If He Talks Like a Nazi . . .
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- Опубликовано: 12 мар 2023
- Tucker Carlson, Michael Knowles, and other right-wingers' recent rhetoric about people with mental illnesses and trans people sure has a familiar ring to it.
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As someone formally diagnosed with severe chronic depression, it utterly fucking kills me every time I have to blame it on my time in the Marine Corps rather than its true cause, an abusive childhood. When I blame it on Iraq they accept it and are sympathetic, when I try to explain growing up in an environment of fear and hostility they tell me to just get over it.
I am a vet with PTSD. I didn't get PTSD from my time in the military, but from an abusive childhood, too. Sometimes I let people think it was from the military because I don't have the energy to tell them otherwise. I also love it when people try to tell me it couldn't have been that bad for me growing up, it was a long time ago, blah, blah, insert their BS here.
Sympathies extended.
Fellow PTSD survivor of a really bad childhood. I have severe, daily, anxiety issues. I take a lot of meds.
Some of us don't fully get over it, but apparently that's not valid to people?
...I think it's denial of how bad some families can be to their children. People don't want to accept that? It's scary.
I resisted my CPTSD diagnosis for YEARS because I bought into the popular idea that you can only get it if you fought in a war.
@@lisam5744 Mmm. "It was a long time ago" appears to signal a fundamental misunderstanding of what PTSD is.
Trauma is trauma, no matter where it comes from. And honestly, childhood trauma is the fkn worst. Don't give up, you can get through it and come out the other side so much stronger.
"We have observed that most of the trouble in the world has been caused by ten to twenty percent of folks who can't mind their own business because they have no business of their own to mind, any more than a smallpox virus."
- William S. Burroughs
Unfortunately, in the US it's a lot more than ten or twenty percent.
Even if they genuinely believe trans people are mentally ill, is this how we treat the "mentally ill?" Mocking them, denying them the only care that's been proven to work and vague talk about eradicating their "ideology," whatever that means? “the measure of society is how it treats the weakest members...” -Thomas Jefferson (Maybe, definitely not Gandhi.)
Taking that in mind, the right wing seems hell-bent on implementing the worst possible society you could possibly have.
❤love it
It's interesting how the right-wing religious fanatics are filled with such hate for anyone different from them, when the man that their religion is founded on would have accepted and loved all of those same people. 🤔
I feel if we change out “trans people” for “Christian” or “right wingers” in their statements, they might see this in a different light. Like if a christian kid gets disowned by their non religious parents for spreading hate or going to anti abortion rallies they are being “persecuted in the name of the Lord” but if christian parents abuses their gay son it’s always them “doing the work of the to beat the gay out of him” and not abuse to them. I’ve seen it happen to a friend and it’s never helpful and only makes another person feel terrible about being who they are or loving who they love.
That's what Republican Jesus would do. "Do unto others what you think they want you to do."
As well as First He-Brews 1;14 - "Blessed are those who bus or fly immigrants to different states, for as you know they aren't really people, sucketh it libs!"
"Nobody is saying your existence is illegitimate."
I am absolutely saying the existence of nazis is illegitimate.
Well this gets into the difference between what you are and what you do. Discrimination based on what you are (such as being trans) is bad. Discrimination based on what you do (such as Nazism) is actually good.
@@TonboIV i agree entirely
"They would not intentionally put people in positions of authority who were incompetent" Read that back to me, Tucker, but this time slowly.
I'm surprised reality didn't crack at the weight of the irony coming from Tucker's mouth
But, you see, Trump is(? was? I can't keep track of what the fascists think of the figurehead today) a visionary the likes of which we cannot understand!
Yeah, I think he’s proof positive of how wrong he is.
You're forgetting that in his mind incompetent simply means people who don't share his views. Stop assigning rational positions to people like him.
To be fair, Tucker's private text messages (as revealed in the Dominion lawsuit) indicate that he doesn't like Trump at all, but he'll never say that on air. What kind of drug dealer tells his customers that he doesn't use his own product because he knows it's bad for you?
Thank you for this. This video came out a while ago but it really helped me to hear right now. As a trans woman it's really hard right now to want to keep going, I know that's what they want but it's just completely intolerable. I don't know how much more of this I can take before I kill myself. But hearing normal, decent people rebuke them like this makes me want to hang on for a little longer
I hope you’re doing ok audrey ❤ sending you a big hug from over here
Please understand you are valuable. You are so strong to still be here now and you are strong enough to keep going. I can't promise miracles but I can ask you emphatically to get help from someone you trust.
Honey, don’t let those a**holes drive you to take your life, that’s what they want! I’m speaking from experience as a black/mixed woman of transgender experience who has lived through decades of this insanity, I’m 72 years young. I’m also a U.S. American who was finally able to escape the madness three years ago by moving to Mexico where I have lived a safe life with peace of mind, where I’m happy and know that I’m blessed every day. You can have that too, you don’t have to move like I did, that was just my best option, but you have to hang in there and never give up! Live your life be healthy and happy! Don’t let the sicko twisted hate mongers take that away from you! Be well and know that you are not alone.
There are a lot more of us that support you and your rights than the far right bastards that plague the internet and the country would have you believe. Be strong.
Every day that you draw breath is not just a gift to everyone around you, it is a victory over the hatred and contempt of people like this. Live. Win. 💙
Thank you. It was really nice to listen to you say this today. As a trans femme with depression, I'm grateful that I can listen to this later if I feel like it.
Please remember we aren't all haters. You are valued.
As a German, and as someone who had several run-ins with Neo-Nazis in my youth (they attacked me and got beat up - by me), I approve this PSA.
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My father is right-wing, but he still has his limits. I remember when our family was together one time, and my dad, unfamiliar with Tucker Carlson, turned him on initially to get a rise out of us (my dad's a bit of a gadfly like that), but he barely let Carlson talk for even a minute before he eventually found him insufferable and turned him off.
This here is important stuff. A lot of ppl don't seem to understand that "getting shit for existing and being a minority" and "getting shit for attacking others' human rights and dignity" are not the same thing, and aren't on equal footing.
It is abhorrent to attack someone for their immutable traits. It is morally correct to attack someone for acting like a nazi.
Yup. It is not okay to hate trans people. It is, on the other hand, perfectly okay to hate Tucker Carlson.
@@Thepopcornator yes because acting like tucker is a choice 🤔
@@NeilCWCampbell What, you don't think people are born cryptofascist grifters?
"You've Got To Be Carefully Taught!"@@bartolomeothesatyr
I love how Carlson says "people" pretending to be "women," as if women weren't also people.
I recently commented on a news video about the Gary Lineker controversy here in the UK, where a few far right politicians and activists were up in arms when he tweeted (quite rightly) that the language being used to describe immigrants sounded very close to language used in 1930s Germany. My comment endorsed Star Trek’s values (by name) and a rejection of hatred.
Without _any_ sense of irony, one of these gammons replied and (besides complaining that our current Prime Minister is not white) told me that I was “of weak stock”. I don’t think I’ve ever received a greater unintentional complement than a literal fascist deeming me “inferior”! But it is kinda terrifying that these people are so boldly coming out of the woodwork.
Yeah. it's a world wide phenomenon.
I can’t think of a single country not dealing with some degree of this. Conservatives have embraced Authoritarianism as a means to gain power. The marginalized are always the first victims.
Hey Steve, I suffer from PTSD and severe depression. I grew up in a family that was based in hate, and as much as that hate flowed out to others it was also taken out on people within the family because once they drive away the people that they hate they have to find someone else to hate. In my family I was that person. I am now estranged from my family due to this. Yep, they have accused me of "cancelling" them which isn't true. However, there is only so much you can take before you have to walk away for your own sanity. Honestly in some weird way I love my family, I just no longer can allow them to abuse me. Part of me misses them, I miss the times where hate wasn't the focus, but those times became fewer and less and their hate grew. I don't wish them ill I just wish they would stop hurting people.
Good for you! You make perfect sense and I admire your strength. Let them hate and berate each other till they have no one in their pathetic lives who give a damn about them. Stay Strong!
Depression is common with major medical diagnosis. Not only stroke, but also cardiac problems, cancer, major surgeries, etc. I know this first hand after cancer surgery, massive heart attack and then radiation and chemo therapy for a second cancer. I was doing good for two years then one day it was literally like one of those shipping containers just dropped on my head. I took time but I recovered mostly. Still can have a few bad days here and there, but nothing like it was.
As the ancestor of Ben Sisko ( I can hope ) I worry for all of us on the "outside".
All of my respect and sympathies to John Fetterman. Depression is a cruel illness, one I've struggled with all my life and will struggle with for the rest of my days. I'm so glad that he reached out when he met his crisis point, because it's bloody hard. I'm glad that he's standing up and saying it hurts him and it's something he needs time to handle.
On top of that, clinical depression is a known side effect of having a stroke. So he might not have been depressed before his stroke and experiencing severe issues.
@@mxspokes You are definitely right about that. My wife had a stroke when she was just 37, and she has been fighting depression ever since. Drugs like Prozac help, but it is always a struggle.
As someone whose mental health and cognitive functions are precariously maintained by means of a psychopharmacological gestalt, big same. Glad he's getting the help he needs.
@@mxspokes They said he suffered from depression since childhood, but the stroke could very well have made it worse.
Quite frankly I honestly and wholly distrust anyone who isn't depressed or irate when seeing the social route this world has taken. If you're not somewhat depressed you are a sociopath. Empathy is no longer present at the top of the gov or corp ladder. Im far from in step with the left or right, and the either/or thinking of the party system is what keeps us from changing anything.
I agree 💯!
"We don't hate this group of people. We simply have a list of grievances that goes to Andromeda and back. We may vent our psychotic rage at them every chance we get. We may see them as inferior to us in every way. We may even harm them. But we certainly don't hate them! Perish the thought! Where would you get an idea like that?" -- Every Hate Group Ever
Beautifully said!
A Neo Nazi incel in a what’s app group that I used to be in would use Ben Shapiro as his favorite Jew to deflect his anti-Semitism while complains about Nick Fuentes being Hispanic and how he does not want Hispanic Nazis.
So well stated, it's incredible!
Just to Andromeda? I thought that list reaches to GN-z11 and back, even though 99.99999999+% - okay, 100% - of that list is completely made-up.
Then again, if they did not make up anything and everything on that list, how could it reach Andromeda, let alone GN-z11?
"We don't hate them, we just don't believe that the thing they say they are is real and valid and want to stop them from believing it even if that is by means of torture."
“If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and Zeig heil’s like a frickin nazi, it’s a frickin nazi.” -Linkara
If it steps like a goose.
These people have literally said that transgenderism needs to be eradicated, and reply to those who are (legitimately) alarmed by those statements by saying that nobody is calling for the eradication of trans folk. Right after calling for the eradication of trans folk.
Reality is an inconvenience to these people.
Even if Knowles were sincerely making a distinction between the person and the beliefs-which I don’t think he is-and being trans really were a “belief” (which it isn’t), let’s try this one on: “I don’t want to eradicate Jews, just Judaism” I don’t want to eradicate Christians, just Christianity”.
We’ve seen the way that religious conservatives respond to the Freedom From Religion foundation or even just the idea that maybe your Christianity doesn’t have a place in deciding whether or not you do your job (by literally rubber-stamping a marriage certificate). They’ve made it very clear that they can’t conceive of a way that an ideology might be eradicated without eradicating its believers, so we’re supposed to believe that all of a sudden that’s what they mean when it comes to trans people‽
For a long time, it has been part of their belief system that when they do a thing, and their opposition does the exact same thing, then they're not the same thing.
We used to do terrible things to left handed people to try and hide the fact that they were left handed, or to "cure" them of it. We got over it. I wonder how we could apply that here?
It sucks when you know people want to hurt you for what you are on several axes.
Can't believe we're living in a day and age where people need to be reminded over and over again that Ñàzí = Bad.
Do they? I mean, as long as people complain about being called NBazis, I'm assuming they *know* that's a bad thing. I'd argue it's not reminding them that Nazi is bad, it's about reminding them (or, more likely, explaining to them because they never knew) _what the actual Nazis actually did,_ and thus show _why_ they are called that.
Maybe when should change what we say to something like "You do realize that that's an original Nazi talking point?" ... preferably with a handy reference where they can look up the details.
Conservatives know that Nazi = Bad. That's why they hate it when people point out that conservatives are talking like and acting like Nazis.
@@KaiHenningsen don't attribute to ignorance what is clearly malice
I'm thoroughly sick of people giving Nazis the benefit of the doubt. If someone's a genocidal peice of shit completely by accident, it means they're unable to control themselves and therefore even more incapable of being reasoned with. Either way, they all must be stopped, because they're all contributing to the genocide.
They know, they just don't care. Remember hate is part of the point.
"They would not put people in positions of power who were incompetent," then how come donald trump, green and bobert made office?
How did Tucker? And don't tell me his is not a position of power.
EXACTLY!!!
Steve, I'm scared. Everywhere I go I see people who hate me for existing. Just last week a trans woman was brutally assaulted and left in critical condition in my own neighborhood. If I make any kind of comment about trans issues, no matter how measured, I get dogpiled with some truly vile stuff.
I appreciate you for always having a level head about things, for ridiculing the ridiculous, and for standing up for people who need allies. In a saner world it would be a small thing, but in this world it really matters, at least to me
It's so hard to be trans right now. Please stay safe. My wife and I are trans and we both live in fear that everytime one leaves to go do anything no matter how trivial a task that we'll never see each other again, that we'll be killed by those same people that claim no one wants us dead. You are loved. We can make it past this dark time, together ✊
Best bet is to learn how to defend yourself, and train on those skills. Best believe that the vast majority of people in the US are good, decent, and extremely kind, and would absolutely defend you if they saw you being attacked.
Unfortunately the people who would attack you are cowards, and they know that their best chances exist in the shadows.
You can use this to your advantage though. Be loud, be proud, and be willing to pull their hatred into the light of day where it will inevitably collapse under its own vile weight.
Lemmie guess, Minneapolis at the Lake/Hiawatha LRT Station? Yeah, vile is the kindest word that could be afforded.
Let's try monstrous.
@@soulman4292 You say that most people would come to the aid of a trans person being attacked. Unfortunately, I would say that is most certainly not the case. There are several well documented incidents of trans people being attacked, and no one came to their defense. There was a trans woman attacked in a McDonalds several years ago, and some people tried to intervene, but then the attacker's friend told them all that she was trans, every single person that was trying to help, stepped back and let the beating continue! Another incident happened in Washington DC where a trans woman was in a car accident. The paramedics were helping her, until they realized she was trans. They stopped working on her, and she died. I was attacked by a doctor when I was under her care in a nursing home. She called me an abomination, and she literally tried to kill me. No one at the nursing home stepped in to help me, and in fact, several other medical people, such as nurses, aided the doctor in what she was trying to do. A friend was able to get me out of there before she succeeded, but it did leave me with disabilities that will last the rest of my life. I agree with you that the great majority of people are indeed decent, but that does not mean they will do anything when the situation demands it.
@@TheFlyingSailorYT yep. I honestly thought Minneapolis was a relatively safe city for trans folks up till now
White, Black, Cis, trans, depressed, bipolar. You should never be ashamed of who you are, only actions for which you actually had a choice.
Pro tip to anyone wanting to know the correct way to respond to accusations of Nazism: alarm and concern. If I'm saying things unintentionally or out of ignorance that someone else thinks is bordering on Nazism I want to know and be corrected. Unless I secretly know what I'm saying is Nazi shit, in which case I will get indignant and condemn myself with a hostile reaction.
Hmmm, not sure they are as small a minority as you think. As someone who has spent 30odd years dealing with the general public, I still get moments of complete shock hearing perfectly normal looking people openly expressing attitudes I thought died out with my grandmother.
They're a minority, but they're not an insignificant one. Ten percent is a minority, but that's still every tenth person.
Thank you for being one of the few RUclipsrs who is addressing this. I love your Star Trek content and I am glad you are bringing this up. This Nazi shit is creeping out everywhere in the US due to people being compliant and complacent with it. Especially in media and even social influencers are ignoring it. Thank you for speaking up for the trans community ❤
We're seeing it a lot more in Canada, too.
I worked in the Court system for years in California, and I had a colleague who was the soul of the party: funny, witty, attentive, nice, professional. Nobody had anything bad to say about him. Except that I noticed, particularly during the administration of president Barack Obama, that my funny colleague would use racist Spanish terms to refer to Mr. Obama. It wasn't subtle, but on-your-face racism. My colleague is Cuban, very republican, and is convinced that the Democrats are Communists. I thought, "He's projecting his home country's traumas," and let it be. But then, more and more often, the racist jokes started. Now it wasn't just President Obama, it was the whole Black race, in Cuba and Latin America, in the US, everywhere. I put a stop to it. I told him I would no longer tolerate any racist jokes or comments in my presence, and if he kept it up, I would open a case for hostile environment in the workplace. That shut him up in front of me, but most of my colleagues took his side, claiming "He doesn't mean it," and "You (me) are too sensitive!" Finally, another colleague confronted me with "Why do you feel offended by his jokes? You are Hispanic, but white!" Corollary: this crap is pervasive, it's everywhere, and when people just accept it and remain in the group, or the dinner party, or the family reunion in spite of all the Nazi shit that is normalized the way we smile about the weather, we help it spread and drown us.
Your colleague, undoubtedly, has some African ancestry, coming from Cuba. Some of my wife’s family (originally from Ecuador) make similar jokes and comments about black people-but themselves have anywhere about 10% - 30% sub-Saharan African DNA. Even my sister-in-law’s, 90 year old Puerto Rican husband (they live in Miami), who physically looks mixed race likes to use the “N’’ word….WTF. My wife shuts them down when they start their nonsensical racist bullshit.
The United States Public Health Service Commissioned Corps has been a paramilitary government agency with an admiral as it's head since 1889. Where is Tuckers respect for our history and tradition?
The Knowles stuff is infuriating. He said the same thing a week before CPAC, and defended it as "It's not genocide, if it's not based on race or genetics." Nazi shit but w/ semantics.
That's because, in 1948, they didn't think about LGBTQ+ people as an endangered group, for whatever reason:
_In 1948, the United Nations Genocide Convention defined genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group." These five acts were: killing members of the group, _*_causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group,_*_ preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group. Victims are targeted because of their real or perceived membership of a group, not randomly.[4][5][6][7]_
Even so, Knowles forgot about half of the definition (national or religious group), and I don't see "genetics" anywhere in there, except if it is a sloppy alias for "race". Emphasis mine.
When Germany put the Roma in concentration camps, it was genocide, when they did it to the homosexuals, apparently not. Same thing, I'd think, but I don't make the rules.
so he admitted that he does want to do mass murder, I wonder if he even realizes that
Well he's even *technically* wrong (the worst kind of wrong!) even if you limit it to the definition of it under international law. Categories covered include nationality, ethnicity, and religion as well as race. And of course who in their right mind would limit the concept to the *legal* definition, that's absurd.
He's even wrong about that. The Rwandan genocide in the 90s extended the definition to the common sense acknowledgement we have today.
It's just typical conservative bullshit that is trying to rewrite history and grammar.
That kind of semantic crap is also a form of Nazi Shit.
If it quacks like a Nazi and waddles like a Nazi then it’s a Nazi duck.
And should be treated as a nazi
Thank you for making this video. I have been suffering quite badly with my depression lately and, like a lot of people with depression, there is a tendency to start believing the sort of shit Carlson says on the subject. Hearing that sort of thing called out as 'Nazi Shit' was exactly what I needed to hear today. Thanks.
It makes me happy that he cost Fox 3/4 of a billon dollars and they tossed him out on his ass.
Now that is a freaking Damn Good Rant!
Steve, I love you for speaking truth. I'm a cis guy who has basically had all ties cut from my family because I called out the nazi shit several years ago. I appreciate that I'm not alone in deciding enough was enough. The irony though, is that my friends (both trans and cis) have been so much more supportive than my family ever was. And my partner's family has basically adopted me and it's been wild to see what a healthy family environment looks like. It's amazing that when you stand up to abusive nazis in your life and decide to go it alone that amazing people seem to show up and rally around you.
Straight fire My Friend, thanks!!
Many Americans are suffering from depression. Should every one be able to be hospitalized until fit to resume their work?
Honestly - how can anyone take what is said by Carlson or Fox in general as having any validity anymore? We know they lie. That's an established fact - even Fox itself doesn't try to argue that as a fact anymore.
But note they are very careful to never do it where the majority of their viewers will notice. They've trained them to ignore their opposition and just listen to them. So they are clueless about this. If you tell them "everybody knows Fox lies", they'll take it as an ideological attack and don't give it another thought.
2 words invalidate any facts for Faux followers who may not like them: "fake news".
They don't want to believe anything that doesn't fit their worldview, and refuse to no matter what.
Respect to John Fetterman good to hear he's recovering well. I'm in the UK and here we have just had a week of high farce as a soccer commentator and popular TV presenter compared the language used about refugees by the government to that used during the thirties. Cue outrage as his comments were disingenuously presented as a direct comparison to the Nazis while much of the UK showed solidarity with the presenter and pointed out that if his comments had been in support of the policy nothing would have happened.
It really is scary just how fast this sort of fascist movement has grown.
Yep, not to mention the BBC having to make an embarrassing U-turn on his ban after it blew up in their face.
A Johnathan Pie has a video out about that. It's both biting and hilarious.
@@andrewgreenwood9068 It's been growing for longer than I've been alive, at least in the US. I'm about to be 40. Fuck, I'm about to be 40.
Awesome stuff, direct and to the point, the world needs more of this
Thank you Steve... as a trans person, I really can't express how scary this all is. When you got to the part where you were telling Tucker and the other Nazi's "No one is trying to erradicate you" i lost it, I broke down in tears at how evil these people are and how scary it is to be their target.
I'm trans, too. This bothers me so much.
Same
As a trans intersex woman with mental health issues I second this thank you. And Diana, my strong, beautiful trans sister, we can get through this, even though things are indeed getting scary. We can persevere. These small minded people will not win in the end for they do not possess the strength we’ve already shown just fighting for our basic identities to be recognised as valid, nor the intelligence and introspection we’ve demonstrated by working out what those identities are and dismissing attempts shove us into our assigned boxes. Stay strong hon 😊
💙💖🤍💖💙
@@Moonbeam143 it bothers me too. And my slightly-too-old-to-be-a-boomer mother is _horrified_ that people are forgetting what the world went through 80 years ago. But these weak fashies _cannot hope_ to match the fire in our hearts… side note, after saying that I’m fighting the urge to start talking like a Klingon 😂 for the glory of the Empire, we shall bring _great_ honour to our houses, and defeat these petaQs! Qapla’! ✊
@@DissociatedWomenIncorporated We should all start wearing that sash Worf wears, but have it be in trans pride colors.
Glad Senator Fetterman sought help and is doing well! I've been there, my dude.
Up & at em Steve, bravo
Well said, Shives. This sort of bullshit can't be allowed to become normalized.
Thank you for making the content you do. The world is a scary place for a disabled transwoman like myself, but people like you make me feel welcome and safer.
Thank you Steve, that was quite something to listen to. A real riteous rant as it were, Im from acoss the pond and being part of the LGBT community watching whats going on over there truly scares me ..I hope you can kick these nazis down good and proper before their poison spreads further than it has done
During the lockdowns, I was not in a good place mentally. I live in PA & would always look forward to Dr. Levine's lunchtime updates that she did on weekdays as PA's secretary of health. She has such a reassuring & calm way of speaking that it would ease my anxiety a little. When I heard Biden wanted to appoint Dr. Levine to US Assistant Secretary of Health, I was a little bit selfishly sad because PA would be losing her. However, I was so pleased that she was appointed to this position! Dr. Levine is an inspiration & fuck anyone that says different.
Steve Shives, man, I salute you for your courage. You are a legend.
For my fellow trans folx who live in the US, I want you to know that Canada has a petition going around to grant asylum to trans folx. I know things are scary right now, but there is room for some hope.
Oh, Canada! I hope they do that and, if I have to flee, they'll take my psychotic little cat.
I think the petition is a good thing in that it sends a message. Worth pointing out that the asylum process already considers LGBTQ identities as a valid reason for claiming asylum, though, so really the petition would just be affirming a practice that already exists.
Tricky thing about taking in refugees from the US, though, and I hope it changes: if it can be argued that you can avoid discrimination simply by moving to another part of your country, then the asylum claim will be rejected. That's not just for trans people; that's for racial minorities facing racism, women seeking bodily autonomy, or any of the other people being crushed by fascist elements within US state (and at times, federal) governments. A trans person fleeing Oman (where their existence is criminalized), will have a much better chance at claiming asylum in Canada than a trans person fleeing Texas.
As a Canadian, I need to find that petition and sign it immediately
Trans guy here commenting for the algorithm gods. (Obviously Baphoment and Santa.) Love your rants and your total personal overthrow of civility politics. Wish I'd known and I could have taken a shot every time you said, "Nazi sh!t!" Although maybe not. Would be in the hospital. Keep up the fiery allyship!
"Sure we wanna eradicate demographics of people in our population, enforce social hierarchy, imprison anyone at will, teach nationalist doctrine, and punish whoever breaks the rigid social structure ... but we're not nazis!" - The right.
Also: "We believe in small government and freedom!"
Well, they certainly act & talk like Nazis.
Q anon shaman for governor!
@@John73John When right wingers say they want small government, what they actually mean is they want a numerically small government, not a government that is less intrusive into people's lives. They want power in as few hands as possible. Because a numerically small government is far easier to for the oligarchs to control.
Sadly, when you read off Tucker's quote, I can still hear it in his voice.
Steve, give me a fucking trigger warning when you show Carlson on screen! People might be eating while watching!
What do you expect of a video titled "If He Talks Like a Nazi...", that you expect to be compatible with eating?
Someone once tried to argue with me that "people aren't *assigned* a gender at birth" and I'm like ... I just can't even talk to this person. What do they think is happening when someone writes a M or F on the birth certificate?
A Doctor observes one's biological sex and writes it down, that is what happens.
@@lucky2516 Can you name the generally accepted 5 aspects of biological sex? Are you aware that this is a bimodal distribution? What about the roughly 2% of people with intersex conditions? (And before citing how rare that is, keep in mind that there are more intersex people than natural red heads.) What about the additional 0.5-4% of people who are trans?
What doctors do is they take a 5 second look at baby junk and then write a letter that describes how that baby will be treated for the rest of their lives socially, economically, and medically. Are you willing to write off 2-5% or more of the global population when they say what the doctor spent 5 seconds worrying about is wrong?
Come on. This isn't even grade 5 science anymore. This is grade 5 science from the 1950's. Grow up and learn that "facts" you learned at age 10 are maybe dumbed down and simplified a bit along with being outdated by decades. Or are you still using medical science from that time? If so, I hope you are comfortable with cancer treatment from that era.
@@lucky2516 Now if only you understood that:
1) gender is NOT the same as "biological sex".
and
2) biological sex is quite a bit more complicated than what a doctor can observe by looking at a newborn for a few seconds
But that would require actually knowing something about a topic you think you are able to comment on.
Excellent points all around; this is the paradox of tolerance in semi-rant form (and that's not a bad thing).
Thank you for saying this out loud, Steve.
Thank you so much, Steve, for vocalising several ideas and grievances that have been floating around my head for a while that I was yet to put into words. That was actively cathartic for me :^)
F*cking Amen,I watched all the way through and I just was nodding along,and at the end I felt like a weight was dropped off of me.
Thanks, Steve. I have relatives who have mild depression. Depression isn't something to belittle.
Thank you for this. I am terrified for the people I love that are transgender.
That's not the flex Tucker thinks it is...
I really can’t thank you enough for calling out such inexcusable behavior from the far right like this. 3 out of 4 members of my immediate family are Trump supporters and at times it feels like I’m the only sane person in the asylum (because my more progressive older brother moved out years ago). These days it feels like my only source of refuge is my Sarah Lawrence alumni fiancé and my therapist whom I’ve been seeing in secret who also sympathizes with my plight. Between this and all the Best Superman Ever videos you do (Superman is my all time favorite) you help me feel validated and empowered to stand up for truth and justice despite my difficult position of still living under my parents’ roof. Thank you for being my outlet and keep speaking the truth! God bless you, man!
Man I'm in tears. If this world were made up of more people like you it would be such a wonderful place.
I am so in awe of you. And my heavens your vids and your take on life are so so so right.
THANK YOU for your RUclips videos but way more than that Thank You for YOU.
An amazing Man. A wonderful Human.
Yeah, the thing about Knowles' defense is even granting that acceptance of transgender people is an ideology rather than people actually being transgender (something that I'm not generally in favor of doing, what with being a trans woman myself): it's still a genocide, and is one of the ideas that the person that originally coined the term had in mind for it to refer to.
But, as I said, I'm also a trans woman, so I am fully aware that the only way to destroy transgender ideology is to destroy transgender people. Even granting the entire premise is what they say it is doesn't make it not a genocide, and the only way to do what they're calling for is to commit what most people think of when they think of genocide. So, no matter how you cut it, they're calling for genocide - and absolutely should be called out for it, every single time they try to pretend that what they're doing is anything but.
I wish I could like this multiple times. Well said. I can’t stand Carlson, and can’t wait until karma catches up with him. Keep up the good work!
Carlson is one of the few individuals who it is morally correct to wish harm apon. I absolutely despise him and I don't even live in the US.
Thinking the same. Not only is Steve a great Star Trek reviewer and commenter. He is also an amazing human being. ❤
Absolutely spot on!! Love this!! Keep speakin the truth.
That last line in the Carlson quote, "They would not intentionally put people in position so authority who were incompetent," is refuted by the reality that we had iDJT befouling the People's White House for four long years.
Preach brother.
As a trans woman living in Europe I think that the US is a cautionary tale for us. Yes, in the EU fascism has been in check since WWII but the safeguards are starting to crack... and I feel all of you, folks over there... I wish you the best of lucks and a real change of wind in your country 💜 And us in the EU must defend what we've built in our countries.
Once EU allowed fascism to take over UK and didn't protect its own EU citizens in UK it endgame
From what I've heard, Europe is still a hellhole for trans people compared to my country New Zealand.
@@garrett2439 it such a reliable fact that RUclips deleting it 🤣🤣🤣
I'm sure the OP means well, but America will never be fascist. The only way fascism takes over America is after every single living person on the North American continent is gone.
Didn't a fascist political party(Golden Dawn) get seats in Greece’s parliament less than ten years ago?
How can anyone live on this planet and not be mentally ill? Our biggest problems are caused by each other.
I've known I'm trans since I was 4, but was groomed by society and the church to be something that I was not.
Fetterman looks like he lost a bit of weight. He's a strong person, though.
I hope karma exists and knocks the shit out of tucker.
yyeeeeeah, nazis lost last time, but not without doing genocides and a world war first. We'd be foolish to think, minority opinion that it may be, that it's going to go away at no or minimal cost. It didn't need to be waited out, it needed to be defeated. It's a bad idea to be complacent because they're 'in the minority'. They were before, and people were complacent because of it.
The true silent majority is pretty live and let live on these issues.As someone who has dealt with extreme depression good on him for seeking help. To be fair that job would be hard enough under any conditions
"I need a reporter who doesn't know the difference between an ism and a kangaroo!"--a line from Alfred Hitchcock's "Foreign Correspondent," and one of the hiring policies at the Daily Wire.
You didn’t do a Tucky Carlman impression reading his quote, I know you got a good one in there Steve
Wonder if Carlson's ever weighed in on Lincoln's mental fitness, given Lincoln's lifelong struggles with crippling depression?
You had me at calling Carlson a POS. Subscribed.
Thamk you so much!
Tucker Carlson speaking even if it’s not him saying the words give me hives
Americans, what do we do to Nazi's? Do that.
Thank you Steve, for saying what Tucker Carlson really is!
I'm a stoke victim, I lost my ability to continue in my profession (master cabinet and furniture maker), lost my business and home due to lack of income. And became very depressed, It's taken 13 yrs. From one survivor to another, Hang in There, my friend, you are loved! "F" Tucker!
That was fucking massive!
THANK YOU!
Without any qualifiers about how I grew up or anything, I just want to be honest. The trans and LGBTQ issues do confuse me. First of all, peoples’ private bedroom lives are their own business, and none of mine. That’s my baseline. The reality here is, regardless of how anyone feels or, what tradition you were brought up under, these issues are out in the open, they’re out of the ‘box’ (the Pandora variety), it’s actually been that way for a long time and none of it is going away. More powerful, brutal, hyper-conservative people and societies have tried eradication many times before. It NEVER works.
We are all better off making the effort to understand these issues.
Black, African American. Black African. Black men. Black women. Whites. Feminism. LGBTQ. Immigration. Economics. Taxes. Religion. Non-religion… all of it!
The Tucker Carlsons of the world need to get out of the way.
We’re at a gigantic, frightening yet amazingly exiting state of change and flux in the world. The opportunities to do really big things are right there for the taking… and we’re fucking it up royally.
I’ll leave it at that.
Brilliant, as usual!
TV Dinners was out on his ass not too long after this, which is hilarious.
So glad I found this channel. The millions of dollars that these people are spending to blanket the internet in nazi shit is tiresome.
Pal-uh-steen is how I have heard that the locals pronounce the name of their town. Sorry for being the “um, actually” guy, just trying to be helpful.
Umm, Mr. Carlson...Abraham Lincoln?
Didn't know that (not that it's something I would have expected to learn in school in Germany) - good one.
I'm with you 150% Steve! I struggle every day to find the words that will break through the fear and cowardess of these people. Perhaps war is the only way societies have ever been able to put a focus on learning courage?
For my parents it was WWII. For my generation it was Vietnam. We had the Middle East war(s) during your generation. But they never captured our society's mindshare the same way. People today have no frame of reference with which to process their fears and find the courage to overcome them. We are a country of cowering cowards... hysterically lashing out at anything unknown.
Our country is no longer the country of brave Americans fighting for justice and exploring the unknown.
We have become the whimpering cowards that churches need to keep filling they coffers with riches.
Never understood why so many people feel the need to control what other people do in the bedroom
Steve Shives for president
LOL, The mentally Ill,... that pretty much describes EVERY MAGAt trump Voter who still believes in paying for his Lawyers fees through their vdonations to the RNC.
Thank you for mentioning Magnus Hirschfeld, Steve! 🏳⚧
Revisiting this after hearing Trump quote Hitler. Can we call the Republican party Nazis yet?
This is the rant I want to give regularly to my fundamentalist childhood friend I am trying to drag out of it
Chances are, they'd have an attack of the vapors because you said "naughty words" and never even hear the substance of the rant.
I need help I want to write a bill that makes Nazi rhetoric illegal And have a public vote so we can see who votes against it and make that public knowledge everybody should publicly put where they stand on World War II Nazis
That is the question you should always ask, to their face, when you hear complaints about 'woke.'
"Okay, but what do you want to do about X (minority here) themselves....?"
Steve, you remain awesome. Thank you for calling out the bigots on their nazi shit, and making me smile at how you do it