	Yeah.
	I don't know why.
	Three hours, though.
	Just three hours.
	I mean, I spend more time in the toilet every day than that.
	What?
	Three hours?
	Mate, when you've got kids, you'll realise that being on the toilet with a locked door is the only way you get any time to yourself.
	The only time you're free, I guess.
	Oh, absolutely.
	Yeah.
	My best shitposting is done from the toilet.
	Literally.
	So that's the, you know, they say the UK in which we've been able to reverse that.
	But there has been a challenge to this.
	They issued a, what's it called?
	When you challenge a court case.
	Appeal.
	Yeah, they appealed it.
	And they have been able to narrow this down a little bit.
	So not as good as first thought.
	But in here, they're able to say the judges checking over the appeal took it the If the parents consent, however, then maybe it could be argued that there's enough consent for this to be legal.
	But I'm glad that we have the fact that children can't consent.
	Didn't know why that took so long.
	I don't know why that needs a high court case to go before, before you're like, yeah, maybe.
	But in here they say the quote, so parents are, in general, in a position to understand and weigh up these matters and consider what is in the long-term and short-term best interest of their child.
	And I would generally agree with the judge saying that, except that she also then goes on to say later on that, well, actually, there are positions in which the court probably should overrule some parents.
	And I'm like, yeah, and who are those kinds of parents?
	Yeah, the left-wing radicals.
	But, I mean, why can't this be applied to something else?
	If the parents are like, well, yeah, I mean, I know that the Muslim grooming gang probably shouldn't be having sex.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I mean, you would have thought that would be the simple thing.
	Just, here's the age of consent.
	You can't consent to voting, driving a car, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	Therefore, nothing else.
	Like, nothing else that is life-changing and clearly abuse you can engage in.
	After that, when you're an adult, don't give a damn.
	Yeah, don't care.
	Go throw yourself off a building, chop off any part of your body you want.
	Your problem, not my problem.
	Don't.
	Well, obviously don't do these things, but the point is, it's your body, it's your choice.
	You do what you want with it.
	You're an adult, you can make these informed decisions.
	We won't pass a law against it.
	No, exactly.
	But it's just mad.
	It's mad how predatory the trans lobby is towards children.
	Yeah, but at least there is actually pushback on this.
	I mean, that's a bit of a white pill story that we're seeing throughout lots of states in the US and the UK. People realizing, you know, the start of the cycle of realizing this was an atrocity.
	I mean, in a few years, I think we'll be at the end of that cycle and we'll be looking back thinking, Jesus Christ, what was going on?
	Yeah, I think in 10 years' time, I hope in 10 years' time, we look back on what we have to discuss now and be like, Christ, that was mad, wasn't it?
	It's good that the curve of nonsense is just seemingly now going down and will be proven and accepted as nonsense culturally.
	God, I really hope so.
	So, yeah, white pill story.
	Good.
	Great.
	And it took a few mutilated children for us to get to this point.
	Yeah, well...
	Can't help but feel that we could have had this discussion without mutilating any children and come to the same conclusions.
	But hey, what do I know?
	Anyway, let's discuss something that happened yesterday.
	So before we start this, it's quite evident that YouTube is on another one of its banning sprees and rampages against what I just...
	I mean, it's just conservatives.
	Because there's only conservatives left on YouTube when it comes to political...
	It's the left and then...
	The conservatives on the right, who, I mean, if you put the white nationalists at the very far end of that, they've been gone for years.
	White nationalists have been gone for ages.
	Yeah, and then the conspiracy theorist content was all gone, and then there's Alex Jones and various others.
	And now Stephen Crowder has been suspended for a week by getting a strike, in the same way that we have been suspended for a week for getting a strike.
	I think he's been completely demonetized as well.
	He's been completely demonetized again as well.
	He got demonetized for calling Carlos Maza the same word that Carlos Maza calls himself.
	Because it's one rule for one, one rule for another.
	And yeah, he got completely demonetised and suspended for a week.
	This means he only has his CrowderBits channel in the same way that we have our Lotus Eaters channel as the alternative to upload to.
	He can't upload to a main one, and neither can we.
	I saw him upload, I think it was a small clip, explaining all this to the Bits channel.
	And then YouTube also took that video down.
	Did they?
	I'm pretty sure it's gone.
	Oh, I wasn't aware.
	I saw it on Instagram.
	But the point is, YouTube's obviously on one of their rampages as usual.
	This means now that we have two current strikes on our channel, and we got a strike for the video No King of Gondor.
	It's gone, is it?
	Yeah.
	Right.
	I suspect we probably can't upload to our alternate channel either.
	I guess that's the state.
	That's probably the rule.
	I don't know if we should, because I think that YouTube...
	I think you physically can, but if they find out, you get a strike.
	Yeah, I think YouTube will come down on this.
	So I don't think we'll be uploading anything to there for at least a week.
	Obviously, everything will be available on Facebook, BitChute, Odyssey, Rumble, all of the other platforms.
	It's just YouTube are the ones who are on the mad banning spree.
	We got the strike, another strike, for the Gondor Has No King video in which we discussed what the consequences of people not believing Joe Biden was legitimately elected were.
	We didn't say that he wasn't legitimately elected because we weren't allowed.
	And obviously for months this was fine.
	And for some reason YouTube suddenly like, no, whack, you're in trouble.
	So one more strike and we lose our channel.
	I have in fact deleted almost all of our election coverage from our YouTube channel because otherwise it's going to be taken down.
	So basically it's not going to be long until you have to find us either on LotusEater.com or on BitChute and the other selection channels.
	So if you want to support us, you can of course sign up.
	We broadcast and host everything on LotusEaters.com.
	So you will be able to find us if we get taken down, which we probably will.
	Anyway, moving on.
	YouTube apparently wants to stop weaponizing dislikes.
	And this is from 2019, because YouTube is thinking about deleting the dislike button altogether, basically.
	And this is something that's been a long time coming.
	So in 2019, Tom Leung, the director of project management at YouTube, discussed this with The Verge.
	And he said, well, look, dislike mobs...
	Are a problem for creators on the channel.
	It's like, really?
	What creators?
	Not a problem for most creators.
	For most creators, dislike mobs aren't really a big deal because they don't happen.
	They happen to certain ones, don't they?
	And so YouTube has been planning to experiment with new ways to make it more difficult for organized attacks to be executed.
	One option there is having granularity when someone downvotes, so you might have to check a tick box or something like that to say that yes, you actually want to download this video, which they figure will stop a percentage of people from downvoting it.
	Maybe that's not the problem, though.
	Maybe you need to start thinking outside of the box here.
	But anyway, the last option was, of course, just to remove the dislikes entirely.
	He said it's not as democratic as not all dislikes are from dislike mobs.
	That's true.
	Anyway, they decided to go with that undemocratic option, as yesterday they announced that, quote,"...in response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we're testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count." If you're part of this small experiment, you might spot one of these designs in the coming weeks.
	Example below.
	Creators, you'll still be able to see the exact numbers of likes and dislikes in YouTube Studio.
	For viewers, if you're in the experiment, you can still like or dislike the video to share feedback with the creators and help tune the recommendations you see on YouTube.
	So all it does is hide it from the public.
	So if you are a content creator and you're worried about your well-being and you're like, oh, thank God YouTube have done something.
	But wait, I can still see all those dislikes.
	I can still see that thousands of people are telling me I've made a crappy video.
	So how does this help their well-being?
	It doesn't.
	In any way, shape, or form.
	It's got nothing to do with well-being, does it?
	No.
	It clearly has absolutely nothing to do with well-being.
	To be honest with you, the way that YouTube is now, I used to love YouTube as a platform.
	I thought YouTube was the best platform out there.
	And I used to speak quite highly of it.
	And then YouTube became Social Justice Tube.
	And now I have no particularly good words for it at all.
	I think it's a disgrace.
	What this is about is not about creators at all.
	It is about the fact that if someone watches a video and the public dislike it, it will have a lot of dislikes.
	It's hiding that fact.
	It is hiding that the public do not like this video.
	Yeah.
	That's exactly what it is.
	Could that possibly apply to?
	Well, that's a good question.
	Which corporations over the last 10 years kept making videos about a certain political idea that kept getting mass dislikes?
	We'll get to it.
	Anyway, so Team YouTube, another YouTube account on Twitter.
	Again, for some reason, all of this is announced via Twitter.
	Don't know why.
	Don't know why they don't put their own statements on YouTube.com.
	But viewer feedback is an important part of YouTube.
	If you can scroll up a second, just so we can see what they're applying to here.
	John?
	So yeah, someone's like, how will viewers quickly be able to know the general rating of the video and whether or not they should invest time into watching something?
	Time is valuable.
	This is a bad decision.
	Dislike.
	And that's a great point.
	And I do this all the time.
	I used to like my conspiracy theory videos and Bigfoot videos and all this sort of shit.
	And basically, if you were going to watch, you know, because you might have like 40 minute videos, like Bigfoot footage reveals, okay, I want to see the Bigfoot, is it?
	And then you see like, you know...
	90% dislikes, and you're like, ah, it's just wasting my time.
	It's wasting my time, exactly.
	And so this is actually...
	As if the other Bigfoot footage isn't...
	Hey!
	We're going to do a premium podcast on Bigfoot.
	I can prove it's not real.
	I want genuine Bigfoot footage.
	But the point is that it's useful for the people actually using YouTube.
	And again, this was just a random guy saying, hang on, I need this, because this tells me about what I'm doing.
	And YouTube are like, ha ha ha, shut up and go away, is almost what they're saying.
	Viewer feedback is an important part of YouTube, but...
	Why don't we delete it?
	Yeah, but...
	Okay, well, do we need to hear anything else?
	But...
	But we've heard from creators that the current experience can negatively impact their well-being.
	Which creators?
	Name the people.
	I want to speak to them and go and dislike their videos.
	But anyway, we also know that the public dislike counts sometimes motivate targeted campaigns of dislikes on some videos.
	Yeah, but that's not bad.
	Like, if the public dislike the thing, and they hit dislike, what's gone wrong there?
	If someone puts a video up saying, hey, map rights, and the public are like, no, dislike, that's a good thing.
	YouTube.
	Don't know why I have to say that.
	We're changing the look and feel of the buttons, but we'll continue to tune recommendations based on likes and dislikes.
	Hope this clarifies.
	Well, at least the dislike will still do something.
	So even if you can't see it, there is a point to doing it.
	And the thing is, they've already got a method of hiding likes and dislikes already.
	So I don't know why.
	Yeah, you can just turn it off.
	Yeah, you can just turn it off.
	But the thing is, there's YouTube plugins and things like that that you can add that will reveal these things.
	So people will still be able to find these out.
	Unless, of course, they've changed something on the back end, so that no longer works.
	I don't know.
	But anyway...
	That's how you know if a video is mass-disliked, especially.
	Like, if they've taken off the number of likes and dislikes, you know that everyone hates it.
	Yeah.
	So they say, yeah, we hope this clarifies.
	And someone else replies going, that doesn't even make sense.
	If the creators can still see the like-dislike ratio, their feelings will still be hurt by getting ratioed.
	The only difference that it makes is that it blinds the users against seeing if a video is well liked or not before choosing to spend time watching it.
	And they go, well, thanks for that.
	We'll pass it on.
	Sure you will.
	And I guess the creators' feelings that have been hurt are, well, who...
	Which creators have been really hurt by this?
	I mean, you've got Marvel Studios and various other things, but I think that maybe it's...
	What's the most disliked video?
	I think it was actually Call of Duty's new release.
	No, I think it might have been YouTube Rewind 2019.
	Oh yeah, it beat Call of Duty, didn't it?
	Yeah, it didn't.
	If we can go to the next one.
	YouTube's feelings are hurt.
	Exactly, yeah.
	The creators whose feelings are most hurt was YouTube Rewind at 9.4 million dislikes.
	That's a hell of a number.
	I love what they're saying as well, that all those dislikes are not real.
	Actually, people love Rewind.
	This is just a dislike mob.
	It's like, nah, that's the people watching it, mate.
	What we're saying is that the dislike button negatively impacts the creators' feelings.
	So everyone at YouTube was really upset that almost 10 million people told them to shut up and go away.
	Rewind 2020 was of course cancelled because of this.
	Oh no, sorry, it wasn't because of this.
	It was because of COVID. It wasn't because everyone absolutely loathed their Rewind series or what it became.
	No, no, no, no.
	It was because it was COVID. It didn't feel right to carry on.
	Didn't feel right.
	I love the idea that we're hurting the feels of like a billion dollar corporation as well.
	More than a billion dollars.
	Probably a trillion dollars at this point.
	But anyway, so they didn't do it.
	And even Susan Wojcicki admitted it was cringe-inducing.
	We know that so much of the good that did happen in 2020 was created by all of you, YouTube Statement Red.
	We've found ways to lift people up, help them cope, and make them laugh.
	You made a hard year genuinely better.
	Look, YouTube, it's not your job to talk about lifting people up and making them cope and to protect creators' feelings.
	It's not your job.
	Your job is to host videos.
	Hang on, I've just thought of something as well.
	But they'll still have the comments enabled, right?
	Sure.
	So we just comment dislike and everyone upvotes that comment.
	Or just like if every comment is just the word dislike.
	Yeah, we can have every comment being the word dislike or it could just be one and everyone just upvotes that.
	So we've got 3,000 upvotes and like 12,000 comments and the comments are all dislike, dislike, dislike, dislike.
	Alright boys, we know what to do.
	Now, why YouTube is removing the comment section to protect creators' well-being?
	So yeah, and this is obviously, I don't think it's just YouTube either.
	I think it might be because of the Biden administration.
	Biden's team was apparently alleged to have removed, sorry, YouTube removed.
	Sorry, no, that's not correct.
	I'm reading it wrong.
	So Joe Biden took over the White House, of course, and that means they took over the White House YouTube channel, and they decided to disable likes and comments on the videos.
	Well, no, they disabled the comments, in fact, because the likes was really, really bad.
	So Trump used to have the likes and the comments enabled?
	Yep.
	Because, you know, want to hear what the public think about this?
	Because Trump was a popular president.
	Biden took over, disabled the comments because he didn't want to hear what the public have to say because they're all negative.
	Yep.
	And the likes and dislikes were still there.
	Yeah, and it was really bad because, I mean, like, the video of Biden going into the White House got 1,500 likes with 11,000 dislikes.
	Just saying.
	YouTube have apparently been caught removing dislikes from Biden videos in the past, as the Gateway Pundits show, with two screenshots where it went from 11,000 downvotes to 3,000 downvotes, because...
	why not?
	And YouTube have got an excuse for this as well.
	YouTube regularly removes any spam or dislikes from your videos.
	It may take up to 48 hours for the numbers to be updated.
	Well, good thing YouTube are here to protect Joe Biden from people disliking the videos on the White House YouTube channel.
	I imagine they did the same thing with their own Rewind Video 2.
	But the point is, YouTube is another platform that is going the way of, well, Twitter.
	And just being like, look, communication is a good idea.
	I know we're social media.
	We like the idea of communication, but not too much of it.
	And certainly not in the wrong direction.
	So maybe, in fact, you could just be quiet and listen to things that your masters are telling you.
	Anyway, let's go for the comments.
	Hey guys, I'm out here just enjoying a lovely Dallas, Texas evening and having dinner with my family.
	I don't really have any questions, I just wanted to say you guys get to do this soon.
	Yeah, me too.
	Can't even flee to Texas.
	Well, you can.
	Just cost you five grand.
	Okay, yeah.
	Assuming you can afford five grand, you can flee to Texas.
	I can't afford the tax, mate.
	Yeah, yeah, it's mad.
	One day, though, one day I have visions that we'll go to a restaurant again, and it'll be wonderful.
	Let's go for TF Allsparks.
	Hello.
	While I'm a fervent member of the Diverged Autonomous Democratic Party, I do have a single concern.
	Your leader is very fervent against both bread and sugar.
	Turns out, a lot of people work with that.
	Like me, pastry chefs, bakers.
	And I'm wondering, when you establish your global dominance, will we get some leeway?
	Will we lose our jobs, or is there a future for us there?
	Well, no, you're right.
	When the keto dictatorship comes in, all bread and pastries will be abolished, as will sugar.
	Sugar being a...
	I mean, I'm pretty sure I could tie sugar production to colonialism in some way, giving myself a progressive justification for abolishing sugar.
	Then we're going to have a reverse opium war, in which the Chinese smuggle sugar into the country.
	Maybe.
	And then we have to declare war on China.
	Maybe.
	And then their ships are probably better than ours in 50 years anyway, so...
	Possibly.
	Then we lose.
	We have to see the Isle of Man.
	No, no, no, no, no, no.
	We'll win because we're strong.
	The Isle of White, actually, wouldn't it?
	Yeah, probably.
	We'll be stronger, fitter, and healthier because of our lack of sugar consumption.
	Yeah, that's what they said about the opium consumption.
	Well, they lost.
	I mean...
	Yeah, because you were like, oh, we'll ban opium, and then everyone just kept importing it anyway.
	Hmm.
	So...
	Okay, let's go to the next one.
	You asked on yesterday's podcast whether or not shortness of breath is a sign or symptom of a heart attack.
	And as a physician-specific pathologist, yes.
	It's one of the first signs that you're having heart trouble.
	What this means in the George Floyd case.
	There we go.
	Thanks, man.
	I didn't actually want to know, so that's good.
	Thanks for letting us know.
	Going back to the sugar.
	If you do ban sugar, I'm becoming a drug dealer.
	I don't care.
	Either way, all I'm saying is sugar's going to be banned.
	Yeah, and I'll deal it.
	Hey, when the cops are there stomping on your face, saying, is this your sugar?
	And we'll have sugar tests, like drug tests, but just obviously for the worst thing.
	Or you'll check in the carpets in the car to see if I've dropped any sugar.
	Yeah, and we'll have swabs, so there's definite sweetness detected.
	What a wonderful world.
	Yeah.
	It didn't have to be this way.
	I just wanted to play video games.
	They could have just left me alone.
	We're talking woodshop related things.
	I wanted to show you guys what I do for a living.
	So I work for a company that makes wooden wedding rings.
	So, like so.
	This is made out of World War II rifle stock.
	We also do World War I rifle stock.
	And I make the bases for all of these.
	This has ethically sourced Colorado elk antler.
	Antique from the USS North Carolina.
	And this is an actual church pew.
	Dude, that is such a cool job.
	God, I wish I had a job where I made things.
	It would be so satisfying.
	Because at the end of the thing, I made this amazing thing.
	I can show off this amazing thing.
	Instead, what have I got?
	I've got...
	Woke racists are bad.
	I've got videos.
	You can't really hold.
	Yeah, videos of how woke racists are bad.
	I just don't like them.
	I can't remember who it was.
	I think it was a Marxist, but it wasn't Marx himself, who actually gave this critique of, I think it was like the Industrial Revolution, which he's saying it's actually kind of horrible, the fact that you specialize in a production line, and then you just do that one thing, because there's no reward.
	Yeah, strips the dignity.
	The guy who makes chairs start to finish gets to see his chairs.
	The guy who makes the part of the chairs is just like, I don't care.
	Well, he's a craftsman.
	Like, the guy who makes a chair, he's a craftsman.
	He makes every single part of it.
	He puts it all together.
	It's a complete sort of profession.
	Whereas the person...
	And this is the fundamental contention of alienation, is that the person who's just on the assembly line just does this one thing over and over and over, and he doesn't care about his job.
	He's not invested in it.
	He doesn't get any satisfaction from it, and so he becomes alienated from his work.
	Unlike the carpenter who's producing the entire thing, he gets the satisfaction of having the thing produced.
	And Marx isn't wrong that that's the case.
	It's just abolishing private property is just not the solution to any of these problems.
	Like I said, it wasn't him who said it, but...
	No, no, I think it was him who said it.
	Are you sure?
	Yeah, Marxist theory and alienation.
	I'm pretty sure that's the core of it.
	All right.
	But, I mean, I'd have to go check.
	It's been a few years since I've read it, but I'm pretty sure that's it.
	Correct me if I'm wrong.
	All right, let's go to the next one.
	Hey, guys.
	So I'm thinking about starting a Feed a Vegan fund.
	I've been thinking about the intersection between outrage mobs and veganism.
	Without meat and other animal products...
	People are malnourished and malnourished people have less energy and it makes them angry.
	Do you think that the reason the left is so angry and offended all the time is because they need a few proper meals?
	I'd like to think it was that simple.
	Yeah, I'd like for it to be lazy but angry people.
	Like if they just visit their parents and got some food, then they'd be fine.
	I mean, vegans probably do need feeding, though.
	But not sugar.
	I was going to make a joke, but I can't make a joke.
	I'm not allowed to make jokes anymore, sorry.
	Let's go for the next one.
	So Joe Biden, the guy who loves wearing a mask, has become a mask for the Democratic Party.
	Every time they do something radical, he just gets in front of a camera and goes, well, it isn't about Republicans or Democrats, it's about you, your family, the people of the United States of America.
	And the normie thinks he's a moderate.
	How do we break them from this delusion?
	I think you have to point out the radical left-wing things that Biden is doing.
	Biden personally probably is, in his daily life, reasonably moderate.
	He's just completely surrounded by radical leftists.
	And he is therefore putting forward radical left-wing policies.
	And this is why AOC, you'd think she'd be heavily adversarial to Biden, but she's not.
	It's because what's he doing that she hates?
	It's all her manifesto, basically.
	I mean, like, the only complaint she could have is, well, he hasn't gone quite as fast as I like.
	Okay.
	He's still doing alright, isn't he?
	For you.
	Anyway.
	Brave Instant says, The BBC were devastated this morning about the government report on racism and the premise that family values are actually important.
	On the radio, the news reporter said institutional racism might not exist, but racism is still prevalent in society and online, before going into an interview with a leftist and We're good to
	go.
	But yeah, I love the desperate stuff, yeah.
	I mean, what an L for the left, actually, on this.
	This has been pretty good.
	This is why, of all the criticisms of the Conservative Party and their governance for the last year and so, the Equalities Department has been absolutely solid.
	I mean, God bless those guys.
	Like, Kemi Badendock and Liz Truss just whacking through anything nonsense.
	Maybe we should get some statues of them made.
	Yeah.
	Kemi Badendock putting a knee on the neck of Ash's fucking ass.
	Jesus Christ.
	Knee on the neck of, um, what was the, like, I can't remember the name, uh, Dr.
	Shola.
	Uh, Kayla Ostrom says, uh, favorite tweet of the week.
	Black on Asian crimes only occur because of our system of white supremacy that strips African Americans of their economic opportunities while taking respect and dignity away from Asian Americans.
	Also, white people empower experts at dividing and conquering to stay at power.
	Yeah, this is Dr.
	Eugene Gu.
	I saw this earlier, uh, on Twitter.
	Uh, please make it make sense.
	Um, it doesn't.
	But I mean, what they're saying is white people have kept black people poor, and they've taken away the dignity and respect of the Asians, and so the black people are like, it's okay for me to punch an Asian.
	And that means white people are to blame, says Dr.
	Eugene.
	MD. Big think.
	Big think.
	Dr.
	Eugene goes in surgery.
	Brain picks up a scalpel and gets to work.
	This is like the woman we covered.
	Remember, what was it?
	Why is COVID killing people of color?
	That documentary.
	And the American professor they got it was like, yeah, well, it's probably weathering.
	It's just like, people are racist to you and this makes you weak.
	And then it's just like, Jesus.
	But why is it affecting the other races?
	But it's such like snake oil salesman levels of just like obvious nonsense.
	Yeah.
	But, yeah, no, Dr.
	Eugene is definitely the sort of person whose brain is so big it basically allows him to float around the room.
	Wilson Wells, Yasmin Ali Baba Brown, picking on the spectator is ridiculous.
	She's clearly not read it lately.
	Apart from Ron Little, Douglas Murray, and a couple of others, it's turned into a tool of leftist propaganda.
	Has it?
	I don't know.
	I mean, I don't read The Spectator much, to be honest.
	You have to pay for it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's why I don't read it.
	But thank goodness the comment section is stocked with sensible, grounded people who see right through the drivel, like those here on the Lotus East website.
	Yes, they do.
	I don't know if he means The Spectator, UK or USA. I know the USA one's solid.
	UK one, I don't know so well.
	Yeah, no, I don't read it.
	Kyle says, Race Report with Hamza Youssef, the paper I'm reading off-white.
	SH Silver says, Well, I completely endorse every single statement there.
	As an aside, consider using the YouTube channel as a notification machine, either with the community posts or quick uploads with the link to the latest podcast.
	Well, I mean, we kind of do by uploading the clips, you know, and that is essentially how we've been using it, with the link to the podcast.
	But the thing is, like, this was a months old video.
	You know, this was like three months old.
	Yeah, how are you expecting it?
	Yeah, it's just YouTube have decided, oh, we're angry again, let the algorithm go through everything.
	And just whack a bunch of people.
	Oh, look at that.
	It's all a bunch of conservatives that got whacked.
	If it was just uploading that was banned and you could issue a community post saying, hey guys, we're gone, blah, blah, blah, it wouldn't be so bad.
	But they ban you from doing anything on the account.
	Which is like, great, screw me, I guess.
	Thanks, Algorithm.
	Janels says, congratulations on 100 podcasts.
	This site keeps growing day by day.
	Hopefully one day you'll overlap the BBC and the mainstream media becoming the new mainstream.
	Or maybe one day, but they've got a few significant institutional advantages that we don't have.
	Well, they actually have an institutional advantage at YouTube as well.
	They lobbied heavily, remember when Wall Street Journal happened, in which they wanted privileges that if you type in anything, if there is mainstream media reporting on it, that gets promotion first, because it's an authoritative source.
	And Susan Wojcicki found that people didn't want that, but she was like, nope, we're doing it anyway!
	Yeah, like she literally got told by the engineers.
	We have an article about this on odisees.com, you should check it out, in which it's called How Susan Wojcicki Destroyed YouTube or Broke YouTube.
	Ruined YouTube.
	Ruined YouTube.
	In which she literally gives an interview to, I think it was like the New York Times, in which she's saying, yeah, I just decided one day that we ought to just push stuff to the user instead of showing them what they wanted.
	And the engineers told me that no one clicks on it.
	And I said, I don't care.
	Show them it anyway.
	I was like, why would you do that?
	Not your job, Susan.
	Because like YouTube before, I mean, this is the divide you're talking about.
	Before she made this decision, and the guy who used to run it before, the algorithm designers, all that, it was just more of the same.
	If the user wants this, show them more of that.
	And that was how it worked.
	And then Susan just had a big think moment and was like, social responsibility is my main game.
	And decided that she would tailor your experience, which means not what you want, but what she wants.
	And now everything's getting waxed.
	It's like, okay, great.
	Anyway, back to the problem of Britain.
	All I can say is if these people don't like this country, then get back to your rafts and sail back to France or whatever country you think is better.
	We'll send them back to the hellhole they came from.
	France!
	Well, I mean, that's essentially...
	Go live in your tents.
	But that's essentially the left's argument about the refugees who are coming, or the migrants who are coming from France.
	Like, well, they're coming from...
	You can't send me to France!
	You're killing me!
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's like, sorry.
	Elliot says the response to the race report is hilarious.
	No matter the outcomes of that report, they already had their minds made up.
	Of course they did.
	Ironically, if Dr.
	Tony Sowell found out that the UK was systemically racist, they would have praised him and the report.
	But he didn't, therefore he's a racist Uncle Tom.
	Not only that, the government is denying the fact the UK is racist.
	That makes the UK racist.
	What?
	Yeah, that's basically where we're at with this.
	They already knew.
	They already knew what their answer was going to be.
	I mean, they project it day in and day out.
	The UK is racist.
	The UK is racist.
	The report says it's not racist.
	Like, we found zero evidence.
	There is no innocence, only degrees of guilt.
	Yes.
	You are just less guilty right now than you otherwise would be.
	Yeah, that guy just happens to be a race traitor.
	Sorry.
	No, we don't make the rules.
	That oil guy says, if I go furry and choose chocolate Labrador, is that blackface?
	See, here's the thing, because they've been saying that if you use a black emoji...
	Yeah, I was going to say, it's digital blackface.
	So if I get a black dog, is that me?
	Because, I mean, we also have the hilarity in the UK of the famous dog from, what was it, Dan Busters?
	Yes.
	Whose name I can't say.
	No.
	So they mean, was that blackface?
	I mean, questions you don't want to answer.
	It's all very confusing.
	I would love to hear their opinion on that, though.
	Like, come on, is that blackface or not?
	I can't answer it, so you go for it, mate.
	I think it's important to know, Ash.
	You know, if someone wears a furry costume and it's a black dog and they're white, is that a racial offence to you?
	Is that halal or haram?
	What does the Quran say?
	We need answers, Ash.
	Fuzzy Logic.
	Playing devil's advocate here.
	It's well known that if you want to improve in competitive sports, one must compete with those at a higher level.
	I put it to you that men competing in women's sports is beneficial to women as the added competition will improve women's performance in said sports.
	Maybe women just need to man up.
	I think that's true, generally, but there are limits to how useful and true this is.
	For example, if I put a child up against Mike Tyson and say, right, box, the child isn't going to start getting significantly better, they're going to get their face pummeled in.
	So, I think there might be limits there.
	I just thought, remember the scandal in which those academics made up some BS papers?
	They were taking copies of Mein Kampf, rewording it.
	There was one about dogs, I think it was about walking your dog in the park.
	Yeah, it was Peter Boghossian, because I went and visited Peter Boghossian when I did a thing in Portland with him.
	And the dog park rapist was something that he'd encountered in his daily life.
	Because one of the pet owners, for some reason their dog was a serial rapist, and no one could talk about it.
	The dog would run around raping all the other dogs, but they would never do anything about the dog raping the other dogs, and everyone was like, what are we going to do about this?
	I don't want my dog raping my dogs.
	But then he wrote, what was it, an article about how this proves that we have rape culture in our society?
	Yeah, rape culture in dog patriarchy.
	I mean, if he's looking for another paper to write, I'm sure he could go with dog ownership.
	If you own black dogs, does that make you racist?
	Essentially, it would be the premise.
	And the answer would always be yes, of course.
	It looks like it, yeah.
	Sorry.
	Anyway.
	Mutilation of children is necessary to these people.
	Do we really need to let this go any further?
	Never...
	I agree, Kelly.
	I agree.
	We don't actually...
	If mutilation of children...
	If not mutilating children is a form of genocide...
	God.
	Then Twitter needs to be abolished, is all I'm saying.
	Bloody right-wingers don't want to engage in mutilating children?
	Yeah, we're right-wing.
	You got us.
	Well, there you go.
	If that's what it is, that's what it is.
	Oh, no.
	What is the left?
	Promoting mutilating children.
	Yeah, I wonder why no one wants to be on the left anymore.
	Yeah, I don't get it.
	Okay, opposing treatments that will make reproduction possible is genocide.
	Endorsing such treatment is not.
	You keep using that word, I don't think you know what it means.
	Edit.
	We also get an edit button.
	Thank you.
	Applause to the tech team.
	Oh, you have an edit button on the site.
	That's great.
	I didn't even know.
	Do you...
	Oh, I didn't notice, but no, you can edit your comments now.
	So, great.
	Christine Anderson says, What the hell?
	We don't think a 12-year-old can consent to marry and start to have kids with someone, and that's partially reversible.
	That's because you're not in the British police, are you?
	Yeah, not even the parent consents.
	If the parent consents, why the heck should it work in another way when it comes to chopping off kids' body parts?
	Well, progressivism.
	Annie says, We're going to look back on these times, the handling of gender dysphoria, in the same way we look back on lobotomies.
	Indulging with delusions of the mentally ill is not care, and involving children in this madness is full-blown evil.
	Yeah, I mean, it really is going to age like phrenology, isn't it?
	Uh, Peter Bemis says, I watched a blur white interview of the trans girl who transitioned young, and it really did moderate my view of a little towards allowing it with parental consent.
	The facts on this case, though, early memories of body hating four years old.
	When will my penis fall off?
	Years of therapy, socially transitioned for two years for starting medical intervention.
	Yeah.
	I'm not saying there can never be a case, uh, or anything like that, but, um, most of the time, no, None are to give.
	Psychology has gone from trying to help people understand and improve themselves and learning how to make the best life.
	Now they condone and encourage the worst pathologies.
	Trans ableism is a thing.
	I think it was you that brought this to my attention.
	People being aided and encouraged to become a quadriplegic is not a societal good.
	Yeah, there's a phenomena, of course, where people believe that they aren't supposed to have an arm or a leg or something like that, and they're trying to get doctors chopping off, and the doctor's like, well, that would be unethical.
	Yes, it would.
	I mean, I agree.
	But what about the other bits?
	Oh, no, that's fine.
	If it's a penis or your breasts, no problem.
	An arm or a leg, that's monstrous.
	How could you suggest it?
	So some Labour MPs have got their hands on their full report, it seems.
	Oh, really?
	They're putting bits out, which I don't trust the context of putting it out.
	But I just found this one really funny, just tweeted out by Zara Sultana, saying that the PM's report on racism advocates a new story about slavery that focuses on how African people transform themselves into a remodeled Africa slash Britain.
	And the section here is, there's a new story about the Caribbean experience which speaks to the slave period, not only about being for profit and suffering, but how culturally African people transform themselves into a remodeled Africa slash Britain.
	I'm really hoping there's a section there talking about how the slave trade is the British Crusade, and therefore our finest hour, military abolishing slavery.
	Well, I mean, it is!
	Yeah, so I mean, it should be.
	I'm really looking forward to reading this, so I hope it's going to have some good moments like that.
	I'm really glad that my old video has gone viral with a bunch of React channels.
	I've seen loads, they keep popping up in my head, so-and-so reacts to the British Crusade against slavery, and it's great.
	It's like, okay, good, I'm glad I can put that information out there.
	I love how it's all Americans as well.
	There was an Indian guy I watched the other day.
	I saw loads of Americans responding to this and they were just like, oh yeah, we never get taught this ever in American education.
	No.
	But anyway, when it comes to the YouTube dislike ban, Heathcliff says, Wow, YouTube are going full People's Republic.
	Do you like this content or really like this content?
	Yeah, exactly.
	That's what they're going to replace it with, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	It's two likes and I like.
	Yeah, it is good or double plus good.
	Also, I bet the YouTube dislike removal is a result of all the dislikes on Disney Star Wars.
	Yeah, that could be another...
	It could be like, you know, this sort of big...
	Channels.
	It could just be like Californians.
	Anything that's centered in California is near to YouTube.
	See, there's the thing.
	There are loads of social justice YouTubers who live in California who the public hates and overwhelmingly dislike their videos.
	BuzzFeed is the best example of this.
	They publish a bunch of stuff, but any of their SJW videos are mass disliked.
	I bet they are basically YouTube royalty.
	They live in the right place.
	They know the right people.
	And they've all been complaining about this.
	Yeah.
	It's bad for our mental health to see that everyone hates what we put up.
	Can you get rid of the dislike button, please?
	Yes, we can.
	Because I bet the Biden admin could just turn off likes and dislikes.
	Yeah.
	So I'm not sure they...
	I mean, I doubt Joe Biden knows what the internet is.
	I don't think he personally is like, God, people are disliking my video.
	But the people around him probably are thinking something like that.
	Ruben says, once he dislikes, go to the White House YouTube channel.
	I'm sure this doesn't have anything to do with it.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Nick Ferrazar said, Ferrazar, I can't pronounce that.
	Maybe you've already said, but the YouTube dislike removal is clearly for Sleepy Joe.
	They turned off the comments for his videos.
	They've been found removing dislikes in the past videos.
	Dude, you beat us to all this.
	We did say all this.
	Joe Biden is the most oppressed YouTuber, clearly.
	I disagree.
	I know how that's actually the best title Joe Biden has.
	A YouTuber?
	What are you saying about the election there, huh?
	Charlie says, hey guys, today's my birthday and I was wondering if there's any chance of getting the obligatory Orcs, Orcs, Orcs from Callan.
	Thanks and loving the shows.
	Maybe for the end.
	I like it when it fades out.
	It's his birthday.
	Yeah, well, you know, he can wait.
	Harry G-Man says, watching Carl's black pill moment yesterday was depressing.
	Well, it was depressing to feel it, to be honest, mate.
	Callum needs to slip a white pill into his flask of tea.
	Congrats on 100 Podcasts.
	Keep it up, guys.
	Thank you very much.
	I think I was just tired.
	I hadn't slept well on Monday night, and so I must have just been tired yesterday.
	I was looking at everything, and I was like, God, we're screwed.
	Everything's so messed up.
	And then we got a strike, and I was like, yeah, it's going great.
	George Happ, congratulations on releasing 100 podcasts.
	You guys are doing your part to ensure the human civilization, not the morally challenge, dominates this galaxy now and always.
	Doing our very best, sir.
	Problem child.
	I can't believe you guys are already on podcast number 69 plus 31.
	Nice.
	Very good.
	Chris Wolf says, congratulations on episode 100.
	The show has become a morning routine for me and others.
	Plan to upgrade to gold after work.
	Keep up the good work.
	Well, thank you very much.
	Sigwain says, hey guys, loving the podcast.
	Happy 100th episode.
	Just finished reading through a retelling of the Arthurian legend and came to the realization that Arthur's foretold return in Britain at a time of need is obviously not literal, but a call to action for the British to be the new Arthur in a time of darkness.
	To this end, when do we come together as the people of Britain to make the political party of the Round Table, and is it possible to make a patriotic party with good optics?
	Thanks.
	That's a good question.
	Party of the Round Table.
	I'm not even averse to the idea.
	I mean, if we become the Commonwealth of England again, sure.
	Yeah, call it the Camelot Party or something.
	Not a bad idea, actually.
	I can't believe no one else has thought of this.
	Nicholas Malson.
	Hi folks, congratulations on reaching the 100th episode.
	You're going as strong as the first episode, perhaps even stronger.
	Well done.
	Thank you.
	Two questions regarding this milestone.
	Firstly, as you've reached this mark, I was wondering if you could reflect on the work you've done.
	How are things going for your team and what you've done well, what you've done not so well?
	Your thoughts on the Lotus East so far?
	Secondly, as you guys work so hard through Monday to Friday, as well as the content for the weekend, there is a high chance of getting burnout.
	How likely do you think this will happen and how do you deal with burnouts?
	P.S. that Zoom hangout last week was really nice.
	It was really great talking to you.
	Thanks.
	How do you think things are going?
	It's gone alright.
	I'm more interested in the question of burnout, to be honest.
	The way I deal with it is after I try not to care about politics that much because my head just hurts by the end of the day.
	It's awful.
	What about you?
	I've got family stuff.
	John relaxes with more work.
	I do the same as John and relax with more work.
	Yeah, I know I do.
	Family stuff and then reading for me.
	I like to do all the other stuff in my life.
	I try not to just do porn.
	Yeah, no, that's sensible.
	And that's what you should do.
	I'm personally happy with how things are going.
	I mean, the office seems like a comfortable environment to be in for most people.
	It seems okay here, right?
	Yeah.
	You okay?
	Good?
	Yeah, I'm really happy with the content we're putting out.
	I'm happy with the podcast.
	It seems to be doing quite well.
	I'm glad you guys are enjoying it.
	Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it.
	It'll be the end of next month.
	Bo will begin and hopefully a few others.
	We are actually growing really, really well, by the way.
	So if you are someone who thinks they would be a good content creator, do go to lotuses.com forward slash careers and get in touch.
	We'd be interested in Hearing and seeing your content and hearing from you and, you know, no promises, but if someone good comes along that we think would be a good addition to the team, we'd definitely be interested in hiring you.
	The one provisor, though, is you have to work from the office in Swindon.
	Certainly an hour out from London.
	You can do it.
	Anyway, I think the only thing on my mind is I'd like to do more stuff on the ground, but we can't.
	Yeah, we can't.
	Like, we're making the best of the situation we're in.
	Yeah, I mean, that would be nice when we're allowed out of the house.
	Sam Keating, going back a while to the question about the essential characteristics of a man and a woman, I think the difficulty and difference can be shown in that one could describe an adult human male as not a man, being understood as a valued judgment on the male in question's behavior.
	However, I don't think the converse adult human female described as not a woman makes as much sense.
	Right, so I was thinking about this, and I might do like a premium podcast on it or something, because there's a lot to go through.
	But I think fundamentally, the essential nature of a thing is contingent on action, on the thing that it does, whereas the sort of platonic nature of the thing, the attributable, attributive whereas the sort of platonic nature of the thing, the attributable, attributive nature of the thing is based on what it appears So you can say, well, I know that's a woman because he's wearing a dress.
	It could be a man in a dress and that man can't give birth to a child.
	And so that's how you know that's actually a man rather than a woman, even though it's wearing a dress.
	I don't know, here's a Is Harry Styles a man?
	Yes.
	Technically.
	Just about.
	An adult human male.
	Yeah.
	He doesn't fulfill the kind of cultural baggage that comes with being a man, because he's wearing a dress and probably wouldn't act like a man given the social situations, but from the sort of, you know, technical essential definition, definitely is...
	Oh, you're like, Harry Saul's technically a man.
	Well, I mean, that's the case.
	Yeah.
	Congratulations on 100 Podcasts, says Stuart.
	Regarding moral subjectivity, there seems to be a morally equivalent dilemma to that of the Sam Harris quote.
	If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove that they should?
	What foundations can we now build morally upon that are substantial and less more legitimate than subjective opinion?
	I do not have time to answer this question because this is a question that entire books have been dedicated to.
	The man Calicles from Plato's Protagoras, I think it is, where he's arguing with Socrates and he said, look, I don't have to care about morality because why should I? What can you do to make me?
	And that's, for the 20th century, some of the best minds were like, yeah, that's a good point.
	How do we make Calicles commit to ethics?
	And I'll answer that a different time.
	But the answer is not an easy one, and I'm not even very persuaded by it.
	But remind me, and we'll do a premium podcast on this.
	Walter says, Thank you for 100 podcasts.
	Fun update from the Democratic state of Finland.
	Our local elections were postponed from April to July without any kind of debate or resolution, or even from the sitting government.
	Oh, just like the London elections for Sadiq Khan.
	The still-standing election was made possible as our Justice Minister told local bureaucrats to break the existing law by not confirming to the electoral rolls.
	As usual, nobody is being held responsible.
	Just the way it is, I'm afraid.
	Just the way it is.
	Unfortunately, you just get to deal with it.
	Because apparently, no one will be held responsible.
	Just in the same way things happening over here.
	Tia Foolsbox says, Happy 100th.
	May we have 1,000.
	What's the funniest thing, in your opinion, to have come out of the morally challenged so far this year?
	What do you reckon?
	Sorry, I was reading the chat.
	What's the funniest thing the left have done this year?
	Uh, 2021?
	Mm-hmm.
	Um...
	I don't know.
	I mean, I'm kind of enjoying this David Lammy debate.
	Yeah, me too.
	Watching David Lammy being like, no, I'm English.
	It's like, what, you're a coloniser?
	He literally says, I'm African, I'm Guyanan, I'm Tamarig or whatever the heck it was.
	Every other moment he can, and then all of a sudden he's on LBC in front of the public.
	I'm English.
	Like, why?
	Because I was born here.
	That's fine.
	No, David, you are English.
	No, I agree with you.
	But it's such a bad argument.
	No, no, no, no, it's fine.
	David Lammy is English, and I am the descendant of slaves, so David Lammy owes me reparations.
	Yes.
	You're English, David.
	But he doesn't do the cultural argument of, like, I'm English because of my culture.
	But it's just, it's, like, so stupid.
	Like, him sitting there being like, I'm English because I was born here.
	It's like, yeah, that's how that works.
	Like, if I go to Russia and...
	Rudyard Kipling is an Indian because he was born in India.
	Yeah.
	Like, if me and a girl from England go to Russia and we give birth to a kid, that kid is instantly Russian, even though we have no interaction with anything Russian.
	No, that's the way it works.
	So what happened was the Indians genocided the white population of India, because they didn't recognise them as being English.
	Terrible.
	David Lamy owes me reparations, the Indians are genocidal.
	Bangladesh, like Ash Sarkar's ancestor, saying we have to drive out the English and the British from Bangladesh because they're not Bangladeshi?
	Ooh, yikes, that aged badly.
	How could you possibly endorse that Ash Sarkar?
	I'm really curious.
	You know, also, where's my reparations?
	Last year was definitely the mostly peaceful protest.
	Has to be.
	Oh yeah.
	It's like violence isn't violence.
	It's like, yep, come on, try this.
	Burning buildings.
	Protest mostly peaceful.
	But yeah, so far I think it is the David Lammy being English.
	I hate to pick something recent, I just can't think of much.
	Honestly, I'm totally pro David Lammy being English.
	Totally pro.
	But I just wish he'd understand his own arguments.
	No, I don't.
	I don't want to.
	I just want someone to turn around and say, okay, David, now let's go back to the subject of reparations.
	Who do the English owe reparations to?
	And how much of your pay packet is going out of that?
	Yeah.
	Come on, David.
	You wanted to be English.
	No, no, but I'm African.
	I'm African.
	Oh, exactly.
	Oh, oh, oh, oh.
	Anyway, we'll...
	So says my book.
	Yeah.
	So says my book and my genetic tests and, you know...
	My speeches and parliaments.
	Yeah.
	My love of Africa.
	Yeah.
	But anyway, right.
	Thanks for joining us, folks.
	If you would like to see more from us, you can go to LoadsToThese.com.
	We've got loads of free content, and we also have loads of premium content, so if you want to sign up, you can support us and make sure that YouTube doesn't kill us off by giving us another damn strike.
	But Callum, right, I believe you have an obligation.
	Right, we're ending?
	Yeah.
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