Back to episode — Episode 2337 CWSA 12/29/23 Why do We Keep Confusing Political Opinions With Mental Illness?
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Civil War. So that's our history. So do you believe that the history of why the Civil War was fought and why slavery was ended, given that you're observing in real time that the real modern things you can see with your own eyes are being reported as completely fictional stories while you watch, do you believe that the story of the Civil War and slavery are accurately told even in a directional se…
← Previous segment →f you think the person who asked the question was a bad actor? It could have been Democrat but it could have been somebody running against her. It did sound like a trick question. I was curious. It's such a good trick question that I can't believe a Republican asked it. It does not sound like a Republican question. So I'm going to agree with Nikki Haley that it looked like a dirty trick and it was clever because if the person who asked it was believing that because she's a Southern state person that she might go a little soft on slavery. I think they got their wish because I wouldn't say she went soft on it. That's not a fair statement. But her communication was so tortured that I think if it was a troll and I think it was that they got what they wanted. So it was a good play.
But in trying to fix it in the subsequent day Nikki Haley said that you know that slavery as a reason for the Civil War is quote a given for people who grew up in the South. Do you buy that? She didn't need to mention slavery because that's a given. Ah she's right. So I have two reactions. She's 100% correct. It doesn't need to be mentioned because it's a given and that's how we do fake news. We act like somebody not saying something that's obvious isn't a given.
So when Trump said there were fine people on each side in Charlottesville wasn't it obvious he's not talking about the racists? It's just obvious. It's a given. It's a given that the president of the United States doesn't praise racists marching against Jewish people in public. It's just a given. But they still went after him because he wasn't clear enough with the given. But of course he was clear enough because he said it directly. They just take that part out of the transcript. But it's a common trick to go after a politician for not stating directly something you really shouldn't have to state right?
If you said the Holocaust was one of the worst tragedies in the world and I gave you an answer that was sort of academic it's because it's a given. I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about the Holocaust. It's a given right? But as a politician you still have to say it or else somebody's going to attack you which is what happened.
But here's her words. Solid bad explanation. She said yes of course slavery can never happen again but going forward do
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esn't that mean we should focus on the freedoms of people to live their life not to have government not to have any other person tell them what they can and can't do. What? So she's still trying to say that the big takeaway from slavery was the government shouldn't tell citizens what to do. Wasn't that the whole point of the Civil War is to tell the South that they couldn't do that anymore? The wh…
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