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Sept. 14, 2020 - Freedomain Radio - Stefan Molyneux
04:05
"CUTIES" CONTROVERSY!
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Talk about children. I haven't seen that film, or I think the film is called Cuties.
Everybody's talking about that.
If it's not real, they're using children to do twerking, stuff like that.
Is that...
Because I don't even want to see it, to be honest.
So, I don't know what to say about it.
Well, I mean, I've heard about the controversy.
I have... I mean, like yourself, I try not to eat food That's got tire tracks on it.
And I try not to watch content that is just appalling and horrifying.
And I think it's a Congolese woman who came and wrote this movie and directed this movie.
I don't know, man.
I mean, you've got people in the States calling for investigations into Netflix for distribution of child pornography.
And, you know, a guy I quite like, Scott Adams, he's a real free speech guy.
A real free speech guy.
And he watched some of it and he said, yeah, I'm a real free speech guy.
It's pretty hard to shock me, but somebody needs to go to jail for this.
And so I think it's absolutely appalling.
And it just shows you like the chain of, like the echo chamber, right?
That there's nobody... In that whole process, right?
This whole process of, you know, you write a script, then you get your funding, then you cast your actors, and you get your distributors, and you go to film festivals, and then you sign a deal with Netflix.
Like this whole chain of people.
It doesn't seem like there was anyone who said, wait a second here.
Something's wrong. We are hyper-sexualizing 11-year-old children.
Now, the fact that my daughter is 11 is making this one hit pretty close to home.
But no one along the line says, hmm, no.
And of course, the Obamas are neck deep in with Netflix and other people and so on.
So it just shows they seem to be genuinely surprised that anyone could have a problem with this.
And I don't know, maybe it's the Congolese woman.
Maybe they say, well, it's not gross if it's diversity hired.
I mean, I don't know. I don't know what, because I don't know anyone who would get involved in anything like that.
I mean, you've got parents who are putting their kids up for these auditions.
Can you imagine what these auditions are?
Put on this bikini and twerk?
Yeah. At what point did the parents say, hell no!
What are you doing? I thought we were selling some toothpaste here and you've got my woman shaking her ass like Cardi B on a trampoline.
Like, no thank you. Right?
So, like, nobody at the film festivals is like, I'm not putting that on the screen.
What are you, crazy? We can't normalize this.
This is horrifying. And the whole step from conception to it flowing into people's homes.
And nobody, it seems, raised the alarm along the way, which tells you just what a predatory echo chamber these people are in.
And to quote Mike Cernovich, you know, if it's a choice between cuties and Sharia law...
And then he quoted some Arabic phrase that I didn't understand, but I think I knew which side he came down on that.
So yeah, I don't know.
I don't know. It really is a different universe.
It's a different moral universe that this whole thing...
Like, this isn't just someone who filmed it in her house with a phone, right?
I mean, I've made a movie before.
I'm not just the documentaries.
I've made a fiction movie and so on, right?
So it's really a big, complicated, expensive, massive team effort.
And nobody on the set is taking pictures and leaking them and saying, what the hell is happening?
This is not good.
Like the whole thing just kind of barrels and slopes along and doesn't seem like anybody raised an objection.
I don't know how a society functions.
When you have lots of people saying, this is beautiful, high-moving art, and other people are like, this is child pornography and people have to go to jail.
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