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Today on the Matt Wall Show, Black Lives Matter is a far-left political group with far-left political goals.
It's really that simple.
It's not concerned at all with preserving black life.
We're going to talk about that today.
We're going to talk about what Black Lives Matter's actual agenda is, because I think that's important.
Also, five headlines, including mentally unbalanced college students saying that they are too traumatized to return to school because one of the students at the school tweeted a joke about George Floyd, and now they're too scared to go back.
This is real.
We'll talk about that.
And some Jimmy John's employees were fired for making an allegedly racist video.
The only problem is that there's nothing racist in the video at all, yet they've been fired anyway and smeared as racist.
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last night on his alleged news program.
Terry Crews is an actor, TV host, TV personality, also a black man who has had the courage to
speak out in recent weeks about the real threats that are faced by the black community.
Cruz's point has been that the police are not the main problem by a long shot.
If we're going to talk about Black Lives Matter, we need to talk about all of the black victims of violence, most of whom are victims of violence perpetrated by other black men.
That's the reality.
Now, Don Lemon, Doesn't like that.
He doesn't want to talk about that.
Don Lemon is generally opposed to integrity and intellectual courage in all its forms.
So, if he sees that, he's going to have a problem with it, especially now.
So, here is Lemon explaining his point of view.
Really, it should be Terry Crews explaining his point of view, because he's the one on for the interview.
But instead, it's Don Lemon explaining his point of view, and it's extremely revealing, I think.
Listen to this.
The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality.
If you want an all Black Lives Matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities, including, you know, black communities, then start that movement with that name.
But that's not what Black Lives Matter is about.
It's not an all-encompassing.
So if you're talking about, if someone started a movement that said, Cancer matters.
And then someone comes in and says, why aren't you talking about HIV?
It's not the same thing.
We're talking about cancer.
So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice in that manner, not about what's happening in black neighborhoods.
There are people who are working on that issue, and if you want to start that issue, why don't you start it?
Do you understand what I'm saying?
But when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they're talking about.
I know that, but I agree, but that's not what the Black Lives Matter movement is about, Terry.
Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and about criminal justice.
It's not about what happens in communities when it comes to crime, black-on-black crime.
People who live near each other, black people, kill each other.
Same as whites.
87% of white people are killed by white people.
Because of proximity.
It's the same thing with black people.
It happens in every single neighborhood.
But that isn't, again, I'm not saying that's not important that those kids died, but it's a different movement.
Lemon seems to really be struggling there with the concept of an interview, because normally an interview is a thing where you ask questions to the interviewee and then you give him a chance to answer.
That's what the interview is supposed to be.
Instead, Lemon pontificates And then continues pontificating even as the interviewee is trying to respond.
That's the way Lemon handles this.
No wonder CNN's ratings have taken a dive ever since people stopped going to airports, you know, because they didn't have the captive audience anymore.
Who would ever actually choose to watch this in their own home, on their own time?
That's what I don't understand.
But what he says there is illustrative, I think.
He actually says, now you heard it for yourself, I'm not exaggerating, this isn't hyperbole, Or misquoting, he actually says that Black Lives Matter does not mean all black lives matter.
He actually says that.
So forget all lives matter, we know we're not supposed to say that.
It isn't even all black lives matter, according to Don Lemon.
It's only about the very, very small percentage of black people who are killed by police.
That's all we're talking about.
They're the ones we're supposed to be focused on, according to Don Lemon.
Now, the problem for Lemon is that BLM has a website where it outlines its mission statement and the things that it's concerned about and fighting for, its guiding beliefs and principles, and what you find there is an extremely wide range of issues, not just police brutality.
That is not the exclusive focus of Black Lives Matter at all.
It also, by the way, literally says, all black lives matter.
It identifies that as one of its guiding principles from the website.
It says, we are guided by the fact that all black lives matter.
Direct quote from BLM's website.
So, Contra Lemon, BLM does in fact claim that it's representing all black lives and it's fighting for all black lives.
Now, it doesn't actually do that.
Not even close.
But it does claim that that is its mission and its motivation, and that's the point that Terry Crews and many others are trying to make if you let them speak without talking over them.
If you say black lives matter, and you say that's what you're fighting for, Then what about all these black lives over here, these lives that are being destroyed on a daily basis?
How can you ignore them if you're fighting for all black lives?
At least five children were killed just this past weekend in our cities.
I think actually it was six children.
An eight-year-old was killed in Atlanta, shot while she was in her car.
A 13-year-old was killed in a carjacking in California.
A 16-year-old was shot in the face in Rochester.
More than a dozen other people were shot in Rochester over the weekend.
Nine people were shot in Baltimore.
Sixty-nine were shot.
Sixteen killed in Chicago.
Twenty-five were shot in Atlanta.
This is all in one weekend.
One weekend of activity.
Thousands of black people are murdered every year.
And in some weekends, as we see, you have dozens in a span of 24 hours or 48 hours.
Over 7,000 black people were killed in the year 2018, for example.
And black people are murdered at a rate six times higher, according to DOJ statistics, black people are murdered at a rate six times higher than white people.
Six times.
But over 90% of those murders are carried out by people in their own communities and of their own race.
That's the reality.
And it is just the absolute height of absurdity and fraudulence to have a Black Lives Matter movement that ignores all of this.
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Okay, so BLM.
Thank you.
Let me read their mission statement to you, right from their website.
It says, We are guided by the fact that all black lives matter, regardless of actual or perceived sexual identity, gender identity, gender expression, economic status, ability, disability, religious beliefs or disbeliefs, immigration status, or location.
We make space for transgender brothers and sisters to participate and lead.
We are self-reflexive and do the work required to dismantle cisgender privilege and uplift black trans folks, especially black trans women, who continue to be disproportionately impacted by trans-antagonistic violence.
We build a space that affirms black women and is free from sexism, misogyny, and environments in which men are centered.
We practice empathy.
We engage comrades with the—comrades.
I actually say comrades.
We engage comrades with the intent to learn about and connect with their contexts.
To learn about and connect with their contexts.
You know, I just want to connect with your context.
That sounds vaguely sexual, doesn't it?
It sounds very euphemistic.
We make our spaces family-friendly and enable parents to fully participate with their children.
We dismantle the patriarchal practice that requires mothers to work double shifts so that they can mother in private even as they participate in public justice work.
We disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family structure by supporting each other as extended families and villages that collectively care for one another.
We foster a queer-affirming network.
When we do, we do so with the intention of freeing ourselves from the tight grip of heteronormative thinking, or rather, the belief that all in the world are heterosexual.
We cultivate an intergenerational and communal network free from ageism.
We believe that all people, regardless of age, show up with the capacity to lead and learn.
Okay.
So, and that's just part of it, okay?
So we're talking about trans people.
We're talking about, actually we're talking about an awful lot about trans people, for some reason.
We're talking about sexism.
We're talking about the patriarchy.
We're talking about unfair working conditions.
We're talking about ageism.
We're talking about disrupting the nuclear family.
We're talking about getting rid of heteronormative thinking.
We're talking about cisgender privilege.
And then elsewhere on the website it also says they're focused on environmental injustice, economic injustice, access to healthcare, access to quality education, voting rights, voter suppression.
That's like 14 things, I think.
14 or 15.
And that's just a sampling.
It is a veritable cornucopia of issues that they are talking about.
Mostly far-left issues.
Often extremely far-left issues.
Dismantling the nuclear family.
Heteronormative thinking.
This is far, far, far, far left.
A bunch of stuff that you'd expect a white girl in a gender studies class to care about.
If you polled the average black person in America, if you had a thousand black people polled at random, Do you think that they would cite these as high priorities in their lives?
Are these the things they're waking up worried about and focused on?
Cisgender privilege and heteronormative thinking?
The average black person, if you were to ask them, you know, what are the things that are most important to you?
How many are going to say, um, dismantling cisgender privilege?
How many of the average white person is going to answer that way?
The answer is almost none.
I haven't conducted this poll, but that's, I think, a very fair assumption.
Because these are the goals and desires and priorities of far-left political activists.
And yet, amid all of these issues, despite the extremely wide lens That BLM is using here.
They can't make room anywhere on the website to even mention the problem of black children being slaughtered in the street by criminals.
They've got time to talk about cisgender privilege.
Somehow, cisgender privilege is a bigger affront to black lives and to the dignity of black life.
Than black children being killed in the street in carjackings.
They have no space for that.
They have no space for the thousands of other black people who are killed every year.
They don't mention it.
It doesn't come up.
Anywhere.
Ever.
The sad fact of the matter is that Black Lives Matter is a very necessary message.
Because black lives are indeed devalued and discarded on a routine basis in this country.
But that devaluing and that discarding is happening almost all of the time in the vast, vast majority of cases within the black community itself.
There is no getting around that.
And the murder rate is not the only evidence of that.
I want you to watch this video.
I'm going to play this for you.
And it's gone sort of viral over the past few days.
It's actually from, I think, 2019.
And it shows a young black guy with two other young black people in the car.
One of them his sister, apparently, and then someone else.
And he's flaunting his guns, and he's saying that he's gonna kill a cop if he gets pulled over.
Just watch this.
My sh** on my lap, next to the Jakes, like, and I got my sister.
Stop playing.
Okay, now think about what you just saw there.
What we gonna do to him?
You do it.
F*** the Jake.
Oh yeah.
Hey, yo, he's scared.
You better match him.
What the f*** is this? I'm gonna kill you right here.
Uh, uh.
Duh, duh, duh, duh.
Duh, duh.
Duh, duh.
Okay, now think about what you just saw there.
That is a young guy who is apparently
totally willing to throw his own life away for no reason.
Peace.
He's, according to his own words, he is prepared to die for no reason.
He's ready to shoot at a cop, instigate a fatal encounter, best case scenario, go to jail for the rest of his life.
For no reason.
Just, you know, why not?
No reason other than bravado and acting out the stuff that he hears in songs, like the one that's playing in the background during the video.
Black lives matter?
Yeah.
They do, but tell him that.
He doesn't know that.
That guy.
And I'm sure he would shout the slogan, but he doesn't even think his own life matters.
His own life!
He is, this is a self-imposed devaluing of his own life that he is doing.
He's willing to die just because, just to impress some people on Instagram or Facebook, whoever that video was streaming.
This is the same attitude that Rayshard Brooks had.
He instigated a fatal encounter with cops for, just why?
Because he didn't want to go to jail for, because he was going to go to jail for DUI.
Okay, well now best case scenario, you've just gone from, you're getting a DUI charge to about seven other felony charges.
That's best case scenario if you survive, which he didn't.
That's Rayshard Brooks who did not think his own life mattered.
Certainly not enough to take basic steps to preserve his own life.
And this is the attitude that cops in this city run up against all the time.
It is a very noxious and virulent kind of nihilism, which treats violence and even death as a game.
And this is what cops are confronting in the inner cities across the country.
If your Black Lives Matter movement is, if you're, the cops are confronting this.
If your Black Lives Matter movement is not confronting this, and not addressing it, and not fighting against it, and not exposing it, then your Black Lives Matter movement is nothing but a fraud.
Nothing but a front.
Which is what BLM is.
Now I want you to imagine, just think about for a moment, The situation that the average black child in the average inner city is facing, okay?
He's growing up in a home without a father.
He listens to music and consumes media that explicitly glorifies and advocates violence, murder, and crime.
And, you know, of course, it's like, it's cliche to even talk about that.
Cliche, but also, I guess, racist to talk about that or, you know, it's offensive somehow.
But this is the stuff that kids in the city, not just in the city, across the country, are listening to.
Openly advocating.
Say, oh yeah, go out and get yourself killed.
So, no father in the home.
Consuming media that explicitly glorifies and advocates violence, crime, and murder.
Living in a community where murder is a daily occurrence.
In Chicago, it is a daily occurrence.
In Baltimore, it's a daily occurrence.
Drug dealers rule the streets.
That's the situation he's in.
What honest person could look at that and decide that the police are the biggest problem?
You really think for that black child the biggest problem for him is the police?
That's where all this goes back?
That's the source of most of his troubles?
That's the thing most likely to kill him?
No.
Not even close.
So the whole thing is ludicrous.
And it's a shame that there is something called the Black Lives Matter movement that doesn't actually care about black lives because we could use a real Black Lives Matter movement.
Let's go to headlines.
So a couple weeks ago, a student at Kansas State, Jaden McNeil, tweeted a joke about George Floyd.
The tweet said, congratulations to George Floyd on being drug-free for an entire month.
Okay, that was the joke.
Edgy joke.
Okay, it's the kind of thing that, at the absolute most, a joke like that warrants a sort of a, hey man, too soon.
Or something like that.
At least that's how normal, sane, well-adjusted, mentally balanced adults respond to offensive jokes.
Whoa, hey!
That's the most that an offensive joke should ever get out of you.
Whoa!
Like that.
And then you move on with your life.
And you forget about it.
Because hopefully there are, I mean, quite literally, a billion other things in your life that are more important to you than the joke that you just heard or saw on Twitter.
But we happen to live in a country that is home to lots of people who are not sane, not well-adjusted, and not mentally balanced.
And this is doubly, triply, quadruply true in our colleges.
So this tweet provoked an enormous reaction, with students panicking over it.
And the administration of the school treating it... Well, just look at these statements that were frantically sent out by the administration on the day of the tweet.
The day of the tweet!
The day that we'll live in infamy.
Because of the tweet.
This is Thomas Lane, Dean of Students, This is what he said.
For those impacted by this incident, please know there are supportive resources available, including the Office of Student Life, Counseling Services, and K-State Diversity.
Okay, this sounds like there was a school shooting.
That supportive resources for those impacted?
That's the kind of thing you hear after a shooting.
But there was no shooting.
Nobody was killed.
Nobody was injured.
Nothing happened to anybody.
Nobody was hurt in any way whatsoever.
There was a tweet.
What would it even sound like to go and seek resources because of a tweet?
I just want to know what that exchange, when a student goes into the Office of Student Life, what are they saying?
Yes, hi, I saw the tweet.
Please help.
Please help me.
I saw the tweet!
I saw the tweet!
Something like that, I imagine.
And then here's a message from the school president.
A message from President Richard Meyer says, the insensitive comments posted by one K-State student hurts our entire community.
These divisive statements do not represent the values of our university.
We condemn racism and bigotry in all its forms.
We are launching an immediate review of the university's options.
Black Lives Matter at Kansas State University, and we will continue to fight for social justice.
Hurts the community?
How exactly?
Can you explain that one, Prez?
I mean, in specific detail.
I want you to walk me through the steps.
Okay, step one, somebody tweets a joke about George Floyd, and then There are a few more steps and then someone is hurt.
What happens?
How does that tweet become a thing that is hurting someone?
And in what way are they hurt by it?
That's what I want to understand.
Also, by the way, why is it just assumed that this is racist?
It's an attack against an individual named George Floyd.
You could say it's in poor taste.
You could use all kinds of different adjectives.
How is it automatically racist?
If George Floyd was white and the exact same joke was told, well, then I guess it wouldn't be racist then.
You would say it was in poor taste.
It's personally offensive to George Floyd and his family.
That's what you would say.
You wouldn't say it was racist.
So, anyway, that was over a week ago, and the traumatized students still have not recovered from this.
They haven't gotten over it.
Here's an article on KansasCity.com.
I just have to read some of this too.
The headline is, I am totally scared.
Black students dread return to Kansas State after racist tweets.
We just have to pause right there.
Dread return after tweet.
It says, Mikella Ross, a Kansas State University sophomore, went to her internship boss at ExxonMobil last week and told him, I'm scared to go back to school.
She wanted him to know why she couldn't concentrate on work.
She was preoccupied checking in with schoolmates after a K-State student's racially insensitive tweets about George Floyd offended students of color and drew support from national white supremacist groups.
I'm not scared to speak out.
I'm scared of the unknown, said Ross.
I feel like the K-State environment is hostile and not welcoming to black students, and our administration has not taken actionable measures against racist incidents that have happened there.
And this is not the first one.
In an unscientific student poll on Twitter, 124 of the approximately 700 black students on the Manhattan campus responded to the question, do you feel safe on campus?
About 80% said no, they don't.
I can't even continue reading this.
This is mental illness, okay?
If you sincerely cannot concentrate on work, and you have to talk to your boss about it, and you're traumatized, and you're actually scared to go back to school because a kid tweeted something, That you have a mental illness.
You have psychological problems that are much deeper than any tweet can touch.
Yes, you do need counseling.
That's the thing.
That's the one thing I actually agree with.
This stuff from the school about if you need counseling.
Yeah, all of these students that are traumatized, they all need counseling.
But not because of the tweet.
Just how do you function as a human being when you are that fragile that a tweet that someone sent could incapacitate you?
And on top of that, it's a tweet, and 99% of the people reacting to it are not just condemning it, but are over-the-top condemning it.
So it's not even like you can say you feel ganged up on.
The tweet was sent, it's a tweet.
Everybody is saying, this is a horrible tweet, it's the worst.
Is that not enough?
Is that not enough condemnation?
If a million people react to something, and all but like three of them are condemning it, is that still, you need the other three too?
In order to function again as a person?
My God.
Let's go to number two here.
And now the great hero, the great martyr Colin Kaepernick has met the fate that all great martyrs meet, which is a partnership deal with Disney.
Here's Kaepernick saying, I'm excited for this partnership with Disney across all of its platforms to elevate black and brown directors, creators, storytellers, and producers.
I look forward to sharing culturally impactful and inspiring projects.
This is, this is, you know, I, I, I can never cease to be impressed and just be in admiration of Colin Kaepernick and his heroism and self-sacrifice.
I want you to think about what this man did, okay?
He gave up a job as the mediocre second-string quarterback for a losing franchise.
He gave that up.
And all he got in return was multi-million dollar partnership deals with some of the biggest corporations on earth and widespread media acclaim.
That's all he got.
That's it.
All he got was way more money, fame, and admiration than he had before.
Amazing.
A true martyr.
This is what martyrdom is.
Number three, now an important story from The Daily Caller, it says, a German man was hospitalized Saturday after he was dared to lick a venomous snake during his bachelor party in the Australian Alps.
After the incident was reported, a mountain rescue operations team and a doctor were called and the 38-year-old man was taken to a nearby hospital.
The local Red Cross organization stated the man was bit on the tongue after fellow partygoers dared him to lick the snake.
You know, at least this is one Vestige of toxic masculinity that we still have and I cherish it that that men will still do Almost anything if you just say I dare you to do it That's that's the one thing and I think we have to we have to hang on to that at all costs now a report from the Daily Wire
It says, Actress Halle Berry apologized and backed out of potentially playing a transgender character in a film after she received fierce backlash online for considering the role as a cisgender woman.
According to Harper's Bazaar, Berry told fans via Instagram Live that she was up for consideration to play a transgender man in an upcoming film until she received a flood of criticism scolding her for taking a role from someone who identifies as transgender.
And so she's not going to do that anymore.
But but so this is a She was supposed to play a transgender man, so in other words, a female.
This is a female who was gonna play a female, and that is appropriation.
Okay, makes a lot of sense.
And finally, a report from the AP.
It says, New York hospitals released more than 6,300 recovering coronavirus patients into nursing homes during the height of the pandemic under a controversial now-scrap policy, according to state officials.
But, so we knew this was happening.
We didn't know the extent of it.
Now they're saying 6,300 infected people were sent into nursing homes, but they argued they are not to blame for one of the nation's highest nursing home death tolls.
What they're saying is it's the staffers who were infected.
They're blaming the staffers, just to summarize their rationalization.
They're saying it's not their fault.
Yes, they sent infected people by mandate, by order, into nursing homes, into the places where the most vulnerable people are.
Not their fault, though.
No, they're blaming the staffers.
Just the hubris is almost unbelievable.
All right, we're gonna go to our Daily Cancellation, but before we do, this past weekend we witnessed a complete and total mockery of our country and the founding principles it was built on.
And no, I'm not talking about President Trump's speech, I'm talking about the media response to it.
It's just the complete and total sham that's called journalism nowadays.
This horror show from the left is exactly the kind of thing that Ben Shapiro talks about in his new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
You can pre-order your signed copy at dailywire.com slash ben.
The book covers two fundamentally different visions for America that we're facing right now.
This is a very important book for our time, for this current moment in our culture.
One vision finds unity in shared philosophy, culture, and history.
The other disintegrates our country in the name of fundamental change.
Hence, disintegrationists.
These are the people who use weapons like cancel culture and force apologies to advance
their agenda.
Shapiro covers all of this ground and more in his book, How to Destroy America in Three
Easy Steps.
Again, you can pre-order your signed copy at dailywire.com slash Ben to get the perfect
snapshot of this strange moment in our history.
Now, speaking of strange moments in our history, this is another hallmark of this moment is
what we do now of sharing out of context videos of people maliciously in order to destroy
them.
This is our daily cancellation.
I will be canceling with great prejudice everyone who maliciously shares out-of-context videos in an attempt to ruin the lives of usually just random people who are, you know, random private people.
And despite not having all the facts, we're obviously at a crisis level with this kind of thing.
It happens all the time.
There are two recent examples I want to talk about briefly.
So first, we have some kids who work for Jimmy John's who've now been fired and publicly shamed all over the internet and the media for an admittedly quite dumb video that they did take themselves and share themselves.
But it's a video with one of them has a noose made out of And anyway, here's the video.
Now the claim, like in this tweet here from Nick Pappas and by so many others, is that
this is racist.
It's a racist video.
This was done to mock the lynching of black Americans.
That's what we're told.
But that's not actually what you see in the video, is it?
There is nothing racial in the video.
Was there another video?
Is there more context to this that gives us some evidence that this was racially motivated?
I don't know.
We haven't seen it.
Nobody's mentioned it.
Yes, they're making a joke out of a noose, which is macabre humor, and also an unsanitary use of a food product, which is really the only thing I'm offended by in the video, but how is it racist?
And it really matters, because if these are just some kids being stupid, and misusing a food product, and being unsanitary, and making a macabre joke out of, like, suicide or something, Well then we would all say, that's stupid, and yeah, they're gonna get fired because they took the video and they put it up, and again, you can't do that with the food, so any company is gonna fire you for that.
But, if that's all it was, their whole lives aren't gonna be destroyed, probably, because of it.
But you attach the word racist to it, and you say that they're making fun of black people being lynched, well now, not only do they lose their Jimmy John's job, their whole lives are destroyed.
They're forever going to be the insanely racist people who are making fun of lynching black people.
So it really matters whether or not this was racist.
And there's no evidence of that.
The only evidence, apparently, is just that they were making a joke out of a noose.
Out of a fake noose.
But since when did a noose become a universal sign of racism?
Nooses and hanging have been used across the world, everywhere, in order to kill people.
And it's also one of the most common forms of suicide.
So this is something that we're watching the media and the left do right now in real time.
They're taking the noose, and they're making it into a white supremacist symbol.
Even though it isn't, and it never has been, they're making it into that.
It's just like they did with the OK sign.
Oh, and I just did that.
So now, watch, this is going to be on Media Matters now.
That symbol, which for, I don't know, decades meant A-OK, good, or something like that, the media made it into a white supremacist symbol.
And if you remember, there was a guy, and now people are getting fired even if they just inadvertently make that, a Hispanic truck driver made that, inadvertently did that while he was cracking his knuckles.
He was kind of like going like this, and he got fired as a suspected white supremacist.
So now the media is doing that with this as well.
And these are real people whose lives are being destroyed.
And nobody cares.
And then there's this video which, according to people like David Levitt, shows, quote, ignorant Florida man without mask screams and spreads spit at elderly woman who asked him to please wear a mask and the man who defended her because, quote, he feels threatened.
That's the description of the video.
Sounds pretty bad.
Here's the actual video.
You're six feet away from me.
You're harassing me.
I'm not harassing you.
I feel threatened.
I feel threatened!
You're coming close to me.
Back off!
Threaten me again!
Back the f*** up or I'll put your f***ing phone down!
Okay, wait a second.
Almost nothing in the description that I just read to you is actually shown in that video.
Yes, a guy is screaming.
Yes, he says he feels threatened.
But there's no elderly woman in sight.
There's no discussion about masks.
Um, you don't see in this video a man being politely asked to wear a mask by an elderly woman and then him freaking out in response.
That's not what you see.
You see a man freaking out.
That's the part you see.
You don't see what led up to it.
You don't see the context.
In fact, in the video, in this clip anyway, the thing that he's upset about is being filmed and publicly shamed.
That's the thing he's mad about.
Which, on that note, I don't blame him for that.
Now, maybe the rest of what David Levitt says did happen, but that's not what you see in the video.
And so what happens now is we get these out-of-context videos, and almost always what we see is someone reacting to something.
And then the people sharing it just fill in the blanks and tell you what led up to that reaction.
And very few people stop to say, okay, can we see that part of it?
How do we know that what your description of the off-camera stuff actually happened?
And by the way, why was this video clipped that way?
In that video, there's obviously more to it.
It cuts on in the middle of, it's pretty clear that there's, I don't know, is there five seconds more?
Is there 10 minutes?
I don't know.
But for some reason, someone decided to cut out the rest of it and just show us that part.
Why?
Maybe there's an innocent explanation, but maybe not.
This is the game though.
And I don't know if this is what happened here, but we also know the game, among some agitators, is to provoke a reaction out of somebody, and get the reaction on tape, and then make up a story about what led up to that reaction, to try to destroy the person.
We saw that, I think we played that video of a black guy who said that he tracked down a woman who had shouted a racial slur at him.
The only thing we see in the video is her outside of her home because she had been followed back to her house by the guy.
And she was scared because a man just followed her back to her house.
So I think she has every right to be scared.
And we get him filling in the blanks and just claiming that she used the racial slur.
Which, even if she did, that wouldn't justify you following her back to her house.
But we don't see that part.
And that's the game.
So, everybody who shares these kinds of videos uncritically, and with the malicious intent to randomly destroy people they don't know, who were involved in a confrontation that they know nothing about, and the context of which they are ignorant, all of those people are all cancelled.
And we'll leave it there.
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