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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Eaters for Wednesday.
	I'm joined by Harry.
	Hello!
	And today we're going to be talking about the Philip Schofield drama, feminism and its consequences, and why is trust going down?
	Who knows?
	What could possibly be happening?
	That's Tom Harwood.
	Something happened.
	Yeah, I hate to do it, but it's just, I'm angry.
	Wait, I was joking.
	Is Tom Harwood involved in this?
	No, no, he's not involved in this one.
	Oh, thank God.
	But a quick announcement, which is that, hello, Gold Tears.
	Hello, Tidy Ho.
	What?
	I don't know, I don't know where I was going with that.
	Anyway, but the point is, your video comments, it's broken.
	The system's broken.
	I don't know what's broken.
	It's being fixed, hopefully.
	But until then, if you want to send them video comments, you've got to send them as an email, attach the video to the email, put your username in the email, and the email you send it to is video.editor at lotuseaters.com.
	That's the fix until, I don't know.
	Until it's fixed?
	The email gods fix everything.
	How does the internet work?
	I don't know.
	Yeah, me neither.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Don't ask me.
	Let's move into Philips.
	I didn't pay any attention in IT class.
	Let's go to the Philips Schofield drama.
	So Philips Schofield, for people who don't know, foreigners, is a British television presenter.
	Used to work for BBC children's shows before moving on to ITV.
	And obviously has been quite a bit of BBC presenters, especially the older ones, who have all been caught being paedophiles.
	It's one of the things that they're known for.
	Yeah, it's become the norm.
	It's why people don't like the BBC now, because every time you talk to them it's like... It's one of the reasons people don't like the BBC.
	The main one, I think.
	Remember that time you guys had loads of pillows working for you and you covered it up?
	And they're like, yes.
	I'm like, maybe you should quit your job.
	That's right now.
	Yeah, there's also allegations.
	Allegedly.
	To this day, obviously.
	And Phillip Schofield is now under a magnifying glass of a lot of people suspecting he is a paedophile.
	The reason for this being that he was in a married relationship with two children.
	And then the relationship was with a woman.
	They didn't just find these children.
	And then he came out as, uh, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, I am a gay man.
	Uh, don't ask me about who my boyfriend is.
	Rather suspiciously, he pulled a Kevin Spacey out of nowhere, unprompted.
	And, um, the person he was apparently having an affair with, he says, is an unusual, but not illegal, relationship.
	Because the age gap is quite vast, but he alleges that, well, whenever their relationship started, he was of the legal age.
	Now, the legal age in the UK is 16.
	Still weird.
	It's still really weird.
	But a lot of people are sus, and so I've been seeing this story explode.
	It's the, like, biggest story in the UK right now because he is a huge television presenter in terms of people know about him.
	I mean, I've just got to say as well, I mentioned this right before we came live on air, but, um, The most shocking thing for me, when he did come out, was learning that he was married to a woman and had two children, because I already thought he was gay.
	Because there is no... He's one of those guys you just look at, and even as a man with a terrible gaydar, I just clocked it immediately, like, gay.
	I mean, he does almost fit the stereotype perfectly with his voice alone.
	I mean, the high-pitched, constantly interested in fashion, etc.
	You know, the meme version is very similar to that.
	But we'll start out just by promoting something on Lotases.com before we get into the details, which is why feminist immigration will save the West, because if you want some, I don't know, some more reasonable things than whatever Philip's proposing, we'll go into this, and you can find out why we save the West.
	I didn't know that Philip Schofield had a plan to save the West.
	No, I don't think he does.
	He did have at one point.
	We'll get to that in a bit.
	So, we'll start off with information.
	So, pictured here, Philip and wife, and house, they live in.
	Of course, Philip done quite well for himself, made a lot of money, being a television presenter, quite well known, did a book deal, some other stuff.
	He can afford a beard.
	What?
	A beard?
	Do you not know what that means?
	No.
	In the old Hollywood days, gay men getting married to women, the women with their beards.
	Alright, that's what they were called.
	So there we are, they're pictured for people who don't know him for some reason, and his wife.
	And then if we go to the next one, we can also see him at work, as he is, with Holly Willoughby, and the ITV runner, Matthew McGreevy.
	I'm just going to call Matthew or Matt from now on, because that last name is a bit hard for me, because McGreevy.
	I'm too ignorant.
	Anyway, you can see here, a bit weird that you would take a picture with the runner.
	Presumably they did it with everyone in the cast.
	No, just this one.
	Um, really?
	There's no other pictures of them with any of the other members of the production team?
	No.
	Apparently they had quite a bit of a, um, weird relationship with the rest of the production team.
	According to Edmund Holmes.
	We'll get to that in a bit.
	Now, online, it says the date of birth of Matthew over here is the 21st of March, 1996.
	And if we go to his... He's actually slightly older than I am.
	If we go to this account here, this is like, you know, here's my account for, give me app thing job, please, these are my details.
	A lot of people have posted this.
	I don't think you can see, it says age range 19 to 21.
	And that's actually the age range he's saying he's going to play, not the age range he is.
	People get confused about that.
	Because he's older.
	Yeah.
	It also wouldn't make sense for him to be 90-21 because he graduated sixth form in 2014.
	So did I. Just to put things to bed, he's 26 or 27.
	This could have been me.
	Somewhere about there.
	Being crude.
	Didn't know you had those desires, but okay.
	I don't.
	Now.
	That's the bit of the sus bit, because Philip over there, I think he's now in like 61 or something?
	Ridiculous.
	I don't know, so when was it- The age gap between them being vast, and well, it's now alleged that they had a relationship, or at least it's been confirmed.
	It's not like massive age gaps when it comes to famous people aren't unusual, I believe I just heard this morning that Al Pacino, who is 82, is having a new child with his 29 year old wife.
	Presumably without money?
	Yeah, very, very strange.
	Somebody said, imagine sleeping with an 82-year-old man, and I said, no, the real question is, imagine sleeping with a rich 82-year-old man.
	Not unusual, but still disgusting.
	I don't think anyone has ever looked at those relationships and thought, ooh, that's good.
	Oh, it must be all about the personality.
	Yeah, Bezos.
	But we'll go to the details, because there are long-running rumours about this.
	I finally come out.
	So I thought I'd pack together everything I could find that I think is relevant and just present it.
	So, in chronological order, we shall, until we're not.
	This is the first note of contact I could find between them that's online, which is allegedly from Matthew's first Twitter account.
	He then deleted this one when he turned 18 and made a new one.
	But this is his first one.
	That's kind of sus by itself.
	In which, at this point, he is 15 years old and 5 days.
	And he tweets out, responding to Schofield, Hey Phil, thanks for following me, how are you?
	This was unprompted, Philip following this 15 year old on Twitter.
	Now, this is the main piece of evidence I can find for, huh?
	About when these people met or when the relationship started.
	But it doesn't really prove anything.
	It just proves that he followed a 15 year old on Twitter.
	Which, a bit weird.
	If I did that tomorrow to a girl... I just want to confirm, now that he's, now that Schofield has come out, he's in a relationship and it's with this person?
	He had a relationship.
	He had a relationship with this person that's been and gone?
	I believe that's what his public... Alright.
	Someone correct me if it's incorrect.
	But we'll get to the next one because where did these two people meet?
	Well, it seems that they met at the Two-Faced Theatre Company, which is a theatre which Philip is a patron of, and goes to, and gives them money so they can do theatre stuff.
	Now Matthew joins the theatre when he was about 10.
	which um not unusual you know these things happen celebrities are gonna go to theater clubs um we don't know at which point they may each other here if you go the next one we can see an image which has been widely shared which is presumably philip at the club all the other kiddos with their faces blurred out but there's matthew which is you know between 10 and 15 i'm sure in this photograph I mean, even if the relationship began when it was perfectly normal, perfectly reasonable age... Well, perfectly... I don't think anything... any possible poison normal.
	Perfectly legal.
	Perfectly legal age.
	It's still very strange.
	Yes, that's the main thing here.
	But we'll get to the next one because there's a record of Phil tweeting at Matthew a few years later.
	See, this is 2014.
	He's just like, oh, how's the acting going?
	Got a big break yet?
	Smiley face, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
	We'll see you on the ITV morning sofa soon then, smiley face.
	That's such a bad sentence.
	It definitely looks bad.
	See you on the sofa, alright.
	Yeah, you can see the account is deleted.
	This is the second account, I believe, that Matthew made.
	That's all that is about.
	When you've turned 18, make a new Turo account.
	Pretty sound advice for most people, because what you were tweeting when you were 15 is usually retarded.
	So not particularly unusual.
	And 18, 19, 20, for many years after that as well.
	Forever.
	We'll go to the next one there.
	There's the photograph I spoke about.
	So 18, he's invited to go and work for ITV.
	And as you can see here, actor meets this morning presenters in behind the scenes day, where he's up there.
	And that's where the photograph is from that was mentioned before.
	Now, if we go to the next one, he's then seen out on a date With, um, Schofield.
	We're presuming it's a date.
	It's a dinner on their own in some place where they clearly didn't want to be seen.
	Because, you can see, this chap here, who's a, uh, I believe a prankster YouTuber, uh, decided to do this, where he set off some confetti and was like, haha, I've met Philip Schofield, and Philip's a bit like, oops.
	I didn't want to be seen.
	Can you not film this, please?
	Yes.
	Well, I mean, right, let's... I'm going to give this one the benefit of the doubt, okay?
	This is Schofield when he is... At this point, just to mention the ages, so... Yep.
	Matthew is about 18, and Philip is about 53.
	Very strange, very weird, but to give the benefit of the doubt, if it had started around this period, then it is legal, and it could have just been that Schofield... One, it could have been some kind of private production meeting, you do have those in the business, or it could have been him worried because of the fact that he's married publicly, everybody thinks he's straight, so he may not want to come out this way.
	Could be that.
	Could be something weirder.
	Who knows?
	I should mention, if for no other reason than just to really hammer out the legal side of this, I am not saying there is any evidence that Philip Schofield has engaged in any pedophilic activity at this time.
	We have no evidence of such things.
	That's why I'm giving the benefit of the doubt on this one.
	Yeah.
	So.
	But then, Matthew goes back to Manchester for work for a little bit before coming back to work on ITV, and then he works on ITV with Phil and Holly for the next four years.
	At least.
	So that's that's why he becomes settled in and real quick he will also go out with Philip's brother over there just oh sorry no with Simon Schofield good friend of his where Simon in this case is no relation not his brother it's a different guy we'll get to in a minute but he is the one who I believe founded the theatre company he's a co-founder I have heard about Schofield's brother.
	Brother is a different chap, not this one.
	We'll get to his brother in a minute.
	Oh, alright.
	So, if we go to the next one, this is what's weird because he's just a runner at ITV, but apparently he's so important as a runner, he's at the awards ceremonies?
	Where they come and collect awards?
	Which is pretty normal.
	Well, you said that they were in a relationship for a while, so I assume this overlaps with all of that.
	Yeah, a lot of people have come out since and said there was always a taxi waiting for Matthew to go to Philip's house, or vice versa.
	He wasn't keeping it particularly subtle.
	Which is strange, to say the least, if you didn't think there was a relationship going on.
	So, there's that.
	Then Matthew is all of a sudden promoted to go and work on Loose Women.
	Which, um... That's a weird promotion.
	Yep.
	So most people have taken that as the relationship went sour, all of a sudden he's moved on.
	So.
	He built connections through his relationship with Schofield and then you're able to just do what you want, you know, you can be flexible with it.
	There's some arguments about whether or not he was promised a career with ITV, like becoming a presenter or something.
	This is all speculation, obviously, and therefore it was some kind of exchange of career for Uh, don't know.
	Don't know anything.
	Nothing like that has ever happened in the entertainment industry?
	Nope.
	Not once?
	I'm sure.
	Although we do know they had a relationship whilst he was getting moved up IDV, but I'm sure there's nothing untoward about that.
	Right, so, then the news came out, all of a sudden, quite out of the blue, as if nobody knew.
	When the entertainment industry, when you're applying for the entertainment industry and they ask you, how flexible are you?
	It's a question with multiple meanings.
	Yeah, you can see the news here.
	Phillip Schofield, support for ITV presenter after he comes out as gay.
	I'm gay, he said all of a sudden, as if... And join the navy!
	Number one, nobody in Britain gave a crap.
	You can see this is 2020.
	I mean, we all knew.
	Obviously you were.
	The big thing about this is, aside from his wife, We'll get back to that in a minute.
	Obviously it was presented in the British press and by the elite as something courageous, brave, fantastic.
	Oh my god, he's a hero to all gays of Britain.
	Stunning and brave.
	Who up until February 2020 have all been living in the closet, unable to come out.
	There's been nothing else.
	I mean, I think it was illegal up until February 6th and then February 7th.
	Elton John had been running from the law for years.
	Yeah, no, it wasn't big.
	It was not some come-out party in which everyone was surprised, or like, oh my god, this is new in our culture.
	This was completely mundane.
	But for some reason, most of the, well, let's say, television establishment made it a huge deal as if he was a hero.
	I mean, obviously the bravest part was leaving his wife and children behind.
	It's very brave whenever a man does that.
	No man does not get compliments for doing such a thing.
	No.
	So, quote, huge respect and admiration to our friend, Schofield, tweeted fellow ITV presenters Ant and Dec, sending you love, P, and your three lovely girls.
	Which you've just left.
	You've just abandoned.
	Which, um... You've just kicked out on the side of the road.
	Bit toned down.
	Demut O'Leary, David Williams and James Corden also applauded him.
	That's David Walliams.
	David Walliams, sorry.
	Takes a lot of guts to do this, not least when you're a very public figure and know it will all be dissected in a very public way, said Piers Morgan.
	Sending my best wishes to Sheffield and his family.
	Notorious owner of good takes, P.S.
	Morgan.
	Yeah, I mean, just amazing.
	Every time he's like, oh my god, you came out as gay?
	That's so brave!
	It's like, it's...
	It's not, really.
	I mean, if this was the 90s, sure.
	It isn't.
	Like, this is really mundane.
	And at the time, myself and a lot of other people found it very strange that for some reason the media was making this out like it was the 90s.
	And this is quite funny, because even in the 90s you had somebody like, um... You won't know them.
	There's a band called Judas Priest that you might have heard of because they were quite notorious.
	Supposedly they put backwards messages in their songs to convince their fans to kill themselves because...
	This was the best way to make money is to get your audience to, you know, top themselves.
	But he came out as gay in the 90s and everybody went, oh, well obviously you were.
	You got the entire band to dress up in leather like bikers and you came out on motorbikes and you looked really gay the whole time.
	My point being, at least you could argue there's some stigma back then.
	Yes, there was still.
	It is illegal to say anything bad about Schofield because he's a homosexual and it has been for about 15 years.
	Well, 20 years.
	20 years, sorry.
	It's been illegal to even say such a thing.
	At least say something online.
	I just, I don't know what... Like, it was unusual, is my point, to make such a big spectacle out of it.
	It's almost as if it was a distraction from something else, such as, you know, cheating on your wife.
	So, for the next one here, we can see Edmund Holmes, at the time, came out to congratulate him.
	He was on the show, hosting it, and then gave him a big old hug, made a tweet where he's like, you know, Proud of him.
	Support him, his family and his sexuality.
	Not really sure how that works.
	Is that your keys in your pocket, Philip?
	Do you support his family and sexuality whilst, because of his new sexuality, he's leaving his wife?
	I don't know how that works, but whatever.
	They all know that when somebody does something like this, no matter their actual feelings on it, no matter the relationship they may have with the family, etc, etc, they've all got to come and trot out and give the same, the round of applause, how brave, how stunning of you.
	And of course, well, these people, at least, people like Phil, are complete establishment, whatever the state wants, have it on TV, we saw this through COVID, they're non-questioning, they're just part of the machinery, not very interesting tobacco salesman, if you want, except they're not even actually the salesman, they're just kind of the guy flipping the board.
	But, he had a few moments which were really not so PR friendly.
	If we go to the next link here, we can see, of course, this is Big Bad.
	Oh, I remember this.
	Probably the biggest one, was using his fame to skip the queue to go and see Her Majesty when she was dead.
	Which was real bad, because of course David Beckham waited four hours.
	In the line with normal people and you spoke to them like a normal guy.
	Because no one's going to stab you or steal your money.
	And also he did so with a face like he's... well, I know he was attending a funeral, but a face like a smacked arse.
	Look at it.
	Cheating on the queen there.
	There we are.
	Cheating on the queue, I should say.
	And Ollie Willoughby's guilty eyes there.
	Oh god, we've been caught.
	So, then the next big bad thing for him PR wise came out.
	His brother's a pedo.
	This we can say, because as you can see here, convicted.
	He's jailed for child abuse.
	Timothy Schofield was found guilty in April of 11 sexual offences involving a child between 2016 and 2019.
	I'm assuming given the English legal system, like, two weeks in jail, slap wrist, don't do it again?
	I don't know the details here because I think they're waiting to sentence him at the time this was written, but... I know what the English law legal system is like when it comes to cases like this, and it's terrible.
	Do you want to know what he was done?
	Following the verdict, the 54-year-old was sacked from his job as a civilian worker for Avon & Somerset Police.
	Great.
	The deets get worse, though, because, okay, your brother may be a nonce.
	That's, you know, disgusting.
	Can happen.
	Doesn't necessarily mean Philip is.
	No, of course not.
	If we go to the Daily Mail, they have the deets.
	They say, on the 12th of September, 2021, he phoned his brother, Philip, saying that his head was in a mess and could he come and see him.
	So this is before Philip's come out as gay, just to remind everyone.
	No, that's afterwards.
	Yeah, that's a year and a half after.
	The defendant is seven years younger than Philip, and they had been not particularly close growing up.
	However, in December 2019, the defendant told his brother he was gay.
	I was just like, okay.
	The defendant here being, of course, the other brother.
	So in 2019, Timothy goes, uh, Philip, I'm gay.
	And a year later, Philip comes out publicly and says I'm gay.
	No, actually, about two months later.
	Two months later, in fact.
	Yeah.
	According to Philip, the defendant travelled up that day, and he was extremely agitated.
	His brother described him as very angry and distressed.
	The defendant also told his brother that he was impotent.
	Right.
	The defendant then said his brother would hate him for what he was about to say, but Philip said he wouldn't.
	The defendant said that last year he and a boy had watched pornography and jacked off together.
	Philip Schofield then said, what did you just say?
	And the defendant repeated it.
	It was just last year and just once.
	Philip said it should never happen again.
	Right, okay.
	Disgusting conversation, but you would have thought they would have ended it there immediately and just been like, I'm calling the police or something.
	Um, no.
	The brother then went on to describe the boy's body in a sexual way and said he would have had a name for the time they spent together, the court heard.
	The TV presenter responded, what the hell is that?
	I was shocked the court was told.
	Really weird.
	Really, really weird.
	I mean, you know, they would have thought the conversation would stop there, but then the nonce here was like, oh, let me tell you about the body of the guy.
	Gross.
	Gross.
	You can see why people have come to- If you hadn't already called the police, that's when you hang up.
	Yeah.
	And call the police.
	So, if you go to the next link here, then people started asking about Philip, of course, which is where people get sus about all of this.
	And, um, of course, it doesn't mean he's a pedophile just because his brother is convicted.
	Of course not.
	But you can see here, he came out and made a statement in which he said he admits he had an affair with young morning runner while he was still married.
	Host lied to cover up relationship with much younger man, but says it was not illegal.
	Okay.
	Now, this is where the- that's the drama explained, as far as I can get.
	Alright.
	Here's the response, because Edmund Holmes then decides to do a whole bunch of, um, things.
	Now, getting back to him, because he's the only one who's gone sort of nuclear publicly.
	Just to be clear, I want to say, I think his name's Eamon?
	Eamon, sorry.
	I always just call him Edmund.
	I don't know.
	I always call Holly Willoughby, Holly Willoughbooby as well, but...
	Oh, well there's a reason for that.
	That's a fair one.
	So he says here he was lied to.
	One day I will tell the story.
	We had no issue with him being gay, only support.
	What transpired took us for fools.
	The man told us complete lies and we were unfortunately believing him.
	Interesting.
	He then decided to tweet out, unprompted, the next one, where he says that four high members of ITV management knew that he was having an affair on his wife with a very young boy.
	Well, man, I should say, because he's of age.
	I mean, it says, never once took action to prevent him controlling or taking advantage of his position over young people.
	Now, once again, They basically already came out at the time in 2020 and stated, oh we support you, we don't really care about your family because you're going to leave them, yadda yadda yadda.
	So just having an affair with a man that hurts his wife and his relationship with his children...
	Seems to be something they supported at the time.
	This seems like they're coming out and reacting against something very different than what we've stated that, you know, whatever went on with this Matthew McGreery boy seems to have been in a legal time frame.
	But more of the point is just the deciding point here.
	I don't think the nonce angle is particularly... I haven't found any evidence for that at this time.
	Except the, uh, you know, he followed this kid at 15.
	That doesn't mean he's a nonce.
	It's weird.
	It doesn't mean he's a nonce.
	But if any heterosexual had done this, this series of events, Um, you wouldn't really get away with it.
	No, of course not.
	I mean, you wouldn't be able to say I'm gay, obviously, but even if you came out as bi... You've been cheating on your wife with an 18-year-old girl, you're 50.
	I don't think the network would have stood by you.
	I don't think all your presenters would have had a moment hugging you and being like, oh, they're there.
	And I don't think his wife would have been tried out to say how proud she was of him as well, which...
	Awkward.
	Imagine how horrifying that would be, to come out and I'm so glad my husband is gay, I'm so glad he's leaving me and our children.
	Now the deets of that, and why I don't feel too bad for the wife in this case though, is because I read that he always said he was bisexual, so I don't know what their relationship was like, him and the wife presumably having threesomes or something beforehand.
	I don't know.
	Speculation on my part.
	I'm gonna have to put these images in my head.
	My point being, a lot of people are wondering, you know, why is the wife not going mental about it, and it's like, hmm, maybe she could tell.
	Let's be honest.
	Also, maybe she knows that if she did go mental about it, she would be condemned by the media.
	Maybe.
	You can see Holly here, put out a statement, she's being like, I was lied to, I asked Phil if he was having a relationship with the boy, and he said no.
	So I was lied to.
	If there wasn't something Illegal going on.
	This is something that they all would have supported at the time.
	Why are they all coming out now and saying like, oh, I can't believe it.
	They totally lied to me.
	So the current situation is that it's a conversation about inappropriate relationships rather than an illegal one.
	Philip put out a statement where he decided to put out, quote, I am free to say this.
	I hope you have noticed that it's all the same handful of people with a grudge against me or the show who seem to have the loudest voice.
	You mean your staff?
	I mean, like your former presenter friends.
	Edmund from earlier.
	Holly Willoughby, who you've had a working relationship with for over 10 years at this point.
	20, I think.
	Yeah, something ridiculous.
	So here we go.
	He also says, in all the years I worked there, there was no toxicity.
	Now, this isn't taken well by his friends.
	Of course, you've got the next one there.
	You can see Edmund just being like, that's delusional.
	Jesus Christ.
	That's his words.
	So then this guy decided to go and do an interview with GB News.
	So he spills the beans as much as he would, let's say.
	So you can see that in which he comes out and basically just kind of just calls Philip a useless C word.
	Really?
	In general, he was like, yeah, he was crap.
	He couldn't use the teleprompter.
	He was so rude because he wouldn't even learn the names of any of the production staff.
	He was just a complete arrogant arsehole constantly.
	He didn't even get good views, apparently.
	Well, I mean, he learned enough of the names of certain production staff to add them on Twitter.
	Yep, the only one.
	Better luck next bit.
	But, yeah.
	Oh, just, uh, Daisy smashed me that, uh, his brother was jailed for 12 years.
	So there you are.
	12 years.
	Okay, that's better than I was expecting, at least.
	But not only is he useless, which was just okay, we've got the next one in which he says that he had heard rumours that this inappropriate relationship was going on, but what do you do with those?
	Like, do you go to Philip?
	Do you go to production staff?
	Whatever.
	So he didn't really know what to do with the information, and he had, presumably because Holly said she had asked him, and been told no.
	Maybe they believe that in the office?
	Who knows?
	Office politics.
	Difficult to tell what's going on.
	But if you go to the next one, he also mentions that when the boy was moved on to Loose Women, it was super awkward.
	None of the Loose Women likes Gofield either.
	Apparently nobody likes him.
	So, everybody who came out supporting him, are we so brave?
	Are we loving him so much?
	Have we worked with him for decades?
	All come out all of a sudden and go, actually, he was a twat.
	Apparently it's just the most insufferable culture.
	The only person who was publicly liking him was apparently a woman.
	You know the type, if you ever go to a meeting, where they're just sucking up to people who could advance their career.
	That's it.
	So, that's his words.
	And then if he goes to the last one here, he mentions that, well, the entire TV industry in the UK is just full of abuse and covering up abuse.
	Not mentioning details.
	Okay, that's interesting.
	But there's that.
	Ayman, if you really want to come out as a very brave person, then maybe names might be useful.
	Speaking to a police officer, getting an investigation started, if there is evidence of it.
	He also mentions that he was kicked out immediately after Philip came out as gay.
	Oh, really?
	It was the next day they kicked him out of the show.
	So, presumably he's the only one who was going to say anything.
	I'm so shocked that the entertainment industry is full of backstabbers.
	If you go to the next link, we can see just where he says that it's full of abuse.
	So, there's that.
	Doesn't like people being... Doesn't like people who don't toe the line, it's his words.
	So it definitely seemed like people knew there was an inappropriate relationship, for sure.
	Now, going back though, a lot of people have been digging up evidence which is grim.
	Grim to say the least.
	You have this lady here who just asks, where was your wife when you were overindulging in Portuguese beverages?
	That's a hell of a euphemism.
	He was on holiday in Portugal posting pictures of himself and not his wife.
	She was just not invited to the holiday.
	As you do.
	The next one is also a doctor who went out during the Covid situation to tell everyone that the vaccine 100% protects you against death or catching the virus.
	So not a doctor, just a stooge.
	But he's on here talking about how the runner is a gay stud.
	And that's one way to get it in the industry, isn't it?
	Now, everyone seems to ignore the thing that I found, which I deeply remembered because I found it weird at the time, because we'll get to the next one.
	The Mirror Report on this, back in the day.
	Philip once decided to have David Cameron on the show, and out of the blue decided to hand him a piece of paper with a list of alleged Tory Peel files on it.
	In the middle of the show, unprompted, unscripted.
	Wait, wait.
	When was this?
	This was a while back, 2012.
	As you can see there, if you go to the Mirror article, you can have it.
	After being handed the list, the Prime Minister warned that internet discussions of an alleged pedophile ring could degenerate into a witch hunt against people who are gay.
	That's an interesting connection that was just made out of nowhere.
	What an odd thing to say!
	I don't know why the Prime Minister said that.
	For some reason, maybe everyone on that list was just an innocent homosexual, I don't know.
	Policing and Criminal Justice Minister Damien Green said Schofield's actions were tasteless and silly and an ITV spokesman demanded that an investigation was taken and then they made them both apologise.
	What an absolutely bizarre thing to do.
	They both made them apologise for handing a list of alleged pedophiles to the Prime Minister.
	On television?
	Yes.
	For some reason, presumably I mean, if we're going to talk kayfabe here, then presumably just to see what kind of reaction it would get, ooh, we'll throw a wrench into this interview.
	Maybe.
	I mean, I don't think there's anything inappropriate about giving the Prime Minister a list of powerful pedos.
	I mean, who else do you give it to?
	Like the police?
	If they're powerful people, then the police aren't going to do anything.
	That's a good point.
	But whatever, it's just very weird to me that the immediate response to this, because none of the names were mentioned, it was not libelous or anything of the sort, was, cover it up, how dare you hand over a list of alleged pedophiles to the Prime Minister.
	Again, the machine's response to events is not the one I would have taken.
	I would have been like, I'm attending this guy's dinner party next week, this guy's the week after, I can't do anything with this.
	Yeah, none of the names were made public ever, so we don't know.
	Great.
	And if we go to the next one here, we can see the media are as corrupt as expected.
	The chap here releasing that the Sunday editor Newton and CEO Brooks, who three years ago met with ITV's McCall, Ligo and Gormley, a bunch of names who were involved, who cares, just random people who work in the Oh, does she mean ITV, McCall, Davina McCall, maybe?
	All these people agreed to drop hostile stories on Showfield.
	In return, ITV would give them more exclusives and keep advertising.
	No wonder Showfield's I Am Gay story went to them.
	Now, that's just media corruption being corrupt.
	But that's not the last thing.
	I know this is going on a bit, but I have to get all the deets to make sure that we've covered all the stones.
	Must be thorough.
	Given all the evidence that exists.
	Politico last year did a big think.
	This is a big old think.
	Philip Schofield and best pal Simon, groomed McCree, claims telly insiders.
	No, this is completely alleged.
	I would never believe such a thing.
	So Politico is alleging, from an unnamed source, that a close friend, Simon Schofield, from earlier, no relation, groomed Matthew.
	Because Simon was the co-founder of the theatre company that we mentioned, which is where these two seem to have met.
	Bit weird.
	They don't just have a night out at one point, in which, you know, he's of legal age, so what would it matter?
	Friends or whatever.
	For the next one, we can see they have some screenshots.
	They have since I can't find.
	Presumably they've been deleted from the Instagram accounts that belong to them.
	So this one here is from someone in which they have the boy, who is not of age in this photograph, with Simon, the friend, in which the boy is looking up at the grown man and the look of love XX is the comment on Instagram.
	Weird.
	Weird.
	Not necessarily anything illegal, but really weird, to say the least.
	Just saying.
	I believe in this photograph, actually, he would have been 16 and 4 months, so that is of age, by 4 months.
	But in the next one we have him- But still very inappropriate, I would contend.
	In the next one we have him at 15.
	Which is on Simon Schofield's Instagram.
	He's since deleted this photo along with so many others.
	Just, I want to wrap up the narrative here.
	So the alleged narrative that we could take from this, that's all alleged and nothing wrong has officially gone on and nothing illegal has officially been done outside of baseless speculation that I would not contend in, but the alleged story that one could put together would be that powerful people within the UK entertainment industry sponsor and set up young
	...actors to be able to have easy access to young actors through which they can use to groom them and then carrot on stick take them along into the entertainment industry where from that point onwards they can be passed about from set to set as basically production gimps.
	I mean, that would be the worst possible interpretation.
	That certainly would be a heinous and alleged interpretation that I would never go with.
	Well, the insider says, I think Simon was the middleman in some way to then pass them on to Schofield.
	Can't imagine they would have got together when Matt was underage.
	So he's not saying any noncing took place of anything of the sort.
	Still very strange.
	You know, that's a matter for the law.
	What's true is that it's just an inappropriate relationship for general anyway like that's regardless so 50 year old shouldn't be getting with an 18 year old weird they say don't do it Harvey Weinstein all of the women that he got with suppose as far as I remember were of age it was more the coercive nature of the relationship which really did him in I mean, the less, you know, skeptical version of events is clearly just there are a lot of people, of course, who work in media, who then patronise the arts through theatres or whatever to help young people get into the arts.
	And they all know each other.
	And maybe they're just, you know, they're friends.
	They've been working at the arts together for five years.
	That certainly would be an innocent interpretation of all of these things.
	That's um you know but the evidence is there I wanted to lay it all out because people are making uh judgments and um well there it all is um make up your own mind yeah but that's that again just for the lawyers involved um not alleging anything illegal took place between any of these people because I can't find any but the story is not one of illegality especially in the mainstream it's one of inappropriate relationship I mean if
	A heterosexual man too that done followed a 15 year old girl at that point on Twitter and then you know knew them through the theater and then they became part of the production staff and no illegal actions have taken place.
	It still would have been super weird and no one would have defended them.
	Yep.
	Least of all the wife or the television studio.
	But that's the thing about the West.
	I have important information to tell everybody.
	I am straight.
	Yeah, the thing about the West, though, is, and this is the part of the Minoritarian Empire- I am leaving my wife for a younger woman.
	Oh, so stunning and brave.
	If you can come out as a minority group, you can literally just get away with anything.
	I mean, the joke from Family Guy of, well, you're transgender, do whatever you want all the time, I guess, is just true.
	I mean, even in this instance, an inappropriate relationship takes place, not illegal, but inappropriate.
	Why is no one just like, OK, yeah, you need to leave then?
	No, instead it was like, I'm so proud of you for coming out.
	I did, you know, Piers Morgan and James Corden.
	The best take machines out there.
	Oh yeah, come up to endorse you.
	Yeah, whatever.
	Anyway, that's the information.
	Hopefully it did my job.
	I did leave out two things, because I didn't find them very relevant.
	Once they drank whiskey on set, and also Phillip Schofield had a Snapchat, which there's no real data on, but some people keep bringing it up for no reason, so.
	I remember a few years ago his Snapchat suddenly blew up because he was posting himself doing weird things and he became a social media darling, and I just looked at the things that he was posting and was like, this isn't funny, this isn't entertaining, go away.
	The display on my camera's gone off, John.
	As long as it's still broadcasting, that's alright.
	Anyway, we shall be moving on.
	All right, so it's time to take a look at what anti-discrimination looks like, because anti-discrimination law is absolutely ridiculous and leads to people of protected characteristics getting massive payouts for stupid little things, and that's what we'll look at in this segment.
	And before I go further, promotion that we've got on the website, we've got a new video From Carl and Stelios where they talk about liberalism.
	The video is called Why Liberalism is a Universal Acid.
	And despite the title and the description, this is not a discussion that they are both agreeing on.
	It's more of a debate that Carl and Stelios are having on the concept of liberalism and classical liberalism in particular, where Carl is going against it and Stelios is arguing in favor of it.
	So it isn't just necessarily a discussion that they both agree on.
	It is a more contentious debate between the two of them.
	Contentious.
	Friendly.
	Debate.
	Between the two of them.
	Despite the death stares that they are throwing at each other.
	I mean there was a weird moment where Stelios pulled off his slipper and started throwing one at Carl.
	Started beating him.
	Shouting glory to Iraq or...
	But anyway, you're gonna have to go and watch it and find out if that happened or not.
	I don't know if Greek Stelios would do something glory to Erdoğan.
	No, he certainly wouldn't do that.
	But you can get access to the premium content we have on the website.
	And find out if I'm lying.
	£5 a month and yes, you can test out Callum's baseless lies by watching the video all the way through.
	Anyway, so I saw this story that was just so... It just exemplified everything wrong with the US and the West in particular with how it treats claims of allegations of racism, allegations of racial discrimination and how it rewards people of protected characteristics for what I consider to be bad behaviour.
	and awards them with millions of dollars so this new york times article came out and blew up where she said equinox who are a gym company in based in new york fired her for being a black woman and the jury agreed and gave her 11.25 million dollars for it stunning and brave here we have the header image where if you're not watching it's a uh a stunning and brave independent black woman You see that necklace?
	Oh god, it's a guillotine!
	I hadn't noticed that!
	It's a guillotine for a necklace.
	Okay, that's a trustworthy character if I've ever seen one.
	Her looking resolute, her looking strong, eyes closed, she's thinking of MLK, she's thinking this is what he wanted.
	And I'll just read through some of this article and then go into a bit more detail as we go along because it is Seriously ridiculous.
	So, between 2018 and 2019, Robin Yorop, that's the woman, a former professional bodybuilder, worked at Equinox on the Upper East Side, where she managed personal trainers.
	All seems pretty normal so far.
	Years earlier, as a scholarship student at Brearley, the girls' school several blocks away, where she began in 7th grade, commuting from Carnessie and then Coney Island, she had experienced the coded bias of privileged teenagers.
	Because there was only one other black student in her class.
	Now, I looked into this, I don't know if it was the case when she was going to school there, but Brearley, on their website, brags at the fact that they have over 50% non-white students.
	Students of colour.
	So, massive over-representation of them.
	Massive over-representation indeed, but no, she was still experiencing coded privilege, so let's find out.
	But despite that, she was still not prepared For what she described as crass, unfiltered expressions of prejudice from male colleagues in an expensive gym, awash with the scent of eucalyptus oil, if not the base notes of enlightenment.
	I don't know why they type out articles like this, why they write them like this, because I know you're trying to lay on the narrative thick, but this isn't poetry class, this isn't Poetry 101, this isn't English in your first grade or whatever you're doing.
	You just, please, just write the articles Sounds like a normal bloody human being, for the love of God.
	Ms Europe's tenure at the club was short-lived.
	Equinox terminated her employment in less than a year because the company said she was late 47 times in the course of 10 months.
	Open and shut case, there you go.
	That's more than once a week.
	And we don't have, throughout this entire article, we don't have any information on how late she was each of these times, and just because it's more than once a week doesn't mean that these didn't cluster, so maybe she was late for work every single day over a week.
	I hate to be rude, but I think this might be a case of black privilege, in fact.
	Yes, in fact, because I feel like if I had been late for work over once a week in the space of less than a year... They keep having a chat with you about it.
	I'd get fired.
	I've worked in call centres before where I've been late once for the first time after working there for a year, and they've said, this happens again, you're fired.
	Yeah.
	Whereas if I had, you know, broke out the shoe polish that morning, maybe, maybe they'd have gone a bit more leniently on me.
	I mean, maybe.
	Harry, you've clearly blacked out.
	You're fine.
	But is it because I'm black?
	You're not black.
	What do you mean, you people?
	We didn't say you people, Harry.
	Now please get out.
	Why you gotta hurt him?
	Keep a brother down.
	The civil rights case of our time.
	Harry versus Vodafone.
	Miss Europe held a different view of her firing, because of course she did.
	You get fired, everyone has a different view of their firing when you're fired.
	You go, I didn't deserve this, and they go, you were late every single week, get out.
	Believing that her lateness was merely a pretext for discrimination, because of course it was.
	Because of course, that's what they will say.
	People in protected classes can get away with whatever they want because they know if they get in trouble for it, they can literally just hire a legal team of progressives who will sue the company for it and win you millions of dollars, as happened here.
	She filed a lawsuit in a Manhattan federal court, arguing she'd been subjected to a hostile work environment and eventually let go because of her race and gender.
	Last week, a predominantly white jury of five women and three men agreed Delivering a verdict in a little over an hour.
	The next day they awarded her 11.25 million dollars in damages.
	And I've just...
	What kind of, you know, five women, fine, they're going to be immediately more susceptible to this sort of thing, but it took like less than, a little over an hour.
	What would these men look like?
	I can imagine that they would be just finishing off their, you know, soy milk lattes and such.
	They'd be overflowing with estrogen.
	I have a potential image of what I imagine these three men looked like.
	Have you seen this video going around?
	No, I haven't.
	You should describe it for people listening.
	So for those listening, it's a man with a, shall we say, dysgenic features, bright ginger hair, soy beard, soy glasses, soy nose, soy facial expression, on his TikTok responding to a question, does your wife's boyfriend enjoy these videos?
	And you can see, and I've watched the video, this is entirely true, the captions say, so yes to answer your question, my spouse's partner does enjoy these videos.
	Self-report, but these are the kinds of men that you can expect to see on a New York jury near you if you ever find yourself in trouble, or, you know, potentially suing a company for racial discrimination, in which case, good on you, you're gonna get every single penny you asked for, and probably an extra 10 million dollars on top of it, because this is a man who is led by women.
	And these are the kinds that we can expect.
	But, once again, let's go back to the article.
	$11.25 million.
	There's gotta be some pretty harsh allegations of the kind of racial discrimination that was going on.
	Well, every day she was laid.
	They did call her the M-Word.
	And then burnt a cross in front of her.
	They said, okay, this is new official gym membership clothes, and they handed her a white hood.
	I can only assume that these sorts of things... She sat down at her desk and someone had written the word monkey on her screen.
	One time one of her colleagues came up and tried to scrub her clean, so to speak.
	No, none of this happened.
	None of it happened.
	Obviously none of it happened.
	And they bring up some other cases that are relatively similar.
	They bring up the recent Donald Trump case where it says And this is really telling, and this is the point that really needs to be hammered home here.
	In both cases, the process and outcomes suggest the ways in which recent transformative social movements around race and gender might reframe the way that juries think about the long shadow of emotional disruption that bigotry or sexual violence can produce.
	So basically, we have propagandized the entire population into believing social justice BS and now you are if you are a white person you are not going to be getting a fair trial and if you are a person who exists under a protected characteristic you will get a trial overwhelmingly stacked in your favor even if what you're coming out with is absolute nonsense because like we just gave you a list of examples of you know actual racism you could say in a courtroom and instead they've come out with yeah what if we reprogram everyone as you say yep this
	Because of the way that the affirmative action and discrimination laws exist and how they work, you can basically sue for anything.
	And if you are, like I say, a member of a protected characteristic, if you get fired for anything, you can do the same thing and you can come up with any old thing out of your back pocket.
	Oh, they looked at me, they gave me the side eye.
	We'll see the examples.
	The company had a white presence.
	Do you want to hear the examples?
	Let's get to the examples.
	Let's see if they're anywhere near as bad as what we said.
	So the case revolved in large part around allegations that a manager who reported to Ms Europe, a middle-aged white man whom she described as insulated by his relationships with people above her, refused to accept her as his supervisor.
	Probably because you were late every single week and it made you seem like you were unfit to be a supervisor.
	Maybe, that's just my speculation.
	She claimed that he repeatedly delivered his vulgar takes on black female bodies, presumably meaning complimented women who went to the gym.
	Referred?
	Yeah, what does that mean?
	That could literally be him sitting there being like, God, I love black women.
	Oh, he did.
	We'll see why.
	We'll see that he did as well.
	Which is like, I'm not having that.
	He referred to non-white employees as lazy, which I assume means that he specifically named certain lazy staff members who happened to be non-white.
	I'm sure he didn't just go, God, all Mexicans are lazy, aren't they?
	No, he probably went, Javier there is not working very hard.
	We should make him work a bit harder because he's being lazy.
	We should get on that.
	And also expressed the hope that he could get them fired.
	Well, Managers just be like that sometimes, I'm sad to say.
	He also called one black co-worker autistic.
	That's not worth $11 million in damages.
	That's not even directed at you, that's directed at a different worker.
	Goddamn, I'm bankrupt.
	I know, right?
	In the early spring of 2019, the suit claimed he demanded that his boss wait outside the gym with him for a young black woman to leave a cafe where she worked so he could make a pass at her on the theory that he would be better positioned with a black person standing next to him.
	Ms.
	Europe, according to the complaint, refused to be a racial pawn.
	So he wanted... He wanted to... He wanted her to be a wingman?
	Basically, he asked her to wingman him, and she said, what, you racist or something?
	And he's like, she's literally black, though.
	It's like... I mean, seriously, it's... This is not worth 11 million dollars, and the accumulation of these incidents, she testified, made her time at Equinox so stressful, and I believe that these are all the allegations.
	These are all of the allegations.
	These four allegations... Oh god, I've done it.
	I'm dying of stress.
	Are enough to bring back, to mean that her bulimia that she struggled with for much of her life worsened.
	Her physical illnesses got worse.
	And this is terrible.
	People who suffer bulimia, that's a terrible thing to suffer through.
	But it says, while working her there, her condition was bad enough she began vomiting several times a day and started to throw up blood.
	She eventually had to enter a treatment program for eating disorders.
	I'm sorry, lady, you are a professional bodybuilder and obviously this bulimia is probably a result of the kind of things that you've had to do with your diet to be able to get your body into peak physical condition so that you can, you know, go to these bodybuilding competitions and display yourself there.
	But if as a result of that, just these few things, this guy going, hey bro, can you wingman me for five minutes?
	Has you vomiting blood?
	Maybe you should speak to a therapist before you go back to work.
	Are you really fit for the workforce?
	If that's the point at which you're there going to go, I'm dying?
	Yeah, I mean, obviously, I'm not trying to be unsympathetic here.
	This is a terrible thing to go through.
	I wouldn't wish this on anybody.
	But maybe the problem is with you.
	If you really can't handle a workplace like this without vomiting blood, Maybe you should... I mean, she eventually did go to a treatment program, but maybe you should have done that first.
	And then we get on to her lawyers.
	All of them women at Crumilla, which describes itself as a feminist litigation firm, argued that their clients' complaints to male bosses went unheard.
	On the witness stand, she talked about an incident that left her feeling especially defeated.
	Oh yeah, this is the only other allegation as well.
	One evening in June 2019, she was in her office when she got a call from someone who dealt directly with members, a woman who was talking to a client who had specifically asked for a white trainer.
	She explained that requests like that exposed the company to liability and would need to be handled by a supervisor whom she assumed would tell the client that what he was asking for was inappropriate.
	She recounted how upset she had been over her co-worker's willingness to relay the request as though it would be good customer service to fulfill it.
	When she told her boss, He went ahead and let the client have a white trainer anyway.
	The reason I laugh is I constantly currently get adverts, and they're like therapy adverts, in which the therapist is like, I specifically asked for black women therapists and they'll provide it.
	Yeah, of course.
	That's the thing.
	If it had been somebody over the phone going, hey, can I have a specifically black trainer?
	No issue.
	No issues whatsoever.
	There would be no problem because it's the protected class.
	It's only if you say, I want somebody, if it's anything non-white, If I want an Asian trainer, black trainer.
	Didn't you go to an all-female lawyer team for some reason?
	Feminist lawyer team.
	I find it unbearable how double-sided life is, but that's how things work.
	It's absolutely ridiculous.
	And this picture will haunt your nightmares.
	If you ever say hello to a woman the wrong way on the street, these are the people who will be handling the case.
	I mean, to be honest, the reason this terrifies me is not because these people are going to bankrupt you for saying hello.
	It's more because... Although they probably will do that.
	Yeah, they will do that.
	But these people, I don't think, see the law as anything sacred.
	They just simply see it as a tool to get their way.
	Oh, you're pretty much bang on right there, as we'll get to later on.
	The article actually continues as well saying, although he was reprimanded by a superior in writing a week later, so he provides the white trainer gets in trouble for it, so she should be happy, okay?
	That's basically what she was asking for.
	And according to a spokeman, Equinox was fired one year after that.
	Ms.
	Europe happened to receive a second disciplinary warning for lateness on the same day that she had written an email bringing the issue to the attention of managers and people in Human Resources.
	Three months later, she was fired.
	I'm sorry to break this to you, lady, but you can bring a problem to the attention of your supervisors while also still being late every single week and deserving being told off for that.
	Yeah, I mean, the conversation there is, were you late?
	Yes, and Ms.
	Europe never denied that she was often late for work, but her lawyers have presented- Do you have a reason?
	No, and it doesn't say how late she was each time as well.
	I mean, late could mean anything from five minutes to, you know, three hours.
	So, who knows?
	For some reason she doesn't want to talk about that aspect.
	No, it's not mentioned in here, because it might make her look bad.
	Not that the actual context makes her look good anyway.
	Her lawyers had presented juries with a chart indicating how many other people also failed to show up on time, though with relatively few consequences.
	Once again, no context for how often, how late they were.
	Was it once a week?
	I doubt it.
	In their motion to have the case re-evaluated, lawyers for Equinox did not dispute that the racially and sexually charged comments made by her subordinate had occurred, but maintained that they were too few to support claims of a hostile workplace, which sounds perfectly reasonable to me, as far as I'm concerned.
	Beyond that, they maintained that the emotional distress she suffered as a function of her time at the gym was not egregious enough, and just to show the kind of Average IQ that the New York Times believes that they are working with, with their own readers.
	It just says, a legal term.
	Egregious enough, a legal term.
	Just in case you didn't know what egregious means.
	It's not just a legal term either, it's a word you can use outside of the courtroom, but okay.
	Just for the sub-90 IQ morons reading.
	Yeah, a person who does law.
	I know.
	It wasn't egregious enough to warrant the amount of money the jury had recommended.
	In November, they give another example of something else like this happening in this article.
	A federal jury in Texas awarded $366,000 $11.25 million to a black saleswoman who had sued FedEx over discrimination in a case that was thought to deliver the largest ever verdict in litigation involving employment and racial bias.
	Three months later, a federal judge rejected the company's bid to throw out the award or reduce it, which is just awful business if you ask me because they don't give any context for that.
	But if it's anything like this, if as little as this can get you $11.25 million when you were fired, as far as I can tell through this article, For perfectly reasonable reasons.
	But that's the thing.
	Again, this is just a telling statement about the West.
	If you can accuse a company of something morally wrong, racism in the West, and even if it's not real, if there's just the threat of it becoming something you're associated with, they'll just throw money at you to go away.
	Because it's cheaper.
	If literally asking somebody, a black woman, to wingman you while you try and hit on a black cutie, who's like a cute person who's coming out of the cafe, is enough to be called racist, then you've got to remember as well that racism is considered an excuse for physical violence as long as the person being racist is white and the person they're being racist to is black.
	No, if you're being racist to a black person as a white person... Huge costs.
	It's not just huge costs.
	That's an excuse that most people will justify for why it's okay to punch you in the face or beat you up.
	As well.
	Especially in a place like New York.
	I mean, you'd think the law would take it more serious, those kind of allegations.
	No, of course they don't.
	But I do want to point out that this is just the way that society's been going for a while, because we've got to remember that being on time is quite racist.
	If we cast our minds back to this from the African American History Museum, History and Culture, where it pointed out white culture, including things like the Protestant work ethic, hard work, that's evil and white, and in the next one as well.
	This is always just a fun one to go back to, time, following rigid time schedules and viewing time as a commodity.
	I did also see this person on Twitter, in the next one please John, pointing out that some workplaces and universities have stopped punishing tardiness because different cultures have different perceptions of time.
	Provided some examples and I found this one that he pointed out in the next link please.
	This is from the Stanford Social Innovation Review.
	The bias of professionalism standards.
	And this is from 2019.
	Can you tell what professionalism means?
	Professionalism is coded language for white supremacy.
	Yeah.
	Are you trying to hold back the tears?
	Is it a laugh or cry situation here?
	It's a joker situation.
	You wouldn't get it.
	It's white favoritism in workplaces.
	They include pieces like puzzle pieces.
	Companies want to know if you're a cultural fit, a concept exemplified by people describing the ideal employee as someone they would go to lunch with.
	2016 survey found that 84% of employers strongly focused on cultural fit, which means that you ask in the interview, Are you easy to get along with, would you say?
	That's racist.
	That's a no.
	If that's the response- Well, you can't write that down.
	Otherwise, I'll sue you for $11 million.
	I guess- I guess you're hired.
	Congratulations.
	There we are.
	The system works.
	There you go.
	I mean, I won't be inviting you to any lunches, but then again, maybe I will have to- $11 million, thank you.
	Yeah, there's $11 million for you.
	And they point out timeliness in this as well, where they give all sorts of reasons for why Basically, black and immigrant communities, as they say, have a deep ancestral connection to polychronic cultural orientation.
	Some people of color push against this by adopting a monochronic orientation, but many hold on to their polychronic work style.
	As a result, they may lose their jobs more often in a culture biased against their norms, which is basically a fancy way of saying they're late more often.
	But it's cultural discrimination.
	It's being racist.
	God, I love this.
	It's like when people try and argue that Ebonics is some kind of English dialect and clearly not you speaking wrong.
	Yep.
	And this is why we need to start teaching people in school in Ebonics, which will not help them at all.
	You know it's a real movement.
	No, I know.
	I know.
	John McWhorter's talked about it quite a few times and basically just explained over and over again, this will not help people.
	If you teach them in Ebonics in school it will just set them up for failure when they actually go into the real world where nobody else speaks in Ebonics outside of their neighbourhood.
	But no, that's racist to point out.
	But also even trying to classify as something other than just not speaking English correctly.
	I mean, it's just mad.
	I mean, there are definitely plenty of regional accents in the UK where if a person picks it up and doesn't learn to speak properly in the regional accent, they'll sound ridiculous.
	They don't turn around and go, you know what?
	Me being Northern, it's a dialect in which I mess up all the words.
	It's like, no, you learn to speak English properly if you're going to talk to someone and have them understand you.
	I mean, this was the whole thing with the BBC back in the day.
	They came up with the BBC accent, the Received Pronunciation, just because we wanted a neutral accent that could broadcast to the entire country.
	Can everyone understand what you're saying?
	And, uh, if we watch something like Clarkson's Farm, for instance, what was his name, Graham?
	Oh, I can't remember his name now.
	Uh, Gary.
	Is it?
	Gary?
	No, not Caleb.
	No, the one who- Everyone knows Caleb.
	Yeah, everyone knows Caleb, and- Gerard?
	Gerard, yeah.
	Nobody can understand what he's saying, and we're English.
	So, I mean, he's speaking in an English accent, it's certainly an English dialect, I can't for the bloody hell tell what he's saying.
	Yeah, the hot fuzz accent, that's real.
	It's real, and you wouldn't have people talking on BBC in it because everybody would be going, what?
	Excuse me, please repeat yourself.
	And this is not looking good, bros, because once again, everybody's just pointing out, I mean, look at this.
	Look at this.
	You're a company who's just been sued for racial discrimination, incorrectly, as far as I'm concerned, and you've got these women staring across at you from the other side of the courtroom.
	You're screwed.
	You're absolutely screwed, and I decided to take a quick look.
	But I have the best lawyers money can buy.
	Yeah, but their lawyers are multiracial and women.
	And women.
	Oh, no.
	We might as well just give them the money right now.
	I looked into this company, this litigation firm as well.
	They're called Cremilla.
	And this opening page, I will say, does not fill me with hope.
	I mean, that's... Finally, a law firm that gets it.
	Yeah!
	Girl power!
	We're gonna take down the patriarchy, girls!
	Bad formatting.
	Yes, it is, and they've got some things here.
	The way they talk about it is, as you would expect, very feminine.
	Emotions and stakes are high, and too often victims are forced to re-traumatise themselves by speaking to unempathetic, out-of-touch lawyers.
	So the lawyer shows up and goes, right, is the case legit?
	Don't make me re-traumatize myself!
	I will say, some of the work that these people do does seem to be legit.
	They take on sexual harassment cases, rape cases, things that do seem legit.
	But, at the same time, if they're putting those on the same level, on the same level of severity, as a case where I got fired for being late to work over and over and over again, but I think that'd be racism though.
	You're kind of diminishing the more legitimate cases that you're taking on at the same time.
	We can either win you $1,000,000 or some kind of reparations for being sexually assaulted by a superior, or we can win you $11,000,000 because a guy asked you to maybe help wingman him.
	Money is money.
	Yep, money is money.
	And they say, they carry on, sensitive issues require sensitive solutions.
	So we listen, we validate, we contextualize, we help find clarity.
	Then we dive headfirst into getting you the justice you deserve.
	And those, the listening, validate, contextualize, finding clarity.
	These are like the main points that they do for their approach that they do.
	And they also say in one of the pages that I went on to, we're committed to fighting for Here's the big part, here's the most important part.
	Social change.
	In the courts and in the streets.
	Learn what we're doing to make a positive difference in the community.
	So, that's what it's all really about.
	The law isn't an altar in which you purify people who have done wrong and therefore purify society.
	It is something you use to change the world to your whims.
	Yes.
	And I actually saw a brilliant little thread talking about this because in the next one, Helen Andrews, I'm not familiar with this person so I can't vouch for her, but this thread that she did was actually very interesting.
	She said she was glad that she read this book, Lady Justice by Dahlia Lithwick, because it offers a glimpse of what the legal profession will look like when it becomes majority female, which I think at this point is a demographic inevitability.
	And if you click on that right image so we can see a little bit of an excerpt from this book, let's see the highlighted segments.
	Yeah, I've read this.
	Yep.
	The three women justices ignored the formal time limits, talking exuberantly over their flummoxed male colleagues.
	Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at one point essentially instructed the Chief Justice to add extra time to the clock for a female reproductive freedom advocate, and he complied.
	I described that day of three female justices in Justice Breyer going to town on council as a four-can train of whoop-ass, so keeping those nice legal professional standards in there, but we couldn't do that because that would be evil and white supremacy.
	Not the usual controlled analysis from the stead justices.
	But what was exceptional and at least in retrospect heartbreaking that morning was that it afforded America a glimpse of what genuine gender parity or near parity might have meant for future women in powerful legal institutions.
	So, you're screwed.
	If you have a legitimate case, these women are going to want to talk about it in all sorts of ridiculous ways.
	If you have an illegitimate case, these women are going to make sure that it goes ahead anyway because they want to change the fabric of society with it.
	In the next one down, if you scroll down, She highlights a bit here where I didn't go to law school because I had a deep respect for the courts and the rule of law.
	There you go.
	Yeah, I don't use it to try and purify the wrongdoer and the innocent.
	I use it to destroy things.
	The American legal system was fundamentally a machine built to privilege propertied white men, but it's the only thing going and you work with what you have.
	Can't use the master's tools to destroy the master's house.
	If this is the way that most women going into law are thinking about the law, congratulations, you will not have a legal society At all.
	After enough time.
	If this is how all of them are going in and approaching it, or even the majority of them, this is not how you structure a well-ordered society.
	And if you go down to the last part in this little thread, she posts this graph.
	So you can see from about the mid-2010s onwards is when females became the majority of people enrolling in law school, and men are dropping and seemingly continuing to drop.
	So the more women go in, the more men drop out, the more you're going to get this kind of Legal representation, at least for the majority.
	And no one's concerned about the mail drop.
	That's not a problem.
	That's progress.
	Yep.
	That's right.
	Yeah, so, uh, that's that.
	I have some sad news, folks.
	Trust is going down.
	Everyone is less trusting of each other.
	And people at the Telegraph are stumped as to how.
	How could this happen?
	Something... happened.
	Dunno what.
	Anyway.
	So I'll start off by promoting something on Notices.com, being Hannah Pintken's The Concept of Representation podcast we did, because, well, if you don't feel represented in literally any way whatsoever, happiness go down, trust go down.
	We'll get into why.
	Are you telling me the bad line go down and the good line go down?
	Amazing, isn't it?
	Terrible.
	So we've got the Telegraph article.
	This guy decided to write this.
	Trust is breaking down in Britain.
	It's a danger we can no longer ignore.
	Mr Nick over here.
	Are you going to mention exactly why that might be?
	Oh, he's figured it out.
	Okay, all right.
	Research shows only one in four people believe they live in a safe area.
	But why?
	While half say they feel unsafe walking home at night.
	But why?
	This is all in part down to trust in the law, with only a quarter saying they have confidence in the police, but it is also down to how we feel about one another.
	And what could have changed how we feel about one another and how the police administer the law?
	We can summarize some of the reasons.
	The collapse in the trust in the police has followed several high-profile scandals.
	Failure to uphold the law and evidence of bigotry and corruption.
	No, I don't think that's it.
	No, yeah.
	That's not it.
	Yeah, it's that endless racism in the police we keep hearing about.
	God, you know, when I feel, when I'm walking home alone at night, when I'm trying to get home from work, what I think to myself, God, I hope a bigoted police officer doesn't come across.
	The cops might get me because I'm Irish.
	Yep, that's what it is.
	And you might have that trouble.
	It's because you're Danish.
	Thank you.
	The long failure since the financial crash of Britain to return to healthy economic growth.
	Yeah, that's the reason we're collapsing as a trust society.
	Sure it is.
	I mean yeah, like bad economic policy right now isn't helping.
	That might not be it.
	Might not be the main reason.
	And the resulting fallen living standards, higher taxes and struggling services, why are they struggling, makes people more guarded and less generous with what they have.
	Now, Japan has never recovered financially since 1995.
	But they're doing alright though.
	For some reason, something didn't happen in the 1990s for them.
	Something didn't happen.
	And because something didn't happen, they have unbelievable high levels of trust, even though their economy is as crap as it's been for about 25 years.
	Can't put my finger on it.
	Quarter century of basically no growth in the GDP, but yet high trust because something didn't happen.
	Is there a graph?
	No, I have a video instead.
	I remember seeing one about Japan where you could walk in even big cities and there are cafes with no staff.
	You just make your own things and then leave the money.
	It's pretty high trust.
	I don't know the book it's from, but it used to be like that in England as well.
	Literally, the banks used to work in such a way in England that they would just display the gold that they had on offer, not in a vault, just in the public, no protective glass, no security guards.
	And people would just go in, take a look at the gold, pass the gold around, and put it back.
	Well, anyway, there's someone who's made a video representation of the United States versus Norway in this regard, just to demonstrate why trust might be going down in the West.
	We have a chap here in Norway who is showing you multiple stores in which there are no staff, not even security guards.
	Yep, you should just go and buy the stuff.
	Leave it.
	No problems.
	And we have some other chaps here who are eating for free in Walmart.
	But, I mean, don't you feel bad for that guy on the left?
	I don't know.
	I feel like the culture on the right is far superior.
	That's where I want to live.
	Look at how much he's not been enriched.
	He's, um, miserable, I'm sure.
	He's terrible.
	We'll go back to Nick, though, because the author of that article is getting to me.
	He's born in Birmingham in the 1980s.
	Chief of Staff for Theresa May.
	He was also there for the Birmingham Trojan Horse scandal.
	Remember what that was?
	No, I don't remember what that one was.
	It turns out for decades, Islamists have been introducing Islamist ideas into the local schools.
	And these majority Muslim schools, because of course they're all ghettoized, were no longer teaching what the rest of the students were being taught in the country, but instead were just being taught Islamism.
	Sounds like Birmingham to me.
	Do you mean there was a time before Islamist Birmingham?
	Well, there was a group that held Trojan Horse or Trojan Hoax event in Birmingham and he wrote to them to say, stop that, it makes you look like terrorists.
	And they went, look like?
	And it turned out the whole thing was true, obviously.
	There were teachers saying homosexuality deserves death.
	There were sex segregated classes.
	The students were polled and they had literally no knowledge of any other religion except Islam.
	Which is not legal, for the obvious reason.
	And also, some schools made the students study outside whilst the Ofsted inspectors were there, because they didn't want the Ofsted inspectors talking to the students.
	Which is a beautiful sign of everything working.
	You know, I think Roger Scruton might have mentioned this in one of his books, where he points out there was a teacher who called all of this out, and got fired for it.
	My point being, powerful elitist over here, who should know, I mean, if there's anyone who should know quite what might be destroying trust in Britain, he still wasn't able to figure it out.
	I'm gonna make a big hmm for him and we'll just get the next graph up so people can take a look at the graph.
	Still pains me.
	I don't know if you noticed, I couldn't be bothered to actually accurately do the last point.
	I just used paint.
	There you go.
	There you go, it's just a big line.
	The line goes up, Tom Harwood happy.
	Yeah, no idea I guess though.
	But I thought we'd just check in with some supporters of this line.
	Immigration to the moon!
	Literally it is going to the moon and people who love it going to the moon should we check in with them?
	Well Jess over here did some interviews with a bunch of members of the public and their conclusion was that mass immigration is a punishment Oh, okay.
	That's all.
	It should hurt.
	Get used to it.
	And I'm supposed to trust somebody who goes out in public with an awful mullet and elf ears.
	And tells me I deserve to be punished.
	Because, I don't know, British Empire.
	I never actually read anything in history class.
	We never improved living standards in any of the places we colonised.
	Very quickly, just going to check back in with that map I've mentioned many times, the ethnicity map in the UK, which is a beautiful tool.
	You can see here the map of Tower Hamlets, which for some reason you don't even need to see the borders of, you can just map where the Bangladeshis live, and the borders, I mean it's weird, they kind of Map themselves in the borders for some reason.
	Who knows why.
	But for some reason.
	That's all the Bangladeshis live within the borders of Tower Hamlets.
	Naturally.
	I think it's a big invisible barrier if you're Bangladeshi.
	You just try and poke and you're stuck.
	Forever.
	Presumably that's how you end up with so many people of the same ethnicity living in the same place.
	You can geolocate it using satellite imagery because of the wall of Bangladeshis banging on the barrier.
	It's actually how the border is decided.
	Man, the wizards of Camelot have done something terrible there.
	But we'll go to the next one because that's just a place where trust is not high.
	Let me just check in with another random place in the UK I found.
	Give me the next link please, if we can have it.
	There you are.
	Now, I'm sure this place in the north, Salary, you wanna know what the average salary around here is?
	I was there a few weeks ago, it was a very trustworthy looking place to be perfectly honest.
	Average full time salary, you wanna guess?
	23 grand.
	23 grand.
	I was going to say, because this was in the Lake District, in one of the, like...
	Honestly, the town it's in is not the most amazing town, although actually the part that you can access over the bridge is a lot nicer than the town it's attached to, but it didn't seem like a high-income area.
	My point being, 0% diversity.
	I mean, literally, it is 100% as you can see here, white, English, Welsh, Scottish, Northern Irish or British in the results there.
	And you've been there.
	You've given us your thoughts on the level of trust.
	It's really lovely.
	I've been to Tower Hamlets many a time.
	Nice little place.
	Oh, I would not trust.
	Well, I mean, you're the wrong colour to trust.
	Yeah, maybe.
	So I thought we should check in with something I found, a relic.
	Folks, I come to you with something gold.
	The New York Times in 2007 Take a look at this.
	The downside of diversity by the New York Times.
	Did they publish this by accident?
	This is real.
	This is in the archive.
	I have found a unicorn, folks.
	Oh my god.
	Somebody accidentally... Somebody wrote an article for American Renaissance and sent it to the wrong email address.
	Still gonna read.
	This is in 2007.
	And you would have thought lessons might have been learned.
	Nothing has been, obviously.
	But here's how bad it is.
	It has become increasingly popular to speak of racial and ethnic diversity as a civic strength.
	From multicultural festivals to pronouncements from political leaders, the message is the same.
	Our differences make us stronger.
	Before diversity is our strength.
	Not quite got round about saying that in 2007.
	It's a big butt, but... The massive new study based on detailed interviews of nearly 30,000 people across America has concluded the opposite.
	The greater the diversity in a community, the fewer people vote, and the less they volunteer, and the less they give to charity and work on community projects.
	In the most diverse communities, neighborhoods trust one another about half as much as they do in the most homogeneous settings.
	So diversity actively breaks down trust in communities?
	Yes, and the effects of it have never been put more beautifully than what I am about to reinforce here.
	Because I feel it myself in my own life.
	As people may have noticed, I've talked about it a lot, I used to live in an area when I was growing up.
	That even to this day is 90% of one group, 95%, so I'm a genius.
	And then I moved to university, and then I moved around to Reading, which I lived on the Oxford Road.
	Incredibly diverse.
	Probably the one of the most diverse places in London.
	Not London, sorry.
	In the country.
	And then to Swindon, and I moved to one area that's 60% Indian, amazingly.
	And this place has been quite diverse as well.
	And I've never been able to put it down as to what this place makes you do, just as natural response.
	But this guy did.
	Alright.
	The study, the largest ever on civic engagement in America, found that virtually all measurements of civic health are lower in more diverse settings.
	The study comes at a time when the future of America's melting pot is the focus of intense political debate, from immigration to race-based admissions to schools, and it poses challenges to advocates on all sides of the issue.
	I still can't believe that was novel and I rather promote the idea we should discriminate against white people.
	Now that's the norm now.
	But with the demographic trends already pushing the nation inextricably towards greater diversity, the real question may yet lie ahead.
	How to handle the unsettling social changes that Putnam's research predicts.
	That's amazing as well, just as a side note.
	There are all these problems, so should we stop and do something successful instead?
	No, let's just mitigate the problems.
	It's given us an inevitability.
	What we should do is we should brainwash the native population into thinking everything is fine.
	He says, we cannot ignore the findings.
	This is Ali Nourmani, executive director of Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition, a proponent of mass immigration.
	Quote, the big question we have to ask ourselves is, what do we do about it?
	What is the next step?
	Well, I would have been to, you know, admit that homogeneous societies have huge advantages and we should probably preserve those advantages.
	You know, the kind of buffs to the nation.
	You know, stat buffs.
	Well, this seems to me to be an article that's mainly addressed at, you know, it's an article by managers for managers.
	Like you say, the managed decline.
	This is an article that the plebs weren't really supposed to pay much attention to.
	It's not for visionaries.
	It's not for visionaries who are like, okay, well there's the truth, there's the falsity, let's move on to the truth.
	Instead, it is how do we manage the mess-up we've caused?
	The managed decline, as you say.
	And part of what we're talking about here as well, when we say that this is brainwashing the public into just thinking it's okay, part of that is changing the idea of the past.
	So when you hear phrases like the melting pot, somebody will try and tell you, oh, the melting pot was always part of the vision of America.
	No, it wasn't.
	America only opened its borders to more diverse immigration, shall we say, in 1965 with the Nationality and Immigration Act.
	It's not even diverse.
	If you have a look at a map of which country do immigrants to this state come from, you'll notice there's a plethora right up until like about the 2000s when it just all becomes Mexican for the next 20 years.
	Oh yeah.
	Amazing.
	Anyway, the study is part of a fascinating new portrait of diversity emerging from recent scholarship.
	Diversity, it shows, makes us uncomfortable.
	But discomfort, it turns out, isn't always a bad thing.
	Oh great, I love my life getting worse.
	Unease with differences helps explain why teams of engineers from different cultural backgrounds may ideally be suited to solve a specific vexing problem.
	I love that.
	It's always given you that they're just doctors and engineers on the dinghies.
	After releasing its initial results in 2001, Putnam says he spent time kicking the tires really hard to be sure the study had it right.
	Putnam realized, for instance, that more diverse communities tended to be larger, have greater income ranges, higher crime rates, and more mobility among their residents, all factors that could depress social capital independent of any impact ethnic diversity may have.
	But even after statistically taking them all into account, the connection remained strong.
	Higher diversity meant lower social capital.
	Putnam writes that those in more diverse communities tended to, quote,
	Distrust their neighbours regardless of colour of their skin, to withdraw even from close friends, to expect the worst from their community and its leaders, to volunteer less, give less to charity and work on community projects less often, to register to vote less, to agitate for social reform more but have less faith that it can actually make a difference, and to huddle unhappily in front of the television.
	God, I've never heard it been put better.
	Beautifully put.
	Beautifully put.
	People living in ethnically diverse settings appear to hunker down.
	That is, to pull in like a turtle, Putnam writes.
	100% true.
	Alright, I mean, that's from them.
	That's the feeling I've always had, especially in Reading.
	It makes you withdraw from society because you don't feel any connection to it.
	And on the weekend, I was at a friend's place, which is near Sandford, Gloucestershire.
	The meme place from Hot Fuzz, the heaven on earth that has a dark secret.
	And of course, in real life, the dark secret is the Thatcher's Farm shop is there.
	Oh, really?
	Wonderful.
	Oh, lovely.
	Anyway, but the place he is, is 0% diverse, and you can feel the difference on an unbelievable level.
	Once again, where I'm from, that I went back to over the weekend, is pretty much 0% diverse, or at least the place I was living before this.
	And it's lovely.
	You can walk down the street, you can have chats with strangers in the middle of the street, and everything feels nice.
	I have a real tough time... Everything feels homely.
	I think, we've talked about this, the one place in walking distance I can find English food is probably a couple of cafes which serve English breakfast and that's it.
	Yes.
	I don't know whether there's a fish and chips place around here.
	I don't know where I can get pub food, that's to a good standard.
	The only fish and chips that I've been to in Swindon since I moved here was owned by a Turkish man, and was not very good, and didn't even serve gravy as a side, so I was horrified.
	In documenting that hunkering down, Putnam challenged the two dominant schools of thought on ethnic and racial diversity, the contact theory and the conflict theory.
	Under contact theory, more time spent with those of other backgrounds leads to a greater understanding and harmony between groups.
	Someone put to me the other day that when you meet people who have travelled the world, you assume that they would have enlightened ideas.
	The perspective that everyone's basically the same.
	The more people travel, the less they have that opinion, so that theory is just BS anyway.
	The more you come into contact with reality, the more it makes an effect on you.
	But under conflict theory, that proximity produces tensions and discord.
	Putnam's findings reject both of the theories.
	In multiverse communities, he says, there were neither great bonds formed across group lines, nor heightened ethnic tensions, but a general civic malaise, and in perhaps the most surprising result of all, levels of trust were not only lower between groups in multiverse settings, but even among members of the same group.
	Again, I felt that myself.
	I've never been able to put it into words properly.
	This guy did in 2007.
	It's important to point this out as well, that this research is basically illegal now.
	Because there was a recent statement from the Biden White House saying that if scientific journals conducted research that came out with I forget the exact wording.
	Basically, non-pro-diverse conclusions from the research, you wouldn't get funding for it.
	If you were doing any sort of research that wasn't going to explicitly say, and this is why diversity is a good thing with the results, then you're not going to do it.
	And it's pretty much the same in the UK as well.
	These sorts of results were useful in the mid-2000s because the managers went, we've created this problem, How do we solve this problem?
	Now they've gone, we can't solve this problem, so we'll just make the research illegal.
	You could have done the crossroads, didn't bother.
	So we'll let this off, we'll run out of complete time.
	But last thing here, just a quick fact from the UK, if we can go to the next link please, which is from Matthew Goodwin.
	Quote, the claim that Brexit Britain is attracting the best and brightest is undermined by the fact that migrants are more likely than Brits to rely on social housing.
	This is free housing from the government.
	Sorry, my tax money.
	And then while British families are being forced to leave London, 40% of the rising number of Sub-Saharan Africans who are living in London are now living in social housing in the capital.
	And the thing that amazes me about that is, I mean, it's so hard for someone outside of London to try and earn enough that they can even move to live there, never mind then just climb the social ladder that is the place.
	But if you're a sub-Saharan African who comes to the UK, there's a 40% chance you just get it for free.
	You just get some free housing the government stole off us.
	It's actual madness.
	Have you seen the dark buildings in Johannesburg in South Africa?
	You mean the ones with no lighting and stuff?
	Yeah, where it's basically just an open-air toilet.
	Yeah.
	I imagine that a lot of buildings in London will end up like that after this is all done.
	Presumably, because... Well, I'll end it off there, because I don't know what to say.
	It's amazing that that was in the New York Times at that time, and I'm amazed that that guy managed to put in words a feeling I've had that I've never been able to explain properly.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	James Lindsay's takes have been pretty interesting lately.
	I sense a lot of frustration and maybe a bit of fear.
	In my opinion, he's afraid of Christians getting a large degree of political power, and I would agree Western Christians as a group aren't the most politically savvy actors.
	However, they do have access to metaphysical buttons that mobilize people in a way that facts and logic aren't capable of.
	I also think that James might be losing the plot in terms of usefulness.
	It is one thing to study snakes forever, but if you want to actually warn against snakes, you don't have to understand it completely.
	Just know that you, you know, be able to communicate that you can't trust it.
	And right now the Wilksters have such a bad track record.
	If you want to know what a snake is, look at what a snake does.
	On that, I don't want to come across as too harsh here, but I agree that Lindsay doesn't want conservative Christians to be able to make any sort of political difference.
	He wants to neutralise conservative Christians as a political faction because he just dislikes Christianity in the first place.
	If you actually look at old tweets that he's done, he said that back in 2015, before he became the hoax guy, he was big on the leftist atheists um community he was writing books in that and i do just think that james lindsey recently has come out and basically said i know that i've got a big right wing audience he's doing what the old anti-sjws did back when they decided they didn't want to be anti-sjw anymore when they realized their entire audience was right winging to go hold up I don't like right-wingers.
	I'm not right-wing.
	I've moved to LA now.
	Yes, I've moved to LA now.
	He's doing the same thing.
	He's decided to try and burn the bridges with his right-wing audience.
	He's trying to scare them into inactivity.
	And I do think part of it is because of the fact, like you say, he has studied stakes for a long time.
	He studied the left.
	He has written about their works, and if the right-wing actually does anything about it, then that's his source of income completely gone, because if the left aren't in charge, he can't write books about how the left are terrible.
	And also, even in his books, he always explained how his biggest fear was not what the leftists were doing.
	It's not about... I'm not that scared about transing kids or anything.
	It's about the potential of a right-wing backlash.
	Because god forbid countries decide to, you know, grow a spine, support their own nationality, and do something about it.
	That's what he's always said.
	I've got nothing to say because I just don't follow him.
	That's fair.
	Good next one.
	My review of Tears of the Kingdom has dropped, so go and check it out at cscooper.com.au slash rumble.
	You're gonna love it.
	Seriously, it will convince you to go buy a Switch and get the game.
	But Breath of the Wild first.
	Breath of the Wild first.
	Seriously.
	It's so much better!
	I used to have a Frodo sword when I was younger.
	Little plastic one.
	Yeah, so did I. Here we go, blue.
	I had the same one.
	The exact same one.
	Did it, when you hit it, did it also make the shing noise?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, we had the same one.
	Also, if I do end up getting a Switch, do I have to, like, take a photo with it when we're... Yeah, I think that's a requirement.
	Is that what they do, before they actually let you actually take it, they go, alright, we're gonna get the camera out before we give you the receipt?
	I guess I'll have to make a sacrifice then.
	On to the comments.
	So, Phillips Gofield, Taffy Duck says, hands up, who thinks the inappropriate relationship is the tip of the iceberg?
	Allegedly.
	No, no, you're allowed to have your honest opinion, that's also exempt from libel law.
	John's pointing it out, that's part of it, if I get a switch I also have to let somebody screw my wife.
	While I sit in the corner watching, crying.
	No, actually, just playing the Switch.
	I'm just trying to make sure which ones I can actually say.
	I'm sorry, I just want to, like, letter M is for magnifying glass, says, see you on the sofa, Harvey Weinstein, probably.
	The Unbreakable Lithony says, anyone found guilty of aiding or abetting or associating with pedos can... No, I can't read that.
	Joint of Ark says, as far as I'm concerned, if you cheat on your spouse, you deserve whatever dragging you get.
	Yeah, I mean, it was... That's the thing where I'm a bit like, hmm, I don't know, because...
	I've become a ball of fury for a moment when Alex Ogle has said, don't worry Harry, despite your common age with Matthew McGreevy, it could never have been you, even nonces won't groom you.
	too annoyed by the end of it.
	I have become a ball of fury for a moment when Alex Ogle has said, "Don't worry, Harry, despite your common age with Matthew McGreevy, it could never have been you.
	Even nonces won't groom you." I'm not ginger.
	I am not ginger.
	This is dirty blonde, okay?
	The sun is brightening it up ever so slightly, ever so slowly.
	When my hair was a lot longer, it was a lot clearer that it was very blonde.
	Alright?
	Okay?
	I'm not ginger.
	Just want to clear that up here.
	If you think I'm ginger... Still wouldn't groom you.
	Thank you.
	I appreciate that.
	All right, let's go to the next list.
	Yeah, all right.
	Sheikah Silva says, it is ironically these anti-discrimination laws being applied that creates discrimination through special treatment and unequal treatment in the law.
	It certainly doesn't help, I agree with you there.
	Much in the same way that the alleged comprehensive liberal has to violate and undermine the rights of individuals if they perceive there to be injustice due to the voluntary choices of these individuals.
	That's another thing, I don't want to go on about James Lindsay, but that's another thing about James Lindsay is that It was only up until the progressive revolution had hit a point where he just decided, no, this is going anti-scientific against the laws and reasons of the Enlightenment, that he decided that he was against it all of a sudden.
	He is still a liberal in the sense that right up until that period, the violation of the rights of states to choose not to have abortion, the violation of the rights of the states to choose whether they're going to allow gay marriage or not, All of these things were things that he absolutely supported.
	He supported these violations of the state's rights until all of a sudden it went a little bit too far with him and then all of a sudden he aligns with the right and then when the right decides that they were actually where we are still right wing actually he then turns around and goes oh right wing is evil you need to abandon the right wing it's it's it's ridiculous and I don't think people should
	Really trust him personally, but Baron Von Warhawk says a woman shows up to work at a bourgeois company with the necklace depicting a machine used to kill bourgeois people and then wonders why she had a toxic relationship with her bourgeois bosses.
	Certified big brain woman moment.
	Yes.
	The Wigan Survivalist says, Memeology did a video in which a woman graduating from New York University, I saw this, I tweeted about it yesterday, called American law white supremacy and oppressive.
	She also described the New York police as fascist.
	What is ironic is that she was Muslim.
	Yes, she doesn't know anything about her own religions or country's history, I'm sure.
	Probably true.
	Screwtape lasers, it's no accident the jury was predominantly white.
	The prosecutors look for white guilt during jury selection.
	Probably true.
	Baron Von Warhawk, if you want to understand the two-tiered system in the West, Mizzy recently hijacked a train.
	I think that was an older video, but it is still ridiculous that he didn't get in trouble immediately after that happened.
	If a white guy pulled this Jesse James BS, Yes, he would be thrown in prison already, but I doubt the charges will stick when it comes to Mizzy, aka the Teflon Zoomer.
	Michael Makoy says, Law firms will become majority AI and not female, last in Skynet, maybe.
	And also from the same person, bodybuilders suffer from a form of body dysmorphia similar to anorexia and bulimia.
	Yes, and once again, I'm sympathetic when it comes to that, but if you're so terrible with that that you can't work in a workplace without immediately vomiting blood at the nearest sign of conflict or people just saying things you disagree with, you probably shouldn't be in the workplace at all.
	We should probably speak to somebody first.
	Mizzy for London Mayor.
	Let's carry on with yours.
	So Kevin Fox says, Trust used to be widespread in the UK years ago.
	My grandma was proud of the fact she could leave her back door open for years.
	Mind you, it may explain why it took her so long to get pregnant.
	Oh, I wasn't expecting to go there.
	Maybe she wasn't either.
	Interrupted the punchline.
	I still prefer to live in a society where I don't have to distrust everybody around me.
	It's true.
	It's sad.
	that is 100% true that's how I conduct myself I still prefer to live in a society where I don't have to distrust everybody around me yeah yeah I mean it's the thing about the hunkering down that got me it's just it's true and it's sad you have it so visibly because you just you don't care about it's like the phrase I've spoken about before in Greek There's trouble in the gypsy village.
	It literally just means, who cares?
	Oh, really?
	Because if someone says to you, you know, oh man, my socks are a bit wet.
	And you just go, and there's trouble in the gypsy village.
	Come on, let's go.
	Oh yeah, that makes sense.
	Whenever we hear stories about London now, I can't help, as I mentioned, look at that map and just realise a bunch of Africans and Indians are fighting.
	I don't care.
	I couldn't give a crap.
	In a city run by a Pakistani?
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	It's just like, okay, fine.
	Ah, but the halls of our power are there.
	Yeah, and they chose to do this.
	They're the ones who enacted the policies that let this happen.
	Did you know the Hindus and the Muslims are killing each other in Leicester?
	I guess Leicester's not my city anymore.
	Anyway.
	Out of time.
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