 Um, so I wanted to talk about, so I wanted to just mention that and wanted you to read that. And then I just want to give you an update about the latest woke, nuttiness, craziness. Here's a few just in the last few days, right? Just a few. And I'm reading this, this is an article in commentary mark magazine that's somewhere by some of these, the online, Amazon, Amazon, you know, Amazon, Amazon found it necessary to redesign its smartphone app logo, redesign its smartphone app logo, the company's signature upward OE in an arrow in the shape of a smile over a box with a jagged cut piece of blue tape over the top. So I think you probably, I probably, you probably know, you know what that is, right? So you've probably seen it. So why do you think they had to redesign it? All right. I see the question. Is this the question? I assume this was the question that, that was $20. I see the question now. I did copy it over, but forgot to market as a $20 question. So I'll get to it in a minute. What do you think was about Amazon's logo that upset people? Well, it's, it's, it sounds like a number of people complained that it looked like Hitler. I'm not kidding. The Amazon logo, smartphone app logo supposedly looked like Hitler. So they actually redesigned it. I don't get that one. I'm, I've been trying, I'm, I'm going to try later to look for the logo and try to figure it out. But that's like nuts. All right. Now, why couldn't Amazon just say, that's not nuts, people. You guys are stupid. Just go away. No, it redesigned it. All right. Hyatt, the hotel, which hosted the conservative political action conference over this last weekend where Trump gave a speech and I showed you a bit of Josh Hawley speech the other day, has had, has been condemned, condemned because the stage on which the speakers appeared looked suspiciously like a Norse rune. I think that's how you pronounce it, favored by the Nazi regimes. I mean, people are seeing Nazis everywhere and Hyatt, of course, designed the stage and put the stage together. I guess the Republican Party had something or the conservative political action committee conference had something to do with the design, but really, who comes up with this stuff? All right. The Syracuse University's woman lacrosse team offered a public apology after a student posted to the team's Instagram account featuring a player making the okay gesture. I think this is okay. I think that's the gesture. The lacrosse team acknowledged that the gesture is now, quote, interpreted by some as white supremacy sign. Really? And those who interpreted it this way were justifiably offended and upset. Why is it justifiable? When it's clear that it was a symbol of okay. This is insane. And then I heard today that six of Dr. Seuss' books, six will not be published anymore because they have racist images in them. Dr. Seuss, I mean, maybe I'd have to go back and look. I don't remember any racist images in the books. I love the Dr. Seuss books. The amazing. Some of them are amazing, amazing. Oh, The Places You'll Go is one of the best books ever. If you've never read The Places You'll Go, Dr. Seuss is The Places You Go, it's just got the right sense of life about it. It's got this section about waiting and how awful waiting is and how horrible waiting is. It's just brilliant. It's just brilliant. I don't know. Maybe there is some racist Dr. Seuss stuff. You could edit it out. You don't have to, I guess, but I'm on the cancel list. I'm waiting to be canceled. I think it would be great publicity if I get canceled. Nobody's canceled me. I'm really not happy about it. Oh, The Places You'll Go. I love Oh, The Places You'll Go. One of my favorite books, certainly one of my favorite books to read to my kids, ever, ever. So that's kind of woke culture, the latest, right, and notice, notice, the cowardice of the New York Times, which knew the details of what happened two years ago and decided after intense internal investigation, which you can read about in these essays, that it was not an offense that he should be fired for or penalized for. And yet because of a news story, some other publication whose name I won't mention, the newsroom, particularly minorities in the newsroom, was so offended, not caring about whether the accusations about this guy were true or not, that he got fired because he was told that he'd lost the newsroom. Not that he did anything wrong. Not that he did anything bad. Not that he was a bad person or a racist or anything. But that he, some people in the newsroom were offended. And therefore he needed to pay the price. They were offense. They were emotional upset at lies about him, meant that he needed to be sacrificed on the altar, a political correctness and woke culture. Just disgusting. Why doesn't Syracuse, why doesn't Amazon, why doesn't Hyatt hotels stand up to these bastards? Because if you stand up to them, you're called a racist. Nobody questions, nobody challenges. That's part of what is so evil. That's part of what is so evil about what's happening in the New York Times because the New York Times is modeling this. It's enough that people accuse you of being a racist and that some people emotionally suspect maybe there's some truth to it. That's enough. So everybody falls. Everybody gives in. Nobody will say a word. So we need to stop this. It's ridiculous. And the way they're using the word racism, it means nothing anymore. If you can throw racist at anybody, it empties the concept of all meaning. So when I call somebody a racist, it doesn't really mean anything because if I'm using it in the same sense as these other people's up, it's, it truly is horrific. And what is truly missing here is balls, courage, somebody having the courage to stand up to this. Now I want to give you one more example of the insanity going on in the world right now. This one's about critic race theory. And here there's a lawsuit brought against these people. This is, this is in Nevada, in a school in Nevada, high school in Nevada. And the lawsuit that's being brought again from a story in Commentary Magazine. The lawsuit is brought by a widowed black mom in Nevada on behalf of her mixed race child, son, I don't know why son. And the reason is that she has found offense. The public schools recent overall overhaul of its curriculum to incorporate intersectionality, which I've talked about on a couple of shows in the past, and critical race theory into the materials. And the materials were not descriptive or informative, but normative and prescriptive. And they required the students to unlearn and fight back against, quote, oppressive structures. That some sexual, racial, sexual, gender and religious identities once revealed, officially singled out in the programming as inherently problematic and assigned pejorative moral attributes. Now notice this is brought by a mixed race child. You think a mixed race child would be a good guy in the intersectionality world. No, they're oppressive because they have, I guess, a little bit of white in them. The lawsuit describes how one teacher greeted the boys class with, hello my wonderful social justice warriors. This is in school. And then she asked each student to label and identify their gender, race and religious identities as part of an independent reflection exercise, which was graded. Students were told to determine what part of your identity has privilege or oppression attached to it. So supposed to rank themselves in this intersectionality world. Privilege is defined, they define privilege as inherent belief in the inferiority of oppressed groups. Now that's great because if that's a definition of privilege, then I'm glad to tell you I'm not privileged because I don't believe there's an inherent, I have an inherent belief in the inferiority of oppressed groups. So I'm not privileged. Of course the oppressed groups as being anyone who is not white. And of course it wasn't just race and sex, which are markers of oppressed status. To quote, in addition to white racial identity, the Fenders singled out assigned inherited moral attributes to pupils who fell into male, that's a bad thing, heterosexual, that's bad. In Christian religious categories, that's bad. They're intrinsically oppressive, intrinsically oppressive. The petition condensed that, the petition in this that I'm reading for this article in commentary. The petition attends that critical race theory curriculum puts students like Clark, a mixed-rate boy being raised in a Christian household in quote, a deliberately designed psychologically abusive dilemma, participate in the exercise in violation of his own conscience and be branded with a pejorative label or conscientiously refrain from participating and suffer isolation from his classmates and be maligned by the same labeling regardless. The suppressor shaming was compulsory, part of class. Now this stuff is everywhere. It's spreading. It's often linked to the 1619 project, which is trying to label the United States as inherently not a democracy, but a slave accuracy, certainly not a republic, certainly not individual rights. And it is everywhere. And the good news in this one, yeah, three cheers for this mother, absolutely Mitch, is that somebody sued them. Somebody stood up to these bastards. And until we stand up to these bastards, until we stand up and say no, until we sue them, until we make them pay, until we shame them in public for this garbage that is presented as social sciences, this racist garbage, which is presented as anti-racist but is actually the institutionalization of racism, it will continue. Voices have to be raised. We must speak up. We must talk about it and fight it and challenge it and sue and tell them to go to hell and not change our logos. Fight, fight, fight. And if we don't, we'll only have ourselves to blame. What we need today, what I called a new intellectual would be any man or woman who is willing to think. Meaning, any man or woman who knows that man's life must be guided by reason, by the intellect, not by feelings, wishes, wins or mystic revelations. 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