PDS 5.8 "HE HAS A TOXIC SAVIOR COMPLEX!" Mr Beast Controversy Has People Split, Texas Updates & Today's News
The Philip DeFranco Show
philip defranco
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🗓️ 8 May 2023
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Today we're talking about what's really going down with his wave of backlash at Mr. Bees following his curing the deaf video, |
| 0:05.7 | what Jenna Ortega's catching strays, what Dems are turning on Biden, the new eye-opening information coming out of Texas right now, and so much more news today. |
| 0:13.2 | So welcome back to the Philip DeFranco show, and let's just jump into it. |
| 0:16.3 | Starting with, Mr. Bees is facing backlash again. So this time, the criticism is different from the most |
| 0:20.9 | recent controversy, which was Jimmy has a trans friend. Oh no, he's indoctrinating the youth by |
| 0:25.7 | seeing a friend as a person. But no, rather it's because he put out a video titled |
| 0:28.6 | 1,000 deaf people here for the first time. And while with everything that Jimmy does, like, |
| 0:32.2 | people have big reactions, what was actually kind of stand out is that you had deaf people specifically among those being the biggest critics. So Mr. Beast explains in the video that his team got $3 million to spend on new hearing aid technology that'll analyze a person's specific hearing needs. |
| 0:43.3 | And he gives these hearing aids to people of all ages, kids, adults, people from other countries, all over the world. |
| 0:48.3 | Also on top of that, some are gifted like $10,000, a tickets to a Taylor Swift concert. Mr. Bees even closing the video by noting that hearing isn't the only way to connect people, |
| 0:56.1 | that sign language. |
| 0:57.5 | And so he's going to be donating $100,000 to organizations that teach people sign language. |
| 1:01.2 | And while in the comments, you had tons of people praising him. |
| 1:03.0 | You also had the Independent putting out an op-ed from writer Liam O'Dell titled, |
| 1:06.0 | Deaf People Like Me, deserve better than Mr. Beast's latest piece of inspiration porn. And in it, saying that Jimmy's video amounts to nothing more than harmful sensationalism by glossing over the |
| 1:14.2 | complications deaf people have with hearing aids. And going on to write, it amplifies |
| 1:17.4 | the dangerous misconception that hearing devices such as hearing aids and cochlear implants |
| 1:20.9 | are cures or fixes for deafness. They aren't. And adding, there's nothing in Mr. B's video |
| 1:24.8 | which acknowledges the fluctuating relationship we deaf people have with hearing and listening. |
| 1:28.2 | It is not a binary process where we suddenly go from deaf to hearing, but rather these devices are, as the name suggests, there to aid hearing. |
| 1:34.7 | In arguing, the video fails to properly emphasize the element of choice deaf people have around whether they want to use them. |
| 1:39.3 | Some will try hearing aids or receive cochlear implants, only to find they aren't the right fit for them. Others will decide not to explore them entirely, and some individuals won't be eligible for them altogether. |
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