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All right, let's look at something else. Have you noticed that the Democrat candidates all look extra boring? Somebody says I'm next. I actually looked through the article to see if my name was there and it wasn't. So I had to read the whole damn article just to be sure I had not been sucked into that intellectual dark web continuum until I was the horrible, most horrible person in the world. Any…
← Previous segment →All right. So I've got a thought experiment for you. But it goes like this. So I was talking about YouTube. And apparently YouTube is now banning the most racist KKK neo-Nazi material on YouTube. And so that's all that material that's associated with being over the line is being banned. And apparently that's legal. They can ban it because it's a private speech and whatnot.
But let me ask you this. What would happen if all of those super-racist people, whether they're white supremacists or whether they're the KKK, some group of neo-Nazis, what would happen if they formed a religion? What if they formed a religion around their most obnoxious beliefs and then they went further and said we don't believe in violence? Suppose they renounced violence as part of their religious platform and said yes, we renounce violence, but we still want to believe all these things and talk about all these horrible racist things. Would they be protected because it was a religion? I think so, right?
And let's make it more interesting as a thought experiment. Let's say there was a country called Elbonia and the Elbonians had a religion that was super racist but not violent. Super racist but they renounced violence. Would they be allowed to immigrate to this country? Would we say well, it's a religion, we don't like it, but it's a religion? Would we allow them into the country? I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. But it's a brain bender.
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My favorite story is there are some comedians who are putting on a so-called straight Pride Parade in Boston. And we heard about this. Now, forget about the politics of it because I don't think it's terribly important. But just the fact that they would do it at all is hilarious. So I thought that just the fact that somebody was trying to get away with this — I don't see it so much as a political…
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