This Is Why The Media Wants to Keep You Outraged

From The Russell Howard Hour, Russell delves into the culture war peddled by the media.
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[@sacrilegiousboi978]

The internet/social media and especially TikTok often makes it feel like everyone outside your front door is batshit crazy but then you go outside and realise 95% of people aren’t like this.

[@thelemon5069]

Absolutely except that this is making people go crazy in different ways. It's radicalized people towards fascism

[@kingthe13]

Oh no there all batshit insane it's just they all keep it to themselves jk but honestly most of the crazy people come out at night or are at gas stations cause iv met more crazy people working at a gas station then I had in my entire life up until that point

[@sacrilegiousboi978]

@@kingthe13 true but most people have enough sanity and rationality to counteract their crazy sides

[@DRDR3ADSA]

He is kinda wrong though. It's not 5 on the left and 5 on the right... It's 5 on the left and the entire right wing stuck on culture war nonsense. Right wingers absolutely live for this shit, all of them, every single one

[@LadyDoomsinger]

Hah. I'm not falling for that trick! No way I'm stepping foot outside my front door ever again. There's a bunch of crazies running around out there!

[@Multiversal_Productions]

He ain't wrong, I left Twitter a long time ago and life has just been so much happier since. social media, news all that stuff it's just constant aggravation, makes you forget how good life actually is

[@KyleNornIreland]

Yes m8

[@nicole6323]

I haven't looked at Facebk in years, I watch some KZbin videos & thats as far as social media goes for me.

[@The_Original_Geoff_B]

I quit it too - and my stress level fell dramatically. I even started smiling again.

[@sheahider4722]

I’m so glad I never got into twitter, dodged a bullet there

[@erinshaw6266]

SAME!!!!

[@lewdogzombies]

Russell is always spot on. When you quit social media, you get rid of all the negativity and you suddenly realise how good life is. I think we should ditch social media altogether

[@superherochestsymbol1032]

Exactly, I’m not a miracle worker by any means and don’t mean to act like it, but man it is sad how so many online doomers and rage baiters genuinely want us to believe our entire world is doomed and everyone is this boogeyman out to get us all, and while I won’t deny that there are a lot of places with genuine problems that do need to be addressed and fixed, the vast majority of people just mind their business no matter what is going on, literally turning off social media and ignoring chronically online doomers preaching that we’re all dead and society is on fire because of a few bad apples or actions of groups in small cities and just living your life realizing that 99% of people are just living theirs too is the best thing anyone can do. And I live in the USA and have live in a variety of places, this is the most picked place in all of internet, while no one is perfect, most people here just mind their business and live life despite what people say, I’ve lived through the 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, and I see nothing that the internet says has happened sure, small groups of people who overreact and riots and protests, hey- no place is perfect, but for the most part, people are just trying to live, it’s all just the internet nonsense, and we really shouldn’t let the internet or reactionaries on KZbin or the news ruin our lives just because they refuse to leave social media.

[@DP-cd5wr]

bang on. The media need to be held to account for a lot of our current societal issues.

[@chrisbfreelance]

No it doesn't.

[@addex1236]

@@chrisbfreelance seeing as it cause a lot of them your fucking wrong on so many levels

[@adad-ec6ht]

also for vilifying Donald Trump

[@seoluniverse5417]

@@adad-ec6ht he kind of does that alot himself. He legitimately often says wild ass shit that doesn't even need to be molded to make him look bad.

[@seoluniverse5417]

@@chrisbfreelance it genuinely does.

[@Grecianfan1]

I switched off all news media at the beginning of 2020. As a sufferer of depression I found the news was dragging me down even further. I can honestly say, it was one of the best decisions I have ever made.

[@RyanKeane9]

I did exactly the same Andy. It’s wonderful isn’t it👍🏻☺️

[@neuralmute]

Same here. No more news or social media. Life is so much more tranquil, and I have so much more * time! *

[@brmbkl]

@otisdemarie3089 they’re talking about “news”, not information. Comedians are a reliable form of the latter, while the former has nothing in common with the news like it was when actual journalists ruled the media landscape.

[@Fudge-_-]

Hence why the statement “ignorance is bliss” exists ✌️💜

[@aliasofanalias7448]

@@zigzagtoes My mum used to watch that and it is so negative. I remember when I was younger I couldn't watch skins, watched a bit of season 1 and never watched it again

[@rstainsbury]

I’m a Primary School teacher. I honestly believe that if we could successfully get this across to 9 year olds, this whole problem would evaporate, once that generation grows up. The current adults are beyond help, sadly.

[@MissPickles1980]

That's the problem though. The current crop of adults are the ones in charge, and the ones voting for the ones in charge. Is there going to be a world left for the 9 year olds to grow up into?

[@angeladawn805]

Can you use Russell's animated Jaffacake clip as a resource? It's pretty succinct :)

[@rstainsbury]

@@angeladawn805 would need some bleeps!

[@ddlee84]

While I agree with your sentiment I don't think it would actually work. You would teach the 9 year olds that all media is bad and is doing X,Y and Z to get you clicking to make money. They would then go home and some of them would have parents who would happily let them doomscroll on their phones all evening and all they would see is the same stuff you have tired warning them about and that would be all they have for entertainment. Unfortunately in a world where "information" whether real or fake is so readily available you never know what is the bulljive and what is the actual facts. I even had this problem when looking to vote for Brexit, their was soooooo much misinformation from both sides that in the end I ran out of time to vote as I was trying to form my opinion, the mountain of information made me abstain from voting as in my head I couldnt make an informed opinion on a decision that would have massive ramifications in my life.....Of course hindsight being the all seeing master I would have voted remain if the vote happened again.

[@34spooks]

@@cazza6944 That horse has bolted I'm afraid

[@them9539]

He's so right about the rage. One of my friends is a DJ and she gets tons of hate in the comments. The hate actually helped her because the engagement boosted her on the algorithm and she gained tons of more followers.

[@klauseba]

Kayne West does the same thing. He always does or says something outrageous so that people talk about him and he remaines "relevant/famous". The worst thing that could happen to a famous person (from a financial point of view) is for people not to talk about them anymore / to be forgotten. Their concert tickets won't be worth as much if nobody would show up.

[@andrewdeans3686]

. . . . tone more followers . . . .

[@iris7301]

@@klauseba Kanye is mentally ill.

[@MegaSnail1]

Well said. The only thing you perhaps missed is the fact that political parties are benefiting as well. As long as we are out raged at the "other party" perhaps we won't notice that we are being robbed by the Oligarchs. We must come together to address this issue by passing and enforcing anticorruption laws before it's to late. We're all in the same boat. Working together is our only hope of righting this ship. Thank you.

[@spaceknight793]

The only way to pass effective anticorruption laws that will take power from the Oligarchs is to stop electing millionaires. They will never police their own kind.

[@patrickm.4469]

Russell Brand has a show here on KZbin where he is saying the same things. I hate the click bait titles but I think you should check it out

[@vauchomarx6733]

Doesn't Russell Brand talk about nonsensical culture war stuff too?

[@joeanthony7759]

@@vauchomarx6733 He does occasionally, but for the most part he focuses on genuine common concerns/interests.

[@patrickm.4469]

@@vauchomarx6733 he talks about how culture war rhetoric is used to divide us and how mainstream media adds fuel to the fire. He points out the blatant hypocrisy but also asking the real questions. Questions like how are we as a society going to reconcile the rural/urban divide.

[@CaribouKH]

This needs to be in every school room, board room, just frigging everywhere! Amazingly nice and concise way of stating the obvious!

[@photofreak56]

I wish I could show this to my students. Sadly their kindergarteners so I don't think they would completely grasp the concept

[@tmarritt]

Every retirement home as well

[@steviegbcool]

its not the kids that get 'outraged' an believe the rubbish they read its the their parents and grand parents.

[@pipster1891]

I don't want my kid taught by Russell Howard, but someone with a better understanding of history, literature, politics, everything, even comedy.

[@gander4872]

@@pipster1891 especially comedy, it's quite amazing how well he's done with no ability to write jokes

[@34spooks]

Brilliant! If only this could be edited for use in schools. It explains modern media manipulation in such a clever way!

[@tommckellen342]

Howard has got it semi right, here, and a pat on the back is deserved. Of course he will not see how his half-woke philosophy is part of the scam, but its a good start! Leninism was a horrible, failed idea in the end, of course, but what Leninism and ex-Leninist cultures tend to be much more aware of than Western cultures is that it is not this race vs that race or this gender vs that gender or even this income bracket vs that income bracket which is important. That is a scam when you have two people with 99 percent the same lifestyle but one has a touch more melanin in their skin or some other trivia. The trick is always to paint one group as 'perfectly privilaged' and to paint another group as 'the perfect victim'. Woke (George Soros funded if you want to get some eyes rolling, but it doesn't mean he isn't a real guy who actually does bad things, unless your moral compass is set to 'off' ) and Murdoch Media, on the other end of the spectrum, both play with this concept. The un PC truth is, if you study ALL of history, there never was a 'perfect victim' or a 'perfectly privaliged group'. India had 17 empires, the Arabs were the most violent when the had the best science, the Mongols took over half the world when they had the best military, ancient Egypt was a marvel but was brutal and immense in the scope of its slavery etc etc etc. Really ALL humans need to grow in their capacity to do impressive things and to get along but the 'oligarchical class' will constantly paint this 'perfect victim/perfectly privileged' narrative in order to divide us. Without this, so many issues would become FAR simpler. Do the research, the scam runs very deep on both left and right. Is this oligarchical class who pretend to be left or right but mostly just want division shape shifting lizards who want to create a New World Order around the World Economic Forum model of governance? That's for you to figure out, of course.

[@HF-tj8db]

Children don't tend to read news articles. I'd say this needs to be sent out to everyone over the age of 40. Because they're the ones our government pander to. Which is why the government are threatening to ditch our human rights and various other things, because the more distanced the right gets from the left, the more right-wing our government becomes.

[@nicole6323]

it'd be great, but I think schools are on the evil side. I know that school is way different now than when I went & I graduated HS in 2000

[@stuartcox4088]

My partner is a teacher, she just watched this and said the same thing

[@jpnrndr7983]

Ofsted would put a stop to it as fast as possible, by rating schools poor...

[@billbadson7598]

It’s not just the papers. It’s academic journals, corporate HR departments, global NGO’s and the UN. You can’t stop noticing once you’ve noticed.

[@AnP865]

I think you're missing the point a bit mate but yeah

[@Garand81]

I'm glad that this is being talked about, it's so important in this day and age

[@juliesomethinorother]

the rage clicks is real, but there very much is a culture war and the winner gets the government to legislate.

[@alexrose9507]

I've been trying to find a way to structure this idea in my head for ages and you put it so well! Thank you! ☺️

[@tommckellen342]

Howard has got it semi right, here, and a pat on the back is deserved. Of course he will not see how his half-woke philosophy is part of the scam, but its a good start! Leninism was a horrible, failed idea in the end, of course, but what Leninism and ex-Leninist cultures tend to be much more aware of than Western cultures is that it is not this race vs that race or this gender vs that gender or even this income bracket vs that income bracket which is important. That is a scam when you have two people with 99 percent the same lifestyle but one has a touch more melanin in their skin or some other trivia. The trick is always to paint one group as 'perfectly privilaged' and to paint another group as 'the perfect victim'. Woke (George Soros funded if you want to get some eyes rolling, but it doesn't mean he isn't a real guy who actually does bad things, unless your moral compass is set to 'off' ) and Murdoch Media, on the other end of the spectrum, both play with this concept. The un PC truth is, if you study ALL of history, there never was a 'perfect victim' or a 'perfectly privaliged group'. India had 17 empires, the Arabs were the most violent when the had the best science, the Mongols took over half the world when they had the best military, ancient Egypt was a marvel but was brutal and immense in the scope of its slavery etc etc etc. Really ALL humans need to grow in their capacity to do impressive things and to get along but the 'oligarchical class' will constantly paint this 'perfect victim/perfectly privileged' narrative in order to divide us. Without this, so many issues would become FAR simpler. Do the research, the scam runs very deep on both left and right. Is this oligarchical class who pretend to be left or right but mostly just want division shape shifting lizards who want to create a New World Order around the World Economic Forum model of governance? That's for you to figure out, of course.

[@anthonymichaeleardley494]

I read these kind of stories when I was younger and it annoyed me andthey had me saying "Who came up with that stupid conclusion (my mind said it in a R-rated rant)?" This clip has cleared it up very well. Thank you 👍

[@joshuataylor3550]

Fvcking comforting

[@mikegoldthorp]

This also does it will with a bit more nuance kzbin.info/www/bejne/bXbFgXyarslmf5I

[@PastaSauce.]

I’m glad I’m the only who feels it. When you speak to regular folk on the street nobody gives a shit about what the media thinks we are outraged by.

[@MaybyAGhost]

Making my way through highschool, watching Russel Howard's Good News never failed to keep me entertained. Now I'm in my mid twenties and I could not be happier seeing he's a man of solid morals who has only gotten better at helping teach people through comedy. A genuinely good guy.

[@eternallyscreaming169]

Honestly man! Was talking to my roommate earlier about this, using his platform to actually speak out on the bullshit of the world!

[@rockade2408]

i hope this goes viral like a good curry

[@imperialinquisitor510]

*LOL this from the guy pushing Trumpobia for years*

[@michaeljamesdesign]

"Highschool"

[@EBTS-3]

Yeah same here, comedians tend to satirize so much that they start to see how genuinely ridiculous a lot of the things that are taken seriously really are, look at Ricky Gervais, Russell Brand and Joe Rogan for example, seperated themselves from the nonsense and making use of their platforms for others to understand. Its Awesome

[@mariusbehr925]

this is insanely accurate, even "independent" news outlets operate in this manner in order to compete with the bigger companies

[@ordohereticus3427]

“Independent” ones - largely on the right - are the worst offenders in this regard. As per this segment, they are the ones making jingoistic reactionary propaganda out of single tweets in order to keep their angry audience satiated. They are the creators of the culture wars, while television and news media then capitalise in the noise they generate.

[@leejohnson197733]

? The culture war is bigger than ever and more obvious to see m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/bIC0fIlpZ7WVo6s

[@ryanporter4689]

Does this also apply to the Anti-sjws & SJWs communities as well?

[@chrisr1091]

@@ryanporter4689 yes 100% yes literally that is 100% their content.

[@revimfadli4666]

Even "neutral" outlets sometimes "feed both sides"

[@tinytownsoftware3837]

You know journalism is dead when you see articles about social media posts of random people and the reaction of other random people to said random person's post.

[@Markus_Andrew]

This is the most concise and succinct explanation about how today's mainstream news and social media operate that I've ever seen. Well done! 👍

[@bas9752]

Media always worked like this. Even in the Middle ages and roman time. Only thing that changed is the speed and the reach of it .

[@0w784g]

Concisley and succinctly provided by a clickbait title and the very same social media wherein condemned.

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

Concise, succinct and retarded. This is a child’s take akin to “do not believe your lying eyes”.

[@apocryphalanathema5186]

This video is about 10 years too late, this stuff has already filtered into politics and resulted in actual damaging legislative change, which is what most of the arguments online are about now.

[@callingallcovens2759]

Does not mean the problems don’t exist in real life just because the media is also manipulative

[@antontaylor4530]

We live in a world in which comedians are a better source of truth than the news media.

[@mascot4950]

News channels also contain a lot of programming that is _not_ news, and a lot of people seem unable to separate the two. When looking at "just the news" that are being reported by media, they seem to be overall fairly decent to me. But you have to be able to identify the news from opinions. It doesn't help that some news channels barely contain anything other than opinion shows. A lot of people also seem to selectively not hear qualifiers. "It has been reported that.....we have not been able to confirm this from independent sources," is very different from "this is what happened," yet social media tends to respond as if the latter was the message. "Skeptical thinking" really needs to be a big topic in schools. We need to train people in the ability to filter information. It's more demanding to do so, as opposed to blindly latching on to a statement, but if trained to do so from a young age it becomes second nature.

[@ronniepye]

Billy Connolly said the exact same a few years ago

[@amanofnoreputation2164]

They have always been a better source. The court jester was the only person who can tell the truth to the king's face.

[@davepangolin4996]

No we don't

[@antontaylor4530]

@@davepangolin4996 Ok.

[@djerk2138]

Im so glad i found this, someone who understands exactly how ive felt abt this, and now i know its true, im tired of all the friends and family around me getting mad over nothing, no one wants to just chill and hang out anymor, its the reason why i avoid alot of my family now

[@ronaldreagan5981]

So you're ok with being partly communist? Good to know. Enjoy your bugs.

[@djerk2138]

@@ronaldreagan5981 im not communist lol. Your an example of what this video was talking about. The simple fact i am not a part of your political ideology has me labled a communist. I hope one day you are able to mature and grow out of this phase. I wont be responding anymore, it would be useless

[@ronaldreagan5981]

@@djerk2138 yep. Definitely a communist.

[@forthebooeyz2200]

They're using our anger and other negative emotions to make easy cash. Stupid and pathetic.

[@Youalleatmuffins]

LOVE Russell! He's so positive, humane with razor sharp insight 👍❤️

[@martinwalker7202]

Go Russell! Anti social media is a disaster that the mass majority of us don’t waste our time with. Well done!

[@getsmartquick]

I always find these types of messages ironic

[@bipedalspecies2086]

@@getsmartquick which part and who is going to tell him what he is doing?

[@getsmartquick]

@@bipedalspecies2086 which part all of it meaning we criticise social media but we use it. Can you elaborate on the second part of the question I don't understand to be honest with you

[@AAIVE]

glad we’re talking about this on a wide scale basis now, inter-generationally. if it’s going to keep happening, everybody should be aware of the mechanics and be able to look at the media as the separate and unfortunately often instigative entity that it is, as well as have a working awareness of what social media is actually designed to lean towards and is looking for from them! that’s not to say become a conspiracy person lmao, but it’s really important to utilise critical thinking skills now and in moments to come more than ever! fact check articles, read multiple sources, check the quality of your sources, curate your feeds, avoid an inflammatory story or two of little consequence maybe. these are just known, proven things!

[@johnlewis9158]

twitter. Every institution worth damn being co-opted by the woke left. Diversity officers. Transvestite children's story time. Threats to all on sundry who don't believe a man can become a woman at the drop of a hat. The deplatforming of entertainers with the wrong opinions on a multitude of issues . The taking of the knee. The BBC's job application form's Caucasians need not apply. Disney enough said. The endless woke trash pump out by Hollywood. The BBC's black Anne Boleyn and the up and coming black Robin Hood. The destruction of or our Culture. The list is endless

[@VoiceOvaGuy]

Outside a minority of outlandish theories, critical thinker and conspiracy theorist are almost synonymous today. Most people that don't believe what's happening around us are ignorant, either willfully so or regularly so, most people that do see and believe what's happening, in part due to critical thinking and dot connecting skills, are labeled a conspiracy theorist.

[@NeillWylie]

I'm glad he released this. He's 100% spot on with his analysis of the situation.

[@stuartr2764]

Russell Howard is one of the most unfunny bellends ever to pretend to be a comedian. And despite all his arse-lickers in these comments he’s also wrong, as usual.

[@mrbassquake5416]

Russel has seriously nailed the way this process works! More please!! Brilliant ❤

[@davidwalsh9807]

That’s an easy answer…the idea is to have everyone fighting between themselves and distracted from what is actually going on

[@darkcymruchannel5683]

also potential return of nazism with the fuhrer klaus schwab

[@vvohvaelez9277]

Its easy enough to distract people without them having to fight each other. Just look at the views on random pet funnies and other junk topics. Rage and Anger is very motivating within the human experience and generally leads to action (like a revolution) and it is that rage-action bait cycle that generates money (via donations/fund raising) as well as a distraction

[@winter_silhouette]

The old "Divide and Rule" policy of Britain. Keep the plebs fighting so that they can't turn against you.

[@technowelliebobs4779]

That's the point of the Russian Federation no?

[@InAwOrLdOfIdIoTs]

@@vvohvaelez9277 but dickhead here making light of a very serious situation. And it's not the media causing this, but actual groups like BLM, who are a political organisation that is hiding behind veil bad cops in America killing unarmed black men as a way prompting Marxist ideology. And of course if you call them out, your racist. You have critical race theory starting to appear in various institutions, teaching kids and adults to be ashamed of their colour, whilst teaching people you can't be racist to white people. There is so much out there of you care to look.

[@matthewball5978]

How has he not aged in 15 years, I remember watching this guy when I was 15, crazy.

[@retrogiftsuk4812]

He has an aging painting of Stretch Armstrong in his attic (... wait for no-one to get the reference...)

[@isaacharvey451]

He's the Paul Rudd of British people.

[@WickedMuis]

@@retrogiftsuk4812 Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray of course!

[@naomiseraphina9718]

Love you, Russell!!!

[@HF-tj8db]

This has perfectly described what I've been thinking for a long time. My grandad (avid The Sun reader) will often come raging to me about some bollocks news story, like how the woke left want us to memorise over 1000 pronouns, including chicken head or something. Or how we can't use the word chipolata anymore, etc... And every time I have to explain, I'm a uni student. I'm surrounded by the woke left. And NONE OF US care. Not one bit. Like you said, it is literally one twitter bot and the papers act like it's the entire under 25 population.

[@danieljob3184]

My only problem with under 25s is they keep calling us GenXers 'Boomers'! The most babies born on this planet were between 1980 and 2010 - who's the Boomer Now? I listen to Metallica, not the Glenn Miller Orchestra, thank you very much!

[@himoffthequakeroatbox4320]

@@danieljob3184 I like both, but I'm a bit odd.

[@jokuvaan5175]

@@danieljob3184 Okay boomer

[@Derek_Garnham]

@@jokuvaan5175 beat me to it :)

[@anthonymichaeldurkin6244]

great comment.....tu

[@nemohalperin]

So glad Russell covered this and explained it in a very relatable way. Can we ever curb people's anger reflex? I hope so. Because journalism is dead and the truth isn't coming out of thin air.

[@ozzy9334]

Right to point but some theses are real problems most ant that's how you hide it

[@edwardmccall8219]

It's called weed.

[@ngotemna8875]

"journalism is dead" Stop reading unreliable news outlets. Reuthers, Associated Press and AL Jazeera exist. Journalism isn't dead, it's just that capitalism favors boulevard magazines and the yellow press in general

[@nemohalperin]

@@ngotemna8875 what percentage of UK people use those sources? You're wrong. Entire mainstream press in Britain is dead. If you read Private Eye they've been reporting on what's been happening inside paper offices and BBC for decades. It's well documented.

[@MichaelMcFe]

wow - In my head, you, and your prodcution team, have elevated itself. Speaking the truth while keeping it funny. Thank you

[@spaceknight793]

As someone who worked at a newspaper for years, I know first hand that people don't respond (with money or attention) to good news or no news. So, news outlets always put controversy first. And that carried right over into social media where success is measured in clicks. So they emphasize whatever type of news/articles/headlines that will generate clicks. So the truth is, the consumers of content dictate what content gets produced. If headlines such as "the world is a nice place" generated the sales or clicks that "the world is ending" generated then "the world is a nice place" would be the stories they push. Simple as math really.

[@WonderingAboutThat]

I love that this is being shared, it really is ridiculous when you break it down like this. Well said 👏👏👏

[@DanePavitt]

Always staggers me how the people who accuse 'lefty snowflakes' of being easily offended are the ones who get outraged at things like vegan sausage rolls.

[@chriswilkinson7636]

And you get channels like GB news complaining about "cancel culture" yet they haven't been cancelled despite all the anti "woke" stuff they broadcast. I guess like Russell Howard says in this video they are part of the problem.

[@eugenemurray2940]

Oh no they don't!

[@F1ashingblade]

It bewilders me that some people become staggered by others outrage. 🤪

[@chriswilkinson7636]

@MadManRob They are if you are vegan.

[@GorgeDawes]

Why would they be bad? If you don’t like them you could, y’know, not eat them?

[@ericmeyer4128]

Sure if you ignore that social norms are constantly under attack. But I agree, if you unplug from it and stick your head in the sand then it’s a lot less upsetting. Ignorance is bliss, right?

[@kevtb874]

Social norms change. Minorites getting the vote. Anyone other than hetreosexuals being outcast if not killed for their differences. Owning slaves. Non home owners having no vote. Segregation. Workers rights. Health care. Education. Social norms change often for the better. If you haven't noticed it's probably because it never affected you. Here's the thing. Not everything has to be about you. Sometimes the adequate response and action is silence.

[@chrisbfreelance]

He's part of exactly what he doesn't think exists. The culture war is a redundant title, but the essence of it is very real.

[@terenceingledew1891]

Well said Mr Howard.

[@justaguy2182]

The word “woke” has been beaten like a dead horse so badly that it literally lost all meaning. People and news sites just use it as a buzz word now.

[@junewebb-baptiste2409]

The actual meaning of "woke" is actually positive. I am proudly woke.

[@ObviousTroll69-i6k]

@@junewebb-baptiste2409 go woke go broke

[@AL-nv4gk]

@@junewebb-baptiste2409 proudly suggesting toddlers chop off thier genitals through subtle cooersion promotion of the gay lifestyle through media, doomed to a life of no prodginy, an a mangled medically unwell crotch(wound) due to indoctrination? Ever so proud wow.

[@frugalfirehd7119]

one of the best political speeches I've seen. should be shown to all kids and a lot of adults too. Didn`t expect this from my rabbit hole adventure! Truth via comedy

[@Grymbaldknight]

This is 100% true. However, sometimes fake outrage over non-issues are used as a smokescreen for "big players" doing something dodgy. Don't let people mix the two up.

[@antiochus87]

Actually I think it usually is. The big political parties use it to make it seem like they're different meanwhile they are identical on the issues that matter - concentration of wealth, profit over lives, protecting the wealth and power of a tiny segment of the population. These fake outrages are profitable not just for the reasons said, but because they are misdirection for the real crimes and theft we should be outraged about.

[@juliesomethinorother]

yup, follow the laws and follow the profits

[@AlexReynard]

I'm reminded of the news about how Men's Rights Activists were planning to boycott Mad Max: Fury Road because Furiosa was the lead and not Max. Turns out the source of this information was one single blogger, who didn't even say he wasn't going to go see the movie.

[@thejuiceking2219]

if i see a politician talk about wokeness or cancel culture or something like that, my immediate assumption is they're up to something

[@juliesomethinorother]

​@@thejuiceking2219 they might be, but usually its the ones that have taught you to beleive that the culture war isn't happening they are the ones that are quietly writing the laws - laws that they say are to 'protect the lgbt community', or are for your good or safety in some other way. they have charming titles like 'the health and wellbeing ammendment', although the 'change suppression conversion law' for once is actually exactly as chilling as it sounds. The people that passed it of course said it was about something it wasn't, (protecting the lgbt people) because thats the newest way to get dubious vaguely written laws passed, because people won't check if it actually does do what it says it does - but especially if they'll get called homophobe for their troubles.

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

We can't really escape consuming the media if we want to know what's going on in the world. The key is to try to pay attention to the event, not the opinion surrounding it.

[@tommckellen342]

Howard has got it semi right, here, and a pat on the back is deserved. Of course he will not see how his half-woke philosophy is part of the scam, but its a good start! Leninism was a horrible, failed idea in the end, of course, but what Leninism and ex-Leninist cultures tend to be much more aware of than Western cultures is that it is not this race vs that race or this gender vs that gender or even this income bracket vs that income bracket which is important. That is a scam when you have two people with 99 percent the same lifestyle but one has a touch more melanin in their skin or some other trivia. The trick is always to paint one group as 'perfectly privilaged' and to paint another group as 'the perfect victim'. Woke (George Soros funded if you want to get some eyes rolling, but it doesn't mean he isn't a real guy who actually does bad things, unless your moral compass is set to 'off' ) and Murdoch Media, on the other end of the spectrum, both play with this concept. The un PC truth is, if you study ALL of history, there never was a 'perfect victim' or a 'perfectly privaliged group'. India had 17 empires, the Arabs were the most violent when the had the best science, the Mongols took over half the world when they had the best military, ancient Egypt was a marvel but was brutal and immense in the scope of its slavery etc etc etc. Really ALL humans need to grow in their capacity to do impressive things and to get along but the 'oligarchical class' will constantly paint this 'perfect victim/perfectly privileged' narrative in order to divide us. Without this, so many issues would become FAR simpler. Do the research, the scam runs very deep on both left and right. Is this oligarchical class who pretend to be left or right but mostly just want division shape shifting lizards who want to create a New World Order around the World Economic Forum model of governance? That's for you to figure out, of course.

[@teniente_snafu]

It is possible. For a long time I only opened Wikipedia of all places once a day to get a glimpse about what was going on and who died recently. Great times. Most news are not worth noticing. After a couple of days, most of it becomes irrelevant. Issues come and go you can do perfectly fine without ever knowing they ever happened. The real important issues you won't be abel to miss anyway.

[@photofreak56]

It's about critical thinking. rage often blinds that part of our mind.

[@daquaviousbingleton9763]

@@teniente_snafu Wikipedia is also written by people?

[@jessicahudson4592]

Even if the event is faked or wildly exaggerated for monetary gain? Can never be sure that media are telling the truth about anything. In fact, it’s better to assume that they’re not… because they are a business.

[@qubeinteract]

That 30 sec animation wonderfully describes the current media landscape, fantastic job! 👍

[@spenser9908]

So leftists are going after JK Rowling, not based on her opinions, but because of some 0 follower tweet about her?

[@Dux22]

So true...and funny. 😂

[@YorkshiremanReacts26]

It’s not true though is it. You’re just one of the stupid people that are so easily lied to that you’ll believe anything the left tells you…

[@blueischiii1575]

@@YorkshiremanReacts26Its the 12%

[@b.sbobbyshaw]

@@YorkshiremanReacts26 The irony in this. You got it the wrong way round 😂🤦‍♂️

[@laurensnieuwland4657]

That Pierce Morgan pregnancy joke was so smooth it should be illegal!

[@alwaysblake148]

The best explanation for the insanity of social media. Brilliant.

[@daveraybould9539]

Great work Russell. Simply explained. Keep it up!

[@madalion1]

Russell Howard: This Is Why The Media Wants to Keep You Outraged? Qatar: No sh!t 😏

[@donmarley69]

Bravo! This goes for non-English language media as well. Social media has really changed the game of journalism.

[@michaeldent1684]

Yes there is, what about j.k Rowling. The amount of abuse shes got from having her own opinion

[@slypork5030]

And Martina Navratilova, the many men and women who have lost their jobs and been vilified, had death threats and harrasment...Lady H happened just the other day.

[@davidaugustine3686]

1. JKR is absolutely a part of the 12% he mentioned and is being abused by other people in the 12%. 2. Discourse around what are perceived as human rights (or whatever you want to describe it as) is a constant. In other words, it's just every day life.

[@matthewdawson3979]

Well said Russell, I keep getting tired of people use words like "woke, SJW, cancelled, ratio" and every other word like that for what way a sentence is strung up or whatever the hell gets said nowadays because it means absolutely nothing

[@danielcrafter9349]

"Ratio" does have an exact meaning, tho It's when the number of dislikes massively outweighs the number of likes It typically happens to far-Right vids on KZbin (before the number of dislikes was removed - which is why the Left were upset about it) So "ratio" means that person massively dislikes what you have to say Poggers, chap

[@SakataSamig]

This needs more awareness to the modern society. Amazing video

[@hadayimosi]

This is the KZbin equivalent of 'Peeing on someone and telling them it is just raining.' Pure gaslighting.

[@ayaa.1351]

You're part of the problem.

[@grahamdhv3812]

Gas lights were usually Victorian.

[@hadayimosi]

@@grahamdhv3812 Thank you, that was truly pointless.

[@hadayimosi]

@@ayaa.1351 Why, I'm not denying the truth? Either you're an ostrich, are easily misled or just like Russell here, you've got a vested interest in pretending it's not a thing,... now. Regardless, no, it's not me. It was people like him that was the genesis of this sowing division, thing, to begin with, but now that for the first time in 10 years, the tide has turned, it's no longer a thing? No, sorry my memory isn't that bad. They pushed it into every single thing until they had awakened the normal, everyday working-class people and they can now see everything for themselves and aren't liking what they're seeing. If there's no CW, why did Russell only use clips favourable to his historical revision attempt here? Just by choosing clips from his perceived opposition, while ignoring the ones from his "side" who used to go on about "a culture takeover" long before the outlets & politicians he used clips of here did and well before most people had ever heard of it, so in doing that, Russell is engaging in it right in this very video... while at the same time, denying it exists. Lol, no.

[@davidaugustine3686]

Or you're just like me and are a part of the 12% who are terminally online.

[@Maddie9185]

😂😂 “you can F@#$ yourself” that was epic

[@tcmatias]

That "you go f*** yourself" was Gold.

[@moniquem783]

Best explanation ever. Actually returns a little faith in humanity. Well, 90% of it. But it usually feels like only 10% are decent so that's a big difference! Thank you!

[@revanruler6404]

To be fair while most people don't care more and more are starting to get brainwashed by certain news channels and social media

[@moniquem783]

@@revanruler6404 true. Party pooper. 😂😂😂

[@alistairjeffcoat9584]

Gaslighting. Just look at what they're teaching kids. And Ngozi Fulani causing a woman to lose her job over nothing (racism??!!)

[@paulmeier3462]

Best thing I've seen in a long time. I've spent a long time scratching my head at the 'culture wars'. Now I know why.

[@iyedjlassi479]

I became aware of this a while ago im so glad someone articulated it. This should be viral everywhere to awaken the people

[@iaindavis4417]

This is the reason I hate the media

[@run2cat4run]

Agreed

[@30m3]

Russell is part of the same media.

[@iaindavis4417]

@@30m3 no he's not because he's a comedian not a journalist

[@30m3]

@@iaindavis4417 Do you not watch his material? He covers current political events with the same divisiveness that he's highlighting. Man has no self awareness.

[@iaindavis4417]

@@30m3 your telling me that journalists have self awareness when they can't get enough of desperation and suffering

[@Xcalator35]

This is, hands down, the Best analysis of the current 'political' and 'cultural' climate! Simple, clear, rational and effective. Brilliant!!!

[@dervxerox]

Absolutely spot on, nail on the head.

[@raheemabdul1066]

people need to be held accountable, especially the media and influncers

[@kanedNunable]

hard to enforce that when politicians seem untouchable.

[@raheemabdul1066]

@@kanedNunable not really, one article and post at a time.

[@deussivenatura5805]

Imagine being influence by 'influencers'.

[@nari5025]

who are influencers? people ridiculed by the media that took away their influence perhaps?

[@dianethompson209]

If only this had been released one week ago. I've just handed in a journal article and presentation about sociology and the mass media, and how the news is socially constructed. This, albeit with expletives, would have been an excellent reference for a modern day way of defining moral panics within social media. Historically moral panics have always existed and the fact bad news sells, is so true. We have seen this for years in print and TV and the fact that those adverts for hair products, fast food etc (things that make working class feel better) in-between the news is no coincidence. Well done on this Russell, you're a great intelligent and funny guy!

[@myasin1286]

I do enjoy watching Russell and at times he puts things into reality and that’s exactly what he’s done today. Well done!

[@BirdaeBlue]

He always manages to get across important things in a humorous way :)

[@grahamdhv3812]

@@abcxyz2927 He was mainly focusing on the media.

[@repentantrevenant9776]

While he’s right about the fact that most of this is a construct of the media, it unfortunately has real-world implications. My last job absolutely gave preferential treatment to people based on their political beliefs. Correct political beliefs mean that you are a good, moral citizen of the world who can be trusted with leadership. Wrong beliefs mean you need to have a chat with HR. Which just means that some people get to be very vocal about their beliefs (and are openly praised for them,) while the other half stay silent.

[@Neonrain08]

nah i just just know you are leaving important parts out here, you don't go to hr just for a have different political views, you 100% said something dodgy but are playing victim

[@netanelaker4437]

Maybe you just sucked at your job and the minority that replaced you didn't get any "preferential treatment"?

[@juliesomethinorother]

@@Neonrain08 it does. a person from the same church as me was offered a job which he accepted but they then said he had to come off the church board to keep said job. 4 hours later he no longer had that job. it is happening. these aren't isolated incidences.

[@FacePalmReality]

@@mahfuzvx3967 OK. Conservatives believe that men can't be women and vice versa. All large UK companies now have misgendering polices which solely target Conservative beliefs by their very nature. That's one example.

[@FacePalmReality]

@@mahfuzvx3967 forcing someone to say something against their beliefs isn't respect. Its tyranny.

[@tbpal7114]

Thank You 🙏🏾 Brilliant insight shared perfectly 🥰

[@kieronmcbrearty5068]

I feel better after watching Russel...one of the rare people who express what most of us feel

[@sopronunciareglignocchi7255]

He's garbage. He took a load of clips out of context, then dismissed them as outrage-mongering, and blatantly denied the obvious culture war going on because most people are apathetic and cowardly. It's bad logic. Just because you refuse to see what's going on, that doesn't mean it's not happening. You expose your own desire to stick your head in the sand, and keep it buried there, with the start of your comment: you felt better after this. It doesn't matter that all these things are going on, you ignore them because you find it too difficult and uncomfortable - that's the epitome of cowardice.

[@dannyevilcat]

I agree that this is how it started, but the problem is, that the narratives being pushed have bled into other areas of our lives, such as our workplaces, the entertainment industry, etc, so that the culture war has become very real, and even people who don't care can't escape it. I used to say the same things as Russell here, but after years of watching every film franchise or IP I've ever cared about get "reimagined for modern audiences", we need to recognize it's no longer isolated to just a handful of crazies on Twitter getting clickbait media coverage.

[@davidaugustine3686]

Media being "reimagined for modern audiences" has always been the entire purpose of remaking media. You've been suckered into the fake culture war my friend.

[@dannyevilcat]

@@davidaugustine3686 The reimagining you are referring is not the same as what is happening now. Reimagining Shakespeare, for example, was always done to re-introduce modern audiences to his works because they had value in themselves. Now classic or popular pop culture works are subverted to become vehicles for driving wholly different messages. If you still think, in 2022, that the Culture War still isn't real, I've got to believe it's a coping mechanism. It's like the Gulf War... the pretext was a lie, but now we're all stuck in a war few wanted, with no end in sight.

[@yuin3320]

It's being perpetuated by this horrid moneymaking racket though. The underlying system is the thing that needs to be addressed so that people can stop feeling like it's necessary to be so reactionary about what's ultimately a _miniscule_ percentage of people. Acknowledging that it's had other side effects is accurate but should take a backseat to the true cause of the issue.

[@CleverGirlAAH]

Absolutely bang on.

[@jovenc4508]

​@@yuin3320 What people are being reactionary to is what OP said. It's bleeding into everything. It's no longer a handful of people. It's corporations pushing in their marketing, it's the film industry pushing it in their movies, video games, etc, etc.

[@ivilivo]

Thank you, thank you, thank you. Can please more public people adress this.

[@greg_nicholls]

There's another layer to this, the politicians looking at eachother going "wow, no one cares about our policies and we can get away with doing whatever we want as long as we call out snowflakes and tofu eating wokerati"

[@rookcrow]

I think this might just spark a culture war on the existence of the culture wars lmaoooo

[@arbknight12]

This is why I'm glad I don't have a Twitter or Facebook account. It allows me to be immune from the idiots on the internet.

[@allanlarsen3261]

Thank you, Russel. It needed to be said. I usually allow any media one or two chances to mess up. The second or third time I feel that a media platform used click bait, misleading titles, lied in a story, or anything like that to get me to read/view something they post, I put them on the ban/ignore list permanently. Sadly, that leaves only a few media, but those few are worthy of support. In time I hope they will grow take over as the others slowly dies out. However, given how many people love reading gossip and being offended, it is flimsy hope.

[@davescott7680]

This is the way.

[@ShannonJacobs0]

Why should my comments be any less repetitious than the google's offensive and unstoppable ads? Only one question for KZbin: Does anyone really think more frequent and more offensive ads can lead to profit?

[@SgtLion]

There is no way you have any news source that has not committed this offence >3 times. No way in hell.

[@reddwarf3699]

So what is the media you now follow? just out of curiosity?

[@angellindbergvazquez9002]

Also curious

[@leezeraloe3821]

I hadn't realised Russell was so clued-up to what's going on in the world until recently, watching these kind of videos. It takes real intelligence and creativity from a comedian to get their truth out and make it funny at the same time. I'm glad he's found his voice. It's much needed and refreshingly positive.

[@mooblogger]

They had me there for a minute Russell, thank goodness for clever comedians.

[@twisteddancer7773]

Gaslighting Russell. Question if there is no culture war as you say. Why are all the old comedy shows getting banned from tv or certain things Edited out and why do certain comedians get cancelled?

[@chrisbfreelance]

And he selectively only chose GB News and Fox, he's right to highlight sensationalism but that's nothing new, but he ideologically aligns with the radical thought of the subject matter.

[@twisteddancer7773]

@@chrisbfreelance His masters pay his wages that's why

[@yanoftheworld]

This needs to be watched by everyone, so true.

[@madalion1]

Russell Howard: This Is Why The Media Wants to Keep You Outraged? Qatar: No sh!t 😏

[@anthonymichaeldurkin6244]

after eastenders

[@Sasquatch36912]

Seems like comedians are nearly the only people who can talk about things for what they are these days, keep up this kind of content! Its sorely needed!

[@LadyDoomsinger]

In fairness, it's historically speaking always been the job of comedians, jesters, and satirists to talk about the uncomfortable truths that the rest of the world doesn't want to face.

[@UTSareth]

Not really, he is lying gaslighting, it's well within his interest to do so, i.e putting down your political enemies and making money as if he criticised the truely woke stuff, which really all you have to do is quote them and they destroy themselves most of the time as he is right most normal people have no time for it, he would suddenly find himself with alot less work and BBC appearances.

[@chrisbfreelance]

But he's wrong, so hasn't done a very good job.

[@aliasofanalias7448]

@@LadyDoomsinger Before that I guess it was philosophers, and we know what they did to Socrates

[@irok1]

This is exactly what comedians are for

[@darrienjones8917]

So. He's wrong that there is no Culture war, there is. But he is right that the media is amplifying it without really addressing the reason the war is happening in the first place. People wantva change in society and everyone wants to talk about what new thing happened without answering why

[@waruikoneko1635]

This video deserves way more likes than it got. Brilliant stuff, this.

[@jakkuwolfinsomnia8058]

Russell Does an amazing job at informing people, filtering out the bias, calling out the bullshit. He’s a great role model 👍

[@chrisbfreelance]

He's heavily biased also, so not really.

[@imanenglishman]

"Why are the media stirring up division?" "It's not just the media..." "We can't let the media warp us" Russell, mate, you are the media

[@atomichotdog4889]

Not THE media, but a part of it. He refers to the majority, and is claiming neutrality.

[@strong_gal_tee]

Precisely!

[@sophiepooks2174]

If he is who is he dividing and wishing to cause resentment, hate and violence towards?

[@J1mston]

If you think the "culture war" is just arguing about nonsense then you're not paying attention.

[@oliverbrogan5560]

put the phone down

[@marcusnelson1239]

I agree with him that the media amplifies some nonsense. I disagree that there is no culture war. I find it shocking how many people agree with him on this point.

[@J-manli]

@@marcusnelson1239 I argue it’s not so much a war but moreso just a desire for some kind of change in the status quo. The majority demographic of people vocalizing against change (as seen in this video itself) tend to be rich white men who we cannot deny have been on top of the world for the past few hundred years.

[@JackDinn]

@@J-manli They have been on top of it because they built the fk**g thing. If i build a house i have every damn right to live in it, say who can be in it, paint it whatever colour i darn well want and yes even sit right on top of it if i so choose to do so. The culture war is very real and has been going on for over a decade. The long march through the institutions continues relentlessly. Anyone who says otherwise is just a gaslighting leftist.

[@irok1]

@@J-manli seems racist and sexist but ok

[@LHyoutube]

"Mr Potato Head's clit" was the mental image I never knew I needed! 😂

[@heinoustentacles5719]

Freakier sex fantasy than any of mine

[@jackkelly6251]

Always found it suspicious how we're constantly hearing about people getting triggered and woke online and making a big fuss over trivial shit, yet I've never met one of these people in my life.

[@sacrilegiousboi978]

I know right? It’s a small minority of privileged people who have too much time and/or money on their hands whilst most people are too busy trying to work/study/pay the bills to care. The internet/social media and especially TikTok often makes it feel like everyone outside your front door is batshit crazy but then you go outside and realise 95% of people aren’t like this.

[@mothost6929]

I completely lost it at ''There trying to bring race into Ernie and Bert!''

[@akathesk]

He's half right, There is a culture war. Just not the one being advertised...

[@lberghaus]

The culture war is a tool for fascists to enrage people to build a power base. It’s a power play.

[@davidaugustine3686]

No there isn't. You're just terminally online. I am too, but I'm trying not to be

[@greenhowie]

So true, Bionicles are clearly superior.

[@matsimurf_5900]

@@davidaugustine3686 You must have missed the riots and lockdowns and left vs right fights irl...

[@davidaugustine3686]

@matismurf_5900 Left and Right are not cultures. The riots were about perceived in justices, not culture. You got played.

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

“There is no culture war” “Do not believe your lying eyes”

[@davidaugustine3686]

Do yourself a favor and look at all the people you get info on the 'culture war' from who directly benefit ($$$) from convincing you there is in fact a culture war.

[@Inquisitor_Vex]

@@davidaugustine3686 you are deluded. Do you think we can’t see what’s happening with our own eyes? Would you have not noticed the price of fuel going up if no one had told you?

[@robdabanks]

It annoys me how few know this. Also put this front and centre on your Facebook!

[@run2cat4run]

Who knows some may know this but use it to gain

[@ChrisAlbertH47]

I'm honestly surprised that there are people who _don't know_ this. This cycle of bait-outrage had always seemed obvious to me. But then I am old and have used the internet even before the advent of social media and what passes for "modern journalism".

[@thejman3489]

I've heard the quote "Some people just want to watch the world burn" but I never knew people could profit from it.

[@ben6993]

Elon Musk taking over Twitter is the only reason I use that platform, maybe it won’t be such a cesspool anymore

[@MotoCat91]

Unfortunately for some of us lgbt folk there is actually a bit of a culture war.. Still not a lot of people, but a few very loud ones walk through my city centre every 4-6 weeks with signs and a megaphone shouting about how they don't think I should be allowed to exist in public spaces Most people ignore them, some call them wankers.. but occasionally, they'll get in touch with a mate, who has a mate who happens to be a member of parliament and can introduce a bill that tries to legally strip my rights away It's quite loud in the UK news and what few charities/government services do exist are being hounded and reduced further.. The US is hit or miss depending on the state - some are trying to outlaw a ridiculous number of things while other states are passing legislation to protect interstate refugees.. and yeah some people who are able, are fleeing their states. That and the bomb threats on children's hospitals, the armed militias threatening libraries and book reading events, the mass murder at Club Q (can't really tell the families of the dead that the culture war was just pretend).. As an Australian we have only ever moved in a progressive direction legislatively (in my lifetime at least) but every few months some horrid bills get introduced, parliament loudly debates my right to exist again before it gets voted down

[@bob.iscool3845]

this, yes. i moved out of the big city and now i'm not surrounded by anti-lgbt folk with megaphones, but i've been hate crimed twice in the last 6 months. i've been out of the closet for 6 years and it's only the last 2 that i've experienced truly terrifying homophobia and transphobia --> and it was only 6 months ago i moved out the big city to a more conservative area previously it was an old friend saying "i don't like that", or a slur from a distant relative, but now i have to keep my head down in public and train myself to walk and talk "less gay" (i honestly didn't realise it was a "problem" until i was clocked as gay by homophobes through it)

[@reecevidamour1597]

Russell Howard with some serious truth bombs in this video. Thank you for educating people but all the while helping them smile, especially through difficult times right now!

[@sveinoleaase759]

The problem is woke wields real power, many people lose their job, I almost did. Academia has become a sesspool.

[@alyssajones4368]

100% accurate. I will say be careful bro, you could be seen as a threat for spitting facts.

[@Casterborous]

Gotta say, the breakdown is incorrect. If the right blamed the left for hating jaffa cakes, and the left responded by saying "yeah we do hate jaffa cakes" then the article would be correct. However, in reality what happens is that the right blame the left for hating jaffa cakes, and the left respond with "what the fuck are you talking about?"

[@bradleydunlop1615]

I'm glad to hear this, these conversations need to keep being pushed

[@Cerevisi]

Pushing "conversations" on me?! I'm so triggered rn!!!

[@cosmicprison9819]

One major thing he left out though is the political agendas seeping into movies and TV shows. You can ignore all the BS on social media. But if you want to escape the culture war entirely, it becomes hard to even watch a movie. Especially with Disney buying up everything.

[@SkidMan_Jurej]

Movies, TV shows, video games, sports, just about ALL of entertainment

[@SpiritofNature]

Cultute war exist only on your mind. Movies are described only as that you like and that you don't like, interesting for you and boring for you. That's all.

[@imjuil4108]

Russell, you interviewed Jordan b peterson, a man who became widely known after been subjected to the culture war!

[@mrshmuga9]

Wow that’s nuts. Quick search he’s know about him since at least 2 years ago and interviewed 1 year ago. Assuming this video isn’t from further back, he knows he’s speaking garbage. JP got traction near the start of the culture war, and has been involved since. So does Russell have the memory of a goldfish or just lying?

[@veejordan5283]

Absolutely brilliant 👏👏👏well said Russel ❤

[@lululafayette3880]

Hats off Russ, u nailed it! 💕

[@nerdychocobo]

I appreciate that last point about pronouns, the media is so hyperfocused on trans people and specifically criticising and belittling us that it can be very difficult to remember that the vast majority of people don't give a shit