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app? Well obviously there's somebody who told them — I'm speculating a little bit so I feel like I'm speculating responsibly but it's speculation so I don't want to sell this as fact. They have to not be using these apps. Clearview is the leader in that field. They're obviously not using Clearview. Why not? Why not? What is the difference between using that app and getting their answer in two seco…
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All right. There's a report that the number of people looking for divorces was 34 percent higher from March through June. Ouch. And the data shows that 31 percent of the couples admitted lockdown has caused irreparable damage to their relationships. Thirty-one percent of couples believe they have irreparable damage to their relationship. Irreparable. This is going to tear apart the nature of society now.
I always had a theory that part of a successful relationship is distance. In other words the fact that let's say one of the adults goes off and works all day or maybe both of the adults go off and work all day, it's probably a really healthy thing because if you're in each other's business all the time that can cause some tension. And it looks like we've proven that.
I've said before that the nuclear family needs to be not eliminated. That's Black Lives Matter's idea, sort of get rid of the nuclear family. I think if I have that right. I hope I have that right. I've said something compatible with that but different, which is that you shouldn't be the only model because so many people won't be able to achieve it. Not everybody can have a nuclear family. Sometimes it requires a certain amount of money. Sometimes you got to be lucky to get the right person. There's a lot that can go wrong with the nuclear family. But if it works for you I would agree that for those families where it works it's tremendous. It'd be hard to beat as an organizing principle. But we do need something for the people who can't make that work. And I think that shows it.
Joy Reid, I don't think she'll get cancelled because she's on the side that doesn't try to cancel itself as much as it cancels other people. But she's being accused of being Islamophobic I guess. Who accused her of that? Oh, Ilhan Omar. Representative Omar actually said she said of Joy Reid, honestly this kind of casual Islamophobia is hurtful and dangerous. We deserve better. Need an apology, etc.
So what is it that Joy Reid said that would cause her own side to try to cancel her? How bad was it? Well let me read it. She said leaders, let's say in the Muslim world, talk a lot of violent talk and encourage their supporters to be willing to commit violence including on their own bodies in order to win against whoever they decide as the enemy. And she said other things. So she got in trouble for comparing Muslims to Republicans I think because the next part of this was she was saying about radicalizing supporters.
So Joy Reid might get cancelled or at least she's getting in trouble for comparing Muslims to Republicans. Could that be any better? Is there anything more entertaining than watching Joy Reid get cancelled by Ilhan Omar for comparing Muslims to Republicans? That's just everything. The whole year 2020 was just put into that one little package. If you only needed to know that one thing you'd know how the rest of the year went.
All right. Here's my problem with intersectionality and critical race theory. Two categories
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of things which I am no expert on but I'll just ask this question. Isn't the guaranteed end result of those things that we keep carving each other into smaller and smaller categories until everybody has a reason to hate everybody? How else can it go? Because I would love to hear the thinking that says how this brings us to a better place. It certainly brings us to — it's certainly good to talk ab…
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