't do censorship. I think that if you want to understand it on the sort of common sensical level it's not censorship. On the practical level it's brainwashing. They don't just want some people not to talk. They want to change what you think. And so brainwashing is the scarier crime that the censorship is sort of how you get to the crime but the crime is the brainwashing. It's just that the constitutional part is the censorship.

All right. Censorship or deprogramming. Let's see. I'm being prompted to talk about Congressman Thomas Massie. All right let me tell you what I've learned. So Breitbart and Joel Pollak in particular was giving Thomas Massie some heat for a meme that used Zion was part of the meme. And I said to well I said here I don't really see where that was anti-Semitic. So here's the counterargument. So if you want to understand how anybody would see that as anti-Semitic here's the counter argument. That language is more commonly used by let's say the worst racists on the right who believe that the word Zion is closer to a global Jewish conspiracy idea and not what the dictionary tells you. Because the dictionary just says it's about Israel's statehood and supporting it. Right? So I looked at all the definitions and the definitions were all the same. It's just about Israel being a state and supporting it. So I thought well what's wrong with using that word if every definition is a perfectly innocent definition? What's wrong? But all words mean something in context only. Would you agree? Words don't have just a meaning. In a context every word in fact that was a big point in my book Reframe Your Brain. One of the chapters makes a big point of this. Words take on meaning beyond the word. So you can look at the dictionary and there will be the base meaning but that's not everything the word means. Right? We put power into words. And because a certain group of people have used that Zion word as part of their ultra anti-Semitic narrative that anybody else who uses it is whether they like it or not is taking on all that weight.

So we could argue all day about the specific definition of the word but it does have the effect of giving some let's say giving some oxygen to the worst anti-Semitic parts of the country. So if you want to stop somebody from giving oxygen to the worst people in the world you call it out when they use the word just so people know there's sort of a line here. Gurgle. I'm just telling you both sides right? If you want to know what side I take I take the side of Thomas Massie because he used the words the way the dictionary us