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Diana Fleischman and Jonathan Pie on the Gender Pay Gap Myth

Sunday, December 30th, 2018

Diana Fleischman is an evolutionary psychologist at the University of Portsmouth. (Also, when she was going to graduate school at UT Austin many years ago, we dated very briefly.) Here she is debunking the gender pay gap myth.

She’s only in the first three minutes or so, the rest of the discussion features other people, including Andrew Doyle, the producer for Tom Walker’s “Jonathan Pie” fake British telejournalist videos. Here’s the Pie sex gap video they reference above:

They also interview Kate Andrews from the Institute for Economic Affairs and Joanna Williams, a Senior Lecturer at University of Kent.

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Great Lefty Rant On Why Trump Won: “The Left Did This”

Saturday, November 12th, 2016

I was going to do a post called “How My Liberal Facebook Friends Elected Donald Trump.” (Indeed, I still may.) But this lovely rant make some of the same points.

Tom Walker is a comedian whose shtick is pretending he’s a reporter called Jonathan Pie caught telling shocking, unspeakable truths between real reporting segments. He’s reliably lefty, but this post-Trump election rant hits home:

Some choice segments:

  • “How many times did the vote not have to go our way before we realize that our argument isn’t won by hurling labels and insults?”
  • “But I can’t say this to any of my friends, Tim. People like me. I’d get fucking lynched!”
  • “The left is responsible for this result, because the left has now decided to any other opinion, any other way of looking at the world, is unacceptable. We don’t debate anymore because the left won the cultural war, so if you’re on the right you’re a freak! You’re evil! You’re racist! You’re stupid! You are a basket of deplorables! How do you think people are going to vote if you talk to them like that? When has anyone ever been persuaded by being insulted or labeled? So now if you’re on the right or even against the prevailing view you are attacked for raising your opinion. That’s why people wait until they’re in the voting booth, where no one’s watching anymore, there’s no blame or shame or anything, and you can finally say what you really think, and that is a powerful thing.”
  • “If my mansplaining is triggering you you can either fuck off to your safe space or you can engage and debate me and tell me what I’m getting wrong.”

    • Watch the whole thing.

    (Hat tip: Ace of Spades HQ.)

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