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Nov. 1, 2023 - Where There's Woke - Thomas Smith

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WTW19: Fox News vs. Halloween Costumes

It's a SPOOKTACULAR!!! Lydia takes us through an evolution of Fox News vs. Halloween costumes over the last several years. They're for sure having a normal one. Then, Lydia has a top secret even worse thing than Fox News that she won't spoil. Don't miss it! Feel free to email us at lydia@seriouspod.com or thomas@seriouspod.com! Please pretty please consider becoming a patron at patreon.com/wherethereswoke!

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	What's so scary about the woke mob?
	How often you just don't see them coming.
	Anywhere you see diversity, equity, and inclusion, you see Marxism and you see woke principles being pushed.
	Wokeness is a virus more dangerous than any pandemic hands down.
	The woke monster is here and it's coming for everything.
	Instead of go-go boots, the seductress green M&M will now wear sneakers.
	Hello and welcome to Where There's Woke.
	Spooktacular!
	That's right.
	We're squeezing in a spooktacular.
	How's it going, Lydia?
	Oh, spooky.
	It's gone spooky over here.
	Definitely playing, this is Halloween, this is Halloween.
	Our kids, especially Arlo, loves Nightmare Before Christmas.
	Yeah.
	Frequently, that is in my head.
	Okay, first off, I thought, back when I thought we had this thing called time and physical health, which we didn't have for October.
	Not the month of October, yeah.
	Not at all.
	Uh, my ambitious plan was, oh, yeah, I can do the Christiakises, the famous Yale Halloween thingy that I did cover back in the day.
	And I'll pair that with, you know, the Halloween special.
	And then it was too much.
	But Lydia, you were not as sick as I was.
	Yeah, I wasn't.
	You're the better student among us.
	You had your part of the deal ready.
	So I think it's still worth doing that for a Halloween special.
	And then I think maybe early next month we can tackle the Christiakises.
	I don't actually remember how much of a story there is there.
	There's obviously at least like an episode, but I don't, I didn't like follow it too closely after it happened.
	So I'm excited.
	We'll dig in and we'll see what we find, you know?
	So it'll either be like a brief, like, ah, here's what happened.
	Remember this old controversy.
	Or maybe it'll be more.
	We'll see.
	But in the meantime, are you going to spook us with some Halloween?
	Oh, it's yeah, it's ghoulish.
	Get ready.
	I hate everything about this.
	What?
	You don't like a spooktacular?
	I thought you would love a spooktacular.
	Here I thought I was doing a thing that you would be into.
	Oh, I mean, I do like Spooktacular.
	I like Hocus Pocus and things like this.
	I don't like Fox News, and so what you made me do was have to watch a lot of Fox News.
	Oh, gotcha.
	Yeah, yeah.
	So I'm not super happy about that.
	But that's okay, because now I'm going to subject everybody to it, and this is like my version of Trick or Treat, and I'm tricking everybody.
	So, I went on a journey, and Searched with so many terms, folks, on how to find out Fox News and how they have felt about Halloween costumes.
	Something that has been a topic in the last few years anyway, for sure, about, you know, being sensitive to your choice of Halloween costumes, understanding if you are If you're appropriating someone's culture, or if you're donning something offensive, there's something even worse than Fox News' takes.
	No spoilers, and we'll get to that a little bit later in the episode.
	Is it Hitler?
	What is it?
	I'm not going to answer that question, but we're going to go back to 2016, and we have a variety of different characters that we're going to meet on this journey, and this is the first video that we have.
	This is related to Halloween costumes being policed at a college campus.
	With Halloween just a few weeks away, the University of Florida is issuing a warning about Offensive costumes.
	This is a college, mind you, telling students to be careful of outfits that reinforce racial, cultural, or religious stereotypes.
	University leaders even setting up a 24-7 hotline where those who are offended or troubled by a Halloween costume can, you know, talk with a counselor.
	Carly Shimkus joins us.
	Fox News headlines 24-7 reporter.
	She joins us now.
	Really?
	We need counseling because of a costume?
	Halloween is supposed to be a time to dress up and have fun, right?
	But the University of Florida is really taking costumes quite seriously.
	Yeah, but there's Elvis.
	I mean, you can't be offended by Elvis, right?
	Or Wonder Woman.
	That's a great costume.
	I love that.
	to really think about their costumes because some could promote negative stereotypes.
	And like you said, they're also providing around-the-clock services for students who-- - Yeah, but there's Elvis.
	I mean, you can't be offended by Elvis, right? - Or Wonder Woman.
	- Wonder Woman.
	That's a great costume. - I love that, I'm gonna wear that.
	But put the blog up there because it is a valid point.
	I'm sorry.
	Visually what's happening is they have some like be real.
	Yeah.
	That's just, this is like stock footage website.
	Yeah.
	And he's reacting as though that's connected to her story that she's telling.
	Yeah.
	He's like, well, hold on though.
	I just saw Elvis.
	And that's in the time dimension with what you're reading.
	This is like fucking, whose line is it anyway?
	Where Colin Mochrie's got the green screen behind him.
	And so she's got the green screen.
	She doesn't know what costumes are flashing behind her.
	He's like, well, hold on, Elvis though?
	She's like, yeah, that is what's on the TV, I suppose.
	But yeah, sorry, I'll continue.
	People are engaging in negative stereotypes of race, gender, culture, or religions.
	I mean, that's a problem.
	And you know, if you think that the universities are being a little bit too sensitive, it's not entirely their fault.
	Because so many colleges in recent years have gone viral because students have hosted parties where there have been costumes that have been deemed racist.
	Right.
	And maybe the University of Florida is trying to sort of protect themselves before that happens.
	All right.
	Now, we've only got 30 seconds left.
	What's microaggression?
	A microaggression is kind of an unintentional snub that sort of marginalizes someone.
	Oh, that happens every day to me.
	And unintentionally?
	Intentionally and unintentionally.
	Well, so this sort of potentially racist costume would fall under the guidelines of a microaggression, which colleges are definitely putting a huge emphasis on.
	All right.
	Carly Shimkus, she's all over this story, including the killer clown scare and fear I hate clowns so much.
	Part of me is like, is she pretending to be, like, she could almost be an undercover liberal.
	She's not.
	No, she hosts Fox and Friends now and she's like a frequent guest on Gutfeld.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I know, but that take towards the end was like, oh, okay, this is sort of reasonable.
	But remember, this is 2016, and what I'd like to show you is how the language has grown over time.
	So, 2017... Oh, we're taking a tour through history.
	So you didn't debunk that or anything?
	No, I mean, I think ultimately it's probably accurate that there were resources available to students.
	I'm going to go ahead and say I doubt there was a 24-7 hotline.
	Can I say that?
	I bet you what it was.
	Do schools have the resources to have it?
	Sorry, so what I think it was, what I imagine it would be, just from my own personal experience, and I went to school in Florida, so I'm claiming expert status there.
	So you must have seen Elvis and Wonder Woman and everything else.
	Yeah, but I think probably what it is, they have existing resources, like hotlines, and it's probably like, you can also use this resource for instances in which you feel, you know, uncomfortable in a situation on Halloween, which could include microaggressions or... Yeah, there might already be like a therapy hotline or whatever.
	Exactly, exactly.
	And I imagine that's what it is.
	Mental health emergency hotline.
	And they just reminded the students it's available to them.
	So it's not like they set up a specific Halloween one where like a girl in a witch costume can- I sincerely doubt it.
	And there's like some candles everywhere and they're like, this is our, in case you're offended by a costume hotline.
	Right, right.
	But if they did do that, that'd be pretty cool.
	Alright, so we're escalating.
	Yep, we're going to 2017 and we're going to visit our favorite, Mr. Gutfeld, talking about Moana.
	It's that time of the year when losers lecture us on unacceptable Halloween costumes for kids that aren't even their own.
	I'm sorry, I'm sorry.
	Do you think we should lecture you on our kids' Halloween costumes?
	Greg, my kid is wearing an offensive costume.
	What do you have to say for yourself?
	This time, Redbook editors demand you don't let your little girl dress as Disney's Moana.
	They write, maybe think about using this Halloween to teach your kids about the importance of cultural sensitivity.
	If your kid wears a racist costume, you're kind of wearing it too.
	Oh gosh.
	So some miserable editor who can't even put her name on the piece accuses you of racism when in fact she's the racist for promoting cultural segregation.
	A child dresses up as a fictional character because she loves that character.
	Rather than encouraging empathy, Redbook encourages separatism.
	So, all races should just stay in their lane?
	I guess a Polynesian child can't be Snow White.
	And what if this were not about ethnicity, but gender?
	What if I wanted to dress up as Moana?
	Or Wonder Woman?
	Or Susan B. Anthony?
	Would Redbook deny my non-binary gender identity?
	How cisgender can you be?
	You bigots!
	That's identity politics.
	It turns on itself and gobbles all the weak thinkers up.
	And yet the media still embraces this junk.
	Why is that?
	That was just word vomit that you did.
	You can't say like, that's, that's them over there.
	That's what they say.
	I know these editors despise their feeble contributions to society.
	So they use attention seeking pronouncements of moral superiority to impress their peers.
	Fact is, a child dressing up as Moana doesn't make her racist.
	It means she sees past ethnicity to choose someone to emulate.
	Wow, you're really struggling with that one.
	Unlike these nameless Redbook editors, I'd go as one of them.
	I think he's going to add a syllable to it each time.
	Ethnicistivististivistitude!
	By the end it'll be... On Halloween, but we have enough zombies out there.
	Thank you.
	That's not plenty, Kimberly.
	They're being paid to do this show, right?
	They can't even... Oh, what has he done?
	Yeah, that's back when Kimberly Guilfoyle was on that show, too, when she was working for Fox, yeah.
	I think that was fantastic.
	One of your best monologues of all.
	Time.
	I mean, children get it.
	They're more evolved than the rest of us, to be honest, because they're not second-guessing it.
	They are pure in thought and love and emotion to say, this is somebody I like watching, whether it's boys or girls love Moana.
	Everybody loves Moana.
	They did this now with this, like, hyper-cultural sensitivity, because on Saturday Night Live, you had, like, you know, Melissa McCarthy, Vic Spicer doing the whole travel ban.
	Go where?
	Moana doll and be like, oh, Moana, we're reading all your emails and you're not right.
	Boom.
	And they toss Moana in the box.
	You're not going to get in.
	And then they did regular Barbie, et cetera.
	That's what's happening here.
	It's like a knee-jerk reaction.
	Yeah.
	You know, Juan, you wanted to go as Madonna, but they're not, because you're not a woman, you can't.
	Well, Jesse wouldn't go with me.
	He said he's not putting up with that.
	Yeah.
	Go where?
	Where are you going?
	Or do you go to?
	I think a Halloween party.
	Yeah, but he didn't finish the sentence.
	I mean, I recommend don't go on blackface because that'll come back to haunt all you.
	That's coming up.
	Look, Phoebe dressed as Moana at least for something, right?
	Yeah, when she was two.
	Yeah, cool.
	I actually don't fucking, who cares?
	I don't mind the conversation happening though.
	I think it's perfectly fine.
	It kind of all stemmed from a website, a mom who has a blog titled Raising Race Conscious Children.
	It did get picked up by magazines like Redbook.
	I think People wrote about it as well.
	But I don't mind people discussing that if it's something that they don't think is appropriate, you know, or they're wrestling with that in their mind, like when it is and when it isn't appropriate.
	But they obviously, Greg Gutfeld just couldn't help himself.
	He just took it to this insane position.
	But, you know, so I was listening, because I don't like political correctness, but I was thinking as I was listening to you, what would you say about blackface, where you had white people who, for much of our history, were, you know, thought, oh, great, I'll just act like a stupid black person, mock black people, and, you know, oh, if you complain about it, you're politically correct.
	So a little girl dressing up as Moana is the equivalent of blackface?
	No, I'm saying, is it cultural appropriation is the term used these days, but is it the case that if you put on a headdress, you say, oh, it's just a hat?
	You don't think, oh no, but to the people who created it, it has great significance.
	You're playing a fictional character.
	Okay.
	You're not putting on black.
	No, that's a, it's completely separate and distinctive.
	It was a great monologue.
	Jesse Waters is like, all right, we're done.
	You know, it was interesting that they were kind of getting into that question, which I think, I wish that they explored more.
	I think that would have been really good.
	Yeah, I mean, that's Ron Williams, the one non-white person there.
	Right, right.
	So he's asking.
	He's like, oh, do we want to have, like, any sort of actual intellectual conversation?
	Oh, no, we don't?
	Oh, fuck me?
	Okay, yeah, sorry, fuck me.
	Yeah, the, you know, person of color that's on the show talking about cultural appropriation and that blackface used to be thought of just, you know, as putting on a costume, too.
	And, you know, like, let's have a conversation about it.
	Jesse Watters is like, all right, and off we go to commercial break.
	There literally might as well have been a cane coming around his neck to pull him off of the old-timey thing where you're like, dude, Juan Williams, we don't do that on this network.
	You can't be like, oh, that raises an interesting question.
	Where is the line between racism and cultural appropriation and just good old-fashioned fun?
	That would be like real conversation.
	We can't do that.
	Yell, make it out to be like this entire group of the left is fascist morons who want to come for your Halloween costumes and then commercial break.
	That's what we do.
	How many times do we have to explain this to you, Juan Williams?
	Yeah.
	The article that accompanies this coverage has a line in it that says, what's next?
	Perhaps mandatory DNA testing to determine who is allowed to wear what on Halloween.
	Yeah, definitely.
	We have that now, right?
	Because this was, let's see, this was six years ago.
	2017, 2016.
	So, well, shit, six years ago.
	We've had that for, now it must be, what, five years.
	Yeah.
	Probably.
	I imagine.
	Shit, did you do that?
	Did you do the swab, the cheek swab for our Halloween costumes tonight?
	I'm not sure I did.
	I don't think we're allowed out then.
	Damn it.
	If we don't get that done.
	Yeah.
	The article also says, Tufts University encouraged its students to report any inappropriate and offensive costume to the police.
	Well... What?
	It's not true.
	There's no way they did that.
	Yeah, so the original article that appeared on The College Fix says members of Tufts University's Greek system have been told they could face serious disciplinary sanctions, including a possible investigation by the campus police for wearing Halloween costumes that offend peers or make the campus community feel threatened or unsafe.
	So I wonder if, you know, someone wore a Hitler costume or... Yeah, threatened her and saved her.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Then that could cross the line to, yes, I'm going to report this to the police, but yeah, there's nothing in there.
	And campus police, right?
	Yeah, campus police.
	Big difference, but yeah.
	Exactly, exactly.
	So that was hilarious to me, just the coverage there.
	And then now we're going to go over to... I love this chronological trip.
	This is a great idea.
	Yeah.
	And you said we shouldn't do a spooktacular.
	All right, now we're going to just do a quick little clip from 2019.
	We're going to go visit Laura Ingraham and see what she has to say about Halloween costumes and cultural appropriation.
	What if we didn't, though?
	I'm going to make you.
	You were an accomplice when I was the Joker.
	I wore a full white face.
	Oh, you did wear a white face.
	Very risky.
	The albino community is up No, no, this is, but I'm telling you the cultural appropriation argument has no, I mean if you're an Eskimo, even an Igloo, because one kids one year they did, not my kids, my neighbors, had an Igloo, they were walking around in an Igloo, that could be just wearing an Igloo, could be cultural appropriation.
	Salt and pepper shakers, what are you really getting at there?
	I hope they stop this.
	Alright, alright, we gotta go, we gotta go, we gotta go, we have one.
	Just nonsense.
	Salt and pepper shakers.
	What are you really getting at here?
	Okay.
	Also, I love this.
	The logic is, well, my neighbors did this, so it's fucking stupid if you say there's anything wrong with that.
	Also, she was like, how quick?
	She was like, not my kids.
	Yeah.
	She's like, I don't want to deal with the backlash because someone's probably going to be upset about this because, you know, it is kind of interesting.
	And then this focus on white face because that's not a thing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Because he dressed up as the Joker.
	OK.
	I think it would be hilarious if her neighbors were just doing some sort of Igloo related costume that has nothing whatsoever to do with the Well, I'm pretty sure Eskimo is now a racial slur, isn't it?
	Yes, it is.
	Aren't we not cool with that?
	Yeah.
	I'm pretty sure back in 2019 we weren't cool with that.
	That's true.
	Yeah, I think that's been a while.
	So I would love the idea that, like, her neighbors saw this and were like, Jesus fucking Christ, she's that racist that she interpreted this as that?
	That wasn't even... We're just doing a fun, like, penguin something, you know?
	Yeah, happy feet.
	Something completely different.
	Yeah.
	No, we have to go back to Greg.
	Sorry.
	2021, Mr. Gutfeld, and Squid Games.
	Schools are intervening!
	No Squid Game costumes this Halloween-ing!
	What are these administrators mean for taking the fun out of Halloween?
	Three upstate New York elementary schools.
	Aren't they all?
	What?! !
	He just recycles the same- Is that just- Okay, if that's an ongoing bit that makes it make more sense, but what's the bit- Does it?
	Upstate on Aren't They All.
	We need to find the first one of that then.
	I need to know.
	We gotta watch all the Greg Gutfeld.
	Three upstate New York elementary schools, aren't they all, have banned squid game costumes, citing the potential- Are they all angry?
	Why does Greg Gutfeld always say- Oh, that's a good idea, yeah.
	Aren't they all?
	Maybe it is some sort of recurring joke, which would probably be the funniest thing he's ever done.
	Okay, it might be because in 2022, there's an article that says on Fox News, a New York City judge, aren't they all, has ruled that polyamorous relationships Yeah, I know.
	A Japanese man, aren't they all?
	Yeah, OK.
	So, yeah, it's a recurring thing.
	Yeah, but I think it's... But I don't know what it means.
	OK, but so here's... I want to clarify.
	OK.
	In my mind, because I'm not an asshole, it would be like an absurdist comedy where you're saying, aren't they all in a way that's like, that makes no sense.
	You know, like that would be funny to me.
	Is it like the first time he ever did it, it was a joke that made sense.
	You know, it was a word that, like, you could reinterpret in two ways, and so when you say it, aren't they all, it, like, makes you think, oh, that's funny, because I didn't interpret the second way.
	That would be, like, the ideal form of the joke.
	And then the absurdist continuation of this, that would be what I would do, would be to start saying that all the time, or in ways that doesn't really make sense.
	Yeah.
	You know, sort of like, wrecked him, damn near killed him.
	Like, you'd start doing, like, stuff like that.
	But I think, They're just doing it if it's New York or any liberal place.
	That's all it is.
	Interesting.
	New York, aren't they all?
	But then it was like, Japanese man, aren't they all?
	Yeah.
	On a different article.
	Like, what?
	What was that related to?
	It says, you can't help but admire a man who does nothing for hire, and what price is fair to hire a man who just doesn't care?
	A Japanese man, aren't they all, kept being criticized for doing nothing, opened a Twitter account called Do Nothing Rent a Man back in 2018.
	It has since turned into a career.
	He's so good at doing nothing.
	I would still argue that there's no way it's the delightful, harmless, absurdist version because you're still invoking some weird racist thing, you know, or at least racial thing that is not, I don't know.
	So I'm unclear, but that does reveal a lot.
	My next deep dive.
	Yeah, I know.
	Was this the actual point of the episode?
	You really could have sold this harder.
	Like, I'm going to answer sort of.
	A question we've had burning in our souls ever since that episode.
	And I don't have the answer yet.
	That's amazing.
	But folks, I'm going to find it out.
	Here's what I want to do, though.
	Let's not specifically look for it.
	Let's just, over the course of this show, this is going to happen because we're always watching this fucking idiot.
	And we'll just... Catalog.
	Yeah, we'll just, like, organically see where the origin of it was.
	Okay.
	A violent message aligned with them as the reason.
	Also, some of the children have seafood allergies.
	Principals reportedly sent an email to parents after noticing that kids were playing a version of the games on the playground.
	Of course, the parents were the ones that let the kids watch that stuff.
	Now, by a version of, I assume they meant that the kids were not actually killing each other on the playground.
	That would be funny and weird.
	According to Superintendent Craig Titise, no items that can- It's so- who doesn't know what comedy is?
	I could study this for hours.
	It's just so funny.
	Look, I'm not a fucking brilliant comedian over here, but this is something I do have to think a lot about as what I do to try to do a good job.
	And also in editing, where you're like, oh, that came across this way, or like, oh, the timing on this will be better.
	I think a lot about this.
	And so to see Just a Funhaus mirror version where it's like, you've just got nothing, dude.
	Like you're doing, you're sort of doing the sound of jokes, but all the parts are in the wrong place.
	It's just, it captivates me.
	Okay, I'll stop.
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	Comedy legend.
	Talk about comedy.
	Yeah, enough of this gut foul.
	We're gonna hear from a real artist.
	Rob Schneider.
	Back to it.
	Can be interpreted as weapons should be brought to school, and that costume should not be too gory or scary.
	Well, I gotta say, that covers a lot.
	Doesn't leave us with many options, does it?
	I mean, A, you can't be daring.
	You can't be scary.
	You can't even be interesting.
	I guess that leaves us with one option.
	They just put up a picture of Jimmy Kimmel.
	Oh, yeah, that's right.
	It's like, oh, he's not interesting.
	Not daring.
	Did he say not funny, though?
	Because I feel like that would be important to the punchline you're driving at.
	Now I got to see.
	I got to review the tape.
	And that costume should not be too gory or scary.
	Well, I got to say, that covers a lot.
	Doesn't leave us with many options, does it?
	I mean, A, you can't be daring.
	You can't be scary.
	You can't even be interesting.
	Oh, interesting.
	I guess that leaves us with one option.
	That's so good because, okay, if you were an actual person at all in the realm of funny, you would need to be building that joke earlier.
	You need to be using words that work for both purposes.
	Or you can start with one that doesn't, and then your second one, like you need to start leading into stuff.
	And somewhere in there, Jimmy Kimmel is a comedian.
	He does a comedy show.
	That's fundamental.
	If you want to also say he's not interesting, sure.
	But you can't lead into the, okay, you had no idea this was, this is just, you can't play Gutfeld, exclamation point, hun, and not have me do an hour on the, I just can't, I can't help it.
	It's like the last, the first two things were not things you would want to be if you're Jimmy Kimmel.
	You can't start with, you can't be scary, you can't be spooky, you can't be interesting.
	I guess that only leaves one.
	So interesting is the one insult then?
	The one word you got in there that applies to Jimmy Kimmel's may be interesting, but he's a comedian that you have to say can't be funny for this to work.
	I think that's why the audience takes a beat before they laugh.
	You know what?
	I'm going to tell you when he puts it up there.
	I guess that leaves us with one option.
	It's up there.
	They took like a second of like, oh, is that, does he have a- Well, they were waiting for their cue.
	I know, I know.
	I think, but I want to imagine even the, you know, the person that lights up the like, please laugh fucking light, you know, in the studio was like, is it, is that, oh, that's the, ah, laugh everybody, laugh.
	And they're like, ah, ha, ha, ha.
	Because they got to expect like there's going to be some other joke, but there's not.
	There's not, yeah.
	Oh my god.
	You got any other comedy you've gut felt to critique?
	What's the episode we're doing?
	I don't remember.
	Yeah, no.
	So on this one, you know, they're complaining about kids not being allowed to dress up as characters from Squid Games, which is, you know, they're like, hey, it's the parents that let them watch it.
	Not necessarily all kids.
	Sorry, what's the criticism of whom?
	Like, yeah, I actually don't think kids should be watching Squid Games.
	Yeah, I don't think so either.
	No, I will not watch it.
	It's too much.
	So we're all on the same page there.
	Who's the bad guy?
	The bad guy is the school for saying kids aren't allowed to wear costumes from Squid Games.
	Oh, so his position is they should be able to dress as Squid Games?
	Yeah, I think it's the parental rights thing, right?
	Like, if the parent is sending them to school in whatever, then it's fine, because it's the parent's decision.
	But the summary on this, you know, it says, Gutfeld panel responds to schools coddling kids, censoring Squid Game costumes.
	Yeah, so, I mean, like, our kids, no masks are allowed, no weapons are allowed, and I think that's perfectly reasonable.
	Oh, really?
	I didn't know that.
	Yeah, it's children.
	Yeah.
	Why are we doing that?
	Hey, it's a staff of people who have to look after your fucking kid.
	Yeah, whatever they need, pretty much.
	Within reason, if they think something, they need a rule to make it not hell for them to watch our precious children all day, yeah, you do you.
	Yeah.
	And then I thought it'd be funny to jump into 2022.
	Oh, wow.
	Where we get kind of the— The DeLoreans get a lot of miles!
	Yeah, we're going to go over to Fox & Friends, and we get kind of the other side of this.
	Oh, oh.
	Yeah.
	The liberal ladies of The View played politics even on Halloween.
	And this year, they used children to make their points.
	Watch.
	One of the hugest topics that you guys talked about this year, the raid on Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate.
	Yes.
	So we have Trump as a toilet with our FBI agents.
	Here we have our Dr. Oz and his crew today.
	We've got the broccoli and the salsa and guacamole and asparagus.
	Dr. Oz and his supermarket scrubs.
	These inflatable costumes are really popular.
	Kids are just going up and up and up.
	Wouldn't we all love some money?
	So we threw a bunch of money on this costume and we have inflation.
	Kayleigh, I have so many issues with this.
	It's important to say, so those were all like they had kids model the costumes they were talking about.
	That's the that's the big problem here.
	Because it is quite shocking, I think, and grotesque to use political props to make a statement that an adult can own quite on their own.
	Especially disturbing, in my opinion, was the Dr. Oz one.
	Because how presumptive that all of their viewers vote a certain way.
	Why would they alienate, essentially, someone who's a candidate for U.S.
	Senate while knowing and trying to appreciate that their audience might represent a spectrum?
	Let alone a spectrum in Pennsylvania.
	Why would that not be shooting themselves in the foot in that way?
	Yeah, well, it appears their audience leans very clearly in one direction, judging by the shouting Ted Cruz got last week and the expletives from the audience.
	I mean, how sick is this?
	Like, take a look at that.
	I mean I did Halloween last night and my daughter was a princess and the debate we had before going out on the streets to trick-or-treat was Elsa versus Jasmine and she kept wanting to change and this is what normal people do.
	Their kids are firefighters.
	Their kids are, you know, I don't know, I saw an astronaut.
	This is what normal people do.
	Not normal people who have an obsession with Donald Trump and Dr. Oz and Republicans.
	This is what they do and what a sad life that must be.
	I'm sorry.
	It's a joke!
	Do they think that these were like, just they had these costumes normally and they were, oh, those are great costumes, let's put them on a TV show.
	No, they made the, they had like fucking teams of people.
	A costume designer.
	Yeah, working on these for the sake of this bit.
	Yeah, I know.
	What idiots.
	It's so funny to me to be doing a TV show complaining that a bigger TV show isn't geared toward a right-wing audience when you're Fox News and you don't gear toward a left-wing audience whatsoever.
	It's just a weird thing.
	Why do you even feel entitled?
	Just don't watch the show.
	Why is it a thing that you would say, They need to change, like, okay, maybe they're a left, they even acknowledge, like, wow, they have a left-wing audience because Ted Cruz was booed.
	First of all, it's pretty bipartisan to boo Ted Cruz.
	Nobody likes Ted Cruz.
	And also, I love that it's particularly sickening.
	She was really, you can see this lady.
	Honest.
	Yeah, she was actually debating how far do I take this.
	So, I just, I just gotta say.
	It was particularly hard to see Crudité mocked in this way.
	Some of my best friends are Crudité.
	Yeah, that was a joke to everybody.
	Nobody thought the Crudité video in which Dr. Oz said the wrong story.
	He combined two names of two grocery outlets together to say the wrong thing and talk about Crudité in that way.
	That was a failure like to everybody.
	Yeah, it's not like the right was like, this is the best video.
	It's like that could just be a joke in that you're mocking how bad of a gaffe that was.
	Yeah.
	And inflation.
	One of them is dressed as inflation.
	That's like the main attack on Biden at the time.
	Very offensive.
	Yeah.
	Did they talk about that?
	No.
	No.
	Okay.
	No.
	They focused in on how dare they dress up a child as a toilet with a Donald Trump wig.
	And yeah.
	Have I ever told these people to just get a hobby or something?
	Do something with your day.
	This is why I don't watch this.
	This is the most Fox News I've watched in a long time, which is now a cumulative four and a half minutes.
	And I'm like, I feel bad for you.
	I know it's your job and you're all lying, but still.
	God, that's got to be exhausting, right?
	Doesn't this get tiring?
	Oh, I know.
	I know.
	And so that was last year's freakout on Halloween.
	This year, I don't have a video for us, but just to let you know, this year has been focused on a particular school district in New Jersey where the superintendent, the title of the article is Superintendent Cancels Halloween, Bans Costumes in School, Citing DEI and Potential Harm to Students, in quotes, Dignity.
	So it is true that a school district in New Jersey has decided that they are not going to do Halloween celebrations during the school day and that Halloween celebrations should be held after school hours.
	They have been going through, there's a New York Times article about it, actually.
	Oh, wow.
	They've been going through a process of addressing integration issues in their schools in that district.
	And so they are trying to be very mindful of any potential equity concerns with regard to socioeconomic status.
	And they don't want kids to feel left out if they don't have like the nicest, newest Halloween costume.
	So they're saying, you know, we don't have a way to address this.
	In the school day right now, when the focus is on our kids in the schools and making sure that everyone feels like they are supported in the same way, they have access to the same things, so we're just going to cut that out of the school day itself and, you know, we're happy to sponsor fall festivals, we're happy to do X, Y, and Z, but we're just taking this off the table right now.
	First off, I don't remember if I did any Halloween stuff like at school during school hours.
	I don't think that's particularly important.
	Secondly, boy, let me tell you, there is nothing more differentiating between those who have and those who have not than stuff like this.
	As a child who had endless Horrible, homemade, bullshit, nothing costumes.
	That was a big divider.
	Also, it was harder to get good stuff back then, so it was even worse.
	Like now, at least, you know, there's a lot of Amazon crap that's so cheap pretty much anyone can afford it.
	But no, I definitely gather where that's coming from.
	And it wasn't a decision that the superintendent made, you know, as kind of like the ivory tower, all-powerful being.
	They surveyed the principals for all the schools in the district.
	And that was the overwhelming majority of opinions was we would rather not have Halloween celebrations during the school day and instead focus on some sort of fall festival, autumn festival that we can present in a different manner.
	Yeah.
	Plus, I think it's also funny, again, because a lot of the history of this is that Halloween is too satanic.
	So the right doesn't like it.
	I know.
	So it's like, if anything, it could be more inclusive to like not.
	And I've been, I've also been like really curious too, maybe like two years ago, a year ago, Megan Fox and Machine Gun Kelly dressed up as like a priest and a nun in very sexual Costumes and pictures and very suggestive.
	She's taking communion from him, like on her knees and stuff.
	And like, it's, you know, definitely invokes, you know, something beyond what you would normally get maybe at church.
	And a lot of people were pissed about it, about like, this is important for our religion.
	And, you know, you're desecrating this, yada, yada, yada.
	I wasn't able to find Fox News going crazy about that.
	But yeah, but they are policing costumes for grown adults too.
	So Fox News, we went on that like little storytelling journey.
	I had teased at the beginning that there's someone worse than Fox News.
	It's not Ben Shapiro, surprisingly.
	I did watch a Ben Shapiro video about Halloween costumes and he kind of gets it.
	He's like, you know, yeah, I don't think it's cool to dress up in this way and that way.
	You know, I didn't see any problematic costumes that he's done.
	I might have missed something, but he was like Keith Olbermann one year and like it was a pretty good costume.
	But his take on Halloween costumes is certainly more nuanced than Fox News.
	But this person is not so nuanced.
	I'm going to go ahead and send you the link.
	You're going to start at 323.
	But the Office of Scolding Justice Warriors has decreed no hula girls, no Indian chiefs, no Southern Belles, no Daniel Boone, no geishas, ninjas, gypsies, mobsters, terrorists, no Cleopatra.
	Pirates offend one-eyed people.
	You can't dress as a hobo because it makes light of the homeless.
	You can't dress as Quasimodo because it offends hunchbacks.
	You can't dress as an escaped mental patient.
	It offends Kanye.
	That's kind of a chuckle, I suppose.
	It's, like, one of the funniest things I've ever heard him say.
	I just love the, like, disproportionate audience.
	Like, wouldn't you feel embarrassed at a certain point?
	Yeah.
	He's in control of it.
	Like, this is your show.
	You can tell people to cool it.
	It's not that funny.
	Like, it's, oh, yeah.
	It's crazy.
	The sexy handmaid's tale costume.
	The Handmaid's Tale costume has already been pulled from the shelves and an apology issued.
	Lest someone be offended by the ironic take on a character that doesn't exist from a fictional world that never happened.
	You know...
	Not everything that merely alludes to another culture is racist or cultural appropriation.
	Really.
	Imagine there's no countries.
	It isn't hard to do.
	Boy, he really likes John Lennon as his go-to.
	Yeah, recycles that.
	Anti-woke, yeah.
	Like his version of I Have a Dream?
	Doing it wrong every time?
	It's always fun because it wasn't PC.
	Not being PC is almost the whole point of the holiday.
	But now everything has to turn into a federal case of snowflakes versus humor.
	And then some cultural studies professor will go on TV to try to explain his outrage, and Tucker Carlson will look at him like this.
	Okay.
	The majority of America is with the Democrats on the issues.
	They just find the woke people irritating as hell.
	In a new poll, 80% of Americans find political correctness to be a problem.
	including 75% of African Americans, 74% of Americans under 30, 82% of Asians, 87% of Hispanics, 88% of Native Americans.
	If you're not a statistician, let me break those numbers down for you.
	of Asians, 87% of Hispanics, 88% of Native Americans.
	If you're not a statistician, let me break those numbers down for you.
	Nobody likes you.
	All right.
	So this kicked off.
	I was like, where is this coming from?
	Yeah.
	He cites The Atlantic, and I was like, all right, well, let me look that up.
	The author of this piece, The Atlantic, is Yasha Monk.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	So, you know, anti-identity politics, Yasha Monk.
	And we'll do a whole episode on him.
	Yeah.
	I'm sure of it.
	He's been popping up a lot in some of the things I've been looking at.
	Yeah, he just sucks.
	Yeah.
	So he cites in here a report that came out.
	This is back in 2018, October 2018, and a report titled Hidden Tribes, A Study of America's Polarized Landscape.
	And it's from an organization called More in Common.
	So I went to their website and, you know, nothing's like red flags or anything like that.
	And I pull up the report and, you know, they are really distilling the findings of the political correctness piece of this report.
	It's 159 pages.
	the full report.
	And it's not just about political correctness.
	It's about understanding the different groups of people in America.
	If we were to define the groups in America, what would it be?
	And they go through a pretty reasonable approach here.
	They did surveys of more than 8,000 people They tried to be statistically representative of the population based on census data.
	They did six hour-long focus groups, 30 one-on-one interviews of at least one hour's duration with people across the seven different segments of the population that they identified.
	Participants answered hundreds of questions.
	And then they also, you know, asked those kind of open-ended why questions.
	They wanted to understand qualitatively why people held the beliefs that they did.
	And they did a statistical process called hierarchical clustering to identify those groups of people with similar core beliefs.
	What they found with the political correctness piece is that the extremes of political correctness is divided between a group that they called progressive activists, where only 30 percent of progressive activists believe political correctness has gone too far.
	And then the other extreme is... Nazis.
	I'm not even joking.
	Those are the two groups.
	If you're going to do polar opposites.
	No, so it's devoted conservatives and traditional conservatives.
	Yeah, Nazis, I said.
	Yes, yes.
	So grouping them together.
	And that group of people far outweighs, you know, progressive activists alone.
	They obviously believe that political correctness has gone too far.
	But one thing that was interesting is there also is this differentiation based off of race and age within the report itself to identify, you know, like how different racial groups feel about political correctness, how different age groups feel about political correctness.
	But what Bill Maher doesn't get into is the cross-sectional stuff, which I think is really interesting.
	And, you know, the report is quite thorough.
	It does like a deep dive on all of these different groups that they've identified and how they feel about particular clusters of questions to align that tribal kind of approach.
	So I had to cut myself off because it was super interesting.
	I'm going to read it later.
	You know, I'll probably put it up on Patreon and share with the group.
	Kind of interesting.
	It sounds like there's a lot in there and you know, you haven't gone through it all but yeah, I would be curious if they were looking at the population because obviously if you demonize a invisible enemy that's not actually fucking real in any coherent sense that is wokeness or PC.
	If all you're hearing is how, yeah, this politically correct thing, this principle, blah, blah, blah, blah, all day, of course you're going to be like, yeah, no, that sucks.
	That's all you're hearing about it.
	You have created this, Bill Maher.
	That's part of what you have done by elevating Meaningless, small things that are no major part of anyone's life, elevating it to the national stage on your stupid show full of people who laugh like clowns in the audience at everything you do for an hour that's not even funny.
	That's what you've helped create.
	Yeah.
	And then there's this differentiation that they do here, too.
	The progressive activists, they have this scatterplot where they plot the political correctness is a problem and the percent that agree within these different groups against hate speech is a problem and the percent that agree there.
	So progressive activists, there is a huge number of progressive activists.
	It's like 99 percent that believe hate speech is a problem.
	And very low on political correctness is a problem.
	Whereas when you look at the traditional conservatives and devoted conservatives, they are nearly 100 percent political correctness is a problem, but hanging around 50 percent that hate speech is a problem.
	Yeah.
	And then you have the other groups, the other four groups, which end up getting combined a lot in this report and referred to as the exhausted majority.
	And that includes traditional liberals, passive liberals.
	the politically disengaged and moderates who believe that political correctness is a problem.
	They feel strongly about that, but they also believe that hate speech is a problem.
	So there could be a way, you know, for one of those two things is a problem.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And so I thought that report super interesting.
	We'll probably dig into it later.
	I'll make it available to folks so they can look at it too.
	Yeah, that might be worth an episode.
	I just want to shake all these people by their fucking lapels and just be like, okay, tell me what is a formulation of hate speech is a problem that you might realistically have seen or anyone in your life might have seen?
	or anything like that.
	And you say, oh, I know if I play a single minute of a video game, there's going to be the N word 400 times and probably a bunch of gay slurs.
	And probably, yeah, no, that's a problem.
	That sucks that my kids might see that if they play a video game.
	Also, you're walking down the street and there's cat calling.
	And then there's probably a gender slur in that possibly if you don't go with it.
	Like, there's all kinds of real-world places and times where you or someone you know will probably come across this.
	Do the same thing about political correctness.
	Give me a time.
	Where did political correctness touch you?
	Show me where it touched you.
	Because there's nothing.
	It'll be, well, I heard on some asshole's show that there is a principle and a place I don't know that said don't do blackface.
	There's nothing.
	There's nothing in your life, what is it in your life you're worried about?
	It's nothing, it's all a fake fucking controversy that is constantly fueled by people like this and Fox News.
	I would love to hear where the real world thing, the average citizen, whoever's in this poll, just tell me where are you likely, you or someone you immediately know, where are you likely to encounter this whole PC-ness and how it's a problem and in what way is it a problem?
	What would they even come up with?
	Well, I wanted to make a joke that had a racial slur in it, but people said no.
	It'd be like, I don't know what it would even be.
	I wanted to dress up as a horrible racial stereotype.
	And then, you know, maybe I thought better of it.
	The other thing that's really interesting, you know, this is just from Wikipedia, but it linked me to another article about the idea of right-wing political correctness.
	Oh, God, yeah.
	They are the originators of it.
	Right.
	And so it says, in 2012, economist Paul Krugman wrote that the big threat to our discourse is right-wing political correctness, which, unlike the liberal version, has lots of power and money behind it.
	I didn't know he didn't suck in that way.
	That's interesting.
	Yeah, one 2012.
	Yeah.
	Who knows where he is now?
	Yeah, we'll look at him now.
	The woke left is terrible.
	Fucking everybody.
	God, everybody.
	And the goal is very much the kind of thing Orwell tried to convey with his notion of newspeak, to make it impossible to talk and possibly even think about ideas that challenge the established order.
	Yeah.
	And I looked at this article that was linked in that section of the Wikipedia article, and it was a journalism teacher that gave a, you know, they were talking about free speech.
	And he asked the class, can you give me some ideas about political correctness?
	Everyone kind of answered that liberal is often associated with political correctness.
	And then he asked them, what is something conservatives are politically correct about?
	And the class didn't know how to answer that.
	And so eventually someone said, well, you know, maybe like the topic of abortion.
	That's kind of PC for for conservatives.
	And, you know, the example was when Tomi Lahren talked about, you know, pro-choice, she ended up getting suspended from The Blaze.
	It was like, how dare you go against our decision on being pro-abortion?
	And so they started talking about like these other things, and it's not something you talk about very often at all.
	And the way that this professor or teacher talked about it in this article is the role that the media has in using political correct as a term only in instances in which the left is bringing up something.
	that is expectations of positions on things or whatever, right?
	The blame could be placed in large part on conservative media for using the term as a go-to attack on the left, but looking deeper, the mainstream news media as a whole bears some responsibility, mainly as more left-leaning publications took on a greater burden of balance than their right-leaning counterparts.
	Yep.
	For example, as reporters and commentators debate whether avoiding the terms radical Islamic terrorism or illegal immigrants is politically correct, many within the mainstream media have tacitly accepted the rebranding of white supremacists and white nationalists as alt-right.
	But who is acting out of political correctness in this case?
	The left out of a fear of alienating certain audiences by calling out racism, or the right and its instinct to deflect any accusation that the bigotry on its fringes is moving toward the center?
	Yeah, interesting.
	Yeah, super interesting.
	Why was there bipartisan condemnation of comedian Kathy Griffin's picture with a bloody Trump head, but no such fear when folks lynched and burned effigies of President Obama?
	Yeah, it's 100% the dynamic that's happening, that you hit on it, that liberals and the New York Times and any sort of mainstream media Feels this urge to like, oh no, but we, here's how we're super honest and smart is we'll even criticize the left.
	And so they find these little things to score points, both sides points on.
	But the problem is, as you just quoted, when there's only one side doing that, then you've got universal agreement on a bullshit problem like, PC has gone too far.
	Yeah.
	Because that's the low-hanging fruit for like the left to criticize the left.
	You've got universal agreement on that now and the right has now worked the refs and marched further and you've done nothing to actually police the way worse thing which is the fucking white supremacist right and the racist right and all that.
	It's exactly true.
	And if you thought I was just going to leave you there with one Bill Maher, we're going to do one more Bill Maher, but just a little one.
	Good.
	This is from 2022.
	I assume it's a short one, but then we have to watch five minutes of the audience laughing.
	Yeah.
	And finally, new rule, if Halloween is too much for your fragile sensibilities and you're worried about seeing someone wearing something that's on the forbidden costume list.
	You had a timestamp that was not this, but we have to, this is amazing, actually.
	This is the best.
	They're still, woo!
	Yeah!
	Just stay the fuck home.
	Every year we go through this bullshit.
	No, you do it every year.
	Costumes you better not wear, lest a night of irreverent dress-up spiral into something that resembles fun.
	Jesus Christ, it's so sad.
	Such a pathetic little man.
	All those articles, these scary headlines he has up on his screen, 15 offensive Halloween costumes that shouldn't exist, Halloween costumes you should not wear, 10 problematic Halloween costumes you shouldn't wear.
	All that's clickbait because they know you've primed the whole audience to be mad and have a rage response and click that, first off, and it's just a way to get clicks.
	Secondly, it's probably just fucking no-nonsense good advice and it's not a big deal to just not offend people horribly.
	Here's the main problem with this whole fucking thing is, Bill, just shut the fuck up and go dress how you want.
	Do blackface if you want to.
	Why don't you just do it?
	Yeah.
	Go ahead.
	We'll just, and then And then people will react how they would like to react.
	Exactly.
	Because it's a free country.
	You've done your free speech.
	Go do your blackface thing.
	And see how it works out for you.
	Which I've heard you say the N-word on your show back in the damn shirt, something that is top of mind for you.
	And also, then I'll use my free speech, as you say, and I'll criticize you.
	The people writing these articles, they are doing their free speech and just saying, I don't think the others should do this.
	You know what you can do is just say, oh, I disagree and go wear it.
	You don't have to turn it into this...
	It's this fucking, it's like a Jesus narrative of like you're being, this crucified white man.
	Oh, it's so hard.
	They always tell me I can't do things for Halloween.
	It's nothing.
	Fucking baby.
	Yeah.
	God, I'm so tired of it.
	It's like a BuzzFeed list.
	Let it go.
	Yeah, I can't, like, this is too much.
	I'm overdosing, hun.
	I'm ODing on these idiots and they're fucking, they're so, they're crybabies.
	God, it's pathetic.
	They exactly are the thing they think they're making fun of.
	Yeah.
	I thought... And now here's the clip that you wanted to play.
	Yeah.
	What better costume to wear this year than the most ridiculous one I could think of?
	You.
	This year, I'm going as an uber-woke, overly-anxious, perpetually-offended 20-something.
	He has jumped the shark.
	So hard.
	Yeah, that's so bad.
	I think you're gonna really enjoy it.
	Okay, first of all, I have my Fuck the Patriarchy T-shirt.
	Why is that funny?
	Oh, yes.
	And then I have a check from the patriarchy to pay my car insurance.
	What?
	What?
	What is... Okay, I've got my nose ring.
	Okay, you're just saying things.
	My vape pen.
	I'm sorry.
	Does he think vaping is a thing only... Only the woke do?
	...offended woke people do?
	Yeah.
	Bloth, surgical mask.
	My surgical mask, my N95 mask, and my face shield.
	This is a year ago, folks.
	Yep.
	Like, all right, man, get over the mask thing.
	Like, come on.
	Then after I leave the house, I have my Klonopin to take the edge off, my Adderall to put it back I have my Klonopin to take the edge off, my Adderall
	I have my participation trophy, my cat ear headphones to listen to sad music, the stick that goes up my ass, and the leash for my support animal.
	And just in case anyone still doesn't get what I'm all about, I have a wet blanket.
	That was amazing.
	So good.
	Isn't that insane?
	Here's what's so funny.
	You know, for this show, we've clicked on a lot of Bill Maher videos on YouTube.
	Literally every single comment for all time ever of them is now, you know, I'm a right wing, but now I love him.
	You know, I used to not like him, but now I'm a right wing.
	I'm starting to appreciate every single one of them.
	Like, duh.
	Yeah, that's your audience now.
	Fucking idiot.
	You know, it is interesting because, like, you know, I said he was even worse than Fox News.
	Yeah.
	One of the things that I watched on Fox News was them talking about how horrible Blackface is.
	You know, we heard a little bit of that in the earlier clip, too, that, you know, Blackface is really awful.
	And the five went on, obviously, when Trudeau when the pictures of him and Blackface come out.
	And it's a problem, like, regardless of what position you're in, what side of the aisle, for example.
	Like, it's wrong.
	It's wrong no matter what.
	And Fox News has taken a pretty strong stance on Blackface.
	I don't know if Bill Maher would.
	They took a strong stance on Blackface?
	Yeah, they were like, this is horrible.
	Oh, because there was a left-wing politician for them.
	Exactly.
	Northam, right?
	They had all these opportunities for the left.
	They're like, let's just, we'll take this one.
	The easiest one probably too.
	But it's just so incredible to me because it's like, you know, in the same way that some folks on the right have maybe come around on gay marriage and you asked them 20 years ago and they probably were not fans of gay marriage, but they're really anti-trans.
	They get it.
	They get how that can be offensive for black people and for, you know, people who care about black people.
	It's just offensive in general.
	Blackface is horrible.
	But they don't, they can't apply it to other groups of people then and understand that cultural appropriation and offensive caricatures of an individual's heritage is problematic.
	They get it for one thing, but they can't apply it to anything else.
	And they take the straw person argument of they use what we've seen, which is, yeah, blackface is bad and people do get somewhat cancelled for that.
	Like that's a big, when a celebrity or somebody is outed as having done blackface, that's a major deal.
	I bet if we checked almost every single one of them, they're still fine.
	But like, that's a pretty big deal.
	And then they take that and they do a switcheroo and make us assume that when they list all these other things that that's the same reaction.
	But it's not.
	You don't have the same reaction to like a hobo costume or a Moana costume.
	You don't get the same reaction because people are not, in general, fucking insane.
	Like, they're not.
	You need it to be for your victim narrative.
	One of the funniest things where it's like, oh, you almost get it, is like, why does Bill simultaneously think there's this cabal of woke people in control of his entire planet that he's subject to, but also he cites polls and it's like, you know, 100% of people actually aren't woke.
	You're like, that's weird.
	How are those two things both true?
	You think there's just somehow this tiny sliver of people who you just said we all hate, like literally everybody hates.
	Wow, that's amazing.
	We should research into how they've gained control of our whole society, according to you.
	Or is that bullshit?
	My main message is you're free to consider these things and make your own decisions either way.
	You can just disagree if you want.
	You can even be like, ah, I think you're making too much of this.
	And then just fucking, if you want to, own the consequences or whatever.
	It's the complaining about the thing.
	It's not that they want free speech.
	They want no consequences ever for anything they do.
	They want to be the dominating position.
	They want a completely unopposed position without any criticism.
	And you don't get that.
	It's not that hard to at least consider some of these concerns.
	If you were somebody who was at all compassionate, even if you disagreed, you'd do so in a less shitty way.
	You know, like you're just telling on yourself.
	Like if your reaction is, oh, this offends you.
	Oh, let me just put it in your face.
	Like that means you're just an asshole regardless.
	Like even if, even if I agreed with you on something, you're just a fucking asshole.
	If it was like, well, I think person X is being a little oversensitive.
	You'd be like, yeah, okay, well maybe I'll, I might avoid that thing around that person.
	Just even if I don't fully agree, like why do you want to piss someone off or why do you want, it's just an unfriendly thing fundamentally to do.
	Yeah, there was another interesting video I watched that had set up, you know, pairs of people from different ethnic backgrounds, and they were looking at Halloween costumes together and kind of having conversations about, like, is this problematic from your view?
	And someone, you know, said like, I would have thought that this was really cute or like really sexy or whatever.
	And I would have loved to wear it as a costume.
	But hearing about what it means to you, I'm like reconsidering my initial reaction to it because I take what you're saying seriously.
	And then like other instances where the person was like, hey, does this offend you?
	And they're like, no, not really.
	Like this is a silly version.
	Yeah.
	Like you always see those videos.
	And I don't again, it's hard to judge.
	I don't know how representative this is.
	But like you'll see like the guy wearing the mariachi thing.
	And then like all the white people are offended.
	And then he goes up to like some Mexican people are like, that's fucking great.
	And it's like, I don't know how representative that is, but I want to at least leave space for, like, it could be a good thing to have some sort of cultural exchange in that way, if it's done in the right way, you know?
	Like, if it's respectful and in the right context, maybe.
	But you know that most, like, 99.9% of these people That's not what they're doing.
	They just want to use this as a way to bash anyone who tries to care about someone.
	And so there's definitely room to have a conversation and disagree on things like this, but it's telling how you're doing that.
	You know, it tells a lot about you, how you do that, if you engage respectfully or not, or if you're just a troll piece of shit like Bill Maher, who just can't stand that anyone ever has a problem with anything he might do because he's a little fucking baby.
	Yeah.
	It's very different things.
	All right, let's go put on our problematic costumes.
	Also, how important is this to everybody?
	It's so funny.
	Both sides try to do the like, oh, is this so important to you?
	And I just want to go right back.
	How important is Halloween costume?
	It's so easy to find a costume that's nowhere near this, that's not going to be problematic in any way and is probably still fine.
	How restrictive is this to you?
	Because it's zero to me.
	I spend 0% of my life thinking about Halloween.
	I don't care that much.
	You know, Halloween, we should all go up to Bill Maher and say, you're not you when you're hungry, and just hand him Snickers.
	That's a weird reverence, but I love it.
	It's trick or treat, candy, Snickers.
	I'm ready to go hand out some full-size candy bars.
	All right, let's go.
	Oh, by the way, that box didn't come with any full-size Reese's.
	It's so weird.
	I know it has them on the box, The neighborhood kids are going to riot.
	It's so weird that they didn't come in the box.
	I don't know why that would be.
	Wow, they must have fallen out.
	Yeah, no, it might just be like the picture shows like, hey, in general, here's like some candy.
	I have to hide this stuff from you.
	Oh, my God.
	I think there's like two left.
	All right.
	Well, happy Halloween, everybody.
	See you next time.
	Sorry, I have food in my mouth, but I was going to react to that.
	Hold on.
	It was the last bit of sandwich.
	I was trying to get away with it.
	And now I'm done eating.
	Alright, Eli Bosnick.
	I swear, hold on.

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