Conservatives are up in arms again all online.
They're upset. There's another pizza
restaurant that they're going after, but they're going after them over books.
I guess they've left the school board meetings with the teachers and
the principals.
Now they're going after their, that the evil that pizza hut is serving up with
their garlic knots, let's check out what these guys are doing now.
Pizza hut is doing.
Pizza is facing calls for boycott on social media after it was pointed out that
a recent recommendation from their famous book club for children,
is about a kid who becomes a drag queen.
I'm sorry, this recommendation in this book club, right?
So, the book is called Big Wig and it's offered by Jonathan Hillman,
it's illustrated by Levi Hastings.
It's meant for preK-3 students,
according to the Book Club's website, is a quote from it.
This wonderful read aloud celebrates the universal childhood experience of dressing
up and the confidence that comes with putting on a costume.
That's what the website for the book, it says.
And it goes further than that,
acknowledging that sometimes dressing differently from what might be expected,
is how we become our truest and best selves.
So, conservatives took to twitter lost their minds over this.
So, numerous conservatives on social media, including the lives of Tiktok
account, have taken issue with this book and turned on the pizza Maker,
which has been running its reading incentive BOOK IT program for decades.
So, let's look at some of these tweets, as we mentioned the lives of Tiktok said,
Pizza hut sponsors a program,
which incentivizes kids in preK-6th grade to read books.
>> That does sound dangerous conservatives should be.
I'm sure [INAUDIBLE] >> That's problem number one.
>> That's right.
You're letting the kids read, well then they'll learn facts that never vote
Republican >> Orr they might learn something else.
So this week one of their suggested books is Bigwig,
a book about a child who becomes a drag performer, is what that tweet says.
And of course post some of the books and links to what's going on there.
Also, Nick Adams said, papa John's has and always will be better than pizza hut.
Pizza has gone woke now they must go broke.
He doesn't really believe that?
>> None of them believe it.
>> Come on and one more because this was my favorite, ultra mega man says,
can we report pizza to the police?
This is shameful.
That must be for a parody account.
No one believes stuff like that.
Can we report pizza to the police and then they do what?
>> No, no, by the way, sometimes they do that, but they do it maliciously and
they sound like a swat team and endanger their lives and all that.
And it'll happen to random Pizza hut delivery guys.
Boy, you really got them, okay?
So alright, can pizza be woke?
Good question is it, is it a good question?
[LAUGH] Okay, so they've had like,
I don't know if they probably had hundreds of books in this book club that they run.
And they out of all of those,
one of them has a kid who where is the drag outfit, okay?
And the end is conservatives think,
no kids should not know that those type of folks even exist.
We should wipe them off the face of the earth in terms of kids even
recognizing that they are human beings like the rest of us, don't.
I mean, even knowing that they exist corrupts the kids minds and
then they say, they're not hateful and they're not homophobic.
Well you can't say, I think you're so evil that a kid even finding out about you,
is going to corrupt the kid and no, I don't hate you.
No, you obviously hate them.
So, why don't you just be honest for the first time in your lives?
So that's they're the party of hate.
There's absolutely no question about it and
in fact then people will respond to this video and be like, I hate you.
Okay, well alright, okay?
And I have the right to hate trans people.
Freedom as rage, but I don't hate him.
No you do, you do.
And this is drag queen not trans necessarily.
So, have I read books like this to my kids when they were growing up.
Yeah.
You know why?
Cuz I wanted to have them to have a variety of different people,
to hear about a different variety of people.
I also read books about different cultures, right?
Ones that are not their own because they exist on the planet and
I don't want him becoming a teenager or however old they are and going.
My God, there's other people on the planet?
I didn't know that.
Holy cow.
Yeah.
And by the way and
it's also possible that your kids might be somewhere on the spectrum of sexuality.
That's not possible.
It's a fact, it's there somewhere on there, right?
And if you tell them, that's really mad and evil, I mean that's a terrible
thing to do to your kid, but they don't have a conscience about that at all.
So, the only part, I'm not animated about here is the the so
called boycott, the percentage of these conservative
broadcasts that work is zero, none of them ever work.
And in fact, most of the time sales go up and not down.
Nike is the best example there, like Colin Kaepernick in an ad,
how dare you, they burn all their Nikes.
Nike stock later, based on how much sales went up,
their market cap went up $6 billion.
I don't know if they sent Fox News, a thank you note, but
Pizza height must might be next.
Right wingers are saying by papa just tell everybody,
tell everybody it's sales will go up and Pizza hut, Okay?
Amy, what do you say about this serious issue?
>> I find it really enraging and
disgusting when I hear these type of things, because just because a child
reads a book, it doesn't mean that it's going to change who they are.
And they have no understanding of how this experience is or
this journey for people who are going through it.
I myself, my youngest son is going on this journey himself and not only is it based
on ignorance, thinking that your child is gonna read a book and
somehow that's gonna change their sexuality or influence that in any way.
It also turns their kids into being very bigoted themselves unfortunately.
And it creates that environment that fosters that to the point that, I have had
many times my s on come home and he's been called just horrendous names, mocked,
teased and it really stems from this kind of ignorance that is perpetuated.
And I think it's actually fed and really for political gain a lot of times.
If we're so busy worrying about what books for reading and who's doing what, then
we're not talking about the other issues that the rest of world is burning down,
but everything is fine right here, we just have to really zero in on this.
I think it's it's very sad and tragic that, they're continuing to try to
put out this false narrative, that differences in people don't exist to fit
into their book and whatever they think, their perception of the world.
And sadly most of these children that grew up in these homes that are actually
different from what their parents were hoping they would be, end up very damaged.
And a lot of them end up having to go through years of counseling and
unfortunately some even take their own lives.
And it starts as early as we can't read a book that expresses any different
opinion about sexuality than than I find appropriate.
>> Many of these folks are described themselves as Christians will say
that God is all powerful, foresees everything and has his way.
Man, I grew up in the church too,
this is a weird week assessment of this figure that you're worshiping.
Why is that you think that as soon as your kid reads a book that my God,
his brain flips and he turns into this drag queen that he's gay and my God,
he's gonna go trance?
You know what, that thought process means that only influences like books, movies,
whatever entertainment are the things that shape someone is being who they are.
So that means they don't even believe in being straight,
they don't think straightness is a real thing.
Because if it can be molded into being gay just from watching or reading a book,
that means that, that didn't exist either, it means it's all fluid.
This is their point of view,
that they don't realize that they're actually saying my kid reads this.
Now that being indoctrinated to be gayness.
Now they're gonna go off and start kissing boys.
So, if we consistently punch that their boys kissing girls in their face all
the time, then they'll do that,
sounds like we're just molding children and they're not really real human beings.
And also, by the way, if you don't like this book,
there's this really, really easy way to have your kids not read it.
Don't let him read it [LAUGH] what we're boycotting Pizza hut for,
just go, there's a book I don't want to get to read.
Moving to the next page, I went through this whole thing,
if you have more thoughts on this cuz there was an expansion,
I wanna go off of this, of what this could mean but first go ahead.
>> Yeah, hold on.
So JR is 100%, right?
It's logically impossible to argue with what he said.
So, if you're a parent who's worried that if your kid reads a book,
he's gonna turn gay, you obviously think that everyone can be gay.
And in fact, there's probably a reason why you think that cuz you probably
had some thoughts and you thought, well, I could go either way,
If I read the wrong book, I'll probably wind up gay.
That's an interesting statement about yourself.
And so, if you think you could be gay, is it possible that other people can be and
that maybe we shouldn't hate those people?
And that may be, it occurs in nature and hence it's natural.
And no, they'll say no, no, no Leviticus.
But wait a minute.
I remember when we were discussing abortion just a little while ago and
I point out numbers 5 11 through 31.
God is definitely pro abortion.
You could read it for yourself.
It's not Mild, it's not close.
God is 100% in favor of abortion in the Bible.
And in fact, he's the one that does the abortion.
The priest goes to the process, but the God is the one that creates the abortion.
So, but then people say, Jack you don't understand the bible.
No, no, that's the old testament.
We don't believe anything in the old testament anymore.
That's why Jesus came, okay?
But all the anti-gay stuff is in the old testament.
So which one is it?
Well, I know, but I like hating gay people.
Okay, then just say it, just be honest.
You're a hateful person and
it's because you were brought up in a hateful version of your religion.
All religions have wonderful sides and
they have unfortunately people who teach hateful sites.
And you were brought up in one of those and you probably hate yourself and
that's where all of this anger is coming from.
Look guys, if things were immutable when my kids read the book on Rosa parks,
they would have turned black.
>> [LAUGH] >> But
they didn't because that's not how it works, okay?
So and then finally it's Amy is 100% right?
A super serious issue.
People kids in the LGBTQ community unfortunately commit suicide at a much
larger rates.
Little and the trans-community that the rates are heartbreaking.
And look we can give you literally hundreds of examples but
the one I come back to is Eli Freshly from Tennessee.
Because it just was so harper, he's 12 years old and
all the kids in his school in Tennessee made fun of him because he wore
SpongeBob Square pants stuff until he was 12.
And he dressed in their mind, they dressed funny and they kept calling him gay.
And in his case, he was, but they kept saying you're evil, you're immoral,
God hates you until he believed it and he was worried that God hated him.
And he committed suicide as a 12 year old.
And if you're the guys that are driving 12 year olds to do that,
the kid isn't evil or immoral, you are.
>> It's ridiculous.
Yeah.
It's the hypocrisy and
the cherry picking, if you really wanted to get into the bible and talk about it.
It says that, if you long after a woman lusting lee, you've committed adultery in
your heart and what is [LAUGH] dependence for committing adultery?
Like death?
Not hearing God's Kingdom.
And so I wonder how many of them watch porn?
I don't know.
[LAUGH] so, how many do we see them watching and hearing about it and
being arrested for like, the Daggers, so it's all ridiculous.
It's just to fit their narrative and their comfort level,
what they choose to concentrate on.
>> Yeah.
The percentage of them watching porn as they now, the new right is against porn.
And Ben Shapiro's wrote a whole book against porn,
approximately 212% of his audience watches porn.
And lusting after women or men, that's literally 100% of the right wing and
if they actually believed the Bible, they would all be put to death.
That's insane.
But yet when it comes to hating gay people, they're like, that one,
we like that one, that's the one we're gonna focus on, okay?
Forget the pro-abortion stuff, forget the lusting after women,
we love doing that and sometimes men, okay?
But if someone is outwardly gay, that's the villain.
No, if you're bullying 12 year olds, you're the Goddamn building.
>> What portion of the country consumes porn the most Jack?
>> Of course the Red States, we did a story on that earlier and
the most gay porn is in the Red States, like Utah and Alabama, okay?
That's just a fact., because why they're so suppressed and
because we're all on the spectrum somewhere and they can't live with it.
But when no one's watching, they're like, let me get at it, let me get at it.
It's all about self hatred.
It's really sick.
Just look, hey, hate yourself in your corner of the world.
Don't spread that hate to others.
>> It's very uncomfortable internet searching that happens there.