It's Chimac in a room with his PR crew right now like rehearsing and practicing and

let's pause this room

Hey everybody so I just wanted to make sure based on last week's pod it was

absolutely clear I care about human rights many of you know my origin story

but for those of you that don't I was born in a country that's no stranger to

civil war and religious and political persecution growing up my family and I

felt those effects it affected our safety it's in part what led my family to

file for refugee status in stay in Canada so this is a real part of my

lived experience that said you know I realized that what I said last week

lacked empathy particularly towards others who are dealing with persecution in

this case the weekers and based on what I read this week I think what's

happening to them in western China is a terrible situation I also want to

talk about this idea about nobody caring look if we take a step back and

replace weger with other really important issues like the conflict in

Yemen the potential war in the Ukraine gun control school shootings

healthcare equity were faced with horrible events every day however the

unfortunate state of the world today is that we've also normalized a

certain of being confronted with something tragic or horrible or unjust and

being allowed to react with thoughts and prayers and this was the real intent

of what I was trying to get across so when I talk about my line it's not about

whether something matters or not it's about which issues of all the important

issues we face every day where I have the expertise and I believe I have the

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