Sup, you beautiful bastards?
Hope you're having a fantastic Wednesday
Welcome back to the Philip DeFranco Show and let's just jump into it.
and the first thing I want to talk about today is the craziness around Bret Weinstein and Evergreen State College
Evergreen State is a Washington liberal arts college
and a bunch of students on campus are calling for Bret Weinstein to either resign or be fired and they're calling him a racist
and a big part of this is a reaction to an email Weinstein put out in response to the Day of Absence.
Now for those wondering, a Day of Absence is a campus tradition here that stems from a play from 1965.
The play was about an imaginary Southern town where all of a sudden one day all the black people disappeared.
a big message of the play being that the people that have to deal with the most shit, they are so necessary for society.
Imagine if these people disappeared.
And so once a year for many years, people of color on campus, both students and faculty, would get together and meet off campus
they have a safe space to talk about on campus issues and how they can make the campus a more supportive environment.
and Weinstein was reportedly aware of this day, he had no problem with it
but then someone wanted to change what the day was
this year the organizer said that the Day of Absence they wanted white students of the campus
and in an email that has now become public
Weinstein opposed this change, writing
and there was a lot of backlash when this email was released.
People saying this belittled people of color, there are also people on campus that are not a fan of Weinstein
because he has spoken out against the equity and inclusion counsel
there's reportedly a recommendation that's under consideration from the college leaders
So what Weinstein's argument is essentially is that if we hire new teachers it should be based off of their their skill set
and the push for having a diverse faculty, that should not be the thing that runs the show.
Saying for example, when you're hiring someone for science
Now depending on your opinion so far, the situation has evolved or devolved.
A lot of the students have been filming what is happening, so there's a ton of evidence.
There's videos of Weinstein being cornered and just shouted at by students.
And it's so disappointing, because in the video you can see Weinstein is trying to have a conversation with anyone that's willing but they're just in general not.
I mean, just look at this moment from this interaction:
female: didn't you put out the email. Weinstein: first of all I-
*unrecognizable chatter/yelling*
female: say what you want we got it Weistein: would you like to hear the answer or not?
everyone: no
*unrecognizable chatter/yelling*
female: stop telling people of color their fucking useless, you're useless, get the fuck out.
Weinstein: we were listening to each other, now we're not.
There was a lot of criticism from this video, a lot of people saying:
that it almost at certain points, if you watch certain points of different videos it almost seems like false imprisonment.
There's a video later where students are talking to the President of the school and they're trying to justify their actions
Male: We cornered him but we we're all there talking to him
Male 2: we did block him at first, for transparency we did block him at first, he was trying to leave but however *stuttering* we did we had a conversation with him whatever conversation is.
Whatever conversation is, is a fantastic way to end that sentence.
When you go back and you look, it's really just shouting at the guy
and I love the "we didn't corner him and block him in, I mean ok technically we did at the beginning but once we blocked him in he realized, you know, I might as well just stay"
And in general the videos that the students are taking themselves just don't make them look good.
There's video of a bunch of students storming the President of the schools office
They start demanding the President send out emails to staff to let them know that all the students are protesting
so the teachers need to know that they have a reason why they're not going to be turning in their homework.
female: have you sent an email out to your faculty, letting them know, what's been done about that, because we're all here on our own time.
President: I have not done it yet, I will do it right now.
female: because they need to be told that these assignments won't be done on time and we don't need to be penalized for that.
male: I don't know the names of all the students here.
President: then just send it to all the faculty then, it doesn't matter.
then the President pleads with the room, like "I just need some privacy, we'll get we'll get things done."
Then he tries to explain "I have claustrophobia" and the rooms just not having that.
President: I need some privacy folks, I'm sorry, I have claustrophobia
*unrecognizable chatter*
female: students of color have to work in threatening environments everyday. Welcome, welcome get to work.
Phil: and there's videos of them just mocking the President as he's trying to explain things
female: and I'm going to decolonize the space I'll just be roaming around.
Phil: There's videos of them cornering other teachers screaming in their face.
Everyone: Hey Hey! Ho Ho! these racist teachers have got to go.
Phil: and videos of white faculty trying to answer questions that their being asked and being told essentially shut up.
female: I said I'm tired of white people talking about what black and brown people need you don't know.
male: I'm just trying to response to... *inaudiable*
Everyone: *Clapping*
and just looking at this harassment, there have also been threats of violence against Weinstein.
I'm just disguised, it, it, it, it's stuff like this that pushed me away from being a liberal.
Now a big point before moving forward, I do not think that all liberals are like this and I think that people that paint all liberals like this are doing a massive disservice.
That's like saying all Republicans are insert blank.
But this is just another example of the left shutting down and eating their own.
Weinstein he's actually a super liberal Bernie bro.
They're trying to fire him because he said he maybe the people we hire that should be based off of you know how skilled they are
they're trying to force him to resign because " hey maybe a day we told white people, you're not really welcome on campus that might be a bad thing"
It's crazy, now there is no doubt in my mind whatsoever that there is racism out there still alive and strong today.
But seeing how this group of people are treating this one individual who is expressing their point of view exercising his freedom of speech.
Not to hate but to put out his point of view, have a conversation, and this, this is what happens.
Another example of so many people becoming what they say they are against
I mean how much Kool Aid have you drank, how fucking blind do you have to be to not realize that there is a difference
between saying "people of color we're just going to have this day for ourselves,
we're going to talk about you know, all, everything that is important to us and just campus life in general,
and you know the place that we're paying to go to college we would prefer if there was a day we're white people didn't go".
But hey that is just my opinion, this is the Philip DeFranco Show, it's show where I talk about the facts
I give my opinion and then I extend the conversation to you. What are your thought about this?
I know people will have different thoughts because everyone has a different background
and that's what I want to do, I want us to share those thoughts whether you have that same opinion or different opinion as me.
So let me hear you out in those comments down below
But from there I want to share some stuff I loved today in 'Today in Awesome'
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And then we have this video from THRILLIST I have to share.
It's this video that's apart of this series they put out every Monday, the first one I saw was about pizza.
So this one was about a beach side surfer community and the food involved
and I'm just loving because I'm a big believer that a place is heavily defined by the food. Highly recommended.
Then we got a video from CPG Grey on "Seven Ways to Maximize Misery".
I feel most people incorporate three to four of these things in their daily life
but you know, now having the full list of seven, top notch stuff.
Then we got a video from CUT of one hundred people saying their favorite insults
I don't know why I enjoyed that video as much as I did.
Also to add my favorite insult to the list "fuckface"
It takes the power and aggression of fuck and it adds a target. Fuckface.
Useless fuckface
Add it to your other favorite insults. Bitchass fuckface.
Then we got a video from David Firth, the man who gave us Salad Fingers. Remember that?
He came out with a new video called Cream and ah I don't wanna ruin it. It's just something maybe you wanna experience.
And the final bit of awesome. Just something cool that I wanted to share.
There is a Twitch live stream called Stock Stream and as a group people are deciding what stocks to buy and sell with a guy's fifty thousand dollars.
And I just love this idea, because it takes what was really interesting about Twitch plays Pokémon
and it takes that and throws it into a real world system around money. It's just, it's so fascinating.
And if you wanna see the full versions of everything I just shared.
The secret link of the day, anything at all, links as always are in the description down below.
And then let's talk about Kathy Griffin, Kathy's a writer, a comedian, and she made international news yesterday
when she posted this picture, it was a video and picture shot by Tyler Shields who does a lot of celebrity photos
and you'll be surprised by this news, people were outraged when they saw this.
Kathy initially defended the post saying
That, of course, a reference to what Donald Trump said about Megan Kelly during the campaign
Trump:" You know you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever."
Then adding
The photographer Tyler Shields defended the shot saying
But this photo in general seemed to do something that really only Pepsi has accomplished recently and that
was bring so many people together. People on the right, people on the left, even friends ad co-workers of Kathy Griffin
spoke out against her. Anderson Copper tweeting
Even Chelsea Clinton spoke out against this anti-Trump image tweeting
Kathy Griffin would later go on to delete the images and the tweets and then released a video apologizing.
"Hey everybody it's me Kathy Griffin, I sincerely apologize, I am just now seeing the reaction
of these images, I'm a comic, I crossed the line, I moved the line then I cross it. I went way to far
the image is to disturbing, I understand how it offends people. It wasn't funny I get it, I've made a lot of mistakes
in my career I will continue I asked your forgiveness. Taking down the image, gonna ask the photographer
to take down the image, and I beg for you forgiveness. I went too far, I made a mistake, and I was wrong."
And looking at the response from this there are some people saying, you know, you went to far but you apologized you did ok
On the other end you have people saying no, what she did is disgusting, she is toxic what she did is wrong
and needs to be punished. But it also doesn't help her case that before this video was released they knew that
this was going to have a big reaction. And we know this because there's even video of them mocking what the
reaction is probably going to be from this photo. Kathy: We have to move to Mexico today because we're gonna go to prison. Federal prison.
Shields: Yeah Yeah Kathy: Call your dad, apologize, let's you, me, and Darrell just go to Mexico today. Because we're not surviving this okay
CNN also announced that they have terminated their agreement with Kathy Griffin around their New Years Eve Show.
Although people were still criticizing CNN because it took them sooo long to announce this move.
Now as far as the debate over you know is this art or is this a threat. I'll let the lawyers and secret service come
to their own conclusion, but, just as a thing to do, what a stupid thing to do, when will any of these celebrities that take
these swings at Donald Trump realize, all they are doing is empowering his base and then you push it to an
extreme like this where Kathy Griffin pulls up a Donald Trump head like she's a member of ISIS.
How stupid are you? Spoiler alert, very. All you've done is help Donald Trump look like a sympathetic figure to the
public and I mean, if I'm Donald Trump I'm sending you a fucking gift basket every day for the rest of your life for this one.
Idiot.
If you're going to do anything about Donald Trump just, just for a moment, switch it and think would this be okay if I
did this if it was Obama? That's a pretty solid litmus test, "would it be okay if it looked like you had the head of a beheaded Barack Obama?"
To which of course you can point back to the protest after President Obama was elected to be the President
people had lynched Obama's, some of the most disgusting, hate filled violent stuff, whether it be on
signs or just recreations of Obama. And just like this it is not right, it is horrible and just as wrong and the only
difference between those situations is those were random hate filled people on the street, a disgusting
mob and you are a celebrity endorsing this message.
And that's why Kathy Griffin is our douchebag of the day
Now in response to this in the morning, Donald Trump tweeted
reports came out around this saying that Barron Trump first saw this image on TV and freaked out because he
thought it was real. But that was also not the most talked about Donald Trump tweet in the past twenty-four
hours and that's because of covfefe, and that was because Donald Trump tweeted just six minutes after midnight
and then just nothing. That's where the tweet ends, it's like he was about to start ranting about fake news and
then he sneezed, hit send by hitting his head against the phone, and then he just passed out.
And that tweet just remained there, unexplained, apparently no one called the President like:
"Yo, what happened, why didn't you delete it, why didn't you update it?"
Until just after nine o'clock in the morning and uh, Trump tweeted
Now is the answer, "he was obviously going to write coverage" or is it actually a secret word that if someone
does find the real meaning to it, you actually get Sean Spicer's job.
"Probably never know."
Although actually side note to this story Sean Spicer was asked about this and said that it, it potentially said that it was on purpose
Interviewer: Do you think that people should be concerned that the present posted somewhat of an
incoherent tweet last night and then it then stayed up for hours? Spicer: Ahh no.
Interviewer: Why did it stay up so long is no one watching this? Spicer: No I, I think the, the, uh, the President and a
small group of people know exactly what he meant.
And the last Trump tweet, that's most likely going to be connected to news that we talk about tomorrow.
is Trump tweeted
Now this wouldn't be a surprising move, this seemed to be one of the targets for Donald Trump breaking down
Obama's legacy. Republican senators like Mitch McConnell have also called for this and are backing this exit.
But this is also based on information coming from two unnamed sources. So personally I'll be waiting for the
official decision, most likely it's gonna happen one of two ways, either a quick crazy exit or a full formal
withdrawal. Which experts say would take around three years, but I would rather report on just solid information
so that's where we are going to leave it for now.
So that's actually where I'm going to end today's show. Of course this being the Philip DeFranco show
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