How do you view, like haters online?
Oh. Oh man.
That's a great topic.
Yeah, how do you, of course,
I know it doesn't bother you at all,
but for someone watching this, maybe a young kid
let's say they get haters, they get one thumbs down,
or they get one hateful comment.
What's your perspective? Okay,
back up a second.
A few years ago the first person,
at least, that I was made aware of,
a young girl committed suicide because some guys
teased her online, et cetera, okay.
That was maybe 10 years ago, something like that.
And then we found out, it wasn't guys
that was teasing the girl,
it was girls that were teasing the girl
in junior high school in high school.
I remember, thinking of our own kids
and then, they would've been in their mid to early 20s
'cause now they are in their early 30s to mid-30s
and I couldn't understand how somebody
got a bunch of thumbs down and then said that she was fat
or that she was, whatever they said about her
to take her own life, okay.
Now, fast forward, we're 10 years later
and now, people write campaigns.
Yes.
I mean, what do you mean campaigns?
There's blogs saying bad things about people.
Yeah. Okay?
They sent me a couple of 'em, I said,
I couldn't believe it, but my attitude now
what it was then, they used to have a saying
when I was growing up, sticks and stones
can break your bones, but words can never hurt you.
I don't know if they still say that, but all I know
is because, I was not Mr. Popularity
when I was going to school and remembering, I came back
from the Korean War, dates me, with speaking
with a French accent to the barrio, the ghetto, okay?
You couldn't have painted a kid that got in more fights.
They used to call me froggie, frenchie,
this is the fucking barrio, okay?
Where I mean the,
this is the hood. The hood.
And I'm talking with a French accent.
Yes.
I mean the, so, that's what my parents used to tell me
sticks and stones--
Words can't hurt you.
They can't hurt you.
Well, now because we haven't, as I said,
we've got kids that are raised, never been screamed at,
never been disciplined and so now,
when somebody says something bad about you,
let alone a campaign, forget about it.
I mean, those people, first of all,
that portion of social media, I can do without.
Anybody that would mount a campaign
to hurt somebody's feelings.
Now, I'm not saying I haven't hurt people's feelings,
you fucking mongoloid idiot,
I mean, get your head out of your ass.
Okay, now, I'm sure that hurt some people's feelings.
Okay, was he a mongoloid for real?
No.
Did he have his head up his ass?
Not physically, but metaphorically, he certainly did, okay.
So, I can walk my way through that
but you gotta toughen up.
But, that also means show me your friends
and show your future,
that means all your friends are sensitive.
You know, why aren't your friends sticking up for you?
Because, if they go online, I'm told,
I don't know this for sure, if they go online defending you,
then the person will jump on their case.
And it becomes a vicious circle.
Yup.
It's unfortunate.
I believe, and Facebook, for example,
says they're doing something about it,
there should be a police force,
but then if you got a police force for Facebook,
now we're going back to Hitler.
So it's a vicious circle, but it shouldn't influence you
I mean, you should do everything humanly possible
to strengthen your own self-awareness, self-esteem,
self-confidence, programs like Dan's,
amongst others will help you do that.
But, your parents raised a pussy
which is unfortunate, but that's what they did.
You're a derivative of your parents' lack of knowledge
on how to raise a kid.
What are we least prepared to do psychologically,
mentally, is be a parent.
Nobody teaches you how to be a parent.
All you do is model what you see your parents do.
And they may or not have done a shitty job.
A lot of kids tell me,
I'm the alpha male dad they never had.
I remind-- To me, you are.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I remind them of their grandfather.
Well, I can appreciate that, but the fact still remains
that the parents in the last 50 years have raised
sensitive kids and to no avail.
But this generation that gets sensitive--
Keyboard warriors
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
but their interpersonal skills lack, they don't have any.
All they know how to do
is hide behind the laptop or the computer.
That's unfortunate, you know?
When I was a kid, and I didn't like so and so
in the school yard, I'd go tell them that
and we'd get into a fistfight, okay.
And whoever was still standing up was the winner.
Not for me to go back,
not that they had computers in those days.
And that ended the problem.
But now, it's tragic, I feel for them.
But, we're here because of our own doing.
We got nobody to blame but our own current society.
I noticed that a lot of the haters,
most of the time, they are the nameless, faceless.
Right? Yeah.
Where they hide behind the computers, they talk shit,
they made up shit.
That's just what they do.
They spend so much time, 'cause you can see,
it takes effort, they spend so much time hating,
versus doing something on their own.
It's almost like it's easier to find faults
in what you do versus fixing their own shit, right?
Oh, me going out there making a million dollars.
No, I can't do that, but let me make sure
that I tear you down.
It's from that kind of perspective.
It's unfortunate, if they spend a fraction of the time--
A fraction.
In forwarding their own endeavors.
Yup.
Becoming an entrepreneur, being a better employee,
they would be much better off.
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