Comments by "yessum15" (@yessum15) on "NowThis Impact" channel.

  1. @Thornboy🥀 It's critical theory as applied to race in America. In other words it is the study of the way in which race & racism have shaped our social institutions, ideology, and underlying assumptions. But if you've resorted to asking this question on a YouTube comment thread, then you're likely in a dangerously vulnerable place, and extremely susceptible to being mislead by right-wing propaganda. My recommendation is to do one of two things: 1) Invest the time, money, & effort to study critical theory in general and then read some of the seminal works in CRT. This is the difficult option. 2) Just throw CRT in the same bin you put all the other advanced level scientific theories you don't understand (String Theory, Keynesianism, Nuclear Physics) and trust that the experts generally know what they're doing. This is actually the path I recommend.
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  2.  @idontknowwhattoputhere.3572  "How will bringing up the past solve anything?" Those who do not study history are doomed to repeat it. In addition, we should note that a significant portion of CRT studies contemporary phenomena and is not exclusively historical.
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  3.  @awesomekingakathe66bro36  "You want kids to look at everything through the lens of race?" No, we want them to have access to multiple analytical lenses, one of which is race. This is how you create intelligent and adaptable people.
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  4. No it's cruel and it's not funny. Think of all the innocent potheads who went home sober because they turned down the dinner having no idea it was laced with primo stuff.
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  5.  @awesomekingakathe66bro36  "Reminds me of how people say CRT isn't being taught" I believe that was a response to extremist right wing pundits who quoted dense college & postgrad level CRT texts and claimed that was what was being taught in children's schools. By selectively cutting excerpts without context, they made what was being taught at the grade school level appear to be much more controversial than it actually was. In response, liberal & centrist media emphasized that CRT (the graduate level discipline) was not being taught. But rather that some mostly innocuous and much more straightforward black history and diversity awareness material was being taught which in a few sparse cases was referred to as CRT. However, clearly it was not the same as the postgrad level material the dishonest right-wingers were pretending was being pedaled.
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  6. @Thornboy🥀 "I learned all of that in elementary" And I learned about gravity in kindergarten. But Gravitational Theory is still studied at the college & post-grad levels. I hate to break it to you, but the typical elementary school curriculum tends to be an extremely simplified version of more complex theories. Thus elementary school curriculums both need periodic update and are most effective when combined with post-elementary level study. "Unless CRT is really just about hating & blaming" This statement contradicts your first and seems to illustrate quite aptly that you in fact did not learn much about the subject in elementary school.
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  7. She said that because he had already beaten her up multiple times. It makes sense that it would be ludicrous for him at that stage to claim abuse because she slapped him.
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  8.  @definitelynotcodyc  "It is Marxism with race instead of class" This statement makes no sense. It is impossible to have Marxism without class. I don't think you understand multiculturalism or Marxism.
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  9. A shame it doesn't even do that.
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  10. ​ @Jason-gg4lm Well, when everything is criminalized and police can arrest for no reason and there is no social safety net, that's a little difficult.
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  11. Even more infuriating, imagine all those innocent potheads denied a killer high simply because they turned down a meal not knowing it was laced with primo stuff. Tragedy all around.
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  12.  @molly-zx9cr  That is incorrect. The bill is HCS HJR 53. It applies to student athletes up to 18 years old. This is not just about small children.
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  13. It's also common sense to stop if someone is in front of your truck so that you don't kill them. It's not his job to enforce the law through murderous means. Stop and complain to the police. This guy should go to jail for a long time.
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  14.  @maggieburkart907  1) At the adult level, hormone therapy is usually insufficient to compensate for the advantage of having been biologically male. Hormones do not change your height, the size of your hands, the width of your chest, the size of your head, the shape of your hips, etc. It's also unclear that hormones compensate for previous exposure to high levels of testosterone or 'muscle memory' advantages For example, a man who abused testosterone (steroids) for many years and then quit, may experience a reduction in testosterone levels, however he will retain a long term advantage over men who did not abuse steroids and may have a higher testosterone level than him due to additional myonuclei created during the period of heightened test levels in his past. 2) I think the argument is that at the school level scholarships and other opportunities are tied to athletic performance. For example, a student athlete is much more likely to be accepted into an ivy league college. To be clear, I am not advocating for excluding trans people from participating with their identified gender. And I do believe that most of the people trying to stop this are either bigoted or using this topic as a wedge issue to push forward their own radical regressive agendas. However, past all the politics there are some serious issues that need to be considered and discussed.
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  15. @Bout2  I think school zoning laws are draconian. I also think certain laws related to overregulated substances, and of course all vagrancy laws. In addition to that many "3 strikes" type of laws are counterproductive in the way that they are written. I also think tying the quality of one's legal defenses to their finances goes completely against the notion of justice.
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  16.  @Hertz2laugh  The Cult of the Smooth Brain isn't really a respected religion. But sure, I get your point
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  17.  @OliveJuice023  It seems you don't understand what Fascism or Marxism means and seem totally in the dark about CRT as well. Why not stick to using words you understand?
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  18.  @spencersholden  Do u know kids were there or are you just assuming? Could've been adult-only invites: "We polite request that you let the children stay home & do whippets."
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  19.  @marvinlegwatts734  lol looks like someone got bullied in junior high.
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  20.  @katamatic1609  Possible but unlikely. According to police and all witnesses available, the truck was stopped for a long time a few yards away from the protestors with a clear line of sight. It's possible she could have waited until the truck was only a few feet away and then suddenly jumped in front of the truck at the last second, but that seems unlikely given that she seemed to regularly attend these protests and would have no reason to do that. The protesters apparently do the same thing every time, block the entrance and request 2 minutes to feed the animals. It seems extremely unlikely that a protestor would suddenly go off script in such a ridiculous way for no reason. However, it could have happened and we will never know without seeing the video the police have of the incident. The driver was charged with "careless driving resulting in a death" so it appears that he was at least partially at fault.
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  21.  @ledgaming6489  They weren't giving them food they were giving them water. Factory farmed pigs are typically perpetually overheated & dehydrated because of the poor conditions they're transported in. But that's besides the point. It doesn't really matter what the protestors were doing, when you operate a motor vehicle there is no excuse for driving into a crowd of people unless your life is in danger.
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  22.  @andychen3350  That was a parody video. His lift was not official or sanctioned. You might as well say you watched the movie Superman therefore humans can fly.
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  23.  @Pokebald  No genius, you can't. I'm sure the amateur stuff you make at home tastes funny. But there are a ton of pro level products that have virtually no taste. Combined with a pungent dish it would be virtually impossible to detect. Now consider that a lot of the guests likely have no experience with marijuana and thus wouldn't be able to identify it even if they did taste something funny. And then remember that they aren't specifically looking for it. So yeah, please stop talking out your behind because you had one homemade pot brownie and suddenly think you're the wizard of edibles.
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  24. He already has his job back.
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  25.  @carl5535  That's a pretty expensive fix. School districts don't just have money like that lying around. I mean given how few student athletes identify as trans, this would be a very expensive logistical nightmare. Not saying to can't be done. But I am saying you're oversimplifying.
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  26. @Valkyria This was an excellent comment.
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  27.  @EcchiTC  He literally apologized for beating her on tape. He literally threatened to cut himself and then her while holding a knife. On tape. Stephen Deuters literally witnessed him kicking her. He's been accused of assaulting 2 other people in the same timeframe. 1 in front of multiple witnesses. Amber has been consistently complaining about him beating her for years. Multiple medical professionals have confirmed that she never changed her story. Even from before they were married. He on the other hand, only recently started denying this, after the articles and court cases. We have years of pictures of her with bruises and cuts on her face. She was clearly being beaten by someone. The Metadata on the photos matches the time a dates after which she received a text from. Johnny apologizing for ambiguously "monstrous" behavior. This is a lot of evidence.
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  28. You didn't change Dave's joke, you butchered it mercilessly. Ew.
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  29. Uh... they're a little drunk and the lady made a pretty harmless joke. He could've just let it slide. She literally apologized as soon as she realized he was offended.
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  30.  @Rutawind  It's not a particularly racist statement. If you're in an area where the uber drivers are mostly non-white immigrants, it's not crazy to express surprise at a driver who isn't. Darling.
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  31.  @Jargonoftheantolopes  Right, because assault is a reasonable comparison to making a benign if somewhat stupid comment. Way to stay logical.
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  32.  @clickycal  Or your stupid thoughts.
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  33.  @andyabreu5627  Yeah, I just prefer to wait until after someone's proven themselves to be racist to accuse them. Saying stupid stuff that can go either way wouldn't be enough to make me toss him.
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  34.  @andyabreu5627  Didn't say it wasn't his right, genius. People can do whatever they want. But he definitely jumped the gun & was kinda unfair to them.
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  35.  @Jargonoftheantolopes  That was after he threw them out. They were actually pretty polite before. The lady apologized to him immediately when she realized she offended him.
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  36.  @Jargonoftheantolopes  Again, her initial comment wasn't particularly racist, but rather insensitive. He definitely overreacted.
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  37.  @Jargonoftheantolopes  Wouldn't know, since I'm not. Sorry to disappoint you. Tbh it's a little suspicious that you want to know so badly. Dude, if you want to join one so bad, just go ahead & do it. No need to overcompensate in the other direction while projecting your latent desires on others lol.
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  38.  @AlexADalton  If a suspect hits and attempts to disarm an officer the officer is authorized to use lethal force. That happened about 10 times in this video with no such response. This is racism.
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  39.  @YouTuberr285  how can you tell?
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  40.  @jasonvoorhees7288  You're not the entire country, Todd.
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  41. There are a lot of non-West prisons I would rather be in than in a US one.
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  42.  @takatamiyagawa5688  I agree, there's no real threat of men pretending to be trans. It's simply too difficult and too costly a con for too small a benefit. I also think asking trans women/girls to play in men/boys leagues would be unfair and psychologically damaging to them. However, it does seem that trans girls retain an advantage over cis girls in certain areas of athleticism. I haven't yet heard a good answer as to how to reconcile this.
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  43.  @idontknowwhattoputhere.3572  See my comment above.
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  44.  @awesomekingakathe66bro36  "My syrup is discriminatory" Can you please direct me to the CRT text which says this? Thank you. "If it was never taught, why are these teachers crying about not being able to teach CRT any more" Mainly because extremist right wingers have used anti-CRT as a pretense for banning a great deal of American history that has a tenuous to non-existent relationship with the academic field of CRT.
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  45.  @7EiamJ7  As I understand it, the Quaker Oats company made the decision to remove Aunt Jemima's image on their own without consulting either the Board of Education or Nancy Green's (the original Aunt Jemima) family. I don't think this can be blamed on CRT since this was a private company's decision. My guess is that they decided to remove the image based on the racial tension after the anti police brutality protests in order to avoid uncomfortable questions about whether they compensated Nancy Green's family fairly or had permission to use her character. Now, there is certainly no question that Aunt Jemima's original forced domestic worker depiction was indeed racist, and the use of a fake "forced laborer" name for Nancy Green's syrup could offend some people but at the end of the day the decision to remove Aunt Jemima was made by a private company attempting to save money. That's not really CRT, it's just run of the mill capitalism.
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  46.  @mariomitchell2864  "Why would you want kids to analyze things racially?" In order to fight racism you need to be able to identify it. You need an analytical lense for that. Make sense, right? "Do you feel people should be treated differently based on race?" Sometimes. For example if we're rationing sun tan lotion I don't mind my paleface brothers getting first crack. Also, if a bunch of white people stole a bunch of money from black people because they were black, I don't mind asking them to give it back. Also makes sense, right?
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  47.  @awesomekingakathe66bro36  By definition Trump is a politician.
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  48.  @awesomekingakathe66bro36  I think his condemnations would be taken seriously if he didn't: a) repeatedly court it b) refuse to condemn it for so long c) undermine his condemnations by backtracking moments later. Unfortunately he did all of these things, giving the distinct impression of a man being forced into uttering an insincere condemnation of something he doesn't genuinely reject. In any case, this is a little off topic. Let's start focused.
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  49.  @Hertz2laugh  CRT uses the structure of Marxism the same way both guns and cars use the structure of metal. Calling CRT "Marxism that swaps in race for class" is purposely misleading, reductionist, and frankly a bit dumb. Why not call a gun a car that moves bullets rather than people? I mean they're both made of metal. Lol Yes, reference to conflict theory and materialism are shared in both. But work in both fields is both quite diverse and often contradictory across fields. The predictions (and occasional prescriptions) of Marxism are frequently not present or directly contradicted by CRT theorists. By your definition all a theory has to do is draw on materialist analysis and conflict theory to be considered a variation of Marxism. Fair enough. I guess Realpolitik is Marxism. So is Evolution. Hey you know what? I think Global Warming is also Marxist come to think of it. Maybe capitalism is too. You see what happens when you're over-reliant on one boogieman? "I reject the premise that the US was set up to oppress black people" Fair enough, but you'd be denying an incredibly well established historical record. I mean it's pretty uncontroversial to declare that most states are set up to entrench the powers that establish them. Given that those powers were white people of a specific class, it is quite obvious that the US was indeed (at least in part) set up to perpetuate the same system of racial privilege that preceded it. There is also a clear historical record indicating that both the founding fathers and subsequent leadership went out of their way to emphasize this point stating clearly that nothing in the constitution or declaration should be interpreted as undermining the racial hierarchy.
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  50.  @iwasadeum  1)The protestors should be arrested because they're breaking the law 2), The company should be punished as well for letting this dangerous situation continue for so long. 3) The driver should be punished because if a pedestrian is blocking the path of a truck, it is never the right decision to proceed forward (unless your life is in danger)
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