Sup you beautiful bastards
Hope you're having a fantastic Thursday- Welcome back to the Philip Defranco show, and let's just jump into it
And the first thing I want to talk about today, one of the most requested stories today
is around Emily Lands. To celebrate the Fourth of July this year,
Emily had a friend film her urinating on the American flag. She stood over the toilet using a "Go Girl,"
which is a device that allows women to -well not allows--
ASSISTS women with urinating while standing up. Everyone has the ability, it's usually an accuracy problem. If there is no assistance
Yeah, filmed herself peeing on the American flag- it then falls into the toilet. In the video that is now deleted had the caption:
"Fuck your nationalism, fuck your country, fuck your stupid fucking flag"
And while the original video is up, it spread like crazy. There was some support, but there was a lot of hate.
People calling her worthless, an attention whore, a liberal extremist.
People saying that this the result of privileged white kids in this new generation.
Some saying what else do you expect from a self-described anarchist and supporter of Bernie Sanders?
--let's just take a break-- at this point Bernie sanders has to be like, "Come on!"
There are also people that went way past name-calling.
Here's just one comment I saw that reads:
"I'd love for someone to shove a razor sharp K-bar up her cunt and pull straight up to her throat"
And Lands responded to these threats writing:
"People are wishing illness, harm, and suffering upon me over a piece of fabric. People are willing to murder someone over a flag. It is so sad that people don't realize how
brainwashed they are. I'm gross for peeing on a symbol? Look at yourselves. You people epitomize all that is foul."
Also, according to Lands, people started targeting her family, writing:
"My dad just called me and informed me that his place of employment has been targeted.
Interestingly, he respects the flag and loves your country. I do not live with him, nor does he or anyone in my family agree with my
shenanigans. They've got nothing to do with my decisions."
In a response not to the threats but to the criticism, she wrote:
"Freedom of speech expression means that I'm entitled to do and say as I please even if you don't like it. So long as I am not physically hurting someone and no your precious feelings don't count. That's your own problem.
What don't you people understand? You're celebrating freedom while damning me for doing the same. You can't have it both ways.
Freedom or none. Practice what you preach or shut the fuck up."
Then later, angering more people by writing:
"Soiled flag. Fished out of my toilet. Sold to the highest bidder."
And since all of this happened, Lands deleted her Facebook and all her other social media accounts.
And here's what I'll say
I'll never support the people harassing and making threats against someone for doing something
they don't like. I get where the anger is coming from, but making threats like this as a response-
It's never the answer. And when I say I get where the anger is coming from
I've talked about this in the past on different stories. I love my country
I am very critical of my country
But I love my country
I respect the American flag. But that's because that flag to me
represents freedom. Freedom not only for myself people that think like me but for others. Desecrating the U.S. flag is not illegal.
This has been affirmed by the US Supreme court.
And I'm personally of a mindset that while watching that video will make me angry, if we don't allow that to exist in the world
That flag doesn't necessarily represent
Everything that I want it to represent. Freedom isn't freedom if you constantly are drawing lines in the sand as far as what
You can criticize or what you can disrespect you see someone doing something with free speech
that you don't agree with you use your own free speech.
I think it's important that people remember that they try to live that
I mean, I think that's why I also find myself in shows defending people
I don't agree with or I don't like. I also want to pass this question off to you. This is the PDS
It's not just me covering the news and my opinion.
I want to know what you think you think, you think this should be allowed, or no, this should be something where it's carved out?
What do you think and why? Let me know down below. From that I want to share some stuff
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Then, there was the news that during Donald Trump's visit to Poland the First Lady of Poland snubbed
Donald Trump. You see the video Donald Trump's with a handshake. He goes in
Oh, sorry Trump! Straight disrespect. This video and narrative blowin' up!
But if you just start a rant on your "fuck Trump" parade, that's one way. If you watch the whole video, They do shake hands.
She just shook Milania's first. Then, really quick,
I want to talk about and thank
Sonia Kay. Sonia popped up in the news because while she was watching a baseball game being played at the Atlanta Braves new Stadium
She found a despicable sign; a sign that represented hate that the internet needed to see is alive and a well in Georgia.
Not just Georgia, but in the new Braves stadium, tweeting, "Really disappointed with this sign at the new Braves stadium. Definitely not okay @Braves."
She included this picture showing a "KKK" sign. That's not... like that's not a "KKK" sign.
If you don't follow baseball, which I completely understand, it is a very slow, long sport; the K's there are
representative of Strikeouts. In baseball, if the pitcher strikes out the batter
It's a "K." Every time another strikeout is added another K is added.
Sonia appear to believe that this was a representation of the Klu Klux
Klan. What made her confusion even better, and what also probably led to this becoming a viral moment
Is that as people tried to explain the situation to her
She just was not
having it. Guy says, "You do realize that this is a recorded number of strikeouts by the Braves' pitcher, right?" Sonia replies,
"They should figure out a different way to record it, because that's offensive." And Antwan Staley writes,
"I'm black and this doesn't even offend me, come on ma'am." Which Sonia responds,
"You must not care about your race as much as I care about yours."
And then the tweet of the thread went to benjamin who wrote I think the fourth Strikeout was that tweet?
So here's the thing part of me doesn't want to make fun of Sonya too much
I mean I literally sell a shirt that says sport a shirt has been purchased around ten thousand times or people that are like
I don't know what the hell happening, but yes
but to see something and immediately go that's
Racist you're at a baseball game surrounded by other people just tap on someone's shoulder and go hey
What's up with that and try to educate yourself on the situation before just shouting racism also for those of you wondering well
Why the hell do they use a K4 striker?
Why don't they use an s it's believed that Henry Chadwick the inventor of the box score he already used s to represent
Sacrifice until we just use a k from
Strike out to be representative of a strikeout. And Sonya if you're watching this please know that I'm not calling you stupid
Obviously you have a master's degree as you tweeted about fifty thousand times
I think you just need to educate yourself before throwing garbage out of your face. That was my favorite
I'm someone getting a master's degree who is super Smart and super woke and only dates Classy men. [whew!] She's so woke! [sarcasm] And if there?
Is a final note
I want to end on with this story is I would like to thank Sonya for
Example of really something that people need to understand you can be college smart while also being
Real-World stupid then let's talk about Krystal Olson
There's so much like Sonya went viral on the internet
But for a different reason krystal is a 32 year old woman from Long Island
She was bartending in Arizona when a man made the choice to grab her ass and respond to this well
I'll just read her tweet this guy grabbed my ass
I dragged him out in a chokehold slammed me into a wall
And is crying like a bitch when he got arrested tweeting out this picture
That was reportedly taken by a security guard and a ton of people love this people tweeting. You're awesome
I want my daughter to grow up to be just like you or my fucking hero
Don't have a daughter
But if I did I'd be proud of her defending herself as you did there are also those that criticize
Krystal summarising chokehold does seem a bit much. I don't know
I just don't agree with choking and sending somebody to jail because they touched you once slight overreaction
Probably could have used your big girl word instead of going straight to attacking him and that I say chico
Maybe he shouldn't have used his little boy hands to grab ass maybe he shouldn't put his hands on another person without their permission
I'm not white knighting here
I'm not saying guys before
Before you kiss a girl you have to have her sign a consent form take a picture with your phone make copies
I'm just saying just don't grab on other people without their permission. In my eyes
This is a simple case of self defense or to put it in the words
I once heard from one long island woman if you fuck with the wrong bitch that bitch will fuck you up now
Let's talk about something interesting happening in Sweden last week Sweden's largest
music festival Bravalla took place and during this Year's festival there were four rape and 23 sexual assault reports and those reports in the
Situation in general have led to next Year's festival being cancelled and the festival release this statement
Which I tried to translate the reads I have had it violence kills the festival experience and the love for music
First and foremost people are getting hurt one is too much therefore
We decide not to do Bravalla 2018 We will take a step back.
This is not because of a particular crime or a particular event
It's not that we cannot deal with the problem with a problem in the festivals it is about making a clear statement and should be
noted this isn't a problem that has just popped up out of Nowhere last year mumford & Sons said they would not be returning to
The festival because the high number of sexual assaults and statements like that also probably led to the lowered ticket sales
They had this year in 2016 they sold
52,000 tickets this year
45,000 so what now will the reaction to this Swedish comedian and radio host Emma Knyckare, tweeted out,
What do you think about putting together a really cool festival?
We're only non men are welcome that will run until all men have learned how to behave themselves and to that tweet
There are a lot of people saying yeah
We should have a women-only music festival you also had people saying that sexist you're essentially calling all men rapist
Why are the actions of some excluding the whole and there was also an influx of people saying that this is part of the Muslim
Migrant problem and finally had people on the sidelines not knowing if she was being serious or not well the next day on Instagram
She announced that yes
They are moving forward with this festival saying sweden's first man free rock festival will see the light next summer in the coming days
I'll bring together a solid group of talented organizers and project leaders to Form the Festival's organizers
Then you'll hear from everyone again when it's time to move forward also telling a swedish tabloid since it seems
Okay to discriminate against women all the time. Maybe it's okay to shut out men for three days
I would not exactly call it an abuse not to come to the festival as far as her further thought into the project she said
Who are the abusers well men so what if you put together a festival where they may not come that was how I was thinking
I think it's sick that half the population has to walk around and feel insecure
So next year there will be an option rock festival where women can feel completely safe now it should be noted this would be kind
Of the first of its kind there was the Michigan women's music festival
but that was cancelled that seemed to be around disputes with non trans friendly rules in the stage of the and Glastonbury festival for
Only people that self-identify as women that's just a stage and this isn't necessarily just women's only a question
I would ask around this new music festival is when you say men. There's not women only it's no men
Are you talking about people that self-identify as men regardless of law?
Are you going to be checking genders on IDs is the law?
Involved or it's a feeling is if it's just for those that say they self-identify
It seems like they potentially are opening themselves up to trolling
There's a lot of debate around this story and so I want to pass the question off to you, are
You for this or you against this you kind of just don't care is this essentially the music festival version of when bars have ladies
Only night or no that's a completely different situation
I'd love know what you think that's actually where I'm going to end today's show remember if you liked this video
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