This week a professor asks students to give Osama Bin Laden the Nobel Peace Prize, and one student bravely refuses And a hack NYT ad causes TERFs to reckon with the fact that JK Rowling (the billionaire) has been unpersoned Support the show for $3.11/month at http://patreon.com/miniondeathcult and get a bonus episode every week directly in your podcast app as well as instant access to hundreds of hours of bonus content
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|---|---|
| Alexander is imagining Captain Underpants without its creator. | |
| No, that you can't do because I think the creator is Captain Underpants. | |
| No, David Pilkey is actually a trans ally. | |
| He's actually really... I don't know. | |
| I'm just kidding. | |
| I don't know. | |
| Oh, I was like, interesting. | |
| That's cool. | |
| Good stuff. | |
| Maybe he's good, maybe he's bad. | |
| Who could give a shit? | |
| Yeah, I could not look that one up in a long time, yeah. | |
| So yeah, it's very funny for New York Times to be like, we're doing the important journalism of imagining a book for babies. | |
| Yeah, yeah, exactly. | |
| Cool, I don't care, right? | |
| But, of course, the J.K. | |
| Rowling turf crowd got a hold of this. | |
| So, Sarah Hader posted, She quoted the article. | |
| She quoted the screenshot of the article. | |
| I remember a time where removing a woman from the fruits of her labor and imagination would be seen as an act of unimaginable Orwellian misogyny. | |
| Today, it is an advertisement. | |
| What time are you talking about, by the way? | |
| What time are you talking about? | |
| Like six months ago, maybe, she means. | |
| Are you referencing something? | |
| The idea of it, yes, the idea of it sounds... What you just said sounds bad, but I think that also, in America, you're not thinking hard enough about this one. | |
| Not only do women get removed from the history of the creation of things, but specifically black women get removed from the creation of so many things in America. | |
| Is that what you're talking about? | |
| Because we can have that discussion, but I don't think that's what you're talking about. | |
| I think you're just mad about this one thing. | |
| That's a pure hypothetical. | |
| You're totally right, but I will go even farther and to say this is like Libs playing dress-up, playing in like daddy's and mommy's clothing with working class politics. | |
| You know who else gets removed from the fruits of their labor? | |
| Literally everybody. | |
| Literally everybody who's not a fucking billionaire, like J.K. | |
| Rowling, who has not been removed from the fruits of her labor whatsoever. | |
| How are there so many new Harry Potter things happening? | |
| There's like a play, there's like a new show, there's like a new series of movies. | |
| Like, she's fine. | |
| Is she in any one of those, Tony? | |
| Does she make it apparent? | |
| Does she like stroll on stage and be like, it was me! | |
| I did it! | |
| No, they just put a picture of her pointing to it saying, I did that. | |
| They're fucking disappearing her. | |
| If she tried to step on stage, you know, on a production of The Cursed Child or whatever, the FBI would come and black bag her and take her out. | |
| That's going to be crazy because that's going to be an international issue at that point. | |
| Oh, it's so funny! | |
| Like, what do you think the fruits of your labor mean? | |
| That every fucking other private business in the world has to say your name with their chest? | |
| This is like liberal politics, right? | |
| Is like, this billionaire is a victim because we don't all love her. | |
| You can't, you can't just be a millionaire. | |
| You have to be beloved. | |
| You have to like, like them personally because that's what politics are to these people who have reached like, yeah, the end of history where it's like, well, I'm set in my, uh, you know, my career trajectory. | |
| I, I've, I've got it, you know? | |
| And the worst thing I could possibly imagine is, yeah, not being respected for my professional achievements. | |
| And she's an especially bad example because all we really do when it comes to JK Rowling is be like, man, she sucks. | |
| She sucks as a person. | |
| What a shitty person. | |
| But I'm absolutely going to go get a Butterbeer when I go to Universal Studios. | |
| See, we did that too, yeah. | |
| I'm just saying, she has the least amount of canceling happening to her. | |
| We didn't get the wand though. | |
| That was our personal protest. | |
| We took a stand and we didn't do the wand experience. | |
| Damn. |