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	Hello and welcome to the podcast The Lotus Ears for Friday.
	Congratulations, you made it.
	I'm joined by Carl.
	Hello, well done.
	And today we're going to talk about the fact that the RAF can burn for all I care.
	Black Ariel and Black Aragon.
	What the heck, Elon?
	What you heckin' doing?
	Ruining things!
	Anyway, we shall, uh... I think, do I have something early to mention?
	No, I do not.
	So we shall get into the news instead.
	The RAF can burn down and just disappear for all I care at this point.
	It's not the finest hour anymore.
	No, for people who don't know, they had probably the worst PR week ever.
	I mean... I haven't followed any of this.
	I just, so... So don't look at me, I have no idea what's happened.
	I'll date everyone.
	You can be my subject for someone who is just normie mcnormie face.
	Why do we hate the RAF?
	For the RAF saved us in the Battle of Britain.
	It turns out instead they've decided that those who gave up their lives to free so many, they're white men.
	Scum of the earth.
	Most of them were, yeah.
	Yeah, that's ironically now the official position of the RAF.
	So I wasn't off with mentioning something on the website being the origin of intersectionality.
	How did we arrive at this problem?
	Some black Yankee woman came up with the idea that Radio Free had a union of diversity.
	Black Yankee communist?
	Yeah.
	She was like, hey, you know what?
	All this success and prosperity, I hate it.
	Let's change it.
	Maybe this was the curse of the West.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, go and check out that.
	That's us talking in detail.
	It's certainly not going to bring about the revolution, is what her concern is, actually.
	Yeah, but we'll get to the news because to catch up people who may not know about the RAF, how they ended up down this rabbit hole.
	Well, first and foremost, we'll just be told by Target's diversity and equity chief that the hardest thing to be in the world every day is black.
	Now, we're going to put this to the test.
	She looks like she's doing great.
	I mean, look at where they are.
	CEO of Diversity in Target.
	So the RAF had a leak a while back, which was not pretty, to say the least.
	They've had some previous leaks that we've gone over.
	This one here being the internal briefing note telling everyone that they needed total inclusivity, which included learning, I think, 12 pronouns?
	15?
	Something like that.
	If we can click on it, just to make it bigger for folks at home, if they can read it.
	If they can't, I'll read it out.
	You got they, she, he, ze, per, them, her, him, her, per, their, her, her, hers and hers.
	But I love the way they preface this with common pronouns include.
	It's like, yeah, include, but they also don't include ze, zeir, zem, whatever.
	I thought you were talking to the taxi driver and you identified as Per.
	Oh, every time, every time.
	This was in 2020, as you may have noticed.
	And a lot of people were ringing the alarm bell.
	Those who sent us these leaks, for example.
	And the next one here being National Inclusion Week, in which they had self-criticism sessions on white privilege, if you can go back to that where you can see it.
	Struggle sessions.
	Yeah, just little struggle sessions for an hour.
	Come and talk to us about white privilege and white banter.
	Is not allowed.
	Okay.
	That's right, the Royal Air Force.
	Too much banter going on.
	And then, well, someone principled finally had enough within the Royal Air Force and went, this is cancer, I'm leaving.
	And all honour and glory to this woman.
	Actual hero.
	If you go to the next link here, this is Sky News, who I trust zero, so I think they're probably not even getting as bad as things really are.
	Yeah.
	But they say in here that, you know, lady decided to refuse unlawful orders to prioritise women and ethnic minorities over white men, and she resigned.
	Good.
	Good for her.
	Sources described as an effective pause on offering jobs to white men in favour of women and ethnic minorities to hit, quote, impossible diversity targets.
	Where have these targets come from?
	Upon a high.
	Exactly.
	That's the problem.
	This is an institution that's totally divorced from the free market.
	So this surely has to purely be some kind of internal coup that has happened in the armed forces and is now being imposed from above.
	Because some American communist was like, I hate America's prosperity.
	Well, let's say for example, you're in the central government and because you're a communist leftist, you come up with the idea that there should be equality.
	You've not thought about this for more than five seconds.
	You just think black people make up 5% of population, so there should be 5% of pilot pilots.
	There are only 3%.
	I'm presuming that's the voice.
	But they came up with that.
	And then the RAF get applications for pilot pilots and 99% are not black men.
	Well, they literally can't reach the target.
	That's the problem she was describing.
	We literally have to approve everyone who's not even capable of the job to even get to not near the target.
	Turns out the people most invested in defending Britain are the sort of indigenous British.
	Strange.
	We've had a real problem recruiting the Muslim population.
	Do you remember when the Ukraine war broke out and a bunch of students were trying to flee from Ukraine and they're getting stopped at the border?
	And this one guy was like, I can't fight for Ukraine, I'm black.
	Yeah, I do.
	They weren't having that.
	Well, that was what happened.
	But we'll go to how the RAF has been treating us, because this is the newest news.
	White men applying for the RAF were described as useless white male pilots.
	It leaked emails.
	This is how bad this is.
	We've had suspicions for quite some time about how disgusting the individuals running these schemes are and how they view us specifically.
	It is not a slight, oh, I just run the numbers, I'm just part of the system kind of situation.
	And those people are actively disgusting, because they will hate us on the basis of being white men, even if you're a f***ing fighter pilot, you are useless, according to them.
	I don't mean to laugh, but it's so ridiculous.
	It's so ridiculous.
	White male doctors and engineers.
	Useless white male pilots in the Battle of Britain saved Britain from Nazi Germany.
	No, but they are useless because they don't reach the quota.
	Exactly.
	They're literally of no use to the diversity officers.
	And the full deets are within Sky News' reporting on it, at least the ones that are made publicly available.
	I think there's probably a lot more to come out if the truth was to be exposed fully.
	They say a number of selection boards to place new recruits on courses, a crucial part of maintaining the fighting strength of the RAF, were also cancelled if they did not include women or ethnic minorities, according to the messages, which have been seen by Sky News.
	So if we had a full roster and there were no women or minorities, but they were all capable, in fact some of the most capable, that doesn't matter?
	No, just slightly.
	In which case, bin the entire cohort.
	I mean, it's not like we've got a country to defend or anything.
	Gotta throw the whole cohort out.
	Armed forces, do we really need those if they're not diverse?
	That is the actual position of the Royal Air Force and has been now for several years.
	And the damage they've done already is measurable.
	Let's hope this isn't, I don't know, broadcast across the news so Russia can find out that our armed forces are literally collapsing from the inside.
	I mean there are a lot of jokes about Western militaries and of course we have fantastic technology.
	It is our one saving grace that we have the best technology on earth.
	Thank god the robots are going to protect us until they realise they don't need us.
	But as for the personnel, um, I mean, the robot's only as good as the guy controlling it there, so... They say here, it has also been revealed that the Air Force is paying £5,000 each to 31 white men.
	A total of £155,000.
	This is the- the- a drop in the bucket they're going to have to pay out.
	But why are they paying it?
	Because they've been unfairly disadvantaged by- they've been racially discriminated against?
	Yeah.
	Directly.
	It's not, ooh, maybe the ghost of racism past is haunting the RAF and they've been discriminating against women.
	No, we can directly point to where the discrimination took place.
	So what I'm saying, gentlemen, is now is the time to apply for the RAF.
	Go get that bag!
	Get the bag.
	Go get it.
	Go get paid.
	Because the thing is, that's what they're listing is what they're going to do, but every single white man involved should bring a lawsuit.
	And you will win.
	Because it is black and white.
	If you didn't get that promotion, get in there.
	Get in there.
	Sincerely.
	That's what we're talking about.
	I'm being totally serious.
	Make them pay you for this racial discrimination.
	So they were found to have been unfairly disadvantaged by the recruitment policy.
	Just like that police officer.
	You remember the guy who's... Chestershire?
	Yeah, something like that.
	He was like this unbelievably good candidate and they're like, no, you're white.
	It's like, I'm the guy from Hot Fuzz.
	The sheriff of London over here.
	Yeah, but you are white.
	You don't fit in in Sanford Gloucestershire.
	Anyway, under the leadership of Air Chief Marshal Sir Michael Wigston, the head of the... I'm just going to call him Mike from now on because he doesn't deserve any of those titles.
	The head of the RAF.
	Mike over here.
	Yeah, Mike.
	I honestly... I'm feeling it, I'm feeling it.
	Seriously, about that guy, that's how I feel.
	Because we'll go into why in a minute.
	He sought to boost female and ethnic minority ratios in the Air Force according to the defence source.
	Now, this man is a liar.
	Oh is he?
	Really?
	Publicly.
	Who can imagine?
	So if we go to the next one here, you may remember they put out this when we were covering it.
	At no point did the RAF recruitment process select ethnic minority and female pilots over better qualified white pilots.
	Why are you paying 150 grand then?
	Shut up!
	Over 80% of our recruits during the period in question were white men.
	What percentage of those applicants were white men?
	What percentage of women in ethnic minorities failed to be selected?
	It's zero.
	It's zero percent.
	If you want a job with the RAF and you're a woman or an ethnic minority, you have a zero percent chance of failure.
	On the plus side though, if you're a white man you've got an 80% chance of getting a payout.
	He says the error that we have corrected and apologized for was the fast-tracking approximately 150 women and ethnic minority recruits who had already passed all selection standards into earlier initial training courses.
	Sure they have.
	Yeah, by definition, fast-tracking women and ethnic minorities over men and non-ethnic minorities is picking less qualified candidates.
	That's what you did.
	That's what you've been found to be doing.
	And then these internal documents show the mindset you had whilst doing that, which was that there are useless white male pilots.
	Direct quote.
	I mean, I'm sorry, the way they talk about white men is actively hostile.
	The SJWs of Tumblr did grow up and get jobs.
	Apparently they're now in charge of the RAF.
	So if you go to the next one, you'll see anyone who criticizes him on Twitter, he just blocks.
	What a snowflake!
	We actually have snowflakes running the Air Force.
	But the thing is though, right?
	Okay, let's say that Russia does declare war on us.
	They're going to be like, right, okay, well, we're going to need fighting-age young men to come and defend the country.
	I'm not fighting for this.
	No, go to hell.
	Yeah, I'm not fighting for this.
	It's gonna get worse.
	So we'll go to the next one here because you may remember as well the Air Force are signing off with pronouns.
	This is one of the leaked emails from this story.
	So you have here Jo Lincoln.
	She says course load the blank plus any remaining women and ethnic minorities into those priority professions that are ready even if the EA candidates are not first past the post.
	The RAF is committed to increasing diversity and hence we need to sequence inflow into our service.
	Clear every single one of these people out.
	We need more Browns.
	Why?
	Because my target.
	And vaginas.
	Why?
	Because my target.
	I hate this so much.
	Joe Lincoln, she, her.
	Anyone with pronouns.
	Instantly removed from any position.
	Ever.
	I mean, you are... It's not just Joe Lincoln.
	Air Commodore Joe Lincoln.
	MBE.
	She, her.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I'm sorry, but literally anyone with pronouns ever I find in professional life, I instantly dismiss, and rightfully so, because this is what you'll get.
	Well, it's just... American communist.
	Yeah.
	We'll go back to the article, because there's more deets that make it even worse.
	So, a further review indicated hundreds more had been disadvantaged, sources said.
	So those 31 are getting the first payout, and hundreds of others.
	The RAF confirmed that the 31 individuals had received payouts, but did not confirm the amount.
	I hope it's stacks of cash.
	The revelations appear to contrast with repeated assurances by Air Chief Marshal Wingson that well-intentioned efforts to improve diversity were not discriminating against white men.
	Obviously.
	That's because he's lying!
	It's because it's a lie!
	Mike over here is telling you a lie!
	He doesn't care!
	The Chief of Air Staff.
	I can't believe that the head of the Air Force just blatantly lying to the public about racist discrimination.
	Like, what a world.
	He's due to retire from his post this week.
	Oh, that's lucky for him.
	It's almost like that's why he doesn't care.
	Had also repeatedly insisted that his service operational capabilities were never impacted by hiring people less capable on the basis of their race and gender.
	Yeah, that doesn't make any sense.
	The RAF insisted that there was no contradiction between saying we don't discriminate and discriminating.
	Amazing.
	It's very progressive.
	I mean, to be fair, that is probably some PR person at the RAF has to sit there and just knows they're in the wrong and through gritted teeth has to say that crap.
	Yeah.
	Knows he's lying through his teeth.
	Yeah.
	Under the subject line entitled Boarding Profile, the squadron leader wrote, I would be grateful if you would provide me with a breakdown of the candidates awaiting boarding by branch, type of profession such as pilot, Right, so that's very interesting.
	If we don't have enough BAME people, then what happens?
	Well, nothing.
	The military collapses.
	We can't fight Russia.
	Right, so that's very interesting.
	If we don't have enough BAME people, then what happens?
	Well, nothing.
	The military collapses.
	We can't fight Russia.
	There's no negative consequence from that.
	I think without BAMES, we have no strength, though, Carl.
	Good point.
	We are literally worthless.
	They're literally like, our guns don't fire, our planes don't fly.
	Yeah.
	I mean, this is why both sides in the Ukraine war are doing so well.
	It's because one side has Chechens, and the other side has volunteers from Syria and Iraq.
	Without them, they'd be worthless.
	Yeah, good point.
	God.
	He says, I really don't need loads of useless white male pilots.
	We might, if we end up in a war.
	Let's get as focused as possible.
	I am more than happy to reduce boarding if needed to have a balanced BAME female-male board.
	Who cares?
	Why is this external target suddenly mission critical?
	Now, I messaged my dad this story, because he was in the RF.
	Yeah, my dad was in the RF as well.
	And I asked him, you know, look at this.
	My dad's probably watching right now.
	Dad, I'm sorry.
	The actual state of it.
	It's embarrassing.
	And he messaged me back something, and it made me roar with laughter when I read it.
	Because he messaged me back, back in my day, we used to care about UK diversity.
	My Zuma brain had never even thought of that as a possibility.
	We need people from the North, we need people from Wales, we need people from Scotland.
	We need Manx, we need people from Cornwall with their webbed feet, we need people from London with their weird voices.
	And you think for a moment, oh yeah, that's actually really good because it also gives you geographical knowledge and so forth.
	But instead, no, just black skin.
	Now we need to have the geographical knowledge of inner-city London.
	That's all we care for.
	That's where all the fighter planes go.
	On the tube.
	So, another email.
	Breaking into people's houses.
	Filming on TikTok.
	Have you not seen that meme?
	Where someone was talking about a 4ch and it was like, oh, you know, what's the use of an AR-15 when the military's got fighter pilots?
	Joe Biden saying this.
	And it's like, yeah, well, the fighter pilots aren't conducting door-to-door services, are they?
	There's just a meme of, like, a fighter jet with a policeman's cap just going, hello, sir.
	Anyway, people know.
	Another email sent the following day by the same squadron leader, who's not been fired for racism yet somehow, to a more senior member of the recruitment team entitled Boarding Profile Update, suggesting it struggled to hit diversity targets.
	Those efforts included the cancellation of boards that only comprised of white men.
	Why not just start conscripting the diversity?
	Let's see how that goes down.
	It's gonna have to be where we're gonna have to go.
	Yeah.
	Otherwise... No, you're being literally press ganged into the RAF, son.
	Why me?
	Because you're black!
	Is it because I was black?
	Yes, I'm getting there!
	Kill the Russians!
	So... But, I mean, that's just disgusting.
	I mean, any one of those men, in any one of those thoughts... The white people are watching the RAF recruiters just rounding up the diversity and shipping them off just like, what about us?
	No, we don't need you, you useless whites!
	Birmingham's been emptied out.
	It's just, what is going on?
	Yeah.
	But any one of those men is- But this surely would have to be the sort of philosophy to have if there was a war.
	So right, we need conscription.
	So literally, he's going to conscript all the foreigners.
	To stop fighting- I mean, I support it.
	Just for the- I mean, it would wake people up, if nothing else.
	So, any one of those men on any one of those boards can sue.
	And you should.
	And take the money.
	Do not get any principled feelings about doing the harm, the R.E.F., the other... Nah, screw them.
	Take every penny you can.
	Everyone we've ever spoken to in this space has ever dealt with something similar.
	They need to be held to account.
	And that's the only way they're going to understand is when their budget is impacted by this.
	The only thing these people care about is money.
	So take it.
	"You will note, however, that the pot for BAME and female is drained." They're all in a pot now.
	It's a resource.
	The melting pot.
	I've got gold, I've got food, I've got wood, and then BAMES.
	You need more BAMES.
	Imagine having that, you're playing Command and Conqueror, you just can't recruit new rocket launchers.
	I'm thinking Starcraft, isn't it?
	You need more minerals.
	So I'd like some more planes for the Air Force, please.
	Just a message comes on, there's not enough BAMES in your pot.
	Well, you know, you need three steel, four electricity, five BAMES.
	Yeah, so, quote, from 336Cs, candidates, we have 10% female, 5% BAME, which we will burn through quickly from using the boarding profile presented.
	Isn't that fascinating?
	That women and minorities don't actually want to join the Air Force?
	No.
	They're free to, at any point.
	We've actually lowered the standards for them.
	We're begging for them!
	We're even creating, you may remember, specialised helmets.
	Because, of course, a Firepyre helmet... Too heavy for women.
	Well, it's not just a piece of leather these days, and some goggles.
	It's really, really expensive, made custom kit.
	Like, tens of thousands of pounds per helmet.
	So, okay, we'll make some special ones for the women.
	And they're not joining.
	Not interested.
	But okay.
	The demand signal needs to be sent back to the recruitment force to focus now on speeding up all the BAMEs.
	And female they have!
	We have cancelled two times boards next week due to them having no female BAME or priority branch on them.
	Priority branch, presumably just meaning more BAMEs.
	Literally just can't function.
	Yeah.
	There was a need to review the systemic issues that were causing a shorter return of service for BAME officers and their colleagues as well.
	Sorry.
	We have lower quality cohorts because we are hiring on the basis of race and femaleness.
	Which is Spectre, presumably.
	You can just imagine some Indian guy joins the RAF through compulsion, probably.
	For some reason he doesn't want to stick around.
	Yeah, but then he goes back on holiday to India and they're like, what'd you do?
	Oh, I defend Britain.
	What?
	Why don't you defend India?
	Yeah, but I just love that.
	Like, we're literally letting in everyone.
	That includes all the low quality candidates because we need more browns and women.
	And then the guys doing recruitment are complaining that the people they've let in don't want to serve as long as previous cohorts because, well, they're not as invested.
	They're not the same quality of cohort.
	But okay, no one cares.
	You want to defend England?
	No, not really.
	I expect the English to defend England.
	I mean, our military tradition is literally being destroyed because you no longer have the same investment in terms of years in the service.
	But don't worry about that, it's not important.
	Knowledge.
	The message dated 19th of November 2020 under the subject of BAME Inflow Expedite, all in caps, as well as angrily writing, give me more BAMEs.
	We have a deadline here, folks.
	Can you confirm the fitness test question is being asked and pursued?
	Because there are potentially some quick wins we can make here that make us all look better, question mark.
	Look better who?
	I don't know.
	Like, who is the person in charge who's just like, where are the BAMEs?
	Like, is it Rishi Sunak?
	That's 2020!
	So it definitely wasn't Rishi Sunak.
	Who was Prime Minister in 2020?
	Was it Boris?
	I think it was Boris, yeah.
	Boris was there like, I need more Bames.
	Where are my Bames?
	Where are my Bames at?
	Any Bames in the air?
	What's up, my Bame?
	Patrolling the skies!
	And some women!
	It's just Carrie's fault!
	An informed source alleged that efforts were made around the time to fast-track ethnic minority and female recruits into the RAF, Halton and Buckinghamshire, without previously passing fitness tests.
	Indeed, they could take the test on their first day.
	This meant that they were offered employment, a place on the course, prior to undertaking a pass or fail fitness test, the source said.
	By contrast, before being offered employment, white men would have to pass the test, because it's, you know, the entry test.
	I just can't take it.
	Ethnic minorities, that sounds bad enough, right?
	Like you don't have to take the test, right?
	The effects of that are the real systemic racism against these white applicants.
	Ethnic minorities and female candidates would also clock up more service time and seniority than white male recruits as a result.
	They said this was morally wrong and meant that white male recruits were at a serious disadvantage.
	Morally wrong?
	Who cares?
	It's making us look good to whoever is holding us to account for this.
	But it's not just direct discrimination in terms of we're not taking you because you're white.
	It's also systemic discrimination on the basis of we give priority to ethnics therefore they have higher seniority and therefore you are not able to get the promotions because they come first.
	First in, first up.
	Yep.
	Sky News using the Freedom of Information Act asked the RAF if any white men had submitted a service complaint.
	For being disadvantaged by the Air Force.
	I mean, I would write one.
	I think you should all write one.
	All write one.
	You should write ten a day.
	Yeah.
	So, um, they said, I can tell you that fewer than five individuals have submitted a service complaint that was upheld.
	So four.
	Of those that were submitted, we won't tell you the number.
	They said that would be a breach of confidence to tell you a number.
	Right.
	I don't know how a number would breach it, but five of them were apparent.
	It's a breach of our confidence.
	Your confidence in us.
	Because when you hear how many digits this number is in, you're going to be furious.
	However, the informed source alleged to Sky News that this included a white male cyberspace communication specialist.
	Not something we need in the modern day.
	Useless and white.
	Why would we want that?
	Well, he's the chap who's going to get a £5,000 payout.
	And the reason that it's £5,000 is because, well, the source claimed that this individual was held back from starting a RAF cyber training course because he was a white man.
	So he missed out on the opportunity to receive a golden hello, a £5,000.
	It meant that he was paid later and unable to advance as fast as his female and ethnic minority counterparts.
	I'd like him to have compensation for emotional damage as well, though.
	Yeah.
	We are regularly told that systemic racism has emotional consequences.
	These end up becoming generational as well.
	So his grandchildren need payments from the RAF for this.
	Reparations and my brother.
	Yes.
	I mean, I'm not joking.
	I'm very serious.
	Yeah, no, screw you.
	You know, we've been over this before.
	I genuinely think there isn't a completely morally correct, on the right side of history, whatever buzzword you want to use, civil rights movement for whites and men in this country.
	Apparently there is now.
	The reason the state ...does these sorts of things is because they want to destroy us.
	That is, by their own ideological superpositions, as we went through with Ghibli Crenshaw.
	I don't know if... I think I might be over-egging it a little bit.
	They just find us totally useless.
	Totally superfluous to requirements.
	And in fact, it'd be better if we just didn't apply at all.
	I'll end this off with something that they seem to have left out, Sky News.
	Don't know why.
	Don't know why they left this out.
	Here's the data of the kind of people who could even apply and those who are in it.
	So I did the math real quick.
	Quick maths.
	77.5% of the UK pop is white and between 18 and 40.
	So roughly military age standard.
	77%.
	And yet, despite that, whites make up an overwhelming higher percentage in literally every part of the armed services.
	I mean, with the Air Force they're, what, 3.5%?
	BAME?
	So even though 77% of the possible people you could recruit are white, 90% of those who apply are white.
	Well, weirdly, people who move to a foreign country aren't necessarily moving there to join their military.
	Strange.
	But that statistic should be treated as a point of pride by the RAF, like high Gurkha representation being higher than the population.
	I mean, for example, Scots usually get a shout-out whenever we talk about the army, because Scots and Celts are over-represented in the army, and we're proud of that.
	We're just like, yeah, great, they love the country, that's fantastic.
	But the idea that the white population loves the army, that is not a point of pride, but instead, F-U-Y-T-U, you deserve nothing, and they would rather just hate us forever.
	And frankly, we should hate the forces back until they are proud of this concept instead of deriding it and discriminating against white applicants.
	It is utterly mind-blowing that the Armed Forces of the United Kingdom would be angry with the native population of the United Kingdom.
	And we have no evidence of direct and systemic discrimination against white applicants.
	And they're making payouts as compensation for this discrimination.
	Get your money, boys.
	Should move on.
	Yeah, okay, well that was just harrowing, but you know, you've got to laugh or cry, don't you?
	So I'm going to laugh.
	But yeah, so I thought we'd talk about Black Ariel, which isn't terribly controversial.
	My queen.
	I don't have any particular investment in Ariel, I don't give a damn.
	But Black Aragon?
	I think not.
	Yeah, I've got some more feelings on that.
	Actually, I've got some much stronger feelings on that.
	And this is something that hit the internet like an absolute whirlwind a couple of days ago.
	I was going to cover it yesterday, but I decided to save it for today, because I thought you might enjoy it more than Peter Boghossian.
	But it's as awful and embarrassing as you'd think, and so I thought we'd go through the arguments for Black Aragon and Black Ariel.
	These are going to be great, aren't they?
	They're going to be brilliant.
	Watertight.
	You are a racist.
	You're going to be told over and over and over.
	Are we out of arguments?
	Is that it?
	Yes, yes.
	You're going to be told a lot that you're a racist, so be prepared for that.
	Anyway, before we begin, the reason this is important is because of the concept of representation.
	Honestly, I can't emphasize enough how proud I am to have done this book club because this is so useful to know.
	What does representation really mean?
	No one ever really explores it.
	And what it means is to make present something that is otherwise absent.
	Bear that in mind as we go through this segment, what is being made present and what is being made absent.
	So let's begin with the Little Mermaid is black and Vox is tired of, and the Lord of the Rings, and they're extremely tired.
	Tired, Callum.
	Disgusting.
	It's like, well then, don't do it.
	Stop promoting it?
	Yeah.
	Leave the left?
	It's not like, it's not like there aren't plenty of, like, black characters.
	Post a YouTube video on Vox.com, why I left the left by the CEO of Vox?
	What, uh, Matty Ingleses?
	I don't know who it is.
	Sufferable.
	But the point is, you knew this was coming, we knew this was coming, this was from 2022, because this has been announced a while back.
	But now the media is out, and everyone's talking about it.
	But they knew, everyone knew, because this is just one of those, like, there are two trenches, you know, there's no man's land between those two trenches, both filled with people with metaphorical guns, and this line is not moving anywhere.
	You know, you run across, you're just gonna get shot down by the other side, it's literally World War I. Awful, right?
	But in media form over blackwashing.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so let's go to the Little Mermaid first, right?
	So look at how this is being jury-rigged.
	It's being actually rigged, right?
	So let's look at the Rotten Tomatoes score.
	It's 100% there.
	95!
	That is nearly, nearly North Korean levels.
	...of wonderfulness that this movie has.
	Now, I'm always a bit suspicious when the critic reviews on the left are 68%.
	I mean, that sounds about reasonable, actually.
	You know, it's a live-action remake of a beloved classic.
	It's probably terrible, right?
	And that's not even before you get into any of the... I just realized that's the wrong way around.
	Why is the audience score so high?
	Well, exactly, right?
	The critics are actually taking quite a clear-eyed view on this.
	They're like, wow, I mean...
	I can't get any lower than a five.
	Well, no, they're actually being relatively critical of it because there have been a bunch of clips that have gone around, which I won't play because of copyright reasons.
	And, oh my God, it looks abominable.
	Is this a Seagull song?
	Yes.
	It's not for me, so I'm not going to be like you, but I'm mad at it.
	It is terrible.
	It looked terrible.
	But look at that audience score.
	That is really, really weird.
	But Jon, can you click on that audience score for me?
	The verified audience.
	Yeah.
	And then you see that verified audience versus all audience.
	Huh.
	So when you pick out 5,000 of the five stars, you get a 95% audience score.
	But when you get the 25,000 audience ratings, it goes down to about 57%, which is a lot less good.
	Weird that, though, isn't it, that they've decided to start actually rigging the ratings.
	And people have been noticing this.
	There's an article talking about it, that literally, like, hang on a second, You're actually screwing with this?
	Cuties.
	100% audience score.
	Everyone loves it.
	100% critic score.
	But isn't that really weird?
	They've got to the point now where they realise that their Rotten Tomatoes rating is damaging the credibility of the movie.
	And so they're like, well, we'll just change it then.
	We will literally just filter out the negative audience reviews.
	How desperate?
	Why not make a good film?
	How much of a bribe do you think Rotten Tomatoes took?
	95% approval card?
	great question why else would you do it yeah really great question uh anyway and so we can look at the trailer that came out a few months back and uh you can see how 95 approval card i don't know what you're talking about well that's because remember the youtube disabled dislikes i I actually don't have the browser extension on mine to show them, so I had to ask John how many dislikes has this got.
	So literally that's what it's for.
	Well, three times as many.
	Literally exactly three times as many.
	1.2 million up, 3.6 million down.
	Maybe we really do live in an almost North Korean-esque way of media these days.
	Yeah, it's crazy, isn't it?
	With Ron Tomyers and YouTube just being like, yeah, there is no dissent.
	Yeah, it's actually crazy.
	And this is actually where we live and how we interact with the media of our own civilization in genuine North Korean fashion.
	There are no dislikes.
	Yeah, there are no dislikes.
	95% approval rating.
	Everyone loves the Dear Leader.
	What are you talking about?
	Exactly.
	Look at it.
	How could you not love it, right?
	And so, the thing is, they understand.
	They've got to the point where they're like, hang on a second.
	We probably shouldn't be having this conversation because engaging in this dialectic is a losing proposition for us, right?
	They've realised it.
	No, literally.
	If you go to the Guardian article next, John.
	This was... Hang on, why are we engaging in this culture war that we're obviously losing?
	I mean, you've never been good at picking them, though.
	Nope.
	I mean, you guys were sitting there being like, well, you know, maybe we should be paedophiles.
	I mean, that was a losing one as well.
	Yep.
	You're still sitting there being like, well, aren't they sexuality?
	Aren't they oppressed?
	Isn't Cuties a good movie?
	But look at Stuart here.
	This film should clearly be ignored, then forgotten forever.
	Ooh, that's a bit racist.
	It is, but also you can tell that he's like, no, no, no, we're not going to win this argument.
	We've got to just... didn't happen.
	Because the right, if dare even say the right in this case, just normal people are just like, this is... what are you doing?
	What is a woman?
	Yeah.
	Why are you ruining these things?
	But there are just like every argument they have these days is a completely losing stepping stone.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Every single one.
	And that's why he's cleverly like, let's just not have it.
	Come on guys, just...
	We all know what happens.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, so this film cost 250 million to make, not including advertising and things like that.
	Who knows how much they spent on advertising.
	But it did break 100 million at the box office on its first weekend of release.
	They're like, yeah, look, mega success.
	And it's like, it's not actually mega success.
	Great.
	I mean, no, no, to get 100 million in America on the first weekend is the metric they use for, like, not a flop, right?
	I think it's actually higher, but... Well, for some films, but no, no, I looked around.
	Depends on what you're spending.
	Yeah, and in total it got 164 million worldwide, so they're like, hmm, popular in America, Not popular in the rest of the world.
	How did the Chinese market take it?
	Really badly.
	Oh.
	Shocked by that.
	The Chinese actually started using AI to make Ariel a different ethnicity.
	The original.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And to close the gap between our eyes.
	I'm not even joking.
	I should have brought it up.
	I didn't think you were going to ask.
	Is that the actress?
	Because I did notice that as well.
	Well, they are fairly widely set, but people are being mean and moving them further apart.
	But anyway, so this was quite interesting because there were some good questions raised by the New York Times.
	Do you want to just read that?
	Disney's live-action remake of The Little Mermaid, with Hayley Bailey starring as Ariel as a diversity cast, sorry, and a diverse cast, reeks of obligation and noble intentions, Wesley Morris writes.
	Joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavour, kink, they're missing.
	Was there meant to be kink?
	I didn't think so.
	Was there kink in the original?
	Not to my knowledge.
	I mean, you know, rule 34.
	It's been a few years since I've watched Little Mermaid, but I do not recall any kink in that children's film.
	Well, I mean, she goes to a clam where she lives, and there's the dungeon.
	You remember that scene?
	Sebastian's in there with his whips.
	I view that as a form of torture and not a form of anything else.
	Ariel didn't.
	But yeah, so the New York Times was genuinely upset there was no kink in this children's film.
	What were they expecting, exactly?
	They literally tell you exactly.
	We want joy, fun, mystery, risk, flavour and kink.
	Well, she was going to have sex with the crab.
	I don't know.
	But anyway, weirdly, there were a few fights that broke out during this film.
	About the lack of kink?
	I don't know!
	But you can see in the middle of the cinema, people with dreadlocks.
	Yeah.
	Fighting?
	Teens and young men.
	Yep.
	Scholars, cyclists.
	Locals.
	Yeah.
	Any other term we can use to avoid... Unemployed people.
	The... details of the situation.
	But for some reason they were having a fight in the theatre.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the film looks bad, but it doesn't look that bad.
	Anyway, moving on.
	Let's go on to the diversity... I wish I was fighting in a children's theatre.
	Come on, what would I be fighting over?
	I like the adults, they're invested in the movie or something.
	It's like you went to a kids show.
	But the thing is though, okay, when you're watching like a Disney film, like one of the animated ones, you can enjoy the film.
	You know, usually the story is actually pretty good.
	But I mean, usually you're there kind of ignoring it and it's there for someone else, you know?
	Sure.
	Not you.
	But yeah, but like a well-told family film will be able to engage both the parents and the kids, right?
	Yeah, yeah, I'm not denying that.
	What I'm denying is that you would go and then be like, Oi, I'm watching Shrek!
	Shut up!
	And start fighting.
	I wouldn't get angry about it if I was like, you know, I went to the Super Mario movie with my son and, you know, I didn't have a fight with any of the other dads in the audience.
	Weirdly.
	Anyway, let's move on to Lord of the Rings because this is explicitly on purpose.
	They're like, Aragon, but black.
	Why?
	To save black people.
	They literally say, quote, Some characters may look different from previous depictions, and that's intentional.
	Oh, come on.
	Fuck.
	Aragon, but let me get out my marker.
	What?
	Asian Gandalf?
	Black Aragon?
	Do you know what's interesting?
	Scroll down, that's Aragon there.
	Scroll down, there he is.
	It's like a Netflix special.
	You know he's a powerful black man because he's wearing all white.
	King of Gondor right now.
	Kang of Gondor, sorry.
	But what's really interesting is that Aragorn could be black.
	And you know the Easterlings?
	You know, they represent Middle Easterners.
	They can be white.
	They're the white ones.
	They're in turbans.
	Yes.
	We're gonna have white men in turbans.
	Yes.
	Well, there's a woman in the card art, but like, they literally race swapped.
	Gondor is black.
	The Easterlings are white.
	What the hell is going on?
	How does this make any sense?
	Right, so, I mean, I feel like I should explain to Magic the Gathering, Wizards of the Coast, that skin colour is dependent on the amount of sun that hits a particular area of the Earth in any given year, which is actually why Europeans have pale skin, because Europe has a remarkably low amount of sun.
	But if you look everywhere else on Earth, people have much darker tones of skin, and you can literally map the tone of a person's skin to the amount of sun that hits the Earth, and you will literally get a rough approximation of racial skin tones across the world.
	But then why is there black people in America when there's also white people, Carl?
	Great question.
	Riddle me that.
	Great question.
	History also has not happened.
	But they say, great works of art, like Lord of the Rings, are only enhanced, only enhanced, by having multiple interpretations of the world.
	Only enhanced.
	No.
	We believe ours will bring joy to many, which it did to me particularly, because I'm not buying this.
	I mean, I love Magic the Gathering, but there's no way.
	I love Tolkien, I love Magic the Gathering, but I'm not spending a penny.
	Is Gandalf Chinese now?
	It looks like it, yeah.
	Did they re-swap his horse like the Netflix guys did?
	Oh yeah, that's another point, isn't it?
	They gave him the black horse in...
	I think it's Beauty and the Beast.
	They race-swapped a horse from being white to black.
	No, it's Little Mermaid.
	Oh, it is Little Mermaid.
	Well, they race-swapped the horse as well.
	Even the horse.
	So, Ron, why?
	What's wrong with you?
	Anyway, this fresh update was a conscious choice made in partnership between Wizards and MEE.
	I don't know who that is, actually.
	Driven by two guided principles.
	Diversity and originality.
	There's nothing original about this.
	Hasn't been done before, though.
	Very original.
	I wonder what colour Sauron is.
	Or Saruman.
	Well, they're all white now, presumably.
	I mean, he literally was Saruman the White.
	Oh, yeah, I know.
	So, anyway.
	I don't know what he was without.
	Saruman of many colours.
	All takes on new connotations when you start putting it through this lens, doesn't it?
	Got tenny-coloured dream coat.
	Turns out, hey, Gandalf!
	In the 2021, do you remember when we did the Tolkien Society?
	Do you remember when we were like, Saruman, we need to talk about this queer character.
	Yeah.
	He's not queer, you freaks.
	I do want to do a re-dub of that scene where they meet each other though, where Gandalf's trying to warn him about stuff, and Gandalf turns up with an overly, like, Chinese accent.
	And Saruman pops down with an overly camp accent.
	Just re-dub it.
	Hate girlfriend, yeah.
	Our hope is that more people will see themselves reflected in the characters, and that players and fans can find immense joy in telling these familiar stories through gameplay.
	Man, do you think that was the response?
	Do you think fans are like, yes, we can see themselves reflected in the game?
	No, of course not.
	Everyone was effing furious about this, and understandably so, because this is them literally saying, look, we are deliberately going to pervert the things you love, and so here's someone who's not Aragorn with Aragorn's sword.
	Which really played into a certain stereotype, didn't it?
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	No, exactly.
	Do you want to share with the class?
	No, I'd better not.
	For propriety's sake.
	If you scroll down on the tweet, just so you can see the quote tweets.
	Quite a lot.
	A thousand quote tweets.
	I mean, there are lots of comments.
	We.
	Was.
	Gondorian.
	This went down like an absolute lead balloon.
	Millions of people saw it.
	A lot of people were very angry about it.
	And I thought we'd go to David Levitt, a journalist.
	He gave some very insightful critiques as to why you're wrong not to appreciate the new Black Aragorn.
	I am an open-minded chap.
	Yep.
	I'm willing to hear it.
	He says, the same racist Nazi effers who complained about the Black Elf in Rings of Power and the Black Mermaid in Little Mermaid are now throwing a fit because of the Black Aragorn in the new Lords of the Rings Magic the Gathering set.
	I effing hate how many racists there are in board game space.
	And then, literally, he's got this gigantic throat.
	If you just want to scroll down through this, I'm just going to summarise a lot of it.
	Racist Nazis losing their mind over Black Aragon.
	I don't like that you're a racist.
	Racist little S. You're a vile racist.
	You're a worthless racist.
	It'd be a shame if Chris Anderson's employer and friends found out he's a racist.
	Imagine being this racist.
	Aragon is a fictional character.
	You're a racist.
	Guess what?
	You're a racist.
	A wild racist just appeared.
	Tired of racists.
	This is a racist.
	Aragon is trending because of racists.
	Only a racist would be upset about racists being called out.
	Aragon is now on the number 10 trend because racists are losing their mind over him being in a car game.
	Blah blah blah blah blah.
	It goes on and on and on.
	Are you convinced?
	I'm not.
	No, no, literally this persuaded zero people.
	Like, it just kept going.
	And you could tell that he'd just been there all afternoon just calling people racist.
	Does he have a job?
	Well, I mean, I assume that is his job.
	So just to be clear, the problem isn't that people hate black people.
	The problem is people like Lord of the Rings.
	And Tolkien was not a fan of adaptations of Lord of the Rings because, of course, he was concerned about verisimilitude.
	How much does it represent and embody the thing that he had written, right?
	And, I mean, we can see in Tolkien's own words.
	If we go to Letter 131 that he had written to Milton here, he literally says that he was simply trying to create what has been interpreted as a mythology for England, because he says all the sort of surrounding cultures, the Irish, the Welsh, the Scots, the Danes, the French, they've all got their own mythologies, but England actually lacks this kind of core mythology.
	And so he wanted to create a romantic story.
	He says, "I had in mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogynic to the level of romantic fairy story, the larger founded on the lesser, in contact with the earth, and the lesser drawing on the splendor from the various back cloths, which I could dedicate simply to England, and the lesser drawing on the splendor from the various back cloths,
	It should possess the tone and quality I desired, somewhat cool and clear, be redolent of our air, the climate and soil of the Northwest, meaning Britain and the hither parts of Europe, not Italy or the Aegean, still less the East, and while possessing, if I could achieve it, the fair elusive beauty that some call Celtic, that is rarely found in genuine ancient Celtic things.
	It should be high, purged of the gross, and fit for the more adult mind of a land long now steeped in poetry.
	I would draw some of the great tales of fullness and leave many only placed in the scheme and sketched.
	The cycle should be linked to a majestic hole and yet leave scope for other minds and hands, wielding paint and music and drama." Couldn't be more crystal clear the place in which this is set, right?
	I mean, it's literally set in the f***ing shire.
	We live in a shire.
	Like, he's literally made this explicitly.
	Zero of them in Africa, it seems.
	Yeah.
	I mean, you can see here, he says there was Greek, Celtic, Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian, and Finnish, but nothing English.
	Literally explicit about it.
	I mean, it did make me think when you were reading that.
	When was the last time they tried to race swap, I don't know, like the Trojan War movies?
	No, they did do a black Achilles.
	Did they actually do a black Achilles?
	Yeah.
	John, can you pull it up?
	No, I'm joking.
	Seriously, John, just Google black Achilles and you'll find them.
	Because that's just as ridiculous, like the mythology of the old world.
	Romulus and Remus, they was Kang's too.
	Oh, they've done Cleopatra.
	Yeah, they've done Cleopatra.
	They really are trying to destroy all mythology.
	Yeah.
	Ever.
	You know, your history is gone.
	It's someone else's history now.
	Whose is it?
	These people we don't even have any reference for because we've made them up.
	There's Black Achilles.
	BBC drama.
	I mean, you never heard about it because no one was interested in it?
	Because it didn't represent the thing they were trying to represent.
	Imagine a Greek seeing this.
	Just thinking, what?
	Do you feel represented, Stelios, in your history and mythology?
	We found an American black man.
	And the thing is, you might be like, well, I mean, did he explicitly say that Aragorn was white?
	It's like, well, I mean, he said it was set in England.
	But yes, he also did say that.
	In the ancient world.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And there's another thing.
	Tolkien wrote this to be, like, a history.
	If we go to the next one, some people just started tweeting, like, literal quotes from Lord of the Rings.
	Pale, stern face.
	Yes.
	A pair of keen grey eyes, dark hair flecked with grey and a pale, stern face.
	Black man.
	Pretty explicit.
	He was a pale black man.
	Yep.
	So I replied to David Levitt and said, look, the problem is there is no such thing as a black Aragon.
	Tolkien describes Aragon as having pale skin, long hair, and I say green eyes, but I meant grey eyes.
	This character does not match the description and is transparently a skin suit for your wacky leftist ideology.
	We won't have it.
	He didn't take that well.
	He carries on arguing with me.
	There is a black Aragon now, Carl, so deal with it.
	No, there's not.
	Not a very well-received tweet.
	In your head, maybe?
	Yeah.
	And then he just carried on arguing.
	And he got to some great arguments.
	Fictional characters set in a fantasy world don't need a scientific explanation.
	We've arrived at the... Why didn't the Hobbits just drive to Mordor in their Bugatti's position?
	Well, there does need to be some canon.
	Yes.
	But it also needs to make some sense, right?
	But, like, literally... In fact, go back to the tweet.
	I probably tweeted underneath that.
	Yeah.
	Why not?
	Doesn't need to make scientific sense.
	You can't accept dragons, elves, and talking trees, but you can't accept a 2021 BMW 5 Series 530i with optimal heated steering.
	Why are you so bigoted?
	That's a pretty good, that's a pretty good post.
	That's a great quote, a great question.
	You know, why not, indeed?
	And the answer is, of course, found in Aristotle.
	I will reference my own writing on this, the Politics of 1004,000.
	Without shame.
	No, no, absolutely.
	I'm very proud of this, actually.
	In his poetics, Aristotle argues that the value of narratives is they are a rhetorical argument about reality.
	So if these things were as the author has premised them, the events would play out as the author is implying.
	And so there does actually need to be a coherent and logical reason for this to occur.
	So Frodo and the other hobbits Roll up to Mordor in a Bugatti or whatever it is in a BMW, that will actually destroy the illusion that I'm making a rhetorical argument about reality because of course that would be illogical and ridiculous.
	That's why, David.
	Just in case you've never read a book.
	Anyway, let's carry on some more weak objections.
	I found some more.
	Actual comment, Aragon's not African.
	No.
	And in fact you say, he's Numenorean.
	Which is a little island off the coast of a fictional effing place.
	But you were good with dragons, elves, dwarves, invisibility, a massive disembodied eye, but the melanin is a bridge too far.
	Uh, yeah.
	Because I don't really think that these people were black.
	Because Tolkien said they weren't black.
	It's a big argument.
	That's more convincing than use racist, I'll be honest.
	I mean, we could go back to David Levitt.
	He's got some thoughts on it.
	The next one.
	The skin tone of the Numenoreans matters exactly to the plot.
	0%, sorry, to the plot.
	They could be polka-dotted and striped for all it matters.
	But it's not about the plot.
	Why would I want to watch a bunch of polka-dotted Numenoreans?
	I mean, it's not exactly going to draw me into the world, is it?
	It would be pretty weird if the original story was about a bunch of Smurfs.
	Yeah, basically, yeah.
	I mean, I couldn't take it as seriously, for one.
	Especially if it just wasn't mentioned.
	They all have blue skin, what do you mean why?
	It's just the way they are.
	It's a mythology for England, what are you asking?
	Duh!
	The thing is, it's not about the plot, it's about how I feel when I'm watching it, and I don't feel that it's convincing.
	And if I'm not brought into the rhetorical argument by the artistic verisimilitude of what is being presented, then I won't enjoy it.
	The next one is, well, on all the galaxy-brained appropriation takes, who is precisely being appropriated from?
	You, from us.
	English mythology.
	Yeah.
	Like, we, us, the English, we're being appropriated from.
	Constantly, apparently.
	It's not even a difficult question, is it?
	No, it's a really interesting question, right?
	And so we get to the, uh, White Wakanda.
	Remind me again, where is Wakanda located?
	Oh right, in Africa, on Earth, based on real peoples.
	No, it's not.
	But even if... Okay, no, no, no.
	Look, no, no, he's right.
	That is... Wakanda is based in Africa.
	Sure, here you go.
	On Earth.
	And the Shire... is based on England!
	On Earth!
	Like, Tolkien says... I mean, there's a reason that the shape of the thing is roughly the shape of the British Isles, right?
	It's meant to be an ancient history of these things.
	I know, it's just the Wakandan thing is kind of... Yeah, I'll let him have it.
	It's a really bad version, because it's not like medieval Africa.
	No, it's modern.
	Instead, it's this thing that never existed in any sense.
	But it's fine, we'll let him have it.
	Because, like, yeah, Wakanda, it's Africa.
	People live in Africa.
	Who lives in Europe?
	Us?
	What do you want?
	Like, it's literally us!
	New Europeans live in Europe, Carl.
	That's the only people who've ever lived in Europe.
	Which is why they're all on TV.
	Anyway, and to top this one off, you'll find that the next James Bond, guess what he's going to be?
	He won't be an Englishman.
	I'm really looking forward to a Pangeet, I'll be honest.
	Indian James Bond?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, that's right.
	Oh, bloody, bloody...
	A friend of mine did actually make a thread.
	I'll see if I can actually read any of them publicly.
	But... No, no, I can't.
	No.
	No, Miss Bond.
	We are not going to fit a roll the dice, as it were.
	It's just... Not much more than those.
	Can't read them.
	I assume that the arch-villain would literally be a racist.
	Presumably.
	He's not like some evil villain who's going to blow up the world or something, or put England in danger.
	He's literally going to be a racist.
	And Black James Bond is gonna... That's the plot.
	I assume it's gonna be Idris Elba.
	How do we destroy racism?
	Yeah.
	Anyway, let's move on.
	Don't you just love entertainment?
	We've gotta send you these, um... Are you not entertained?
	I kind of am entertained.
	Because I'm not going to spend a penny on any of this crap.
	I'm literally just going to be nice to them on Twitter.
	Because I am a very nice tweeter these days, and I just calmly respond with, no, this is just wrong, and you're wrong.
	Drank.
	Grape drank.
	Gallon jug.
	Not carton.
	No.
	Can't remember where we were.
	Elon Musk's done a weird one.
	He's freaking everyone out.
	And there are some theories as to why.
	Yeah, what's going on Elon?
	So what's happened is he's decided to censor the Daily Wire's What Is Woman documentary.
	Even when made aware that the censoring was taking place, he then seemed to back it.
	And is now saying he's not.
	It's all a bit weird.
	But of all of the things to censor, like, we've watched What Is Woman.
	It's really normal?
	Yeah.
	It's not some sort of anti-trans screed that calls them all sorts of names.
	There are no American History X scenes?
	Nope.
	No?
	Nothing like that?
	There's not a single slur as far as I can remember.
	No?
	It's a man talking to academics who can't answer his questions.
	Literally asking them, what is a woman?
	Why is that the case?
	But we'll go through something on LotusEast.com first, being Susan Wojcicki explaining why she ruined YouTube.
	Thanks, Susan.
	And I'm a little bit worried about if Elon Musk does that because Susan didn't ruin it because she was an ideological actor who decided the leftism now.
	Didn't she?
	No, she ruined it because she had fifis and decided mafifis matter more than the users.
	Specifically, there was the shootings in Paris and she decided that everyone must now learn about the... It's YouTube's job Yeah, so that was the moment in which he changed, not because she had any ideological thoughts, but instead, everyone must know about this news because I care about it.
	And when everyone told her, no one cares, she said, I don't care, show them anyway.
	And that's the starting point of, as she calls it, responsibility at YouTube, which then led down the rabbit hole of destroying everything that we used to.
	But we'll go to the news, because the Daily Wire guys decided to put this out.
	See Jeremy Borg here.
	Twitter cancelled a deal with Daily Wire to premiere What Is A Woman for free on the platform because of two instances of misgendering.
	Do you not remember, explicitly, when Elon Musk took over, he explicitly removed the misgendering clause from the Terms of Service?
	He did.
	But he was very public about it.
	What was it, the, uh, Babylon Bee?
	Yeah.
	The only reason they were kids.
	Who'd been banned for misgendering, yeah.
	He brought them back immediately, because they're good friends, and would speak to them saying, that won't happen again.
	Yeah.
	Here we are.
	Like literally, what, six months?
	Yeah.
	He says, I'm not kidding, and there was a big thread of deets where he's talking about the fact they went back and forth with the Twitter guys.
	It wasn't just a one-off thing.
	They were going to pay some money so they could premiere it and advertise it to loads of people because, you know, Daily Wild's a business.
	Business ideas.
	Yeah, fair, fair.
	And, well, Twitter decided that it was all fine until they watched the thing and then decided that because there was two instances of misgendering, one from a man who had lost his daughter to his ex-wife, who insisted that his daughter was a son now, What's going on with my eyes?
	There's something very sensitive.
	You've probably got an eyelash or something.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Something grim.
	I'm just very upset about the misgendering.
	So that one father who had his son taken, his daughter taken from him.
	Thank God Matt Walsh has been stopped.
	And it wasn't even Matt Walsh in this.
	And then there was one other where this guy has a crazy person come into his store and scream at him, IT'S MAM!
	Yeah, yes.
	And there's an interview with him where he just goes, I don't believe it, I'm 60, I'm gonna die soon.
	Not wasting my time.
	Yeah.
	So that's the other instance that they objected to at Twitter.com.
	So they gave them an opportunity to delete that from the movie.
	Just censor your movie, bro.
	The idea they even had the balls to ask that, I think is noteworthy.
	Yeah, yeah, I think it is.
	And of course, the Daily Wave went, no.
	I thought Elon Musk had cleared out a bunch of you lunatics.
	Yeah, what are you still doing here?
	Yeah.
	How are you in charge of anything?
	Get out.
	So, um, yeah, that happened, which was a bit odd.
	If you go to the next link here, you can see Twitter removed the TOS saying misgendering was a crime against humanity.
	But they still have it under harassment, apparently.
	Oh.
	So if you misgender someone, that's under the harassment TOS, in fact.
	Oh.
	Which doesn't make sense.
	So I would have thought it would have ended there and then you'd be like well you guys remember that Elon guy who took over blah blah blah Jeremy could have said to them yeah and they might have recalled oh yeah oh yeah oh forgot I forgot that we're not leftists now I forgot that literally there's, you know, two-thirds of the building is empty because of Elon Musk.
	I wonder where all those people were going.
	I thought it was lunch.
	They just never came back.
	No, that didn't happen.
	Instead, they said they'll censor what's been put out, and they say it's part of their speech not reach policy.
	Oh.
	And Boring says it's a bit like saying you have the right to cast a vote, but we'll make sure it isn't counted.
	Which is entirely correct.
	It's an apt simile there.
	So if we go to, uh, the king woke up and was made aware of what had happened.
	So put out a statement and he decided to put this out.
	This was a mistake by many people at Twitter.
	How many?
	What are their names?
	How many people made this mistake at Twitter?
	Where do they live?
	I'm joking.
	When you say many, are we talking like a dozen?
	A hundred?
	I mean, how many staff do you even have left?
	You got rid of 85% of them.
	I think there's got like 2000, 3000 perhaps.
	It's definitely allowed, the king says.
	Right, okay.
	Lord Musk has spoken.
	Whether or not you agree with using someone's preferred pronouns, not doing so is at most rude.
	It certainly doesn't break any laws.
	Totally agree.
	I should note that I don't.
	I think it's not rude to do it, but I should... different views.
	No, I think he's right.
	I think it is rude to do it.
	I disagree.
	I should note that I do personally use someone's preferred pronouns, just as I use someone's preferred name, simply from the standpoint of good manners.
	That's reasonable.
	However, for the same reason, I object to rude behaviour, ostracism, or threats of violence if the wrong pronoun or name is used.
	Totally reasonable, middle-of-the-way, compromised position.
	Like, I disagree with one line, but that doesn't matter.
	Everyone could live kumbaya with that situation.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Literally, that allows everyone to use the platform as they want.
	So everyone saw the King's Speech and thought, Well, OK, I'll be fine then.
	Jeremy went back to the lads at Twitter and said, OK, well, the King has spoken, what do we do?
	And they said, well, he hasn't told us to do anything, so we're not doing anything.
	Which, so I mean, the people at Twitter... Is that not an instruction?
	I would have thought, yeah, your boss would have been the thing you listen to.
	But then why doesn't he just fire them off an email?
	Yeah.
	So they released it anyway, as you can see here.
	They just published it without the agreement to pay for the advertising, whatever.
	And they said, well, that was fast.
	Even after Elon Musk says Twitter's threat to label what is woman hateful conduct wasn't going to happen, it did happen.
	They did label it hateful conduct and enthralled the film's reach.
	So, great.
	That's fantastic.
	Because that's the thing, isn't it?
	If you scroll down on this, Can you see that?
	Yeah, visibility limited.
	So you literally can't like, retweet or reply to it.
	Not even his own followers could see it, which was super weird.
	This is like the most heavily censored that you could be without being deleted.
	You used to wear a lot longer than me.
	I've never seen that before.
	No, I've never seen that.
	Never seen limited visibility on anything.
	I mean, a lot might have happened in the five years that I wasn't on it.
	Yeah, maybe.
	So they say on here, in the next one, our film has been posted for a couple of hours.
	You cannot retweet it.
	It will not appear on anyone's feed.
	It has been flagged as hate speech.
	It will be blacklisted from the trends list.
	It still has 900,000 views.
	Okay, that's great.
	That is hilarious.
	Yeah, but why is this happening?
	Yeah.
	If we go to it being released, and we'll take a look at what that looks like, if you go to the next link.
	So you can see here, DailyWire published it.
	This has 1.7 million views last I checked, 1.6 million followers at the DailyWire, and then the various other accounts of the hosts who presumably shared it.
	That is pretty good Streisand effect, which we'll get to in a bit.
	Yeah, but we shouldn't have to rely on the Streisand effect to publish things on Twitter.
	Shouldn't be having this conversation at all.
	It's weird that we're having this conversation.
	So the Daily Wire, if the next tweet had a bit of a meeting, where they're quite miffed, as Peterson points here, everyone's kind of just sat around being like, what the heck?
	I like the idea that Michael Knowles is trolling Matt Walsh on his phone.
	That's kind of what it looks like is happening, doesn't it?
	Guess who?
	Michael, I have you in my contacts.
	She's sending out dick pics.
	I just reach out and be like, oh, stranger sending you those.
	The main thing is, no one knows what the rules are now.
	Which is pretty mad.
	Because we knew what they were, presumably, when the king took over.
	Which is the king decreed, none of that.
	None of that leftism.
	And now a bit of that leftism.
	Why?
	It's very strange.
	Especially when he said, no, this is allowed.
	Well, OK, well then unrestrict the video.
	And then the whole problem goes away.
	Everything carries on as normal.
	I mean, as we thought, you're in charge, right?
	Yeah.
	Is he someone else?
	You did literally buy the company and make yourself the only person in charge of it.
	I mean, I've wasted money in my life occasionally.
	I've brought things I don't need.
	Who hasn't?
	$40 billion.
	It would be pretty weird to go back on it, is what I'm saying.
	So, if you go to the next one here, we can see the fact that Elon insists that it's because it's sensitive content.
	Ooh, that's... Hang on a second.
	What?
	So, A, it's not very sensitive content.
	Like, there are way more sensitive things you could have published regarding the question of what is a woman.
	Skin grafts.
	Yeah.
	Surgery.
	Furs.
	More videos.
	There's none of that in there.
	You still see those on Twitter.
	They're not label-sensitive.
	Yeah, I know.
	I see them all the time.
	Yeah.
	Which is weird.
	But then to say that what is a woman and they're misgendered, that is, this doesn't make any sense obviously.
	Yeah.
	I mean this is weird weird thing for him to tweet here where he's like wow it's because it's sensitive content so you won't be able to have people see it or friends like it because of that reason.
	Yeah it's not not terribly sensitive.
	And then something else weird happened that you alerted me to.
	A couple of SJWs left immediately after this news.
	Yeah.
	This, um, odd.
	You can see here from Reuters, Twitter's head of trust and safety says that she has resigned.
	Well, June 1st, Reuters, Twitter's head of trust and safety, Ella Irwin, told Reuters on Thursday that she has resigned from the social media company, which has faced criticism for its lack of protections before harmful content since billionaire Elon Musk took over.
	I mean, it's...
	That's one way of describing Twitter.
	You could describe Twitter as has been booming since Elon Musk has taken over.
	Yeah, you can see the editorializing.
	You know, why include that particular detail?
	Who cares about that?
	The servitors are the media.
	That's how they write.
	I'm just going to call them servitors at this point, the individuals who do this sort of thing, because they're not human in the way that they write these things.
	Honestly, they've probably got Chad GPT to write this.
	I mean, if you're not convinced, the next one is.
	An email to Twitter returns an automatic reply of a poop emoji.
	As if anyone doesn't know why.
	Yeah, because the media is... It's not like Elon set that up and then tweeted it and it got 100 million views and everyone... No, you're pretending you don't know.
	Erwin declined further comment and Musk did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
	I just hate the media.
	I just hate the media.
	I hate the media.
	Actually, there's a schizoid posting at this point about it.
	So Fortune earlier reported that Erwin's internal Slack account appeared to have been deactivated.
	No, really.
	This is very interesting.
	This is an average resignation.
	So this is nuanced to this because turns out this person's, you know, head of trust and safety, not even a position that should exist.
	Yeah.
	That was an SOW position.
	The job should be redundant.
	But the advertisers themselves are demanding that something like that exists.
	Well, it's almost like we have a Twitter Brandon safety position as well for that.
	Yeah, go on.
	So if you go to the next one, there's more of that.
	But I just found it interesting that her Slack account was deactivated.
	Then this happens, then she leaves.
	Yeah.
	It's almost like they didn't trust her or something.
	Well, it's almost like she's an SJW, though.
	Yeah, I mean, Elon came out and then said that it'll be solved by tomorrow, but there'll still be some restrictions.
	But there's no problem.
	The problem is that it was restricted manually by someone at Twitter.
	But also, how is that solving anything?
	Well, it's not, but that was the problem.
	The fact that there are people who can see it is not the problem.
	The fact that people can't see it is the problem.
	Yeah, so let me go to the next one, because the Twitter brand safety position also resigned.
	Which you can see here, this lady.
	Oh yeah.
	What's her bio look like?
	The pronouns?
	Fairly normal, to be honest.
	I didn't really suspect anything.
	And then I saw all the responses to her resignation, which were all calling her a commie and saying good riddance.
	Well, yes, but... From people that seem to know her.
	Really?
	But people can be unkind.
	They can be.
	And uncharitable.
	If we go to the next one here, I mean, the account's hidden so we can't find that much, but you can see this person responding, you know, about ex-Muslims and Muslim voices.
	Right.
	I don't know.
	If we go to the next one here, someone did get a lot of her screenshots where she's just constantly whining about white people.
	Oh, really?
	That's a shock.
	White woman constantly whining about white people.
	Oh, Ayed, right, she's Middle Eastern, right?
	Yeah.
	Ah, right, okay, she's Muslim.
	There's a Muslim whining about the whiteys.
	Who knew that anti-white people might be still on Twitter?
	Well, now we have them.
	I mean, that's the thing.
	Not anymore, I guess.
	You may remember I said, you know, the problem with taking over an organisation is actually you may purge too many people.
	and then lose little bits of knowledge.
	Trust me, you haven't purged enough.
	If you purge too few, that's easily corrected.
	That's true.
	That's the defence.
	And wow, these two people are now gone.
	Strange.
	And that's what's the weirdness about this story, because we don't know how related this is.
	These two people and whoever other needs to be purged, obviously, because what human being was making that decision that what is a woman is some kind of Nazi content?
	Ironically, the Muslims have a very clear definition of men and women as well.
	Yeah.
	So does Elon Musk.
	He seems to though.
	Yep.
	Here is just him talking about the fact that he is going to be actively lobbying to criminalise, well, transitioning kids.
	Great.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm totally in support.
	Yeah, but that doesn't mesh with the idea that you think what is a woman is sensitive content that needs to be censored.
	Yeah.
	Doesn't make any sense.
	It's very strange.
	In fact, the next tweet is him talking about that there's only two sexes.
	If you scroll up on that, just see the context where it's, you know, The San Francisco Chronicle arguing there's more than two sexes and someone saying this idea is so stupid only intellectuals believe them and he's agreeing.
	Okay.
	So that doesn't make any sense.
	How can you obviously hold the position of the normal people and yet in a company be censoring that stuff?
	I can only assume it's that the advertisers must have a gun to his head.
	Yeah, I mean we were speaking this morning because I was walking in just racking my head being like, is the new CEO he appointed, is she a leftist and he can't be bothered to get rid of her?
	Maybe.
	She might be like filtering the quote-unquote concerns of advertisers.
	I mean, I doubt it, because he just gets tagged directly when this happens.
	But even then, BenchPyramid made a great point, which is this makes no sense, even if it's the advertisers.
	Because what you do then is you limit the advertisers.
	Yeah.
	You don't limit the users.
	Don't put an advert on the video.
	You say to the advertisers, OK, you don't want to advertise on certain stuff.
	You're a, you know, soy jack.
	Totally entitled to do that.
	Advertiser.
	Yeah, but you're totally entitled to say that.
	Yeah, I mean, but advertisers are generally just soy jack human beings by looking at them.
	But if they don't want to, fine.
	Yeah, that's totally fine.
	But we won't put it on these posts and that person can still post and you can advertise your crap and everyone's happy, everyone wins.
	Yeah.
	You can go home and cry to your wife about how people online disagree with you.
	It's fine.
	But instead he did the opposite, which is he limited the users there.
	Yeah.
	Which is wrong.
	But real quick, because I mentioned I'd never seen those limited features, I did go looking for them and I found a few posts which reached that, or at least had this done to them.
	This person here talking about how they hate Pride Month and Christ is King.
	They did use the dreaded T word in there.
	So I can only presume that's the reason this was later labelled as hateful conduct and therefore had limited visibility.
	disagree that this is what they should be doing, but whatever.
	Yeah, I mean, I don't agree, but like...
	At least I can follow the logic instead of it making no logic.
	The T word is something they consider to be a slur.
	Fair enough.
	And if you go to the next one, I mean, someone didn't use the N word, but it was close enough, I guess, that it got tagged here.
	This person here saying, just complete random, what is with the Asian e-girls wanting to say the n-word except he's using a three instead of an e?
	Smart.
	That's how you don't get done.
	No, not that smart, because the AI is like, I'm not stupid, bro.
	I'm not drugged up.
	I know how the word works.
	You're going to have to call them scholars or something.
	And then the last one here is someone using the f-word.
	This is a homosexual individual, I presume.
	So type out happy f-month to all my fellow f's.
	and then got hit with the limited visibility on that one too.
	This doesn't make any sense to me for the reason I'm about to mention which is how can you say that's hateful or sensitive conduct because there's a slur in it and yet if you go to the next account don't scroll down because there's gonna be a lot of videos of African American gentlemen is how I'm going to put that and police footage of shootings and what else I just find it funny how... This is not sensitive at all.
	I spent an evening just scrolling through this account, because it was kind of mesmerising in that horrific way, of just loads of African-American gentlemen being shot by the police, or shooting each other, or fighting each other for no reason.
	Don't know why it was just them, but that's the footage we'd have.
	Watching the screaming of the little mermaid.
	Yeah.
	That was actually in there.
	At Hood Fights 4L.
	How did I know?
	Yeah, but for some reason, none of that content in American culture is considered sensitive, I mean, I just want a label on that for a minute.
	American culture is just something beautiful.
	Did you see the footage of the Glasgow machete attack?
	That was going around.
	No, I haven't actually.
	That's awful.
	It's really awful.
	In this country, you can imagine the Met Police writing a letter to YouTube or whoever saying, take that down.
	But nobody had.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	It was just going around and I was just like, oh my God.
	But they will.
	I mean, it is part of our culture that the police are namby-pamby about footage and will continuously try and destroy it off the internet.
	Whereas American culture will just be like, hey, kid, you want to see some more police shootings?
	You can.
	And that's considered perfectly normal.
	Whereas, oh, no.
	You offended a minority?
	Take him down, son!
	Not even offended a minority.
	You blasphemed against woke ideology.
	Yeah.
	Right, that's what that is.
	You used a word that blasphemes... Because, I mean, like, one of the... The guy who was using the F-word was obviously a gay guy who was just memeing, right?
	You know, with the, like, you know... Too bad.
	You there, gay boy, what day is it?
	You know, it's like... You know, he was just memeing on the fact that he's gay, which I personally don't have a care in the world about, but...
	Apparently Twitter's like, no, no, no.
	Well, there's a theory as to why this might have taken place, at least from Elon, because he did a bunch of weird tweets.
	So the next one is just him talking about the Streisand effect in relation to all this, which is... Okay, but... This is a weird big brain of 4D Chess moment of censor the What is a Woman movie so it gets more people looking at it.
	So now all we can talk about is the What is a Woman movie.
	I mean, he's right, we are talking about it.
	Yeah, so... I mean, if this is 4D Chess, funny.
	I'd rather have just been able to watch it.
	Yeah, I'd rather he'd just been able to pay you a lot of money in advertising revenue.
	Yeah.
	Because they were going to pay you anyway!
	Free money on the table.
	The next one is him talking about how the controversy will drive up viewership.
	Yeah, possibly, but why is there a controversy?
	He also, the last one here, is him laughing about baiting remaining SJWs at work out of the company.
	I mean, don't get me wrong, that's a good idea.
	Maybe the censoring of this is to check who agrees with it and then just be like, fine, fine, fine.
	I don't know.
	I mean, I kind of feel like I'm coping for Elon if I say that.
	A little bit, yeah.
	So I don't really believe it.
	If you go to the next one here, we also have the fact that he did do interviews with the Babylon Bee, we may remember, and which he mentions in here actually, which is quite weird, that there are a bunch of SGWs still within the company that we need to get rid of.
	I don't want to be won back over with this, but it's not beyond possibility that this is a big brain 4D chess move because he has done stuff like this before.
	Remember the bot thing?
	Where he's like, ah, should I buy Twitter?
	And then just banned everyone?
	Yeah.
	And when he sent emails with the Tywin Lannister sort of different formatting and caught the person who was leaking the emails through the different formatting.
	So it's not like he isn't clever and hasn't done these sorts of things before.
	He's a smart and mischievous fellow.
	Yes.
	I mean, he literally says on here that there's a bunch of SGWs to still be got.
	And he says, today we found a list of suppressed websites.
	Oh, really?
	We're still digging, finding stuff.
	Yeah.
	In that case, you know, Babylon Bee was on there, Bitchute's on there.
	Still haven't got rid of Bitchute.
	They need to.
	Sad they haven't.
	Yeah.
	Probably just doesn't know what it is.
	It's just interesting that actually maybe there is, but I mean, I don't, but as soon as you say it, it sounds like coping.
	I don't want to say it.
	Yeah.
	I don't want to be the coping guy.
	Yeah.
	I saw Jack crying!
	The evidence is there that he's said these things, so we'll see what happens.
	And it's not beyond the realm of possibility, but I'd like to see a bit more hard evidence.
	And then he came out just this morning and wrote this, we'll be fixed tomorrow, talking about that it's still being censored, Matt Walsh.
	And the next one I think he's responding to was Ben Shapiro, or whoever, and he's just saying, working on it, it will be fixed.
	If you scroll up, then you can see who's responding to that.
	It's Jordan Peterson.
	Well, you know, all day long, I guess.
	And the last thing here is just, um, of note about all this drama, which has nothing to do with Elon Musk, just, Candace, stop.
	I don't know why this keeps happening.
	What's she done here?
	Just, just, she keeps getting involved in things just for no reason.
	Like, here's an unauthorized screenshot, she says, couldn't help myself, of everyone talking about the, um, what is the woman being censored?
	And then her boss, Jeremy Borey, just being like, what part of NDA is so hard to understand?
	That's quite a good response from Jeremy, actually.
	But it's just not the first time either, I've seen her just get into, like, fights for no reason.
	You can see Candace's argument, it's like, well, this doesn't matter, I didn't reveal any information, this is just fun.
	No, I'm not having a go at her.
	No, no, exactly, and so you can see Jeremy's response, just like... I just find it funny where you can sense a bit of, oh, for fuck's sake!
	Every time.
	So, there's that.
	But anyway, what the heck Elon?
	I suppose we'll find out.
	Well, you are getting an update from John here in live time.
	Do you want to pull up the thing?
	A piece of text.
	Elon Musk has retweeted the movie itself, saying they've fixed it and added two links.
	And he's also retweeted it saying every parent should watch this movie.
	Right, okay.
	So, it's now, is it shareable now?
	Yeah, right, okay.
	I presume so.
	And 8.9 million views, that's not bad.
	Is that part of the harassment in terms of service gone?
	It better be.
	I guess we'll find out.
	Right, okay.
	So, in the time we've been on the podcast, this seems to have become fixed now.
	So, is the coping narrative looking true or falser?
	Don't know.
	Do I cope?
	Do I not cope?
	Yeah, exactly!
	Has Elon played a blinder or has he just been caught out?
	I don't know.
	But anyway, thought I'd tell everyone about it because it's real weird and I'm hoping that doesn't escalate or become a norm because that is the thing that destroyed YouTube.
	I mean, Susan Wojcicki did start out as just a naive fool who wanted to tell everyone about the Paris terror attacks.
	Yeah, and now everyone hates YouTube.
	As soon as you start sitting around and you're not explicitly right-wing, as that law states, I can't remember his name now.
	Conquest law.
	Conquest law.
	If an organisation's not explicitly right-wing, they'll become left-wing.
	I can't remember which one it is.
	One of his three laws of politics.
	If you sit around and think, oh, we have a responsibility to the community, you will end up down the rabbit hole because that's where leftist thought is very strong at coercing people into doing their bidding.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	So I always hear from the left that somehow if we have a giant population we're going to have more innovation and a better economy, which is obviously shown out by history because obviously the Indians, Chinese, Japanese took over the world because of their giant populations compared to everyone else back then, right?
	Right?
	One of Druk's memes here.
	Looking forward to the slums.
	Community will be unavoidable.
	Because you'll literally be living so close to other people.
	Also, to take the chap's point, just massive tech industry in those slums, I'm sure.
	Yeah.
	Everyone there.
	Rocket scientists, you know, geniuses.
	I am so, so sick of just hearing people being like, more population equals world more good.
	I hate it.
	Why is everyone leaving India then?
	Yeah.
	So it's heaven on earth.
	Dr. Boghossian, thank you for taking the time to enrich us with your presence.
	In your estimation, what defense can liberalism offer to fight off the violent hordes it has unleashed upon our nations?
	What broadly understandable limiting principle differentiates something like racial equality from equality of outcomes and intersectionalism?
	And knowing what we know now, do you think we need to rethink liberalism?
	John, do us a favour, put Alex's comment in the shared drive, and I'll tweet that at Peter.
	I was going to say, a bit out of date otherwise.
	Well, he was only on yesterday, wasn't he?
	You want to do a voice?
	Pretend to be him?
	No, because he hasn't got a very distinguishable accent.
	No, it wouldn't really work either.
	It's not like Jordan Peterson or something.
	Which I can't do anyway.
	Did you see Nick Dixon's Jordan?
	Yeah, it was really good.
	Did it on stage.
	It was very kind as well.
	Damon says, always good when Carl and Callum are on.
	No other duo can quite make you laugh so hard when discussing the collapse of our society.
	Yeah.
	I've noticed that.
	We usually come up with the worst stories and still end up having fun.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, I'm having fun, but like... It's sad that you cry, man.
	HR Slave says... No one else is full clowning at this point.
	Yeah.
	As a former recruiter for Rolls-Royce, I can confirm the anti-white discrimination doesn't just apply to people flying the planes, but the people designing and building them as well.
	Brilliant!
	Oh, that's great.
	That's just great.
	I love affirmative action in, I don't know, aeroplane engines?
	That's so good!
	So this ejector seat?
	Oh, yeah.
	I just... Well, no, just Rolls-Royce make commercial airline airs.
	You've heard about that as well, with commercial pilots?
	What?
	I mean, they want all black women cockpits.
	Yeah, well, I mean, I don't know about you, I do get on the plane and just sort of listen to the voice and go, Why...?
	Is that Shaniqua?
	Oh no, it's Frank, thank God.
	Yeah, yeah.
	America's in Auspice Care says, So let's make minorities look even worse by creating a program in which no pre-qualification entry exam is required for a career path, resulting in higher costs for training due to higher failure re-attempt fail rates, leading to higher washout rates, leading to higher numbers of minorities unable to pursue the career path, which only makes minorities look statistically bad, increasing higher rates of racially which only makes minorities look statistically bad, increasing higher rates of racially charged political anger, further Marx approves.
	To be honest with you, Marx probably would be like, no, that's ridiculous what you're doing.
	You know, Marx is wrong and bad on a lot of things, but like, even he would be like, well, no, don't do that.
	We don't want the plane just dropping out of the air.
	I'm going to get on that when I flee Germany or wherever I'm fleeing from.
	But to be fair, do you know the Soviet Union did this?
	Oh, probably.
	So I was chatting to a fellow in Russia who was actually, he was sat there, he was laughing at us, being like, I can't believe you guys are doing the Fourth Affection in the West.
	And I was like, oh yeah, you know, it's silly and whatnot.
	He says, no, I can't believe it because we did it.
	Yeah.
	And believe me, when your trains just start crashing, Well, he said that his grandfather, for example, because he was Russian, he was kicked out from the university placement.
	He wasn't taken through.
	And instead some ethnic minorities were.
	Because, of course, the Russian Federation.
	They want diversity and inclusion.
	They have to have diversity and inclusion for the people from Dagestan, Chechens and everyone else that you can't even remember because it's such a big place.
	And yeah, it didn't work.
	So they got rid of it in modern day Russia.
	As soon as they got rid of the Soviet Union.
	Good thinking.
	Occasionally, apparently, a leftist will bring it up and then everyone just looks at them and goes, are you retarded?
	We're not the West.
	We're not the West or the Soviet Union anymore.
	But that's the thing, isn't it?
	We are arriving in genuinely Soviet times.
	Yeah.
	I mean, the people who live through it, the point of asking it, why?
	Yeah.
	Tim says, I survived France.
	Woo, well done.
	With work, we regularly have trips through RAF Bryce Norton Air Base.
	I shall endeavour to keep to the rules.
	We are talked about on the Gold Tier Corps.
	However, I intend to ask them about Dye there.
	I'm so going to be fired.
	Can't wait.
	Well, don't get fired.
	Just be polite and ask polite questions, like you said you would.
	Do you fire people for being white?
	Just ask that.
	I mean, they literally probably do.
	No, they're French, they're not white, so.
	Oh, no, no, he's back from France.
	AC says, the RAF is hamstringing itself, lowering the overall quality by chasing diversity quotas.
	It's a shame there isn't a good analogy for anyone else, for anything else.
	Nope, I can't think of anything.
	Yeah, it's mental.
	Sophie says, women shouldn't even be on the front line.
	Yes, I know what I said.
	Women should not fight as they would drag everyone else down and put the men's life in danger, and that's what the Israelis are.
	I don't care about all the egotistical feminist power fantasies.
	Women do not belong on the front line.
	Yeah, I agree with that.
	Yeah, me too.
	The Unbreakable Lithony says, I have a solution against discrimination in the armed forces.
	National service.
	Every man or woman at the age of 16 serve or be expelled from the isles.
	Possibly, but definitely not on the front lines for the women.
	We're still going to have to press gang the browns to feed the quotas, even if we do national service though.
	Because they need long term fighter pilots and without brown people, the plane just crashes.
	Good point.
	The French people says England is no longer worth defending.
	Yeah, I agree.
	I've written an article today just about like my experiences.
	I'm just going to call it the decline.
	I mean, imagine being Slovak and drafted into the Austro-Hungarian army.
	What, you want me to go die?
	For this.
	Yeah.
	Soupcan Harry says, I don't know if you're aware, but the new woke model army of the USA, they have a major problem with recruitment and have over 80,000 vacancies they're unable to fill.
	At least that's what they said in the latest Senate Defense Committee.
	Yeah, but we have a massive problem recruiting for our army as well.
	We're constantly, literally thousands of men on demand.
	Why would you volunteer to fight for this place?
	Also because our advertising, people who do the advertising, CAPTA, and they specifically try and target all the ads at increasing diversity, which doesn't pay off weirdly.
	No.
	And it also just makes the native population resentful, fails to accrue the number of recruits you're actually looking for, and just generally weakens Britain overall.
	Do you remember that advert they made where they had a British soldier being Muslim?
	Oh, and he was praying to Mecca.
	The whole patrol stops.
	They stop doing their job so he can do his prayers.
	Obviously, no.
	It doesn't happen.
	Didn't result in any recruits.
	Remember when more Muslims joined ISIS than the British Army?
	Yeah, I think it was about the same time that advert was made.
	CaliforniaRefugee says, Dear UK, please stop using our weird American race politics.
	It makes you look dumb.
	Oh, don't we know it.
	Don't we know it, bro.
	Just, God, I just wish.
	This is our retardation.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Interestingly, Colin says, I was watching Simon Webb's video about the RAF.
	I gather that they would rather have useless female and Bane pilots now instead.
	I find this personally a bit annoying because my late father did his national service in that service.
	Also, I would have thought that the military service especially should not be interested in equity rather than ability, perhaps even actual elitism.
	You would think.
	I would think.
	Be the best?
	Do you remember that saying?
	I remember.
	Well, yeah, that's the thing.
	It used to be a prestigious thing to, you know, join the armed forces because they literally were like, we're going to be amazing.
	Literally, their slogan was be the best.
	We don't have much money, so we have to be the best in the world.
	Yeah.
	And outside the Yanks all wear money.
	Which is literally all of British and English history when it comes to the military.
	We just don't have enough map power.
	It's also something we prided ourselves on, even after the collapse of the Empire.
	You're like, you know, Delta Force may have this, this, this, but the SCS is way better.
	Yeah, and we used to wax them in training operations and stuff like that.
	And it's just like, not anymore.
	It really breaks my heart to be honest, but anyway.
	Henry says... Very funny.
	Kyle says... Also black activists.
	continues the trend of replacing redheads and ginger female characters with black ones are also all the casting directors dyslexic racists or something very funny kyle says black activists white people have no culture also black activists hey have you got any more white characters to steal that's a great question - What?
	Whose culture are you appropriating if we don't have any culture?
	Biggie Bigfoot says, Black Mulan when?
	No, Black Tarzan when?
	That's the real question.
	When do we get a Black Tarzan?
	We need representation!
	when I say we I mean the racist community just come on Disney Just show us you've got some balls.
	You know, you take that even further.
	You change all the animals to just be white men.
	And then you have a Black Tarzan.
	Is that too far?
	I think that's too far.
	Whereas Black Tarzan is reasonable demand from Disney.
	They'll actually publish that.
	Well, what's their argument not?
	Fair point.
	What's their argument?
	Kevin says... I think it's going to be Idris Elba.
	Yeah, probably.
	And to be honest, he's not a bad choice, actually.
	I want a Panjit.
	I want an Indian man to be 007.
	I just think it'd be the funniest thing in the world.
	There's a film called Bahubali or something?
	You've seen it, right?
	Is it the... It's the one, it's the crazy one where they're like, you know, it's an Indian epic that's being told and they're flying through the air and... It's mental.
	It's brilliant, by the way.
	But that's what I want the new James Bond to be.
	Because I'd actually go and watch that.
	That sounds great.
	With those stupid a million jump cuts?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And the CGI that he has on the Capitabult and selves over the castle walls and stuff.
	And throwing balls in the air and stuff like that.
	That sounds great.
	Sorry, but in 2050...
	It's not James Bond, but I'd enjoy it.
	In English class, they're going to be teaching the kids about James Bond as English cinema.
	And there'll be the classic era, and then the Bollywood era.
	I like the idea of the Bollywood era of James Bond.
	But I'd enjoy that.
	That's quite fun.
	Cain and Gleir says...
	It's telling that Tolkien's famous quote about evil being unable to create and only corrupt is being shadow-bound on Facebook and Instagram.
	They are purposely trying to silence this point because they know it's true.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	It's literally one of those, you can't say that because it's devastating to my case.
	Tolkien knew it.
	Everyone knows it.
	Everyone can see what's going on.
	You're just literally being cynical.
	I mean, they're genuinely taking L's on this, which is good.
	What?
	I was just imagining that the female attraction of the movie is... I've got a message from Jammy Bondi over here.
	So what is it?
	So Bob and Virginia?
	Hello?
	I can't do accents at all.
	I find gutting actually hilarious.
	The letter M is for magnifying glass.
	New search function.
	Why is nobody turning it on these idiots and giving the good old, why do you care enough to change their race?
	If it doesn't matter, why bother?
	Because they're the ones in the position of executive power.
	So they're like, literally, we're going to do it and we don't care.
	And we're doing it on purpose.
	So screw you.
	Buy our product.
	It's like, no.
	Four foot Bangladeshi guy.
	He still gets these beautiful five foot women.
	Massive blonde Scandinavian woman.
	Sorry.
	Personal ideas for movies.
	Is the villain going to be someone from Pakistan?
	Yeah, it'll have to be, won't it?
	The whole movie will centre around the tensions between Pakistani and Hindus.
	Classic James Bond.
	That would be great.
	I'm telling you, I'd probably watch it for the fun of it.
	That genuinely wouldn't bother me.
	What does a race-swapped Schindler's List look like?
	these race swaps seem to me quite racist.
	Really.
	They think that the only way a black character can succeed is take an already existing white character and put them in blackface instead of creating a new character with a standard sign.
	Yeah, but they know that that's the critique, so we've been making that critique for years, and they're like, yeah, I don't care.
	What does a race swap Schindler's list look like?
	Depends what races you're swapping.
	Well, people were asking for race-swapped Hitler.
	I don't think a Schindler's list would be funnier.
	Black Hitler's new Netflix documentary.
	I think you can't race-swap the Jews, they're too sacred.
	I don't think you can race-swap the Nazis either, they have to be white.
	Well, no, because you remember that Battlefield game where they made them all black and disabled?
	Was that the Nazis they made black?
	No, I thought they made the Allies black and disabled.
	I think they made everyone black and disabled.
	Allies, black and disabled.
	Nazis, people, white men.
	No, the Nazis are the one thing that Hollywood or Netflix or wherever are never going to race-swap, right?
	You can't have a bunch of multicultural Nazis murdering Jews.
	They're never gonna have that.
	Oh, but it would be so good for us.
	I mean, it would be hilarious, but literally the last white representation on TV will literally be Hitler.
	This is what white people are, isn't it?
	Yeah, yeah.
	There was that book, though, arguing that he was gay.
	Do you remember Pink Nazis?
	I think it was called Pink Swastika, the book.
	What was it, Eva Braun, like, the beard?
	No, no, the whole thing was it's all homoerotic.
	I mean, like, Ernst, um, whatever his name was, in charge of the SA, he was a homosexual man.
	Right.
	That's why he was killed in the end.
	Right.
	He was the, he was found, you know, one of the founding members of the Nazi party was actually the, like, enforcer guy.
	I feel like the author is bringing too much of his own personality to this.
	No, but it got a load of backlash, not from the historical community, because, you know, there's some arguments about Ernst and some of the, you know, boots and whatnot.
	Instead, it got huge backlash from the LGBT community.
	Well, you are saying that the Nazis are us.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, Jonah Mark says, Kink, I'd like to see this creep's hard drive.
	I don't think I would like to see this creep's hard drive.
	George says, everything Lord of the Ring related went downhill after the death of Christoph Tolkien.
	Yeah, because Christoph Tolkien used to gatekeep Lord of the Rings immensely, in the way that his father would have wanted.
	The estate should be ashamed of themselves for allowing garbage like this to happen.
	Any company which does these race swaps should be considered a subversive agent and deprived of your money.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Don't give them money.
	Like I said, I love Magic the Gathering, I love Lord of the Rings.
	I'm not going to buy this.
	You like Magic the Gathering?
	Oh yeah.
	I didn't know you did.
	Smash Magic the Gathering.
	I only ever... I hate people who play net decks.
	I always make my own decks.
	That's the fun of it.
	That's half the fun for me, is making your own deck.
	Ewan says, I still don't get how the Little Mermaid can braid her hair under the sea.
	Well yeah, but I don't think it's meant to make sense.
	X, Y and Z says, banning it from the trends list, the Matt Walsh film.
	But if she's black, why doesn't she just turn up in a BMW?
	How is it that she's got a load of mixed-race brothers and sisters?
	Was the seagull black in the original as well?
	No, the crab was.
	The crab was Caribbean.
	Was he?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, okay.
	Was the seagull?
	I don't know.
	I'm gonna check.
	But anyway, banning from the trends list, not allowing retweets, or repairing the general feed breaks the first law of marketing.
	You can build the best mousetrap in the world, but if no one knows you have it, they won't be coming to your door.
	Israeli Crusader says, we need to start asking Elon to start forcing politicians and government representatives to unblock users.
	I'm waiting for your, um...
	Video comments explaining how Israeli politics works, mate.
	Because I do actually want to know how Israeli politics works.
	It's weird and baffling to me, because I'm an outsider.
	Andrew says, Elon has been in China for the past week to visit the Tesla factories there.
	He retweeted the film 37 minutes ago.
	The seagull was Jewish.
	So they do race swap.
	Oh no, that's even worse.
	We don't race swap the Nazis, we race swap the Jews to be black.
	That's even more of a time bomb.
	Well, it wouldn't be a time bomb because it would literally be... We was holocausted and... It was literally the second you did it.
	Imagine the first image, here's Oskar Schindler with a Jewish refugee.
	You can imagine the Hebrew-Israelites just being like, this is the truth they were hiding!
	It was really the holocaust and the black man!
	And what about if there's another Egyptian movie, where the Jews are escaping from Egypt?
	They're all black.
	Gotta be all black.
	And I'm with the black Israelites.
	God, there is probably like 25% of the black American community who know nothing about history.
	Probably not even the Holocaust, they'll probably just believe it.
	Wouldn't that be the... what a time to be alive.
	As Kanye would say.
	We're out of time.
	More from us is on the website and otherwise up on Monday.
	We'll see you.
	Have a great weekend.
	Hopefully.

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