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Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

The Young Turks’ Right-Wing GRIFT? | 7/14/23

Pseudo-Intellectual with Lauren Chen

Lauren Chen

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News

4.31.1K Ratings

🗓️ 14 July 2023

⏱️ 12 minutes

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0:00.0

Hey guys, I wanted to go in here and talk about something that's been bothering me for the past couple of days.

0:04.0

Um, and that is the young Turks and Anna and Jank's transition to transphobia.

0:10.0

Um, for those of you who don't know, TYT is a new slash opinion network on YouTube that purports itself to be the home of progressives.

0:18.0

And a couple months ago, one of their primary hosts Anna Kasperian tweeted that she took umbridge with the term's birthing person or people with uterus.

0:28.0

And there was a lot of backlash. People were, you know, including people from within their own company and their, you know, supposed friends, you know, tried to call them in and educate them.

0:37.0

And they doubled and tripled down, got mad, blamed the trans rights activists, you know, act like we're irrational.

0:44.0

Um, and now they are starting to definitely turn on the trans community.

0:48.0

So it looks like progressives have drawn a line in the sand between those who are with them and against them. And for some reason, they have chosen that line in the sand to be the issue of trans rights.

0:58.0

And if you're wondering what I'm talking about, well, I'm of course referring to the situation developing around the young Turks.

1:04.0

Now, if you follow news online, you're almost guaranteed to have heard of the young Turks. They are the largest progressive digital network out there.

1:11.0

They've been around for a long time. And when I say that they are progressive, I mean, not in every single sense of the word.

1:17.0

They are progressive economically, financially, physically. I mean, they support people like AOC, Bernie Sanders, Medicare for all you name it.

1:23.0

I'm not only that, but they're also socially progressive. I mean, they really are. You will not catch someone on TYT misgendering someone or at least not intentionally.

1:33.0

But you see, when it comes to the left, you can never be pure enough. And sadly, for people at the young Turks, they've actually found themselves in the crosshairs of trans activists for failing to completely or enthusiastically enough to the party line.

1:48.0

You see, a lot of this started when Anna Casperian, who was one of the main faces of the young Turks, she went online and proclaimed that actually as a woman, she doesn't really like being referred to as a birthing person or a menstruator.

2:02.0

Yeah, she finds that, in fact, a little bit dehumanizing, which left his activists did not take kindly to.

2:08.0

And not only that, but similarly, Anna also went on a stream and lamented the fact that some activists out there were actually suggesting the term bonus hole, yeah, bonus hole, to refer to women's vaginas as to supposedly allegedly not offend trans women.

2:25.0

I mean, there was a story out of the UK this week, blows my mind. There was an LGBTQ group in the UK who suggested that instead of referring to vaginas as vaginas, because it might be offensive to transgender.

2:37.0

Men, you know, one of the potential replacements or substitutes could be bonus hole.

2:44.0

Obviously, people like you and I understand that one of the left's main weapons and fighting the culture war is controlling language.

2:51.0

So Anna here, coming out and saying, hang on, I actually don't support this attempt to manipulate language.

2:56.0

Well, that essentially makes her an enemy of the state because she's fighting back against the control that they are so desperately trying to keep a hold of.

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