if you've been watching my supernatural psychology series
you know that while most of us believe we're completely rational
many of us hold irrational supernatural beliefs
in this video i aim to argue that not only
does shane dawson deserve forgiveness but
i'll also argue that we already offer forgiveness to those who have far
worse crimes i'm willing to bet that a majority of you
watching this video identify as liberal or progressive
if not you align with many liberal morals and values
what's this have to do with shane today we'll see what cancelling shane dawson
looks like through the lens of political morality
like i said by the end of this video you'll see that conservatives would be
more likely to cancel shane than liberals if you remember when
shayna ryland first got engaged a conservative christian
went viral for saying that shane and ryland were going to hell
but this video isn't about conservative views against gay marriage
right now you may believe you're justified in your feelings towards shame
and that's okay but i ask you to watch this video
in its entirety to have a better understanding of where your moral
compass actually lies today we're going to use
critical thinking to analyze conservative versus liberal models of
morality views on punishment and the path to
redemption remember a major part of critical
thinking is improving our emotional intelligence
and we become irrational when we allow our morality
to shift based on present moment emotions
but before we get started talking about morality if you're new to the rewired
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we live in extremely divisive times and as i monitor political
arguments and debates i find it fascinating that both sides
think that they are morally correct when i first got sober eight years ago i
realized how subjective morality is when i was working the 12
steps and i found that really interesting for
example i might make an amends in my ninth step
for something that someone else wouldn't it would all
depend on our moral outlook so i started to wonder who was
right when it came to morality liberals or conservatives as a liberal
i see what conservatives stand for and although i disagree
i'm extremely skeptical of anyone who makes the blanket statement
that all conservatives are immoral after living in central california for a while
i met quite a few conservatives and even though we disagree on political
ideologies i saw them do many kind things to help
their community some would volunteer their time to feed
the homeless or build homes for the less fortunate after losing the 2016 election
i decided it was time to learn more about the conservative side
i wanted to learn about what matters to them and why they hold the beliefs that
they do so i started studying moral politics
some of my favorite books include moral tribes
emotion reason and the gap between us and them
by joshua greene and the righteous mind why good people are divided
by politics and religion by jonathan hype but recently
i just finished the book moral politics how liberals and conservatives think
by the cognitive linguist and philosopher george
lakoff for the purpose of this video i think laykoff's view on moral politics
fits perfectly with our analysis of shane dawson
and cancel culture in general george lakoff argues that the best way to
understand how liberals and conservatives think
is by looking at their ideologies through contrasting styles of parenting
lake off teaches us that while liberals use the nurture and parenting model
conservatives use what he calls the strict father morality
now for a moment i want you to think of the characteristics
of a nurturing parent compared to a strict parent
feel free to leave a comment down below with characteristics that you came up
with but here are some of the ones that
george lakov lists for nurturant parent he lists trust in
their children's fairness and good judgment respect their
children's autonomy thoughts and feelings support their
children's interests and goals enjoy their children's company protect
their children from doing injury to self or others not by
establishing rules but by communicating values and
discussing their children's behavior with them
and modeling the self-control sensitivity and
values they believe their children will need
for the strict father model they believe that children learn
through reward and punishment as in operant conditioning
corporal punishment such as spanking is favored in this model relative to other
models they also believe that children become
more self-reliant and self-disciplined by having strict
parents and finally they believe that the parent
particularly the father is meant to give out rewards for good
behavior as well as punish bad behavior isn't this
interesting when listening to political commentary
you hear conservatives talking about people quote unquote
picking themselves up by the bootstraps which align with
their beliefs in self-reliance and self-discipline
and the strict father is the type who inflicts much harsher punishments
and this is something that we'll dive into more in the next section
many studies have shown that people from more conservative parts of the country
such as the south are much more aggressive than the typical liberal
in a study titled insult aggression and the southern culture of honor
and experimental ethnography the authors wrote the following
in their abstract three experiments examined how norm's characteristics of
culture of honor manifest themselves in the cognitions
emotions behaviors and physiological reactions of southern
white males participants were university of michigan
students who grew up in the north or south in three experiments they were
insulted by an actor who bumped into the participant and
called them an a-hole compared with the northerners who
were relatively unaffected by the insult southerners were a more likely to think
their masculine reputation was threatened
b more upset as shown by the rise in cortisol levels
c more physiologically primed for aggression as shown by the rise in
testosterone levels d more cognitively primed for aggression
and e more likely to engage in aggressive
and dominant behavior findings highlight the insult aggression cycle and cultures
of honor in which insults diminish a man's
reputation and he tries to restore his status
by aggressive or violent behavior so based on the research around political
morality we know that while conservatives want
harsher punishments and are more aggressive
liberals are far more forgiving in this next section
we're going to compare liberal versus conservative policies
and see how they compare to the current situation with shane dawson
it's election year and one of the biggest challenges our country faces
is voter suppression this is such a major issue
that nba star lebron james decided to step
up and create the more than a vote initiative a recent tampa bay times
article says the following former miami heat superstar lebron james
might have taken his basketball skills to the west coast
but he continues to have an eye on florida his more than a vote initiative
on friday committed 100 000 to the florida rights restoration coalition
to help ensure felons are able to regain the right to
vote james tweeted this is a fight about their constitutional right to vote
being denied something that conservatives often get wrong about
liberals is the belief that we're against
punishment but this isn't true we're aware that any well-adjusted
society needs punishment for it to run properly what
conservatives don't understand is that our problem is that punishments
are disproportionate to crimes according to the national conference of
state legislatures here are some stats around what you
should know about felon voting rights in 21 states felons lose their voting
rights during incarceration and for a period of time after typically
while on parole and or probation voting rights are
automatically restored after this time period
former felons may also have to pay any outstanding fines
fees or restitution before their rights are restored as well
in 11 states felons lose their voting rights
indefinitely for some crimes or require a governor's pardon
in order for voting rights to be restored face an additional waiting
period after completion of a sentence including
parole and probation or require additional action before
voting rights can be restored most liberals look at this and think
it's absolutely absurd those from the more progressive side of
the aisle believe that prison should be about rehabilitation
and that these men and women have served their time what's worse
is that many of these people have felonies for non-violent drug offenses
although there may be some debate amongst liberals about whether we should
legalize all drugs or just some drugs the
majority of us believe that marijuana should be completely legal
but as a recovering drug addict my view on punishing drug users is much
different right now we're in the middle of an
addiction epidemic that was massively backed by conservative
legislatures if you're a liberal like me you believe
that rather than punishing these drug addicts
they should receive treatment people like you and i
know that most drug addicts are self-medicating a mental
illness you and i know that if we hope to rehabilitate people
we need to provide them with care and support and not
stricter punishments so for a moment i want you to pause this video and ask
yourself should felons have the right to vote if
the answer is yes i want you to think about why you think
that my guess is that based on your nurturing
parent model of liberal morality you believe people
can change and deserve a second chance so now in
this final section let's take a look at shane dawson's
situation through the lens of political
morality
as we discussed in the last section one thing that conservatives get wrong about
liberals and progressives is that they believe that we're against
punishment in general well one thing that liberals get wrong about
cancer culture is they believe canceling someone is a punishment that's
proportionate to the crime now that you know a little bit about
liberal versus conservative morality let's discuss shane's transgressions
years ago while building a name for himself shane
dawson used shock humor to build his brand on multiple occasions
he's apologized for the videos he did in the past during
blackface and he apologized for his ignorance
about a year or two ago omnision attempted to cancel shane
by calling him a pedo these allegations were based on
jokes shane made on his podcast in more attempts
at shock humor and recently a video resurfaced of him making inappropriate
jokes about willow smith when she was a child
now if you've made it this far in this video
i'm assuming you're a critical thinker i'm also assuming that you're liberal
but if you're a conservative i respect the fact that you've stayed
so as it stands shane dawson hasn't had one
criminal charge pressed against him as liberals
is it rational for us to think that felons
should be forgiven but shane dawson shouldn't be we fight for policies that
allow actual criminals to grow and change
but we won't afford that same respect to a content creator
you may say that this is different because shane can still vote
maybe but let's look at the job opportunities for felons
one of the worst parts about having a felony
isn't just voting but it's difficult to get a job
those with a felony have a difficult time supporting themselves
and their families is this right is it justice
that a felon who served their time and wants to turn their life around
can't work look at what's happening to shane dawson
his entire career is based on his personal brand
but canceling him is an effort to take that away
not only has he lost subscribers but morphy and target have stopped
supporting his products what makes his punishment even more
irrational is how old these videos are in my opinion if
someone can turn their life around from committing thefts or other crimes
then i think shane dawson has also been able to grow
in the last 10 years imagine if we kept pointing to an ex-felon's past
as a way to judge who they are today like conservative
laws currently do part of being a liberal
is recognizing and respecting the fact that people
can change the most recent controversy with shane dawson was tati's attempt to
scapegoat the blame of her james charles drama onto shane
but as you can see from the like to dislike ratio
many people disagree with tati's claims so now that you know about the
difference between liberal and conservative morality
i want you to take another look at this situation
conservatives call us snowflakes and they say we're way too soft on crime
but i believe that we're more compassionate and forgiving
personally i wouldn't have been able to beat my drug addiction eight years ago
if it weren't for the forgiveness of my loved ones and society as a whole
right now i can only imagine the mental state of shane dawson
as a liberal i believe we need to really take an honest look at our morals and
values and use them more often in our lives
because if you pick and choose when you're going
to apply your moral code then is it really even a moral code
all right everybody thank you once again for making it through one of these video
essays and yeah the topic of justice reform but
more importantly forgiveness and the human capacity to
grow is very very near and dear to me because
i am a recovering drug addict and i've worked
with thousands of recovering drug addicts
i know so many people who don't want to change because they figure
how's it ever going to get better nobody's ever going to forgive me for
what i've done like i've done things in my addiction it
was almost a decade's worth of just being a screw-up and i did things that
are unforgivable like i shouldn't have my family in my life i shouldn't have my
friends in my life i shouldn't have my son in my life
but the people stuck around and saw that i had the capacity to change
and i've worked hard to become the man that i am today
so i really wanted to do this video because i know
a lot of us have this idea like we already think like this
we think that people who committed crimes when they were younger
have the capacity to change we think that people deserve
uh you know rehabilitation and people deserve a path to redemption
but i find it interesting that although our political
morality says this we don't transfer it over to just
the way we act as a culture so i was hoping to blend these things
together to help kind of get those critical thinking wheels turning a
little bit and broaden our perspective on it
you know what i mean but anyways that's all i got for this video i hope you
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