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Slack.com slash DHQ. Welcome to the show. You know, we spend a lot of time in this culture,

a lot of time and energy, supposedly exposing, attacking, weeding out forms of bigotry.

And this, this zealousness to get rid of bigotry could be a good thing, even an overzealousness,

even an overzealousness that leads to sometimes to calling something bigotry, even when it

isn't bigotry. That could be a price worth paying, except that the problem is our crusade

against bigotry is of course rather selective and inconsistent and self-contradictory and

hypocritical. And what we discover in the end is that we're no different than any culture

in the past. All cultures have had their accepted bigotries and their unaccepted bigotries.

There are acceptable bigotries and unacceptable and that's the same for us. Now to root

out and reject all bigotry, that would be novel. That would be, that would be unique.

That would be progress. And as I said, maybe even a price, maybe even worth the price of

overzealousness, but that's not our situation. We have simply chosen different bigotries

as acceptable and different ones as unacceptable. So it was a lateral move, not a progression.

And when I say we of course, I mean the powerful forces in our culture, not you and me necessarily,

but media, academia, Hollywood, government and so on, which brings us to a perfect example

of acceptable bigotry in our culture today. This example provided to you by CNN, an alleged

news network. I'll just play the clip for you if you haven't seen it yet. Here is Don

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