Adventures of Bad Hijabi (private feed for badhijabi@proton.me)

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About Adventures of Bad Hijabi (private feed for badhijabi@proton.me)

Oh hai. I’m disimpacting my brain. This is where I have conversations with big brained + witty + cool people. iamapyrophyte.substack.com (https://iamapyrophyte.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast)

Publisher: Can we talk?
Category: education · society & culture
Language: en
Explicit: No
First episode: 20 Feb 2024
Latest episode: 19 Nov 2025

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19 Nov 2025
A Chat With Dr. Julian Somers About Drug Addiction Policy in B.C.
Summary Back in June, I had a lengthy conversation with Dr. Julian Somers, a clinical psychologist specializing in addiction. I wanted to have a frank conversation with an adult about the impact of misguided addiction and mental health policies, and Julian and I did have that! Throughout our conversation, Julian highlighted the importance of community we… Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/a-chat-with-dr-julian-somers-about/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/a-chat-with-dr-julian-somers-about?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzkzOTU1MTAsImlhdCI6MTc2NTI5Mjg5NiwiZXhwIjoxNzY3ODg0ODk2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.nT6PVrRcI1-YFBk-QpKnxPDYk4oKYIE0EPde8c1KORE&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
28 Oct 2025
“Kids Are Nonbinary but Hormones Are Very Binary” — Daniel Metzger on Paediatric Gender Affirming Care
Hello, Readers. Please go and read my feature in the New Westminster Times (https://www.newwesttimes.com/news/ubc-professor-on-gender-affirming-care-for-kids-if-you-build-it-they-will-come/article_87c68e0e-a0c7-4374-8905-9b42b2b0f445.html)—it serves as the main article for this breaking story. Please also support Lorraine and Dave Brett’s endeavour to bring hard hitting independent local journalism back to Canada. The New Westminster Times does not received any government funds, it is an independent news outlet. As always you can drop a tip in my By Me a Coffee Tip Jar if you found this story helpful and want more of this kind of investigative journalism. What follows here is an article that provides supplementary information, so you can understand the real story behind the story. You will need to read both articles to really get a handle of this story. Canadian gender clinicians downplay damage they do to the brains of children with sex hormone agonist therapy, commonly called “puberty blockers”, because the suffering of the children makes it okay for them to compromise the adolescent brain. Children requesting gender affirming care (GAC) don’t have much of a clue about anatomy and biology and hormones and reproduction. They don’t understand the gravity of GAC, they lack the developmental capacity to consent. Schools facilitate social transitioning, a medical intervention, to the extent of providing breast binders. Canadian gender clinicians treat gender confused and distressed children with a GAC approach to prevent surgeries. Children don’t have gender affirming body modification surgeries in Canada. Gender distressed female children see mastectomy and menstrual suppression as the be all end all. Skeptics and anyone who questions GAC are haters spreading disinformation and gender clinicians and gender activist NGOs must fight back. I heard these ideas and lot more when I attended a webinar hosted by the Knowledge Mobilisation unit (https://www.childrenshealthcarecanada.ca/en/spark/) of Children’s Healthcare Canada (CHC) called Gender-Affirming Care for Youth: Essential Knowledge for Healthcare Providers, delivered by Vancouver-based paediatric endocrinologist (https://www.cpsbc.ca/public/registrant-directory/search-result), UBC faculty of medicine clinical professor (https://pediatrics.med.ubc.ca/about/current-faculty/), and award winning health care advocate (https://pediatrics.med.ubc.ca/2021/04/28/congratulations-to-drs-tom-mclaughlin-and-dan-metzger/) Daniel Metzger. You can take a look at some of the presentation slides below; note: I think I may have missed a few slides at the beginning. The public has no access to the slides, or any information about what Metzger shared in the webinar, which will only appear on the CHC member portal. Paediatric health care institutions and non profit NGOs who support them can join the CHC. The general public has no access to the member portal, despite the fact that the endeavours promoted by the Knowledge Mobilisation Unit directly impact and involve them and their children and grandchildren. Of the 11 webinars CHC hosted last year, three focused on gender affirming care, and the association, which typically records its webinars for later viewing, recorded none of the gender webinars it hosted in 2025. Fortunately I recorded the session in its entirety for the world to hear — see the video above. What the heck is knowledge mobilisation, reader? It sounds like an obfuscatory Woko Haram term for propaganda, doesn’t it? According to their website, “Children’s Healthcare Canada’s SPARK Knowledge Mobilization Program aims to curate and showcase knowledge, evidence (from research, practice, policy, and lived experience), and expertise to SPARK conversations, ideas, and action.” Reader, how can the CHC spark conversations when they shut them down when their clandestine modus operandi and their censorious nature? The Metzger webinar moderator deliberately ignored the critical questions posed by audience members. Moderator’s privilege, she said as she picked the questions she would ask Metzger to answer, after he delivered his presentation. Is Knowledge Mobilisation (KM) a progressive term for propaganda? Yes! When we take a look at the CHC website, we see that’s exactly what KM means. Propaganda describes a form of communication designed to influence public opinion through biased, skewed, and distorted information. KM becomes propaganda when it oversimplifies complex issues with the objective of influencing opinion toward a particular belief or position. That’s exactly what the CHC has done with its GAC webinar. Gender medicine activists present very ideologically skewed information as evidence for their disembodiment body modification approach to treating psychologically and emotionally distressed children and youth. What do we know about the CHC Association? It has federal non profit status, which usually means a tax exemption. Who funds the CHC? Well, it’s unclear, because the CHC does its best to obfuscate any kind of financial accountability. CHC funding derives from a combination of philanthropic, corporate, and advocacy-driven channels. Whilst it receives no direct operational funding from the Canadian government, it actively lobbies for increased public investments in children’s healthcare. I couldn’t find any financials for the CHC, and the financial statement I could find for the CCHF didn’t reveal much. I found a list of CHC members and patrons here (https://www.childrenshealthcarecanada.ca/en/membership/our-members-and-patrons/). Patrons of the CHC include the Alberta Children’s Hospital Foundation, the BC Children’s Hospital Foundation, the Canada Children’s Hospital Foundation (CCHF), the CHEO Foundation, Children’s Health Foundation, The Children’s Hospital Foundation of Manitoba, the IWK Foundation, McMaster’s Children’s Hospital Foundation, Sick Kids, Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation, Trillium Health Partners Foundation. The CHC has a profile on the national lobbyist registry (https://lobbycanada.gc.ca/app/secure/ocl/lrs/do/vwRg?cno=369505&regId=917634). A recent issue of the Lobby Monitor (https://www.childrenshealthcarecanada.ca/media/mkelu503/advocacy-group-talks-children-s-healthcare-during-day-on-the-hill-the-lobby-monitor.pdf) reports the CHC as the most active lobbying group on Parliament Hill during the first week of October. In my research I did come across a list of CCHF private patrons; for fundraising, the CHC partners closely with CCHF, the largest non government funding source for child health. In summer of 2023 I wrote about the shady way that the BC government funds the sex hormone agonist Lupron, commonly referred to as “puberty blocker,” for gender confused and distressed children and adolescents. Remember, reader, that no official clinical indication exists for Lupron to a treat paediatric gender dysphoria or discordance. It’s an off-label use. AbbVie has no intention of applying to the FDA to expand the use of Lupron to include treatment of paediatric gender dysphoria. Health Canada has not officially supported the use of Lupron for paediatric gender affirming care. No official clinical indication exists, that’s what off-label means. If Lupron did prevent adolescent suicide don’t you think that the drug company would have gotten formal FDA approval for that as an official indication? If Lupron did relieve adolescent depression don’t you think that the drug company would have gotten formal FDA approval for that as an official indication? If Lupron did relieve adolescent self harm don’t you think that the drug company would have gotten formal FDA approval for that as an official indication? I’ll take things that will never happen, Alex. Reader, Lupron has a very controversial track record as a treatment for its clinical indications. The clinical trials supporting its FDA approval for Lupron have grave weaknesses. Google Dr. David Redwine (https://www.endofound.org/david-redwine-md-leuprolide-the-d-is-silent). In the extensive research I conducted leading up to LupronGate (https://www.docdroid.com/052tMJb/luprongate-pdf), I stumbled upon a website with a wealth of crucial information about Lupron, compiled by a victim of Lupron. Among the treasures I found there, I came across a damning expert report on Lupron. “Lupron should only be limited to six injections for the initial treatment, and a retreatment should not exceed six injection. Lupron cannot be given more than twelve injections per life time.” — John Geuriguian, MD, (retired professor of pharmacology, retired Medical Officer with the US FDA), in a expert report for Karin Klein’s case against Lupron (https://www.vitallaw.com/news/top-story-drugs-u-s-patient-questions-refusal-to-admit-previous-drug-warning-labels/lld0112a1410a7bb71000a58f00215ad7479002?refURL=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F#.). How many doses do Metzger and his gender medicine colleagues prescribe to gender distressed children? The story about the young Swedish female adolescent, Leo, revealed that she had received 4 years worth of Lupron doses. Now she struggles with severe bone density loss that has caused spinal fracture and vertebral malformation, she lives in extreme pain. Leo received four times the recommended lifetime dose of Lupron. Leo was on the medication for four years and [her] bone density was never checked. The effects were little short of catastrophic. Leo now suffers from severe osteoporosis, a weaking of bones which is normally seen in people in their 60s and 70s. It is almost irreversible. [Her] mother says that he was in pain from skeletal damage; [s]he was constantly depressed; and [s]he attempted to commit suicide several times. — Trans narrative under fire in Sweden (https://bioedge.org/gender/transgender/trans-narrative-under-fire-in-sweden/), Michael Cook, May 7, 2022, in BioEdge Reader, what we have here amounts to medical malpractise. I don’t think it’s hyperbolic to say that we face the biggest medical scandal in history. Which makes this webinar delivered by Metzger shocking and disturbing. Reader, many of the things Metzger said in this webinar echo what he said in the leaked WPATH transcripts, contained in Mia Hughes’ 2022 WPATH Files. Despite much evidence to the contrary that’s emerged since the WPATH Files, Metzger still insists on the reversibility of “puberty blockers.”Reader, should we ask Leo if the effects of her “puberty blocker” treatment have proved reversible? Here’s a recent feature from Rebel News about a young women named Rose Guerin‑Test, who found herself lured into the gender body modification cult at age 13. She had a double mastectomy at 16. She’s 21 now. Rose had insurance coverage for the double mastectomy they pressured her into at age 16, and she cannot get insurance coverage for the breast reconstruction she would like to get back what the gender cult took from her as a child. Her mother felt conflicted and thought of transitioning a mistake, the influencers on social media had more influence on Rose than her mother, and Rose made suicide threats to hasten the transition process, to get what she thought she wanted. The two young people Rose knew who transitioned have since detransitioned. Metzger wants us to think it’s uncommon or rare to see detansitioners, and that’s misleading. Rose’s mother feels it’s professional misconduct. Here’s the video of a recent interview with a pioneer of paediatric gender medicine Dr. Susan Bradley, conducted by Stella O’Malley and Mia Hughes. Reader, what do you think about all this? If you want to share your thoughts and concerns, or if you have a personal experience with paediatric gender affirming care you want to share, please feel free to get in touch with me. You can reach me at pubertyisnotadisease[at]gmail[dot]com. Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. You will not find this level of critical and investigative journalism on paediatric gender medicine in mainstream media. It’s taken me years to build up my knowledge and expertise in this topic. I’ve spend hundreds and thousands of hours researching this topic. Please support my work by becoming a paid subscriber. If you’re unable to, please share this article widely, or make a one-time donation to my Tip Jar. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/kids-are-nonbinary-but-hormones-are/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/kids-are-nonbinary-but-hormones-are?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNzcwOTU3ODgsImlhdCI6MTc2MjY1OTgzNiwiZXhwIjoxNzY1MjUxODM2LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.fmPN6D5KuD0WTxo3FqtNTYRrk4xGAPFQ9oc2eC9I0i0&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
27 Apr 2025
I Am So Done ... That's The Message
Summary In this episode, I address a tragic incident at a street festival in Vancouver where a vehicle drove into a crowd, resulting in multiple casualties. I segue into the broader implications of mental health issues and public safety, emphasizing the need for better management of individuals with severe mental illnesses. The week in review proceeds, beginning with a historical perspectives regarding Trudeau's visit to China, continuing with political comparisons that are deemed defamatory, and the responsibilities of media in the context of foreign influence. Additionally, healthcare challenges in British Columbia are highlighted, culminating in a call to action for accountability and informed voting. Stuff I mentioned Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/i-am-so-done-thats-the-message/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/i-am-so-done-thats-the-message?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNjIyNzczNjgsImlhdCI6MTc1MjY3MDM0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MjYyMzQxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.mt16cCAQcIAwJcQ7iI0Ox3Yg4_lCwBsRnMUn1q0hssY&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
21 Apr 2025
Pierre Trudeau Goes to China
I found this old French CBC documentary about Elder Trudeau’s 1973 visit to the PRC and his meeting with Mao on YouTube. It was split into four parts and I grabbed the four parts and stitched them together in Riverside FM, then used Sonix to transcribe the video compilation, and then I used Deepl to translate the French transcript en Anglais. By the way, reader, if you’re interested, you can find the 1968 edition of Two Innocents in Red China here, at the Internet Archive (https://archive.org/details/twoinnocentsinre0000hebe_s8f2/mode/1up) — I powered through all 180 pages in a Sunday afternoon, you should have no problem getting through it in a few hours. I find Two Innocents in Red China quite “interesting,” shall we say. It strikes me as very Pierre Trudeau — those of us old enough to remember him at his prime will recognise the sardonic style of his voice in the pages of this book. The book leaves me feeling naggingly discomfited. Reader, I found it off-putting. Particularly because in my youth Canadian society led me to believe in Pierre Trudeau, the mythical heroic patriarch of Canada, the man who brought the constitution home blah blah blah. Reader, when you read this book, you might come away uncertain of what to think. Resisting the urge to project your modern-day knowledge onto the people in the historical period of your study, that’s a key thing to remember when examining history. It’s damned difficult. We all want to attribute malfeasance and intentionality to historical figures in the course of our study. In particular, study of atrocity seduces us project all manner of things onto the people from the historical period—it ends up hijacking us from the rigours of historical analysis and it obscures the historical reality from emerging. It poses us a challenge to study history whilst leaving ourselves behind. Remember, human history is not an Alfred Hitchcock movie, it’s the story of deeply flawed persons, with intentions and goals and values. We can create monsters or we can document and tell story of the history of humans. Reader, these two projects are not the same. So, reader, did Trudeau know about the horrific deaths and the massive famine that plagued the Chinese people at the time of his visit? How much did people know? How much did people within China know? How much did people outside China know? How much did world leaders and statesmen know? When he visited the PRC in 1960 Trudeau had no access to the information he did as a statesman, did he? Reader, how much do you think Trudeau knew about the mass murders that took place right under his nose, in 1960? When I read Holocaust history, I frequently have to remind myself that being in the Holocaust provides a different vantage point from being outside the Holocaust decades into the future with a treasure trove of historical documentation and evidence at my fingertips. Why wouldn’t era of The Great Leap Forward Famine and Horrors prove any different? Reader, it would not. Humans are human and they hooman. Confirmation bias is not my friend. I repeat the question, reader — did Trudeau and Hebert know the full story of the human devastation they waded into in 1961? Good question. I do not have an answer, reader. “the root cause of the Great Famine was the centralized system of power at the time, that is, the government controlled all resources” — Yang Jisheng In his book Tombstone, Yang Jisheng wrote that the peak of unnatural deaths of the Great Leap Forward happened in 1960, just a few months before Trudeau and Hebert would have visited. Both Jisheng (https://youtu.be/6eurHPpkgfA?si=H1iMUFueYA25N2Rw) and Dikkoter (https://youtu.be/DqFBa9ePWpo?si=TobtrAos1zn1GkWB) report that everyone who survived that period had to make some morally horrific and unimaginable choices — parents forced to bury their children alive, people resorting to cannibalism, people watched their loved ones die from intestinal blockages caused by eating white porcelain dirt. From this interview of Jisheng, with Russ Roberts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pma99yhPuk), here’s the story of the death of Jisheng’s father. Jisheng’s father died of starvation during the spring of 1959, Jisheng was away at high school, 10 km away from his village. When a friend told him of his father’s unwellness, Jisheng stopped his ration of food for 3 days and took that, 1.5 kg of rice, to his father who told him to leave. Jisheng gathered some wild vegetables for his father. Jisheng didn’t know his father was dying — by the time of his visit Jisheng’s father was so affected by starvation he could not eat the food and he knew he was dying. Jisheng believed that his father’s death was an isolated incident, he had no idea his father’s death happened as part of a larger mass starvation that plagued the entire country. Jisheng didn’t know about the mass starvation until the middle of the cultural revolution, which took place between 1966 and 1976. Mao’s plan included a destruction of the family and its replacement with the commune. Mao abolished private property, his henchmen forced the destruction of the family home as the basic production unit of Chinese society. This entailed destroying individual kitchens, destroyed pots and pans and individual residential food storage capacity. It entailed forcing people to take their meals in communes. The government removed the incentive to produce, it forced unreasonably high quotas, and took the entire production yield away to be managed by the regime. The government controlled all means of production, it controlled access to all goods, including and especially food. The Mao regime set highly exaggerated estimations and quotas for all production, including agricultural outputs. The communist cadre engaged in widespread abuse of the peasantry, abusing their privileges by taking more for themselves and their families and friends. Jisheng recounts to economist Russ Roberts that in Shenyang, people could not write letters, they could not share information about the widespread starvation and horrors they experienced and witnessed. Jisheng recounted how the postal officials worked with the police and security officials to prevent the letters from being sent. As you can imagine, this all adds up to unfathomable widespread hardship. Fear and powerful indoctrination hung over the society like a Damocles’ Sword. Disagreement with the government could get a person tortured, beaten, starved, killed. Reader, I have to ask out loud — during their autumn of 1960 visit to the PRC, did Trudeau and Hebert benefit from the abuse of the communist officials taking more for themselves and depriving the people? Did Trudeau ever reflect on that possibility? Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. If you found this article useful and want to support this work, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Did Trudeau and Hebert really see no signs of these horrors during their 5 or 6 week visit to Communist China in the autumn of 1960? I know, I sound like a broken record, reader. It’s just, well, I have trouble knowing that the cunning and brilliant Pierre Trudeau knew nothing of the worst mass murder in human history when he visited the country where it happened. The PRC officials took Trudeau and Hebert on an extensive tour of the country, Trudeau and Hebert knew about communes and production quotas and they heard at length about the Mao Zedong doctrine. Can we really believe they didn’t know, reader? Still, I wonder how much of this thinking emerges from my projecting my 2025 mindset and historical knowledge onto a 1960 man. The questions don’t stop coming, reader. They beckon me. * How much did Trudeau know about these mass murders of the period of time between 1958 and 1962 that we call The Great Leap Forward, in the years that followed? * Did he know about the horrors in 1970 when he decided to initiate diplomatic relations with the PRC? * What about on his first official visit as PM of Canada, in 1973? * Did Pierre Trudeau know that he shook hands with the worst mass murderer in human history when he grinned widely for the cameras and the cadre present to witness the performance? These questions torment me, reader. Reader, when I look at Trudeau’s seeming nonchalance at the threat of Mao Zedong and PRC in 1973, in particular his characterisation of legitimate fear of the PRC as foolish, I cannot help but hear his oldest son in 2023/4 dismissing the concerns about the UFWD and the PRC’s hostile attempts to infiltrated our democratic institutions at all levels. Justin Trudeau told the country that he believes the difficulties between PRC and Canada can reach a resolution through diplomatic means. Reader, does the father speak through the son? As I have written here previously, I think we must view the LPC disregard for the seriousness of the PRC foreign interference, and the threat of the CCP itself, through the lens of Pierre Trudeau’s political vision of Communist China and Mao himself. Trudeau Goes to China :: Video Transcript :: En Français [00:00:00] Speaker1 Plus de la garde portant le drapeau rouge frappé de l'étoile. Ce voyage officiel, le Canada en attendait beaucoup. On le voulait réussi sur tous les points et il commençait sous de bons augures. Il n'y avait pas que l'Est qui était rouge où que l'on posa les yeux. Panneaux et banderoles souhaitaient la bienvenue, chaleureuse au premier chef de gouvernement canadien à débarquer en terre chinoise et saluait ceux qui l'accompagnaient. Plus d'une vingtaine de hauts fonctionnaires, plus de 50 journalistes de tout le Canada, mais à l'œil ébloui de l'Occidental. Ce qui frappait d'abord sur le tarmac immense, c'était à perte de vue, la foule bigarrée, les fillettes aux 1000 voix agitant les drapeaux canadiens et chinois. Pékin, 6 millions d'habitants, la capitale du Nord. Au premier coup d'œil, une ville envahie par les bicyclettes propres et reboisées. Le contraste se dessine. Au grand hall du Peuple. Chuanli accueille son vis à vis canadien. Devant la presse avec qui il a auparavant plaisanté sur son grand âge, il a 75 ans, qui l'empêche de se rendre au Canada. À cette table officielle siégeront d'abord tous les principaux conseillers de Chuanli et du Premier ministre Trudeau. Ce premier contact se fait sur le modèle protocolaire chinois. [00:01:54] Speaker1 Le chef du gouvernement canadien y expose ses politiques et les sujets qu'il aimerait voir abordés. Aborder. On décide de l'horaire et on renvoie les questions pour étude en comité. L'atmosphère est cordiale, sereine et détendue, et c'est à travers un interprète français que le Premier ministre chinois a d'abord parlé avec M. Trudeau. Durant tout le séjour à Pékin. De M. Trudeau, les après 12 h étaient réservés aux discussions officielles. En matinée, le premier ministre amenait madame Trudeau et les journalistes à la découverte de la ville. Le premier jour, c'est à l'Institut national des sports qu'a commencé la visite. L'institut accueille 1000 étudiants et le tiers est féminin. Pour le président Mao, la bonne forme est de première importance. L'image sportive de Monsieur Trudeau a dû parvenir aux officiels chinois habile. Les Chinois ont combiné l'aspect divertissant et la signification diplomatique du ping pong. La première manifestation sportive aux yeux de Monsieur Trudeau? Un match de jeunes pongistes. C'est, selon Mao, la nécessité de faire servir la riche et antique tradition chinoise aux besoins de la Chine nouvelle que l'on apprend aux plus petits comme aux plus grands. Ses techniques harmonieuses de la boxe chinoise. [00:04:15] Speaker2 C'est bien. Ça. [00:04:25] Speaker1 L'institut forme des professeurs. On y enseigne donc le Volley-Ball, le Ballon-panier, le tir à l'arc. Les Arcs y sont de fabrication canadienne et la natation, sport nouveau en Chine, mais des plus populaires depuis la célèbre traversée du Yang-tsé par le président Mao Tsé-tung, alors qu'il était déjà un vénérable septuagénaire. Cette façon d'accueillir les visiteurs, il faut y répondre. Le Premier ministre et madame Trudeau ont vite appris. À Pékin, même avec si peu de voitures d'ailleurs, toutes de propriété gouvernementale. Il faut orienter une circulation massive de bicyclettes et les piétons sans cesse conspués par les klaxons et les sonneries. On ne réserve pas les lourdes charges aux camions et il n'est pas rare que le transport commercial des denrées se fasse en triporteur. Chaque Chinois a sa charge et la porte vaillamment, sans s'arrêter. Pékin est une grande ville forte, occupée. Pourtant, la mentalité orientale, calme mais persévérante, l'apaise. La Chine est constamment en marche. Dès l'aube, la ville s'anime. Mais mis à part le fonctionnement exagéré et d'ailleurs inutile des klaxons, Pékin n'a pas ce caractère trépidant, énervant des autres capitales du monde. Même depuis la Libération, c'est à dire l'accès de tous au minimum vital, la vie est dure en Chine. Au marché, le choix des fruits et des légumes est presque illimité. Mais le légume le plus populaire est encore cette variété de chou local qu'on jette en tas énorme sur le pavé pour le vendre. [00:06:39] Speaker1 On apporte la culture maraîchère comme le blé et les céréales des communes populaires des environs. A quelques milles de Pékin, la commune Luo Xiao fournit à Pékin tous ses légumes, ses fruits, sa ration de volaille, de canard. Surtout la cuisine chinoise, l'autre grande cuisine avec la française, apprête le canard à toutes les sauces. L'apothéose du délice étant le célèbre canard laqué dont un restaurant de la capitale porte d'ailleurs le nom. En Chine, on paie la note avec le yuan. Unité de monnaie qui équivaut à peu un peu plus de 40 sous. En gros, il y a deux yuan dans 1 $. Pour un Occidental, les prix sont bas. 2 livres de petites oranges coûtent moins de 20 sous. Mais ils sont adaptés au salaire moyen. Comment un Chinois fait il pour s'offrir des articles de luxe? D'abord, ils sont rares. Ici, l'appareil radio est un objet de consommation courante par lequel passe quotidiennement la pensée Mao tsé-toung la musique révolutionnaire, l'exhortation au travail et à la construction de la Chine nouvelle. Et d'ailleurs, on discute ferme, on évalue la marchandise et les risques du budget avant d'acheter. Le chinois va lentement et pèse les risques, tout comme son gouvernement s'ouvre peu à peu à l'extérieur, choisit ses ententes et rationne ses concessions. Il en est tout étonné de retrouver sur les étalages d'un grand magasin pékinois ses montres suisses marquées 55 $ ou celles en or à 425 $. [00:08:19] Speaker1 Il est aussi étrange de constater que cette voiturette en bambou pour bébé, madame Trudeau en a rapporté une au Canada, ne semble pas très répandue. En Chine. On stationne son vélo comme en Amérique, sa voiture. Mais les bicyclettes, indispensables dans les villes et leurs banlieues, sont chères. Elles se vendent souvent 40 $, l'équivalent de deux semaines de travail. Mais elles sont robustes. Et les réparations, si on ne les fait pas soi même, sont extrêmement peu coûteuses. Ces questions de l'observateur occidental à son premier voyage en Chine. Le chinois semble lui y avoir les réponses le dimanche, que l'on soit garde rouge à bicyclette ou ouvrier en congés, petit garde rouge en formation ou futur petit soldat rouge, on remplit la place de la Paix céleste, bordée au nord par la porte Tiananmen. Sur cette place à faire rougir la place de la Concorde, le Passe-Temps favori est le portrait qu'on se fait tirer par le photographe du square. Au plus loin derrière le monument aux martyrs révolutionnaires. Le petit garde rouge fait la pose et brasse les cartes. Plus tard, devenu grand, le soldat rouge fera encore partie du paysage chinois comme un autre citoyen. Image de la Chine d'aujourd'hui. [00:09:44] Speaker3 L'enfant et. [00:09:50] Speaker1 Le vieillard, lui qui a déjà vu l'occidental, continue paisiblement son chemin. Autre aspect de la Chine nouvelle près de dix ans plus tard, à peine encore quelques portraits du président Mao. Premier banquet. Le lendemain de l'arrivée à Pékin, dans le grand hall du peuple, Chuanli reçoit la délégation canadienne. [00:10:28] Speaker4 On y voit. [00:10:33] Speaker1 Chuanli soulignera que le Canada, comme la Chine et malgré leurs systèmes différents, préconise la souveraineté des peuples et la coexistence pacifique. Monsieur Trudeau parlera des ressemblances géographiques et linguistiques de la Chine et du Canada. Tous deux à la recherche de l'unité et de la justice sociale. Et c'est en chinois, à la fin de son texte, que Monsieur Trudeau proposera un toast kampai. En chinois, cela signifie vider son verre de maotai, cette forte boisson de riz qu'on avale d'un trait et qui fait son chemin en laissant une chaude marque dans la gorge. [00:11:14] Speaker5 Je pense que ce qui frappera le plus les Canadiens, c'est le domaine commercial où nous avons signé un traité important. Mais moi, personnellement, j'attache peut être encore plus d'importance sur cette réalisation qui touche au plan personnel et qui concerne la réunification des familles. Depuis des années, on avait des demandes de Canadiens d'origine chinoise pour faire venir leurs ancêtres, leurs leurs grands-mères, leurs oncles, tantes et tout ça. Et on n'était pas équipé pour permettre à ces familles de se réunir. Maintenant, on a eu sur le plan consulaire un accord qui nous permettrait, je crois, de donner suite très bientôt à beaucoup de mouvements de ces personnes généralement âgées, qui iraient de la Chine retrouver leur famille au Canada. Et moi, ça me. Ça me touche beaucoup. Je pense que ne serait ce que pour cela, ça vaudrait la peine. [00:12:16] Speaker1 Maintenant, on sait que la plupart des sujets que vous aviez l'intention d'aborder ont été abordés et même comblés, je pense, dans toutes les discussions en comité préparatoire, à la conclusion des accords ou des ententes. Est ce que vous avez obtenu plus qu'espéré? [00:12:32] Speaker5 Mon Dieu! On espérait passablement de choses et on a obtenu tout ce qu'on espérait. Alors, on ne peut vraiment pas se déclarer autrement que satisfaits de cette visite dans tous les domaines, même dans le domaine médical, où on pensait peut être avoir quelques chances, on savait que d'autres pays essayaient également d'obtenir l'avantage d'une certaine primeur dans le domaine de l'acupuncture. Et dans ce domaine là comme dans tous les autres, nous avons eu gain de cause dans tout ce qu'on demandait. Alors c'est vraiment un voyage extrêmement satisfaisant du point de vue réalisation des objectifs. “The curious task of economics is to demonstrate to men how little they really know about what they imagine they can design. To the naive mind that can conceive of order only as the product of deliberate arrangement, it may seem absurd that in complex conditions order, and adaptation to the unknown, can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions and that a division of authority will actually extend the possibility of overall order. Yet that decentralization actually leads to more information being taken into account.”―Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism [00:13:25] Speaker1 Celle que le premier ministre Chuanli a félicité d'être venu en Chine malgré son état avancé de grossesse. Madame Trudeau, enceinte de six mois, a épuisé sa suite en gravissant d'un pas alerte les marches abruptes de la Grande Muraille. Construite il y a plus de 2000 ans, cette forteresse trapue de plus de 24 pieds de largeur serpente dans les montagnes de l'Hirondelle sur plus de 4000 milles. Quand on lui demande si elle ressent la fatigue, madame Trudeau répond Un voyage en Chine, c'est moins épuisant que la garde d'un enfant de deux ans et demi. En effet, l'épouse du Premier ministre n'a jamais été absente au rendez vous. Elle a visité une garderie en plus d'accompagner le Premier ministre partout, sauf aux entretiens officiels. Le Premier ministre et madame Trudeau ont vu la Colline des parfums, le village des splendeurs, le Palais d'été et la Cité interdite. [00:15:21] Speaker5 C'est agréable de visiter un pays aussi merveilleux avec sa femme qui ne semble pas fatiguée. Non, on n'est pas fatigué de voyager autant que moi. [00:15:32] Speaker1 Est-ce que vous avez été surpris? Même si vous connaissez très bien le peuple chinois, est ce que vous avez été surpris de l'ampleur qu'on a donnée à l'accueil qu'on. [00:15:39] Speaker5 Vous qu'on. [00:15:39] Speaker1 Vous a réservé? Je pense à ces milliers d'enfants, de fillettes, ce déploiement assez exceptionnel. [00:15:45] Speaker5 Moi, j'ai l'impression, moins que ceux qui m'accompagnaient. J'avais en tête un voyage que j'avais fait en Chine en 1949 et où j'avais roulé ma bosse dans pas mal de petits villages reculés de province. Et je me souviens qu'à ce moment là, il suffisait que j'entre dans un petit village pour que les enfants accourent pour me voir. On n'avait peut être jamais vu de blancs avant de d'Européens ou d'Américains. [00:16:21] Speaker4 Mais aussi des habitants typiquement américains. [00:16:35] Speaker1 On avait prévu pour Monsieur Trudeau un ancien voyageur féru de l'aventure et de la découverte, un laissez-passer pour l'inconnu qui irait en grandissant avec les jours dans la basse province surtout. [00:16:50] Speaker5 Alors cette fois, si bien sûr, les foules qui accourent ne courent pas parce qu'elles n'ont jamais vu de blancs, mais elles n'ont jamais vu un chef d'État. Dans cette petite région, certainement pas un chef d'État du continent américain, et surtout pas un Premier ministre qui vient du pays de Norman Bethune dont vous parliez tout à l'heure. J'ai l'impression que tous, on fait tout ça ensemble, fait que les foules accourent par curiosité un peu peut être pour rendre hommage à ce pays dont dont on leur a parlé dans les essais de mort à cause de Norman dessus, mais beaucoup, je pense, par curiosité, un peu comme Mon Dieu à Toronto ou à Guelph. Quand la reine passe, on ferme les écoles, on ferme les bureaux et tout le monde va voir la reine. [00:17:46] Speaker4 Et voilà, Rien. [00:17:53] Speaker1 Jusqu'à l'avant-dernière minute. Le séjour à Pékin de M. Trudeau s'était déroulé dans l'ordre, sauf pour ce samedi à 17 h où les journalistes assemblés dans la salle de presse ont appris la nouvelle. Le Premier ministre est chez le président Mao. [00:18:12] Speaker6 Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. [00:18:17] Speaker1 Ces images sont celles de la télévision chinoise. Comme à l'accoutumée, seule la presse officielle de l'État était présente. [00:18:35] Speaker5 C'est certainement un vieillard à la santé un peu frais. Il toussote, toussote un peu. Mais, bon Dieu! Il s'est levé pour me recevoir, il s'est levé pour me reconduire. Il a marché assez loin vers la porte, à travers plusieurs pièces sans aide. C'est un homme encore alerte. Je ne dirai pas qu'il est encore gymnaste, mais il est alerte. Son attention est éveillée, en particulier par certaines choses. Quand on a parlé de mon voyage antérieur, il s'est. Il s'est vraiment écarquillé l'œil. Il a eu des attentions personnelles m'indiquant que je pouvais tantôt parler français, tantôt anglais, parce qu'il y avait les interprètes des deux langues. Il n'a pas manqué de me faire dire des bye bye à ma femme, etc. Alors visiblement, il a l'esprit très présent et son langage. Encore que je ne comprenne pas le mandarin, mais son langage semble plutôt lent. Il m'a posé plusieurs questions. D'abord sur le Canada, sur le climat canadien. Et peu à peu, on en est arrivé à la politique. On a parlé du Proche-Orient, on a parlé de l'Europe, on a parlé de l'Amérique, des États-Unis. Certainement que dans certains domaines, le domaine politique, il savait que j'étais un libéral, que c'était le Parti libéral qui avait comme gouvernement entrepris les démarches pour reconnaître la Chine du président John Law et lui a expliqué un peu nos nos rapports parlementaires actuels. Mais je ne pense pas qu'il connaisse la politique indienne par le menu, même du côté géographique qu'il. Une bonne partie de ces questions portait sur sur la latitude, sur sur l'Arctique en particulier, jusqu'où on allait vers le pôle Nord. Un tas de questions semblables, mais ils en arrivaient toujours à des à des problèmes réels. Par exemple. Ayant parlé un peu du climat, il s'est mis à poser des questions sur le blé. Ayant posé parlé du Grand Nord, il s'est mis à poser des questions sur l'automne. Qui? [00:21:33] Speaker4 N'avait rien d'anormal. Puis, quand il voyait. [00:21:38] Speaker1 Comme lors du premier banquet, celui offert par Chuanli, le Premier ministre chinois avait reconnu en son homologue canadien un vieil ami, que la Chine était heureuse de revoir cet hommage inattendu, plus que cordial avait de quoi surprendre. [00:21:54] Speaker5 Si ça peut avoir pour effet que nos politiques sont mieux comprises et que et que les accords que nous avons proposés aient pu être conclus, tant mieux. S'ils veulent considérer que je sois un vieil ami, il y a peut être un peu de politesse dans cette expression, parce que, après mon dernier voyage en Chine, je pense que le livre que Jacques Hébert et moi avons écrit n'a pas du être accueilli avec un enthousiasme sans réserve par les autorités chinoises, à supposer même qu'il l'aurait lu. Tandis que cette fois, à quelques reprises au cours des discussions, le Premier ministre japonais a pris la peine de dire et comme vous le disiez dans votre livre, la Chine a fait telle chose, etc. Alors, c'est nécessairement assez c'est flatteur de se faire dire ça. J'essayais de lui rendre la monnaie en lui parlant de son intervention en Pologne dans les années 50, etc. Mais. Tout ça n'a de signification que si ça se traduit dans des des relations améliorées entre nos pays sur tous les plans commercial, culturel, médical, technologique, politique. Et tant mieux s'il en est ainsi. [00:23:21] Speaker4 Un Canada uni et croyant. Aïe, aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe! Aïe! Ce n'est pas pour demain! Et là, aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe aïe! [00:23:56] Speaker1 Bravo pour le Premier ministre canadien qui avait d'abord vu la Chine à la fondation de la République populaire en 1949, puis en 1960. Ce voyage officiel était bien différent et la comparaison s'établissait sur plusieurs plans. [00:24:11] Speaker5 Il y a treize ans, je me souviens en particulier qu'on était très agressifs, agressifs vis à vis des États-Unis, agressifs vis à vis Formose, agressifs vis à vis le capitalisme et l'impérialisme. On était très agressifs vis à vis de son propre passé, comme Chinois aussi. Il fallait faire toutes sortes de démarches avant d'avoir l'autorisation de voir une pagode, de pouvoir visiter une un temple ou une grotte religieuse en 60. On essayait. J'avais l'impression de renier un peu tout ce passé trop récent. Maintenant. Treize ans plus tard, je suis étonnée de voir la liberté avec laquelle on veut non seulement nous montrer les choses d'autrefois, mais en faire le récit. On sent que pour eux, le danger de ces menaces, que ce soit Formose, que ce soit le confusionnisme, que ce soit Tchang kaï-chek, que ces dangers là sont moins présents, on est plus détendu, et je pense que ça permet non seulement des rapports meilleurs entre les gens, mais ça fait ça fait un contexte plus calme pour nos discussions. [00:25:19] Speaker1 Vous expliquez cette nouvelle détente? Est-ce que c'est parce que la Chine nouvelle est plus adolescente. [00:25:24] Speaker5 Maintenant quand même? Probablement que treize ans de progrès leur ont permis d'affermir un peu l'emprise révolutionnaire aussi parce que il y a eu certains retraits de leurs ennemis. Il est clair que les missionnaires ne sont plus une menace pour la Chine révolutionnaire, il y en a plus. Il est clair que Tchang kaï-chek, depuis que les États- Unis sont en relation plus ou moins détendue avec la Chine, n'est plus une menace réelle. Et je pense que cela se traduit dans un, je le répète, une sorte de détente des relations sur le plan psychologique avec les étrangers. On ne soupçonne pas partout des traîtres potentiels ou des gens qu'il faut à tout prix convertir. Ça ne veut pas dire que par rapport à leur société intérieure qui ne maintiennent pas certaines, certaines craintes qu'ils ne redoutent pas certains dangers, en particulier le déviationnisme clairement toujours un danger intérieur par rapport à eux. Et on nous dit sans ambages que s'il le faut, on fera d'autres révolutions culturelles pour empêcher la réaction d'avoir une emprise ou le déviationnisme d'avoir de l'emprise sur leur Révolution. [00:26:49] Speaker1 En descendant la rivière Lijiang, enchâssée dans les montagnes perdues de ce lointain arrière-pays inaccessible à l'étranger, on ne pouvait s'empêcher d'admirer la grandeur de la Chine, où l'on avait presque atteint un idéal. Mais comment l'expliquer? [00:27:07] Speaker5 Dans le contexte de toute notre politique étrangère depuis depuis cinq ans, ma grande préoccupation, c'est une préoccupation classique d'ailleurs, a été de faire contrepoids en politique étrangère contre cette présence massive des Etats-Unis. J'ai voulu une politique tous azimuts et j'ai voulu d'abord des bonnes relations avec l'URSS, parce qu'ils sont nos voisins de l'autre côté du Nord. Et parce que s'ils pouvaient nous aider dans certains de nos politiques arctiques, n'étant pas et étant une nation arctique, même les Soviétiques nous ont appuyés. Comme on le sait lorsque nous avons fait certaines démarches pour assurer notre souveraineté dans ce domaine. De la même façon que j'ai voulu. Étant une nation arctique, même les Soviétiques nous ont appuyés, comme on le sait lorsque nous avons fait certaines démarches pour assurer notre souveraineté dans ce domaine. De la même façon que j'ai voulu ne pas nous retirer tout à fait de l'OTAN parce que je trouvais important que nous ayons une présence en Europe pour faire contrepoids à l'influence politique américaine. De la même façon, j'ai cherché des ouvertures vers le Pacifique, non seulement parce que le Canada est également une nation pacifique, une nation qui débouche sur la mer de l'océan Pacifique. Mais. Parce que sur le plan, sur le plan des des contrepoids tant commerciaux que politiques, il est important que le Japon et que la Chine et que l'Indonésie et que l'Australie, tous ces pays en bordure du Pacifique, nous reconnaissent comme un pays ami, comme un pays qui est prêt à traiter avec eux. [00:28:54] Speaker5 Je pense que si les Canadiens veulent des explications, ce seront celles là que je donnerai. Que la Chine, par son poids dans le monde, par son poids dans l'histoire, par son poids dans l'histoire qui se fera dans les années qui viennent, est un pays d'une extrême importance. Et lorsqu'on regarde le monde, il est impensable que ce Pays-là ait été tenu à l'écart du dialogue du monde civilisé pendant pendant tellement d'années. Enfin, cette exclusion de l'ONU que nous avons contribué, à laquelle nous avons contribué à mettre fin d'ailleurs, était une chose qui vraiment était malsaine pour le monde. Après notre démarche de 1970. Comme vous le savez, il y a des douzaines de pays qui ont emboîté le pas. Le président Nixon lui même est venu à Pékin. Les hommes d'affaires américains essaient de venir ici pour faire du commerce. Sur le plan médical, ils ont également essayé d'avoir des échanges sur l'acupuncture et sur la médecine chinoise. Il est bon que nous puissions leur damer le pion dans certains domaines comme dans Ceux-là. [00:30:08] Speaker1 Vous avez dit à plusieurs reprises que vous reconnaissiez la clarté, la clairvoyance et le courage des dirigeants du peuple chinois. Croyez vous vraiment que cela comporte un risque politique quelconque? Une fois de retour au Canada. [00:30:20] Speaker5 C'est possible. Mais comme, comme je l'écrivais dans la préface de la seconde édition de mon livre sur la Chine, il y aura toujours des des sots pour croire que si on est amis avec les Chinois, on doit être ennemis avec tout le reste. Ça n'est pas ma façon de voir la politique ni les choses. On peut très bien entretenir de bonnes relations avec les Américains, avec les Européens et encore, et reconnaître la réalité de la révolution chinoise, indépendamment de leur poids dans les affaires mondiales. Ne peut pas s'empêcher de penser que la Chine est un pays qui a mis fin à des, à des siècles, à des millénaires de féodalisme et d'esclavagisme, et que cette révolution, si vraiment, fait des pas gigantesques dans le contexte historique pour amener plus de liberté, plus de de bien être social à une population gigantesque. Alors avec ces buts, je ne peux, je ne peux que me déclarer d'accord. Un pays dans un pays dirigé par des gens qui manifestement ont des buts, n'ont pas les moyens mais ont des buts qui ne s'écarte. “… it's unthinkable that this country should have been excluded from the dialogue of the civilized world for so many years. Finally, this exclusion [of China] from the UN, which we helped to bring to an end, was something that was really unhealthy for the world. After our approach in 1970. As you know, dozens of countries followed suit. President Nixon himself came to Beijing.” “But as I wrote in the preface to the second edition of my book on China, will always be fools who believe that if you're friends with the Chinese, you must be enemies with everything else. That's not the way I see politics, or the way I see things. You can have good relations with the Americans, the Europeans and others, and still recognize the reality of the Chinese revolution … China is a country that … is taking gigantic steps in the historical context to bring more freedom, more social well-being to a gigantic population … with these goals, I can, I can only declare myself in agreement. A country … run by people who obviously have goals, don't have the means, but have goals that don't deviate.” — Pierre Trudeau regarding the People’s Republic of China, 1973 Yang Jisheng describes the horror of The Great Leap Forward as exacerbated by the refusal of Mao to relent, to re-examine his unrealistic goals: as elder Trudeau states, Mao’s goal’s never deviated, despite millions of deaths. Reader, how does this meet the threshold of social well-being to a gigantic population? Some facts about mismanagement of CCP officials during the Great Leap Forward I listened to the lecture by Yang Jisheng (see above) — the following points stood out for me. * People died of starvation when the granaries were full of billions of pounds of trade grain stores * People begged the Communist Party officials to release grain for them to eat, the Communist Party refused and let their people die of starvations * Some reports indicate that some of these grain stores spoiled in the granaries, they never made export and the people never got to eat the grain * The Communist Party increased China’s exports of grain by 100% despite the masses of starvations * In 1959 the CCP exported over 400 million tonnes of food, the famine reached its peak at this time * Yang Jisheng described how Liu Shaoqi diverted grain shipments from Canada destined for China to Albania, at the height of the mass starvation in China * China’s exports included luxury food and other items, about which the Chinese people never even knew and to which they never had access * The local CCP officials searched homes and violently abused anyone found in possession of eggs and chickens and other food * Peasants who could not meet their quota went without food * Mao purged his dissenters and critics from the party, he punished severely any critics and questioners of the Great Leap Forward * Mao established a system of governance that created an echo chamber, effectively isolating the government and rendering it ineffectual in crisis management and problem solving * Did Mao intentionally seek to mass murder his countrymen? Jisheng disagrees with this accusation. Jisheng proposes that Mao valued his power and the consolidation of same in the global geopolitical context of the Cold War more than he valued the wellbeing of his people, whom he unwittingly condemned to suffering from starvation as well as violent terror campaigns waged against them in the name of progress and solidarity and collectivist control. Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Mao remains a revered figure in the PRC, and the crimes against humanity he committed remain a taboo subject in China. Thank you for subscribing. 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20 Apr 2025
The United Front, Useful Idiot Premiers, & Regime Media Meltdowns
Summary The Week In Review for the week ending April 20th, 2025. "The United Front, Useful Idiot Premiers, & Regime Media Meltdowns". With a special guest appearance by Sharkey, my uterus stuffie. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/the-united-front-useful-idiot-premiers/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/the-united-front-useful-idiot-premiers?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNjE3NTY5NzksImlhdCI6MTc1MjY3MDM0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MjYyMzQxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.OGNlLeCyIL3L_fw2r4-RXqaOclGAdcn9P7UYjNhLLvA&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
13 Apr 2025
Liberals, Communists, & Narrative Management, Oh My — Week in Review
Summary There is no video this week, due to circumstances beyond my control. Video capabilities will return next Sunday. This episode provides a review of this week’s stories. I spent the 90 minutes reviewing key points from the stories that hit the news regarding the apparent marriage between the Liberal Party of Canada and the Chinese Communist Party. Links to Stuff I Mentioned Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/liberals-communist-and-narrative/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/liberals-communist-and-narrative?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNjEyNDgwMTQsImlhdCI6MTc1MjY3MDM0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MjYyMzQxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.JmEAWyoIMq-84sweZ8icKngOX8_qXGlNFI2WkLp533M&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
7 Apr 2025
The Anti-Bullsh1t Serum Week in Review
Summary In this episode, Bad Hijabi discusses the current political landscape in Canada, focusing on the upcoming elections and the controversies surrounding foreign interference, particularly from China. Bad Hiabji opens the episode with highlights from the case of Paul Chiang, and The Bounty Hunter Scandal. Bad Hijabi touches on the role of media, the need for a foreign agent registry, and the implications of misinformation and transnational repression in Canada. Bad Hijabi delves into the pressing issues of foreign interference in Canada, particularly focusing on the threats posed by the People's Republic of China (PRC). She critiques government reports on foreign interference, highlighting the dissatisfaction among diaspora communities regarding the lack of concrete solutions. Bad Hijabi includes an emphasis of the role of authoritarian regimes in disinformation campaigns and the vulnerabilities of diaspora communities. Bad Hijabi scrutinizes Mark Carney's ties to China and the implications for Canadian national security, while urging listeners to navigate election discourse critically amidst misinformation. Also in this episode, Bad Hijabi discusses various themes surrounding Mark Carney's career, including his tenure as the Governor of the Bank of Canada, his involvement in climate initiatives, and the controversies surrounding his actions during the Freedom Convoy. Bad Hijabi also touches on the implications of Carney's corporate strategies, his departure from Brookfield, and the ongoing debate about gender identity and political accountability. Throughout the conversation, Bad Hijabi emphasizes the importance of critical thinking and the dangers of fake news and propaganda narratives in the political discourse. Correction Notes At 09:43 I mentioned Bank of Canada, when I should have said Bank of England. At 10:30 I mentioned Bank of Canada, when I should have said People’s Bank of China. At 1:07:045 I said Van Hewan and should have said Van Weenan, referring to the list of people who are subject to surveillance when a particular person is targeted for surveillance by law enforce and intelligence aka government spy agencies. At 1:23:38 I said CPP and should have said CCP. At 1:27:18 I said Bank of Canada and should have said Bank of England. At 1:28:07 I said that you’ve done and should have said that’s been done. At 1:32:11 I said million and should have said billion. At 1:34:24 I said Bank of Canada and should have said Bank of England. Links to Stuff I Mentioned Here are the articles I wrote last week, which I mentioned in the episode. There are no daily notes this week because these articles serve as the notes for the week. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/the-anti-bullsh1t-serum-week-in-review/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/the-anti-bullsh1t-serum-week-in-review?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNjA3MzgxMDMsImlhdCI6MTc1MjY3MDM0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MjYyMzQxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.arYyKPuUIprL75Fupd1KNMPRQJM7YkbGJ1qJkkpUidI&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
31 Mar 2025
Bad Hijabi in a Bad Mood
Summary In this episode of Adventures with Bad Hijabi, the host discusses various political and social issues, including the controversial reactions an issue of The Economist called Israel’s Hubris (https://www.economist.com/topics/war-in-the-middle-east), reflections on personal and political engagement, the quest for peace amidst protests, critiques of media and political figures, and the implications of gender ideology. The conversation also touches on the importance of community, personal growth, and the challenges of navigating cultural commentary and conspiracy theories in today's society. The week in review March 30th podcast Sunday — election writ dropped. Carney is a Catholic and the Holy See opposes gender ideology. Pro Israel people wanting war and division and refusing to acknowledge Netanyahu regime failures. Netanyahu wants to fire his AG for disloyalty. Good of the one versus good of the many? Maimonides and hostage ransom. Cairo Genizah. Monday — last Hebrew beginners class. Campaign trail. Carney and French debate. Boilermakers union supports CPC. Gregor Robertson running as a liberal in my riding. Avi Nayyar is the conservative candidate. Yes, I did sign up to volunteer today. Bibi abandons hostages and pro Israel Hasbara cult does also. UBC Hamastinians on strike because why? Leaked letter from law society re 215 hoax. Tuesday — Netanyahu useful idiots can’t forgive the left, (Substack essay). Boo hoo. The right versus left political drama is stupid and boring. Hamdam Ballal. The bloke threw stones at some big tough IDF soldiers so they had to beat him and chain him up all night? Fcuk off, you goons. Go to hell. You’re all fcukd in the head. Palestinians protesting against Hamas. The italics below is what I could piece together from my crude translation of the Hebrew subtitles of Arabic speaker leading the protest: We want to convey a message on our behalf. from the people living at home to her that we want peace House to her the symbol to/from peace we demand peace and insurance to the place this not they say not to burn the fire and the war instead of this we that need these to decide we live under very difficult conditions we will decide who will rule in our city and prevent tank who tries to destroy you our future here therefore everyone stand together Breathe no man can suffer And kill and eliminate you what is here we they say yes peace no to power of tyranny threatening peace enough destruction enough heat get up to live More protests planned. No mention of hostages. Globe and Mail publishes an election interference. “The Globe is the Century Initiative’s official media partner. It is run by Mark Carney’s advisor, Mark Wiseman, and is partially funded by Power Corporation - run by Carney’s top donors who also lead the Canada China Business Council. Foreign interference is alive and well.” — Andy Lee Mark Carney speaking about Montreal Massacre survivor who’s one of his candidates — “Speaking of his candidate Nathalie Provost, Mark Carney misspells her name by calling her "Nathalie Pronovost" before stating that she committed herself to social justice after the Concordia shooting - a confusion, since it was actually the Polytechnique tragedy.” — Hadi Hassin “It's almost impossible to confuse the Polytechnique shooting of 1989 and the Concordia shooting of 1992 if you have spent any amount of time in Canada or paid any attention to Canadian affairs in the past third of a century. I'll just leave it at that.” — Yuan Yi Zhu “Watch Mark Carney, Mark Wiseman, the Globe and Mail promote their plan “The Century Initiative”. A club of friends advancing a dangerous idea for Canada. The Globe and Mail has been hosting sponsored events by the Century Initiative for years. The Century Initiative is Mark Wiseman’s lobbying group advocating to radically increase Canada’s population to 100 million people. Mark Carney has appointed Wiseman as one of his advisors. One group pushing a radical idea.” — Chris Warkentin From Poilievre— “BREAKING: In September, Mark Carney officially became the Chair of Trudeau's Task Force on Economic Growth. In October, Carney met with the Deputy Director of the People's Bank of China. Just two weeks later, news broke that Brookfield secured a quarter billion dollar loan from the Chinese state-owned bank. Now he owes a hostile foreign regime. And his interests are against Canada’s interests. Why won’t he reveal to Canadians all his conflicts?” Carney under investigation by US House Judiciary Committee for anti trust violations re: GFANZ climate cartel. Bruce Anderson doesn’t own National Newswatch he writes columns in that publication and he is a well known pollster AND helped Carney enter politics. Graham Murray was a democratically chosen candidate for Central Nova riding and Carney deposed him for Sean Fraser. Via Kyle Kemper Bilderberg Group instrumental in getting Carney the PM position. Bilderberg meeting Carney and liberal cabinet ministers. “Then there is Carney’s Bilderberg connection. Founded in the Netherlands in the 1950s, the Bilderberg Group is ostensibly merely a top careerist’s mutual aid society –nothing more than the Freemasons on steroids. Carney is officially acknowledged to have attended the most recent Bilderberg meeting, which is interesting as the British finance minister George Osborne, who appointed him to the Bank of England job, is an avid Bilderberger.” — Forbes 2012 Wednesday — I awoke up with a strong desire to join a faith community. I went for a walk and then was locked out of my building when the fob system broke down. The case of Mohamad Al Ballouz took up my day. The Lord of War movie which we watched Tuesday. Rabbi Fohrman book and trees in the creation myth. Thursday — The PM is a member of a Vatican committee on inclusive capitalism. He has said that he won’t let his Catholic faith dictate government policy but he will use it to help others. When asked about abortion. It’s weird how Catholics care about the unborn more than the women who gestate and birth them. Pro birth is not pro life, as Sr Joan Chittiser has said. Anti Hamas protests continue in Gaza. Hamas blames the protests for the failure of the peace talks that Israel already abandoned. Useful western idiots and Kahanists and Hamasniks are hindering peace and the hostage release. Financial Post — “Two large Canadian institutional investors, Brookfield Asset Management and the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, are part of a consortium paying US$10.1 billion for a 49 per cent stake in a pipeline subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company in the largest infrastructure deal in the world this year.” Amy Hamm fired from VCH after 13 years without severance. “The CBC attacking Poilievre for holding Vanguard ETFs is the funniest thing I've seen all day” — Jamie Saronik “Poilievre owns some shares of a Vanguard index fund of Canadian equities, 3.5% of which is invested in Brookfield. Carney was the literal chair of Brookfield. This is like comparing a guy who owns a vial of sand to a guy who, until yesterday, directed a beachfront property empire” — Saronik “Brookfield Asset Management confirms that former Chairman Mark Carney is on a temporary leave. Temporary? Does this mean that when he loses the election he will dump the Liberals like he dumped the nominated Liberal candidate in NS so that Sean Fraser could do a 180 and rerun?” — Doug Boswell It turns out to be satire from Stephen Taylor. Louise Penny Best-selling Quebec author cancels U.S. trip, donates to library on Canada-U.S. border. The Black Wolf is the 20th mystery in the Armand Gamache series and it’s published by St Martin’s Press— St. Martin's Press is a book publisher headquartered in Manhattan in New York City. It is headquartered in the Equitable Building. St. Martin's Press is considered one of the largest English-language publishers, bringing to the public some 700 titles a year under six imprints. Friday — carney PhD thesis plagiarism. NaPo China election interference. “China has been mobilizing voters, especially those in ridings with a high concentration of Chinese Canadians, to vote for China-friendly candidates. It purportedly assisted in the campaign of Chiang to defeat a highly popular Conservative incumbent in the 2021 election.” — Toronto Association for Democracy in China “Canadian Liberal Party candidate calls for his conservative opponent to be kidnapped to the PRC consulate for a PRC bounty on his head” Saturday — Carney says nothing about one of his candidates calling for the kidnapping of his opponent for a hostile foreign power. Doug Ford sabotaging the election so that Carney wins. West versus East hostility is very high. Conspiracy theories about Trump Kushner Carney and Brookfield. “Let me be crystal clear here: that’s not just inappropriate. That’s not just “deplorable.” That’s language lifted directly from the Chinese Communist Party’s playbook. Joe Tay is on a real bounty list. Not fantasy. Not fiction. A real HK$1 million bounty placed on his head by the Hong Kong police for supporting democracy and speaking out against tyranny. And what happens when a Canadian MP echoes that threat—on Canadian soil? Nothing.” — Brian Lilley (Sunday am) Hamas violently suppresses protests. Disclosure: Late September, days before October 7, Prime Minister Netanyahu and Defense Minister Galant authorize the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories and heads of Shin Bet departments to travel to Cairo to promote the arrangement with Hamas and achieve peace in the Gaza Strip, with riots on the fence in the background. This happens while Hamas is finishing its preparations for an attack on Israel. — Omri Maniv Links to Stuff I Mentioned Bilderberg (https://www.bilderbergmeetings.org/) Group Lukas Kantor (https://gjia.georgetown.edu/2025/02/24/the-bilderberg-meetings-a-forum-for-trans-atlantic-dialogue-and-elite-career-advancement/) talks about his research on the myserious Bilderberg Group Lord of War (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/lord-of-war-2005) Roger Ebert review The Beast That Crouches at the Door (https://shop.alephbeta.org/products/genesis-the-beast-that-crouches-at-the-door) by Rabbi David Fohrman Carney’s work at the Vatican re: “inclusive capitalism (https://www.inclusivecapitalism.com/?gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjw16O_BhDNARIsAC3i2GDWkrR2NhcTSEOcBIbvb3Pof-LWZcAQ-x57UGkMsduq0JQKTbOtWPwaAiHFEALw_wcB)” Sr Joan Chittiser (https://billmoyers.com/story/what-pro-life-means/?mc_cid=1230334b7d&mc_eid=3145276bab#.YnghV-_skWo.twitter) on pro birth versus pro life Sylvie Geurtin tries to rebuild her life (https://www.noovo.info/video/mettez-vous-a-ma-place-la-mere-dune-femme-assassinee-denonce-les-delais-judiciaires-trop-importants.html) after Al Ballouz killed her daughter and grandsons Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. 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24 Mar 2025
I Said What I Said ... Cope + Seethe
Summary In this episode of A Bad Hijabi Walked Into a Room and Laughed, Bad Hijabi discusses several topics, ranging from women's rights and cultural commentary to the failures of academia and personal reflections on gender politics. Bad Hijabi also touches on current events, including Israeli hostage situation and the political dynamics surrounding the hostages and their families, as well as the exploitation of vulnerable individuals in public discourse. Your hostess shares insights from a recent lecture on legal measures against antisemitism and concludes with personal anecdotes about daily life. In this conversation, Bad Hijabi touches on a few themes, including personal social media behaviour and consumption, the challenges faced by progressives in expressing their views, the implications of gender identity on society, and the need to prioritize domestic issues over foreign conflicts. Bad Hijabi critiques the current political landscape, emphasizing the importance of cultural identity and the role of myths in shaping societal values. The conversation also covers on the impact of social media on personal growth and the dangers of groupthink. The week in review March 23rd podcast Sunday — Azelia Banks and JK Rowling. KaiyaVilla and JK Rowling ( “he didn’t beat you enough”). Monday — Doctor gets deported from the USA for supporting Hezbollah. DEI academia at Virginia University talking about armed resistance and how a gun means the oppressed is free. Academia is a cult of subversion and hatred—higher education is not higher anymore. Bibi wants to fire the head of Shin Bet. Ireland is cancelled because it doesn’t welcome Zionists so eff saint paddy’s day. St Gertrude feast day she’s the patron saint of cats. Shlomo’s 87th birthday today so everyone have ice cream. Book Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic is frustrating and painful and riveting. Carney meets the king before he meets parliament or Trump. He’s like a teenager getting the keys to his new Ferrari. Netanyahu chooses Ben Gvir over the hostages. Ceasefire is over and Gaza is getting bombed. Hamas threatens to harm the hostages. Reports coming out that hostage families have been threatened to stay quiet or their family members will be harmed. Tuesday — Hostage survivors and families oppose war. Hasbara assholes monger for war. “Let’s win this sh1t” — Eve Barlow. Barlow was challenged by some Israeli men. “Everyone in israel opposes war doesn't change the fact we have to fight one. We aren't the ones who started this on October 7, Gazans did.” — Emily Schrader “Netanyahu for his personal reasons is endangering living hostages in Gaza endangering lives of IDF soldiers for his personal throne as PM Netanyahu again is betraying the Israeli nation.” — Yehuda Cohen. Gila Fine Off The Daf Book Club. I cried when I first heard her speak. She verbalises the struggle I feel so articulately. It doesn’t comfort me and I don’t think I want to be comforted I want to be treated like an intelligent human being. Sasha Carney and Elston’s the anti wokerati’s flying monkeys. Mark Sandler Using the Law to Combat Zionism — the four measures of hate in criminal code; there are more legal ways to address the antisemitism — intimidation and blocking roads etc; private property ____; unlawful assembly; hate speech versus protected speech; freedom of assembly and speech protected under charter robust criticism of Israeli government conduct IHRA definition. Zionist used as a proxy for Jew in hate speech and expression does it immunise anyone from criminal prosecution. Demonise people for a supporting Israel and supporting Zionism. What is contemporary antisemitism? Apart from the traditional tropes. Resistance to the IHRA definition because it addresses of anti Zionism as a form of antisemitism. Non criminal litigation (similar to Harvard lawsuits). Dealing with jihadists and terrorists in our midst. Education is important to move minds which are humane and want to seek collaborative solutions. Respectful dialogue in the discourse led by skilled lawyers. Combatting ignorance about what’s happening to address antisemitism and what’s being discussed and taught and shared about Zionism and Jewish self determination and to combat the indoctrination happening at all levels of pedagogy. Start with Municipal policy makers. Bubble legislation is needed and it’s not unconstitutional. Ban hatefests on municipal property. Example Quds Festival. Minimal intrusive constitutionally permitted policy. Provincial government. Federal government consistency in addressing antisemitism. Charges are being laid we don’t hear about it. Create political will to do the right thing and address antisemitism. Lawfare to address failure of municipality to protect the Jewish community from hate and hate festival. Could the IHRA definition be used as a measure to fight antisemitism to inform whether charges are to be laid? Canadian government has adopted IHRA. How can we employ the IHRA definition? We are playing whackamole. There is a lot of hate. NECA and Queens University re BDS and divestment from Israel. Academic neutrality and freedom. New report and decision from Queens University. Discussion paper re defunding colleges and universities — Sandler. Measured or conditional funding to address college indoctrination and hate. Q. Is a Screenshot evidence of social media hate? A. Yes it is. How do we address social media hate? Task force is being formed. Challenge of jurisdiction. International presence. Tracing financial support for social media and hate activism. Follow the Money Michael Bass. Work is being done to reveal transparency for financing higher education from foreign financing. Montreal is the most problematic jurisdiction. Lack of political will. Private complaints. Education and training. Montreal police need education. Anti Palestinian racism versus IHRA. Wednesday — seeing the words “tiny sandwiches” on the Easter Sunday tea notice in the elevator made me want a tuna subway sandwich. Consent is on my brain. People really feel entitled to make a 24 year old poet and writer the symbol of the gender debate in Canada because she’s the child of the PM who wrote about her identity blah blah. It’s weird. Duties of the Heart and prayer and longing of the soul for g-d ...yedid nefesh Robert using his day off to do things for others when he won’t do things for me that I ask him. Going out, riding the bus with anxiety. Unable to go inside Metrotown. Safeway and Majid the clerk who was nice. The Uber driver Feguin was nice. Aleph Beta golden calf series overnight. Thursday — progressives are whinging that they cannot speak freely for their cause célèbre…boo hoo. Women are fcuking angry at you dumb fcuks so cope with the system you created and enabled through your silence. I loathe progressive men and when you’ve told me my criticism of wokeness is hateful and unfriended me you definitely don’t get to address me under the cover of a public comment in a mutual friend’s Facebook page. Piss off because when you decided I was a hateful person you forever lost my ear and the privilege to address me. Carney is gonna drop the writ we are hearing. Conservatives assholes still want to make Sasha Carney a symbol of what they dislike about gender self id and gender affirming care. The Israeli ambassador to somewhere thinks he can put the Israeli Netanyahu regime’s sh1t on everyone else’s ass. Eve Barlow misguidedly thinks Israeli men calling out her asshole war mongering tweet out is misogyny. Because naturally when you’re challenged on stupid sh1t you say publicly the thing to do is invoke victimhood. Yawn. Generally eff victimhood narrative management and narcissism. Tesla being vandalized and set on fire by social justice warriors and environmentalists because Elon. Friday — I don’t want to don’t care about foreign politics because I want to care about my own national political situation. These two are at odds right now. I don’t want to be held accountable for things I don’t influence or control. I don’t influence or control any MENA Region policies or politics. I have a vote in one country and that’s Canada. And I am responsible for my people — that’s primarily the Jewish community across Canada because they are under attack. It’s the Christian community across Canada because they are under attack and several of my family members are Christian, churches are being razed and Christians are being wrongfully accused of genocide like the Jewish people are. We have CCP and IRGC and we have American interference. Canadians are being brow beaten by all sides and we are living under a tyrannical authoritarian regime who hates us and wants to bleed us dry. I don’t care about any country beyond NA borders right now because I have to consider home first. It’s not rocket science. The exploitation of antisemitism education and anti racism education to promote foreign interference propaganda is a liability for all. It’s absolutely not antisemitism education to exploit hostage suffering and rip hostage content to make domestic political theatre against pro Palestinian activists and monger for a war the Israeli people don’t want and then pretend it’s pro Jewish and pro hostage and pro Israeli. Fcuk off. Carney canceled Capital Gains Tax. Except he’s cancelled a thing that died on the order table and the CRA was being legally challenged for its decision to continue the tax hike without a parliamentary mandate. Nothing-burger, sleight of hand politicking. Similar to signing the fake EO to cancel the consumer carbon tax. Eli Sharabi UN address Saturday — I took a break from my phone and from social media for Shabbat and it felt like a good break. Zach Ross wrote a thing on Substack about how Jews and Muslims aren’t Abrahamic siblings, ie he says that “nah, Muslims aren’t descended from Ishmael”, historical evidence doesn’t support that claim. Ok, willing I think that’s besides the point, we don’t go to sacred myths to learn history. For all that I could say that there’s no archaeological evidence to support the story of exodus. What would be the point? Myth is not historical scholarship it’s myth, designed to help us navigate life through story. Gender critical journalists insist fixating on Sasha Carney is what’s required to force accountability on Mark Carney via a vis gender affirmation policy in Canada. The Carney’s are known acquaintances of Ghislaine Maxwell convicted child sex trafficker and close assistant and enabler of the late Jeffrey Epstein. Sex trafficking was described as a national crisis in Canada by the CBC in 2023. People who claim to care about human rights and women’s rights and young women and men being lured groomed and exploited seem awfully quite about the elephant in the room. Possibly low hanging fruit is more appealing to some. Cairo Genizah collection Links to Stuff I Mentioned Mark Sandler Fighting Antisemitism (https://www.alcca.ca/post/watch-enough-is-enough-how-to-use-the-law-to-fight-antisemitism) Workshop Duties of the Heart and the Longing of the Soul — Yedid Nefesh (https://www.sefaria.org/Yedid_Nefesh?tab=contents) Zach Ross Jews and Muslims Aren’t Abrahamic Siblings (https://substack.com/@zicksworld/p-159501891) Alan Mairson Response to Zach Ross (https://substack.com/@alanmairson/note/c-102518103) Cairo Genizah (https://cudl.lib.cam.ac.uk/search?FacetCollection=&author=&keyword=maimonides&language=&location=&page=1&place=&shelfLocator=&subject=&title=) and Maimonides handwritten notes (https://blog.nli.org.il/en/rambampidyon/) to raise ransom for captive Jews Thank you for subscribing. 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16 Mar 2025
First Podcast of 2025 ... I'm Baaaaaack!
Summary In this episode of A Bad Hijabi Walked Into a Room and Laughed, Bad Hijabi shares her personal journey through spirituality, language learning, and cultural observations. She discusses her experiences with Tehillim classes, the significance of Hebrew, and insights from Rabbi David Fohrman's teachings. Bad Hijabi delves into contemporary issues such as cultural appropriation, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the impact of gossip and celebrity culture on society. Throughout the episode, Bad Hijabi emphasizes the importance of individual thought and the complexities of human relationships. Bad Hijabi explores various themes including the essence of prayer as self-examination, the complexities of immigration laws and free expression, the nature of targeted harassment, and the ongoing debates surrounding gender ideology. She reflects on the literary portrayal of women, the political theater in Canada, and the historical context of race and religion. Throughout, she emphasizes the importance of personal integrity and the need for activism that respects humanity. The week in review March 16th podcast — My Notes Monday — Tehillim study group; Hebrew class; indigenous people appropriating Arab culture to wage their domestic political theatrics. Gossip is murder. Arabs have been massacring Jews for much of history. Triangulation of issues and people in public discourse. Not I am not arguing with knobs that anti Zionism is not dangerous Jew hate. Tuesday — Mahmoud Khalil in NYC. Mahmoud Khalil in Montreal. Not the same person. Both inciting hate and trying to bring a foreign country down and both instigating violence resistance specifically against Jews and generally against all westerners. Hostage families at the Begin Bridge in Tel Aviv. Rabbi Fohrman’s seminar course. Judgement serves compassion. The appropriation of the word Indian Indians are from India and Columbus was wrong get over it. The Rohirrim LoTR movie we watched. Wednesday — people who are members of organized religions behaving like self superior cliques irritate me. Outside the Camp. Prayer and when you shouldn’t pray. Madwoman in the Attic. A green card holder is a foreign national with a resident permit. Subject to immigration laws. Free Expression has limits. Conduct matters. Words carry weight. Targeted harassment is not activism it’s assholery — terf gleefully stalking FJ in an airport. Thursday — Kemper and Carney and Trudeau not related. The MENA region feudal and holy crusades annoys me. Fcuk this fixation and glorification of ethnocentrism. Race is made up and we aren’t gonna start governing society based on Hitler’s vision for humanity and if you think we should be espousing Hitler and Goebbels world view then you’re a fcuking idiot. Amy Hamm V BCCNM—in BC a registered nurse can steal drugs from their narcotics drawer to get high but she can’t say men aren’t women. Queen Esther’s story and Purim. Friday — Carney sworn in. Leaned cabinet with notable absences. No more WAGE! Woot. Carney signs a fake executive order claiming to axe the carbon tax and the media carries the lie that he terminated the tax. Saturday — Netanyahu refuses to be investigated for October 7th. He refuses the deal and won’t move to phase 2. Israelis gathering at the Begin Bridge/Gate in a stunning and moving display of solidarity and opposition to their government. The OIC in the late afternoon, the dated today 15.3, the day after Carney fake signed something he pretended was an OIC. Links of Stuff I Mentioned Tehillim aka Psalms online (https://www.sefaria.org/Psalms.1?lang=bi) My Jewish Learning Biblical Hebrew Course (https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/intro-to-biblical-hebrew/#:~:text=By%20the%20end%20of%20this,beginners%20for%20nearly%2030%20years) Lee Weissman Jewish Educator weekly study groups (https://www.youtube.com/@LeeWeissman) Sefaria Jewish Texts Online (https://www.sefaria.org/texts) Aleph Beta (https://www.alephbeta.org/) Torah Online We Are All Hostages on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/allhostages/?hl=en) Bring Them Home online Shoppe (https://shop.bringthemhomenow.net/) Leviathan on Xwitter (https://x.com/l3v1at4an?lang=en) Mustafa Akyol Reopening the Muslim Mind (http://www.mustafaakyol.org/) Terry Glavin The Real Story (https://therealstory.substack.com/) Rohirrim (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lord_of_the_Rings:_The_War_of_the_Rohirrim) the animated film Queen Esther and Purim the story (https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/the-story-of-purim/) Megillah 2025, on My Jewish Learning, Rabbi Moshe Steigmann (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTEZNcNcF2s) Madwoman in the Rabbi’s Attic, Koren Publishing (https://korenpub.com/products/the-madwoman-in-the-rabbis-attic?variant=48243941048640) Off the Daf Bookclub via My Jewish Learning, a bi-monthly book club (https://www.myjewishlearning.com/the-hub/off-the-daf-a-talmud-book-club/) Do Not Pray if Your Heart is Not in It, Talmud Tractate Berakhot 30b (https://www.sefaria.org/Berakhot.30b?lang=bi) Kings and Generals YouTube Channel, military history videos (https://www.youtube.com/@KingsandGenerals) Mark Carney Prime Minister of Canada, Canada website (https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/news-releases/2025/03/15/prime-minister-carney-strengthen-ties-france-united-kingdom-reaffirm) LupronGate, a lengthy study (https://www.docdroid.net/yqi5F6Q/luprongate-final-release-pdf) of Puberty Blocker and Gender Affirming Care Netanyahu Chooses China, blocking the case against Bank of China, on Tablet (https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/israel-middle-east/articles/netanyahu-chooses-china) Thank you for subscribing. 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23 Jul 2024
Shhhhhh the Trekkies are Talking, Again
We recorded this episode in February, when Lee was reading E. O. Wilson's work on the sociobiology of ants and he couldn't help noticing that the Borg are essential ants, the function like a hive - the Borg function like a super organism. In this episode we have a discussion about eusociality, how humans are wired for co-operation, and how, unlike the Borg or ants or bees, humans have a social brain, we have "an ethics programnme" and that impacts the way we behave as individuals in a collective. Show Notes (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/s1bonus1-all-about-ants) Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/shhhhhh-the-trekkies-are-talking-cc6/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/shhhhhh-the-trekkies-are-talking-cc6?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDY5MDY4MDUsImlhdCI6MTc1MjY3MDM0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MjYyMzQxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.WsiYapz0IWe0uuoY4Wgktz9ZG7nnKyUNyu3vNIGXk-g&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
13 Jul 2024
Shhh the Trekkies are Talking
Oh hai, it’s hot out innit? We decided that, after recording a batch of 9+ episodes, we need to take a bit of a summer break to chill, to get some things done we have put off (ahem Lee is moving, closing up and preparing his California house for sale and moving his book collection across the country to DC, and it’s a big drag and he’s not having a great time, poor boo), and to observe the world of conflict and think about the next podcast season! So, I will keep you entertained by throwing up old Trekkie episodes we recorded earlier this year. This is a three way conversation between Lee, Robert and I. We haven’t recorded new episodes because Lee and Robert have opposed schedules and there’s no possibility to get together to record anymore until something changes. Anyway enjoy this discussion about a primordial spider at the edge of the universe offering comfort to a solitary human. Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. Please subscribe. We appreciate your support 💋. Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/shhh-the-trekkies-are-talking/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/shhh-the-trekkies-are-talking?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDY1NzkyNzgsImlhdCI6MTc1MjY3MDM0MSwiZXhwIjoxNzU1MjYyMzQxLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.5hjmTe0h-6Zp3n8FZ8RpPNKq0WmqNCRznaqOSKS8TOw&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
2 Jun 2024
There’s No Hack
I did this episode without Lee, who could not make the call. I found this exchange interesting, I appreciated the intellectual push back. I talked too much! Justin and I disagree about the role of the internet in distorting human behaviour. At one point in the exchange he used the example of a book being an object that doesn’t have power until we bestow power onto it with a story. Practically speaking that’s true. The thing we call Quran is just a book. So is the Bible. So is Satanic Verses. People wage violence over these three inanimate objects. Salman Rushdie is missing an eye because of the inanimate object entitled Satanic Verses. Set a book containing the Quran on fire because it’s just a stupid book and see how some lose their sh1t. I think it’s very difficult to make the kind of distinction Justin makes and expect that others also do in certain contexts. We aren’t at that point where people can see the world like this, because, as Justin himself said toward the end, people simply aren’t at the point where they sit and think about how their body responds to their world around them, to the information they receive, etc. I disagree with Justin wholeheartedly about the internet as a neutral entity, I think the Conversation has merit nonetheless. Would that people could see the internet servers as simply nodes or hubs that link us together, not its own trippy domain where everyone is simultaneously accessible and distanced from each other forever. I have only respect for Justin, and I appreciated his way of leading me to be specific about word choices I made and the meanings I assume. The purpose of this podcast is to get you to think, not tell you what to think. This is the first of a few podcast Conversations we will have with people about the Vagus Nerve. The interesting thing to take away from Episode 2 is that there is no short cut or hack. There is showing up for yourself every day and turning the fly wheel of you, by checking in and doing the things. In the next episode Lee says the same thing in different words through a different lens. Lee admits that he struggles to be a baseline good person, it takes work daily and the journey often serves as its own lesson. The path to God is through making peace with oneSelf is what I get from reflecting on these two exchanges. Justin has his own website and online community where he provides education about polyvagal theory for the average person who is uninterested in psychobabble and wants to understand themselves and live their best life. He provides free content and access to a paid online community experience. Justin is not full of horsesh1t, he is a solid punk-like dude, I have high mistrust of the world of therapists and therapy and Justin wins my trust because of his demonstrated character track record. You can check out his stuff below, you can find him on IG and his podcast is an essential, it’s called Stuck Not Broken (https://spotify.link/uYlnuogY4Jb). Total Access Membership (https://www.justin/mft.com/totalaccess) of trauma recovery courses and community. Free ebook, "Trauma & the Polyvagal Paradigm (https://www.justinlmft.com/books)" when you sign up for my email list - Learn the Polyvagal Theory simply and for free - Free Polyvagal Intro (https://www.justin/mft.com/polyvagalintro) Below is an AI-generated summary and the conversation transcript. Show Notes Summary :: Justin and I explore the impact of technology, social media, and information consumption on our mental health and social connections. We delve into the role of polyvagal theory in gaining an understanding trauma and human behaviour and “mental illness”. My main goal was to discuss the implications of social exclusion and the manipulation of information on the human nervous system, in particular the Vagus Nerve. Our discussion touches on the evolution of information access and the influence of digital platforms on our emotional responses and social interactions. We delve into the impact of emotional manipulation in media, the importance of self-awareness in navigating information, and the role of the nervous system in regulating emotions and behaviors. Our conversation emphasizes the power of curiosity, self-observation, and understanding one's internal state. We touch on the significance of recognizing and responding to one's emotional and physiological needs. Keywords :: technology, social media, mental health, polyvagal theory, trauma, social exclusion, information manipulation, digital platforms, emotional responses, social interactions, emotional manipulation, self-awareness, nervous system, emotional regulation, curiosity, self-observation, internal state, emotional needs Takeaways * The impact of technology and social media on mental health and social connections * Understanding trauma and mental health through polyvagal theory * The implications of social exclusion and the manipulation of information * The evolution of information access and the influence of digital platforms on emotional responses and social interactions Emotional manipulation in media can impact individuals' perceptions and responses to information. * Self-awareness and understanding one's internal state are crucial in navigating the information era. * The nervous system plays a significant role in regulating emotions and behaviors. * Curiosity and self-observation can empower individuals to recognize and respond to their emotional and physiological needs. Ai Generated Titles * Implications of Social Exclusion and Information Manipulation * Understanding Trauma and Mental Health through Polyvagal Theory Sound Bites * "The internet is just the internet. It doesn't do anything. It's just there. It's the people that are manipulating algorithms and whatnot. The internet is just the internet. That's like saying a book distorts how you think because you're reading what's inside and because of the person who wrote what's in there." Chapters 00:00 The Impact of Technology on Mental Health and Social Connections 02:49 Understanding Trauma and Mental Health through Polyvagal Theory 07:01 Implications of Social Exclusion and Information Manipulation Transcript Bad Hijabi (00:00.627) Okay, now we're recording. Okay, well, let's tell everyone who you are because maybe they don't know and tell them all about, you know, what you do and stuff. Justin Sunseri (00:01.966) I've done it too. Justin Sunseri (00:06.102) I've done it too, it sucks. Justin Sunseri (00:17.646) Now it's not organic anymore. It was having fun there. I'm Justin, Justin Sincere. Hi, I'm a therapist and I specialize in polyvagal theory, which is a neuroscience stuff and how that applies to trauma, mental health. And yeah, that's me. That's me. Hi. Bad Hijabi (00:39.859) Yeah, I found Justin on Instagram, I think. Like, I'm not on Instagram anymore because it hurts my nervous system. But that was several years ago when I was like on every social media platform. And it's just so weird. And once in a while, we would have DMs and stuff you would like you're an artist too, right? You're like an a quite an artist or you used to be. Justin Sunseri (00:49.23) Okay. Justin Sunseri (01:04.878) not as much as I used to be, but yeah, yeah. Bad Hijabi (01:07.187) Like I remember seeing your artwork and at that time I was sharing my art and you are also into like typography and graphic design and stuff. You're kind of like one of the punk DIY. I mean, I sort of think of punk as being like DIY, like F you and doing everything myself sort of. You sort of strike me as that kind of struck me as that kind of person. That's kind of like we hit it off in the DMS and stuff. Also. Justin Sunseri (01:15.598) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (01:25.87) That's very much me. very much. Justin Sunseri (01:34.158) That's what I'm facing right now. I'm wrapping up my first book and I'm like, now it's time to start designing the actual pages. I probably couldn't hire someone because it costs so much, but regardless, I needed this myself. I want to, I have to, I must, and I'll get some fulfillment out of it. So that, yeah, 100 % with you, yeah. Bad Hijabi (01:54.131) Yeah, so what I also really like, excuse me about Justin is he is not full of shit. He is not like full of psycho babble horse shit. Sorry, sometimes I swear. And so yeah, like when I hear the psycho babble and you actually have that thing, that word on your thing, you have like, yeah, there's no psycho babble. Like, I'm like, okay. Like my background is I was a nurse. I worked in like everywhere, but I started out like in psychiatry. So like, I, you know, worked in the asylum for my like practicum and like sat in the room with the assessments. And I was like on the acute or with the leg read the very, very, very, sick patients and stuff. and like, I just, you know, I don't know, I just have all sorts of views about that whole scene and stuff. So I like how you are like, not like, you're like, okay, what's happening? And so like, that's how come like, like I even started to talk to you and listen to you and even get even to find out what I think it was through you that I found out about polyvagal theory, because I was like going through menopause and my parents were dying and every my life's falling apart and everything was just like awful. And I was like, okay. Like, this is other psychiatry stuff's not where you're going. I don't want to do that. So like, i need a solution? So like, what's happening? So like, because you know, this is what you do. You try to figure out when your computer's broken, once go, what's happening? So I just needed to fix to use a metaphor. It's like, what's going on on the motherboard? How does this thing work? So that's how I sort of got curious about it. Like, you know, Justin Sunseri (03:28.494) Hmm. Justin Sunseri (03:34.67) Yeah. Did you realize that it wasn't an issue of being broken though? Hey! Bad Hijabi (03:40.595) Yeah, and then you were like stuck, not broken. And you even, I remember before you changed the name, you had some other name for your podcast, which yeah. And then you changed it to that because yes, it's not a matter of being broken or defective or like disordered or whatever. It's just you're stuck. Like, you know, it's like we're dynamic creatures and things happen and we get, you know. Justin Sunseri (03:48.302) Polyvagal Podcast. Justin Sunseri (03:58.478) I don't think so. Bad Hijabi (04:08.595) like a machine or something. You just need to be. So that's kind of the background of why I chose Justin because mostly I'm very suspicious of the therapy community and everything because it's become a bit more ideology and a lot of magical thinking and a lot of like... Justin Sunseri (04:11.246) That's how I look at it, yeah. That's how I look at it. That's... Justin Sunseri (04:24.27) Me too. Bad Hijabi (04:34.707) directing and guiding and like it's really damaging to people who are seeking an answer from a person and you know, they might have like all sorts of Pre like issues of trust and stuff and they're told this person has this designation you could trust them and then like You know, sometimes there's like right so I don't know. I think it's really good for people to just know their bodies. Like as much as you should know how your body works, as much as you know how to code a thing for the internet. Like, right? Justin Sunseri (05:10.734) Yeah. I agree. Bad Hijabi (05:10.899) So, you know, that's why we're here. Like, so like I was listening to your latest interview with Stephen Porges and that's really cool. He's continually updates this theory and he's so humble and lovely. I've listened to, I think all of your interviews with him. He just is like such a nice guy. He's so lovely and humble and stuff. And that's one of the things I have with this whole, all the really good scientists. Justin Sunseri (05:30.606) Seems like it, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (05:39.155) They are like so humble and they like, they have so much knowledge locked inside them. And it's like, they, they are so like not equipped to navigate how to like, how to get that out into the world. And they don't like, they are not like clout seekers or anything like that, which is why they're good scientists. But so that's kind of like, it's, it's kind of good that, you know, this stuff gets out. like by us talking about it or you know, whatever. So anyway, it's good that he's like added them mixed states and you know, then like I was saying before, I pushed record, I was interested a lot in like I've written in my sub stack social exclusion because you know, we're in this like era where it's very like polarized in society and like, we are lacking the Justin Sunseri (06:10.67) Yeah, definitely. Bad Hijabi (06:38.131) maybe because we're not in the state where we need to be to have like socially like safe solutions. So like, you know, we, Polyvagal theory seems really important to me because yeah, I just lost my train there, but you know, yeah. Justin Sunseri (07:01.294) No problem. You were saying the social exclusion. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (07:04.819) yes. So social exclusion, like, I feel like that's like a whole, like application that, like I was thinking about, and then I was listening to your thing that you're talking about, and they were, they actually did talk about, you know, a right about solitary confinement and, you know, how that affects, you know, I thought that was kind of interesting. So. Justin Sunseri (07:27.15) Yeah, that was from Our Polyvagal World world with Dr. Porges and his son Seth. Seth Porges, I believe. Yeah, he talked about solitary confinement. Yeah, not good. Not good. We need each other. Bad Hijabi (07:32.179) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (07:35.803) So, and yeah, I was saying that before, so I'll just repeat all that, you know, what we have learned with, you know, from COVID and from, you know, all of this really polarized time and, you know, stuff is that like social exclusion, social connection is a biological imperative. Like if you're starving someone of social connection, it's as though you're starving them of food or water. Like that's maybe an extreme because some people need those kinds of comparatives to understand that this is not like we have this stupid notion that we don't need people that were like these dualistic machines, you know, whatever. And it's simply not true. Like, you know, and so I thought that was really interesting how he said the vagus nerve is basically the surveillance system of the internal organs. Justin Sunseri (08:35.406) Yeah, yeah, sends information from the body to the brainstem basically. So the condition or the state of the body, like when hungry, it's going to pick that up and send it on up to the brainstem, which will trigger the body to or the thoughts of like, I better go eat. And then you can go see, seek out food. So the state of the body, it picks up on on those. Yeah, but also the thoughts in our brain affect the brainstem as well. And then are sent through the Vagus to the body. So it's this, I think he calls it a closed loop, where it's this bidirectional, I think he calls it a bidirectional feedback, body to brain, brain to body. But really, it's the brainstem though, that's the most important thing from body to brainstem, brain to brainstem. Bad Hijabi (09:14.259) Yes, yeah they do. Yeah. So like, what I like is that you, in fact, I think it's one of your latest Instagram things where you said, tell people what you said, like that there's no easy, like there's no hack. There's no anything. There's just, what is there? Just say it. Justin Sunseri (09:31.886) Go hack. Justin Sunseri (09:38.19) I don't know, what did I say? I've been posting Instagram forever. Bad Hijabi (09:39.443) You just sort of said like something about the journey and that like it's just like a process that you just have to go through and stuff. Justin Sunseri (09:43.31) yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a slow process, typically of getting unstuck. But there's no I don't believe there's any hack or stimulation or what are they? Well, I don't know. Yeah, those buzzwords. I don't I don't think that mental health is an issue of finding the right hack to feel better. I think that there are many things we can do to slowly get unstuck. But they all the way I view it is it's It all revolves around our capacity to exist in our safety state, which is the biology for social connection and feeling connected to the present moment, to others, to yourself. None of that happens unless we're in our safety state. So how can we anchor into our safety state more and more and more? And then as we do that, then we can get unstuck more and more and more. But it's typically a slow process. you know, difference person to person, but yeah, there's no hack. There's no thing to like magically feel better, at least not sustainably. Bad Hijabi (10:44.339) How do people start usually? Like, how do people start? Like, I just noticed that I was feeling really crappy and I wasn't happy with it and I wanted to know why. So, like, and I just started noticing, you know? Justin Sunseri (11:00.782) Okay, yeah. Yeah, I think a lot, typically what we do is, or a lot of people do is they'll feel something, they'll label it crappy, and then their mind goes to, how do I make it go away? Versus, I feel something, period. And not evaluate what it's about, not evaluating whether it's good or bad, but just I'm feeling something, and that's it. Bad Hijabi (11:15.123) Exactly. Bad Hijabi (11:21.491) I wouldn't like what I love about Poly vagal theory is that like he said, it's the conduit and also all of the circuitry. So like, like, I now notice, okay, this is making my stomach in a knot. Or like my heart feels really like, like it's like, not like chest pain, like I'm gonna have a heart attack, but like a new in a nuanced way, this hurts my heart. like, or this burning sensation, like, like, I think it's like, maybe helpful for people. No, but, but like, if you know, something like terrible, like, say, you know, the, the October the seventh things and stuff like that, like when you're watching some information to like notice, hey, because I think people don't they bypass that part. Justin Sunseri (11:49.838) Yeah. Wait, wait, wait, right now you actually feel that way? okay. Bad Hijabi (12:13.459) they bypass the part where they react because we have a visceral reaction to things, right? Justin Sunseri (12:19.47) Yeah, well, how often do we have time to react if you're sitting there watching something, you know, happen on TV, let's say like a disaster or something? Well, either you're taking action, you know, obviously, if you're in the situation, but if you're watching it, it's you just keep watching. There's no time to well, there is time to sit and reflect, but we don't do that. Instead, we watch the thing and then listen to the commentary about the thing and then listen to what we're supposed to do from the people who are telling us about the thing. Bad Hijabi (12:28.083) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (12:48.11) And so there's never really a time to reflect process, talk about it maybe. And if we do, it doesn't really come from our safety state. It's more reactive. It's more mobilized, but potentially in a very dysregulated flight fight kind of way or freeze, rage, panicky. So we can, we can kick back and reflect on these things and discuss and it's fine. But I don't think we give that to ourselves very often. Bad Hijabi (13:12.115) Yeah, like I think, but I think, yeah, and I think we like part of the new solutions thing is like learning, okay, like, you know, if the, if the element is on your stove, you know that you're not going to touch it because it's going to hurt. So like, maybe we just need to develop those kinds of relationships with certain types of information that we know is not for us or something, right? I don't know. I mean, like, I think part of this is like a self -regulatory skill and a self -awareness thing that obviously is not really encouraged. Justin Sunseri (13:39.086) No, well yeah, but... Justin Sunseri (13:48.686) I don't, right. I don't, I don't think we realize when something hurts, like, you know, social media, we don't know it hurts because it's so gratifying in the media sense. We don't realize that, this is actually hurting. Whereas if you touch a hot stove, immediately you know, this is not good. Bad Hijabi (14:06.835) And so that's why I was fascinated. I was telling you before about the whole Matthew Lieberman and Naomi Eisenberger. They're a husband and wife team and they're like neuroscientists or something and they are working on like social pain. And so there's a part of the brain, the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex where if you feel physical pain, that part of the brain is activated. And It also is activated when you are excluded, when you feel social pain. So, and you don't need sensory input, like you don't need any sensory, like that happens without any sensory input, stimulation, right? So. Justin Sunseri (14:48.014) Well, no, no, no, the sensory input would be the... would be... there's... we have this imp... this must connect to... we have this impulse to connect with each other or to other living... to other mammals. We have an impulse to connect. So even though we may not be getting punched in the face, our impulse to connect is not being met and welcomed and nurtured. Bad Hijabi (14:56.819) Yes. Bad Hijabi (15:00.563) Mm -hmm. Bad Hijabi (15:05.587) Yeah, but even like when you think about it being excluded is like it still triggers that like that. That's sort of what I meant. Justin Sunseri (15:10.414) That's the end. Yeah, well, that's there right now. I'm with you. Both of those are involved this impulse to connect. So if I have an impulse to connect with a stranger and they don't reciprocate, it's you know, I still have that impulse. Well, that would be unhealthy, honestly. But there's still this impulse to connect. That's just kind of lingering. If I have an impulse to connect with my friends and they bat me away or humiliate me, that's another level of like it's not a sensory input like as in a taste. Bad Hijabi (15:17.043) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (15:24.723) Mm. Yeah. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (15:39.475) Good. Justin Sunseri (15:43.566) but it is, I mean, you hear it, you see their faces. So like there are sensory inputs. It just may not be as obvious as like a hot stove, but there's still sense, like we're still receiving that information somehow and it has to go through our senses. It's the impulse to connect to that. That's the important thing though, because if someone, you don't, if you don't have that impulse to connect with someone and they talk about you behind your back, it doesn't, for me at least, it doesn't affect me nearly as much as if, as if. Bad Hijabi (15:51.891) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (15:56.051) Yeah, that's true. Yeah. Yes, yeah. Bad Hijabi (16:09.683) Exactly. Yeah. Justin Sunseri (16:11.47) someone I cared about were to humiliate me in public, that would be different. Bad Hijabi (16:13.875) Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I guess that's the perception of being excluded. Like if you don't feel like you're excluded, then it's not going to hurt. But if you do feel like you're excluded, then like I think that was kind of like the whole notion of that. Right. So but like I think that people like I know that's really like that could be open to interpretation. But I think the point is that like people don't realize that they're like social social connection is like, you know, Justin Sunseri (16:25.902) Yeah. If you feel like you're exclu - Bad Hijabi (16:43.091) it isn't just fluffy, it's not just like, some fun thing. It's like a thing we need and like, we feel it, like we feel it, like we feel pain. And so like, if you're having, like if you feel sad or something, like apparently if you take a Tylenol or something, that is supposed to like, this is what the research said, that that like actually provides some relief. One of the studies said that. Justin Sunseri (17:07.693) Yeah. Sure. Bad Hijabi (17:09.139) So because like, so that was like the demonstration, you know, the demonstration that the pathway is the same, right? Because it uses, because those pathways existed already. So when we evolved to become social, then that is how we, how it's manifested. Do you see it now what I'm saying? Yeah. Yeah. Justin Sunseri (17:12.142) you think, because of the pain? Sure. Justin Sunseri (17:28.526) Yeah, I get it. Yeah, I get the idea. Yeah, totally. There's we have a felt experience of of disconnection from others. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (17:35.411) Yeah, so like, like I feel like that's really like, fascinating. And and like, like I had said before, I don't know if I push record or whatever. I feel like if there's also a felt a felt sense of disconnection from ourselves that we can have that, you know, that and that like, if you're not connected to yourself, then I like I don't even know how this is happens, how this gets explained in the Polyvagal world. But like, if you're not connected to yourself, you cannot be like, Justin Sunseri (17:51.438) Yeah. Yeah, I think most people live that way, yeah. Bad Hijabi (18:05.427) access any kind of like social safety zone or whatever it's called. Justin Sunseri (18:11.502) No, right, yeah, exactly, yeah, not really. Bad Hijabi (18:12.339) You know, so like, I almost feel like we live in this world where we walk through all of this information that is like, like, you know, like a pressure to us to try to disconnect from ourselves when we're trying to reconnect with ourselves. And, you know, then there's the relationships that were connected to each other and stuff. And like, you know, everyone's like, you know, everyone has like this, you know, idea of what you know, what the blame, you know, the boogeyman is about what, you know, what's the, this thing, you know, is the blame or we'll blame that thing or whatever, right? It's Marxism or it's whatever, right? But like, ultimately, it's just the way we're like, where you're like reacting to ourselves and each other. You know what I'm saying? Like, I don't think that there's any big giant ideological thing happening. I think it's just that we are evolving socially. It's really messy. Or we're having some kind of social adolescence or something. I don't know. Where we're out of control. And so I don't know. All of this stuff, people want to poke a... Justin Sunseri (19:11.79) or devolve, I would say more like devolving. Justin Sunseri (19:19.758) yeah. Yeah, I'm with you there, yeah. Bad Hijabi (19:30.803) like have some boogeyman that this is to blame or whatever and like ultimately I just think that's a function of not wanting to do like to face that fact that okay there's things I can control like which is me how I feel and there's things I can't control which is like everything else so like I have get to choose well I not really like you can try to you know or you're supposed to I mean that's your duty and Justin Sunseri (19:50.094) You can control yourself? Bad Hijabi (19:58.099) That's your duty in the civilization as much as possible to try to control yourself, but I don't know. But you know, like it's hard to try to navigate everything and there's like, you know, the whole notion of the penopticon, if you believe in that and the whole information, you know, the penopticon is like this thing, I think it was Jeremy Bentham that envisioned this, which is basically, you know, there's like a tau, a Justin Sunseri (20:01.23) Is that an imposed belief or is that something that, yeah. That's my, yeah. Justin Sunseri (20:17.998) What is that? Bad Hijabi (20:27.827) the ideal prison, which would be like the tower would be in the center and everything would be all around and there would be like, you know, guards on the tower and the windows would be shuttered, but they could be see out and you would never know if you're being watched, but they could be watching you at any time. And this, you know, this whole like, like you just, you know, you're always being watched and you're always on display in this whole. thing like that. So there's all that whole thing that like, like, because now we're we are all like, you know, we're all sort of we feel there's like this feeling of familiarity, like the internet, or a digital world sort of has, has made, you know, us feel maybe more, I feel like maybe it's not the case, but like, I feel like it's made us feel more entitled to people. And like, we would say things on the internet that you wouldn't say to somebody's face. Right? Justin Sunseri (21:21.55) No, but you'd say behind their back. Gossip's always existed, fear -mongering's always existed, right? Speculation's always existed, it's just way more transparent now. Bad Hijabi (21:23.859) That's true. Bad Hijabi (21:28.819) And so. Like, like, what is happening? Is this? Is it? Is it like a is the Internet like a force multiplier for all this stuff? And it's just like a mirror showing us. Justin Sunseri (21:40.654) No, I think it's just an easier way to communicate. It's just a faster, more streamlined way to communicate with more people. Bad Hijabi (21:45.139) So it's just concentrating everything. Like, I just feel like the digital world has sort of like distorted some things, the ways we connect with ourselves or intensified something. Justin Sunseri (21:49.294) Well, no. Justin Sunseri (21:58.958) The internet is just the internet. It doesn't do anything. It's just there. It's the people that are manipulating algorithms and whatnot. The internet is just the internet. That's like saying a book distorts how you think because you're reading what's inside and because of the person who wrote what's in there. Bad Hijabi (22:05.683) Well, yeah. Yeah. Well, that's kind of what I mean when I say that. That's kind of what I mean. It's like the package deal of how we interact with it, how we use it or how it's managed, you know, and stuff, right? Like. Justin Sunseri (22:19.374) Sure. But when you if you look at it that way, then you you're maybe in a lot of things on purpose, but inadvertently, you're getting people saying, yeah, the Internet's bad when it's really like, no, it's just the Internet. But the issue would be the people who are using the Internet in order to shut down some voices, amplify other voices or messages. Then the question becomes, well, why are you doing that? Bad Hijabi (22:30.291) Well, no, it's not. It's just it's. Bad Hijabi (22:42.163) Mm -hmm. Justin Sunseri (22:45.23) And why are you taking away this platform that all of us can share? Or why are you manipulating this platform that all of us can share? You know? Bad Hijabi (22:51.283) I think that's the point I'm trying to get at is that it's being used to manipulate our social connections to one another. Like, I don't like, maybe that's like before actually, now that I think about it, like that's what marketing is basically is manipulating us at some level, right? It's like an emotional manipulation to get us to make decisions. So maybe that's just like become a craft. Justin Sunseri (22:59.918) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (23:08.238) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (23:13.07) If you I mean, if you look at it in a certain light, then yeah, one could look at like I market my my stuff. I hope I'm just putting my message out there and giving people an option on what would help them. Am I trying to manipulate them and prompt an action? Kinda. I mean, you could look at it that way, but I also want to do so from a place of invitation, curiosity and rule out whether or not I'm a good fit for someone as a therapist or as a coach or my courses. So you can market. Bad Hijabi (23:20.243) Mm. Bad Hijabi (23:26.547) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (23:42.542) to prompt an action, but also be very transparent about who's right or wrong for it. So when you say that internet is, or people who use the internet are distorting socialization, it's like, that could be the end result, but is that the intention though? Or is the intention to keep one person hooked to the internet, feed them messages, amplify certain ones, and then the effect is more tribalism, is that what you call it? More... Bad Hijabi (23:45.011) Yes. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (23:53.491) It can distort, it can distort, but I know it also can connect. Bad Hijabi (24:11.443) Yes. Justin Sunseri (24:12.43) Yeah, so the effect might be more distance between ourselves and within ourselves. But the intent might be I just want to hook you onto a product and keep you there. Bad Hijabi (24:22.195) So that's what I'm getting at. This is like something that's distorting our process with our relationship with ourself. It's something that's causing us to face how we engage information because like, okay, I'm 55. Like when I started out, I was going to the card catalog or the book stacks, whatever, right? Now when I do research, it's a totally different way of doing relationship and it's a completely different thing. Justin Sunseri (24:48.174) Totally. Did you use microfiche? Bad Hijabi (24:51.475) Yes, and I hated it because I used to get car sick. Justin Sunseri (24:55.79) my gosh, I think when I was in school, microfiche was just phasing out. It was still there. But we didn't really use it. It was books. I remember going like diving into like get open the book, go to the index, you got to find everything page by page. actual books. Bad Hijabi (25:03.123) Yeah, I remember the big. Bad Hijabi (25:08.019) Yes, yeah. And sometimes there's like sometimes I miss the book stacks, but then it's good because I can't always get to the library. But so the way we look for things is different. The way we engage information is different. Like, you know, so I don't know. Well, there is like it's an experience. It's one experience going to look at a card catalog and then walking up the stairs and going to. Justin Sunseri (25:14.766) It's so much simpler. Yeah. Justin Sunseri (25:24.814) Different how? You're still reading words, you're still... Bad Hijabi (25:35.091) you know, find the book stacks and walking all around and doing the thing. And then there's another thing of me sitting in the chair for three hours and surfing from site to site and going and then, and you know, every half hour I'll pop on to Twitter or whatever it's called now. And, you know, right. Like, I don't know. I mean, like, I feel like, like, I guess that's just life changes because, you know, technology, you know, makes your life different. Like it's, it's, it's the difference between. Justin Sunseri (25:53.326) Yeah, I think one's more streamlined. Bad Hijabi (26:03.699) hand washing your dishes and then if you have a dishwasher your lifestyle changes because you're eating over that. But then that's like it forces it does force changes in society because we ultimately our relationship with ourselves changes. You know? No, it just means that we have to be aware of it. So like now I feel like you know there's all sorts of like players trying to get people Justin Sunseri (26:17.838) Yeah, but that doesn't mean good or bad. It just, there's the potential for it. Bad Hijabi (26:28.467) you know, hooked into a thing and they're say a thing and there's like what I call rage farming and helplessness exploitation. And there's all sorts of like, you know, bad faith actors and stuff. And there's people who are seeking information who aren't necessarily, you know, whatever they're just so like, there's all of these things that like people maybe, you know, aren't aware of the fact that, or maybe they are, or maybe we're just learning that all of these things happen and. You know, like, I just feel like, you know, not every there's not any Walter Conkrite who is like, okay, here's the news. Like, you know, this is what happened. It's like you have to be emotionally tapped in and somebody has to almost like somebody just reached in and they need to like, you know, mess with your whatever and they need you to be upset about it and stuff. And it's like, why can't you just tell me what happened without like trying to like make me feel a thing? You know? Justin Sunseri (27:20.59) Bad Hijabi (27:25.619) I don't know, I just feel like that's something that's really like annoying to me. Justin Sunseri (27:25.774) What? Justin Sunseri (27:30.702) Are there not sources out there that you could find that appeal more to? Bad Hijabi (27:34.131) There is, but I just feel that there is this quality of, I don't know, there's this need to get people to do things. And because I do a lot of counter radicalism research and stuff, I come across a lot of instructions for, this is how you narrative management and... all these things and there's like all of this like, you know, how to like craft your narrative and how to like write your copy and stuff like that, you know, and they're told, okay, well make it and even like, you know, if I've written stuff for like editors, you know, people want the story and they want the human elements and like, you know, okay, yes, I get that. And there's nothing wrong with that. We like we're social creatures and we need to connect. But at some point, like, I think that like there's a difference between like being really dramatic and telling a thing and conveying the information to convey the information. And do you want people to be really upset because you want them to be upset for a reason or do you just want exactly, exactly. That's what I'm getting at. Justin Sunseri (28:47.086) Sure. No, you're trying to prompt an action. What, well, no, you, okay, the action, the action might be in action. You just stay put in your chair through the commercial, come on back. We got more rage for you. Or an action like, hey, go do this thing, both this way, buy this thing, whatever. So all that's true, there are sources out there that pander to people like that and people get sucked in, but that's not the entirety of. of what's out there, people can find sources that are more balanced, less emotionally charged. As a therapist and in my content creation stuff, I don't feel like I'm pretty very emotionally charged. I don't feel like I'm trying to prompt an action or rage farm. So you can totally find mental health stuff that involves that level of, I don't know. Bad Hijabi (29:16.051) No. Bad Hijabi (29:33.331) Mm -hmm. Bad Hijabi (29:37.363) I'm talking about just generally speaking, like the news media and just information just generally. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Yes. Justin Sunseri (29:40.27) Right. Yeah, I'm just I'm using this as a comparison, though, like the way I come across, I think it's pretty neutral. It's just an invitation. There's new sources that most of them are more opinion editorial. At this point, there is not really objective. It's not I mean, they're out there, but the ones that are the biggest are are not. But they're still out there. And so the more of us that choose to ignore some sources and focus on other sources, the better off we'll be because those other sources that are more neutral. Bad Hijabi (29:56.211) Mmm. Bad Hijabi (30:04.595) Mm. Justin Sunseri (30:10.19) Hopefully we'll get more eyeballs, more ears, more time in the, or more exposure through algorithms, but that's up to us. We have to change our behavior to find what we need. Bad Hijabi (30:19.315) Exactly. I think that's just the thing that I'm trying to get at is that people have a choice and people like because how I think it's really all about self -awareness and like self, like how does this thing make you feel? Because I really think when you read something that's obviously not like that's obvious fiction and being promoted is true. I feel like you can feel that something is like. Justin Sunseri (30:31.79) Totally. Totally. Bad Hijabi (30:48.467) if somebody tells you something is clearly wrong, like, yeah, like, like we feel that in our, in our bodies. And I think that people don't, maybe we need to be, maybe just learn that like, that's like a thing. Cause I, I still feel like we're in this living this world where like, we feel like there's like the mind body dichotomy. And we don't understand that like, that's if we can lose that unhelpful construct about ourselves, that then we can like, be more successful in navigating the information era, you know? Justin Sunseri (31:23.694) Yeah. Yeah, I suppose so. I think that it's possible to pick up on lies, but it's not easy. And there might be a felt sense of manipulation run truth. But there's been a long history of people successfully getting away with all kinds of evil. So I don't know how reliable that is. And even if you could feel it, do you have the empowerment to act on it? That's a whole other question. Bad Hijabi (31:46.547) This is true, exactly. Bad Hijabi (31:52.595) Exactly. But I just think, you know, people maybe if people are more aware of themselves and their reactions to, you know, information and like, I think it's very easy to get swept into, you know, like movements and ideas and groupthink and stuff. And so this is why I think that this is kind of important to know about this stuff, because, you know, now that I'm thinking about it, like, Justin Sunseri (32:01.966) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (32:21.235) I think getting swept into a group thing or whatever, I mean, a really extraordinary thing. I think that that's a form of disconnect from yourself. When you become somehow convinced to do something that's really not anything that you would do. And sometimes people are like, they don't know why they're doing the thing. They're like... you got to stop them at a protest. And they're like, what's the, what do you know? I don't know. You know, and like, like that, like, that's a fascinating, like phenomenon to me, you know, that this person's. Justin Sunseri (32:56.302) Totally. Well, yeah. Well, it's not about, at that point though, it's not about the protest or the belief or whatever it is. It's about being a part of the group and following along and they get something out of that. And that's what's being manipulated is that need to connect, to belong, to fit in, to not ostracize yourself. So there's other benefits. It's not about the belief at that point. I don't think. Bad Hijabi (33:10.419) Mm -hmm. Bad Hijabi (33:22.771) I really think that that's like a real like issue, like that's like sort of pressing people, like, you know, pressing people or like, you know, creating like, you know, discomfort in society is that that need to connect and that need to belong is being, like you said, it's being, it's being abused. Like, and that's like, it's, it's, it's hurting people. Like, because like, or maybe we like, I was saying to somebody like, Justin Sunseri (33:47.662) Pretty sad. Bad Hijabi (33:51.507) You notice how we always like go for like the viscera. We always go for like canceling people and excluding them. It's almost like we innately know that like that is what would really hurt me if everyone cut me off. If the whole social world acted like I wasn't there. Wow, that really sucks. It's almost like we really know that. Justin Sunseri (34:09.038) Yeah. Yeah. Justin Sunseri (34:15.278) That's what the abusers go to is, is to cut you off to snip away your social connections so that all you're left with is them, right? Bad Hijabi (34:23.155) Exactly. So it's interesting how we seem to have like, to me it would seem we have like an innate knowledge of ourselves. Because we know the best, we know the most damaging ways to hurt people is to cancel them. Yeah. Justin Sunseri (34:37.678) on a biological level. Conceptually, no one's, I don't think it's people, well, some are probably planning it out, but conceptually, like an abuser is not, no, it's not a cognitive thing, no. It's body driven, yeah. From dysregulation. Bad Hijabi (34:41.587) No, yeah, like it's yeah, yeah. It's not at the level of yeah, it's not at high thinking. It's like, yeah, it's like, it's, yeah. Yeah. So that's even more convincing to me that there is like this, you know, there isn't like, I keep I wrote down a bunch of stuff. The vagus nervous, the surveillance system of the internal organs, like so there is a wire that goes from your brain all the way down. Like that seems to make sense to me. And if people could just get that, there's a wire. It's the conduit, man. It's not whatever theory you thought, you know, or thing that you are making up this thing, the story or whatever, right? I don't know. I just feel it's, I find it very helpful to be like, okay, like what's my nervous system doing right now? Like nevermind the story because the story is always, you know, there's like this, there's like this, this, Justin Sunseri (35:21.806) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (35:42.483) this loop between the state and the story, right? Whatever. Justin Sunseri (35:46.478) Yeah. Yeah, I agree. And I wish we could all get to that point. But it's not realistic. Right now. It's just not I mean, how many people are asking themselves what's happening within their body emotionally, just on an emotional level? Not very many. And then how about how many people are asking underneath your emotions? What does it feel like to have your emotion in your body? Not very many at all. Bad Hijabi (35:53.683) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (36:10.451) Exactly. Justin Sunseri (36:11.118) And then underneath that, what's the state of your body? More flight, more fight, more shutdown, more connection and safety. Like no one thinks this way at all. So we're not there. Like we're not even close to being there. Instead, we're following where our fear takes us or trying to find connection and potentially being manipulated. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (36:28.499) And a lot fear and fear and then being manipulated. And like, I feel like, you know, words do carry weight, right? And so, you know, the more that we are buried under all of that stuff of not of the unknowingness of ourselves or being disconnected from ourselves, like all that, like, like this really like, you know, but if we could just like, and then we the words fly and then it's like, why did you say like, and I'll admit, you know, like, you know, say, you know, Seven years ago, I used to use the internet as like, you know, a lot of people do like as a venting place, right? And then eventually, like if you, you know, develop some social connections, you, you know, you find a purpose and stuff, and then you start to look at, because I do, you know, look at counter radicalisms and stuff. Like, why do you use those words? And why did you say that? Like, why did you need to say that thing? Like, like, there's so much to you know, there's like social media behavior to me is so much more than just like what it seems to be. Like it's a really great sort of like barometer for like nervous systems and you know. Justin Sunseri (37:37.966) Yeah, the question that I have in my mind is rather than why did you do that? Because the answer is going to be, well, I want to affect the world in a positive way or because that person deserved it or something like that. They can rationalize. The question instead is what happened within you before or while you were saying that thing? What happened inside? How are you feeling? Bad Hijabi (37:48.723) Yeah. Mm -hmm. But yeah, yeah. Yes. Like, what were you thinking that or feeling that made you, made that seem like a really good idea to, you know? Justin Sunseri (38:02.926) Yeah, it's the emotion and underneath that is the polyvagal state, the state of the body. That's what's driving it. Whether or not, because what you're thinking, what you're feeling come from that. So if we can figure out what was happening within you right before you did that thing, that's a pretty good indication of of where well, if we can figure that out, then we can address the state of your body, not the thing you said, which is important, of course. But for the next time, though, if you can recognize what's happening within you before you speak. Bad Hijabi (38:07.283) Exactly. Bad Hijabi (38:13.107) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (38:26.899) Mm -hmm. Justin Sunseri (38:33.102) that might be more beneficial. You know what I mean? So reflecting on the state of our body, on our emotions, I think is the way to go if you truly want to make change, instead of just changing your behavior, trying to change your thoughts. I mean, if you can't do that, great. But if you can become more introspective, more curious about what's happening within you, that would be ideal, I think. Bad Hijabi (38:37.203) Yes. Bad Hijabi (38:55.091) I think observing oneself is really like important. I don't really think that people realize when you just notice yourself, like if you noticed somebody else that like, like that's almost like that's a connection that like that's a positive thing that that's helpful to that person. It's a soothing thing. Right. So like, we don't just realize that like, if you just noticed yourself and you know, the other thing is like, yeah, like the internet's just a thing and we put all sorts of projections and ideas on it. Justin Sunseri (38:59.95) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (39:24.18) And like, there's a mute button and there's a block button and there's the off button to the computer and like, there's choices we can make. And like, you know, oftentimes the algorithm is like, whatever you choose, like it will give you more of the same. And, you know, I don't know. I think sometimes we feel like there's so much information that we don't, we forgot that we have a choice or, you know, choices presented in different ways and stuff, but ultimately it's as about. Justin Sunseri (39:32.142) Mm -hmm. Bad Hijabi (39:51.955) This is why I wanted this conversation is because like, ultimately is like you said, it's about like, what is going on in your head and your body and like your emotion and your, you know, for your feeling and stuff, right? What's your heart doing? You know, right? So yeah. Justin Sunseri (40:04.11) Body, yeah. Yeah Yeah, the state of your body. Yeah, that's the primary mover there. So if we can notice that and eventually shift it, then our thoughts change, the words that we put onto the internet or on a book, those change, the emotions that we feel change. So but we have to look inward first and try to access a bit more of our safety state, which is not easy, but it was doable. Bad Hijabi (40:30.387) One thing I liked is what you guys were talking about. One point he was talking about the things that we like reflexive behaviors that we have that are helpful, like moving your facial muscles or something like that. And he was like humming and singing and like playing the bazooka and like, you know, doing those things. You know, they're like behaviors that like or calming or something like that. Like there's things that we can do, there's things that we can do in our bodies that we can like do on the spot to like help ourselves out of a situation. Justin Sunseri (41:02.926) It can be. Justin Sunseri (41:09.806) Yeah, I mean, technically, technically, yeah, but I just my concern is telling people, well, if you just hum, then you'll feel great. Like, that's not. Bad Hijabi (41:18.387) No, but I mean, it's, you know, it's a thing, it's possibility and it's probably what your body maybe wants to do. Like maybe that's why your, you know, your body does that because, because that's a comfort thing, right? So to not to be aware of the fact that that's what your body does. Or, you know, another thing, I think it was in your podcast or somewhere, the muscles in your face or the nerves in your face are connected to the heart. So like we sort of, Justin Sunseri (41:25.198) That's the key. That's the key is what. Bad Hijabi (41:47.379) feel comforted when we get to see people's faces and you know, like that's part of like connecting and you know, stuff like that. Like all of these things like that are part of like, you know, creating like a safe social environment that we don't even realize. Justin Sunseri (42:01.582) Yeah. Yep. See how if you can move your facial muscles, that shows you're a safe mammal and someone else will see that and that helps to calm their own state. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (42:11.219) So like if you're in a video, in a zoom call, you know, like sometimes people might, and obviously, you know, not everyone can do it, but so things like, if people kind of see your face, you know, and like that it effects the connections, you know, things like that. Like we like, this is like how did the digital world like, you know, poses new challenges to us that we need to like think about, you know, in order to be, I mean, that's kind of what evolution is, right? Justin Sunseri (42:24.334) Yeah, totally. Justin Sunseri (42:35.022) Yeah. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (42:39.635) Like you have to adapt to a new situation, you know? So, so. Justin Sunseri (42:44.334) Yeah, on a biological level, yeah. Yeah, so if you choose to engage in this type of thing, just might be something to be aware of. I know. So for me as a therapist, I'm doing more and more virtual stuff, which is fine. But in person is better, I think. But when I do repeated virtual sessions, I notice it takes a toll on me. That's different than doing in person. Like I feel more drained is kind of the right word, but also like beaten up in a way. It's not the same as being in person and receiving those true. Bad Hijabi (43:02.675) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (43:13.806) connective safety cues from the person that you're with. Bad Hijabi (43:15.667) to, what do you think about that? I was thinking about like, you know, how there's like cardiac resonance or like, you know, the heart, you know, syncing and all of these things like that when people are together. Like, how is that affected? Like through a digital connection? Is it like, is that, does that dampened? You know, was the benefit of the connection? I wonder about. Justin Sunseri (43:35.854) I don't know about the heart syncing Bad Hijabi (43:52.787) Mm -hmm. Justin Sunseri (44:05.582) pretty darn good alternative. I think it's fine. Yeah. So it's better than nothing. And I think it's for the most part, good. Fine to good as an option, but just not as good as the real deal, you know, being in person. Bad Hijabi (44:07.315) Sure, sure. Bad Hijabi (44:24.371) So what was the best way for people to use polyvagal theory in their life for their own, to navigate themselves? Like just for someone who's just doing their thing. Yeah. Justin Sunseri (44:33.07) Justin Sunseri (44:38.35) like just starting out. learn it. That's the first thing is learn it. Learn about Paul vehicle theory. And then it's not a modality. It's not a tool. It's not like a therapeutic practice. It's just science. It's, it's the it explains what's happening within us. And from that, you'll learn like, we have this capacity, this biological drive and capacity to feel safe and to socially connect or to feel present and to reduce anxiety and anger and rage and all, you know, all the stuff that we don't want to feel. So if you can learn that, then the question becomes, well, how do I do more of that? How do I feel safer? And that would be the next step, I think, is to figure out, well, what what makes you feel better than not? You know, not I don't mean like, you know, getting high in that way. Therefore, I don't feel bad. I don't mean that. I mean, like going out for a walk feels better than sitting at home on my phone. You know, Bad Hijabi (45:37.683) Mm -hmm. Justin Sunseri (45:38.542) That's more what I mean. If I can pet my dog or hug my kids, that feels better than binge eating. So it's what can you do to feel more goodness in your body? Not less crumbiness exactly, but just genuinely in the present moment. That's what you want to strive for. Identify those things, do them more and more, build up your capacity to feel safe. And then eventually we can deal with the stuck defensive stuff. like flight, bite, freeze, shutdown. But that's probably the first thing to do is learn it and then figure out what helps you feel safe and connected, what helps you to breathe easier and be in the present moment. Bad Hijabi (46:17.011) It's safe, it's fairly universal, it's fairly safe to say that like moving the body is often a remedy for like if you're feeling stuck or something. Justin Sunseri (46:32.91) Maybe I'll put a big old maybe on that because if you're in shutdown, you don't want to move. In shutdown, actually immobilizing with lower stimulation feels pretty damn good. And that's OK. That's different, though, than isolating in the dark with the TV on. That's not no, that's just numbing. That's killing time. That's yeah. Bad Hijabi (46:37.683) That's true. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (46:52.531) And see, that's the whole nuance of the polyvagal theory is to know when you're in that state where it's like, okay, I'm going to binge with, I'm going to my room, I'm going to crawl into my bed and I'm gonna binge on Netflix and that's fine with me. Or if you're in that state where you're like feeling restless and you know, what we would call anxious or something. And then maybe that's the time when like moving your body or doing the thing is good, you know. Justin Sunseri (47:15.534) Move it, yeah. Yeah. Yep. Bad Hijabi (47:19.091) So like, I guess it's just ultimately understanding how your, how your CPU works or something. Justin Sunseri (47:26.254) Yeah, I mean, if you can have a high level understanding, sure, but you could also just ask yourself moment to moment, what do I feel like doing? And that's not so if the answer is bullying someone a lie, like no, that's no, that's a coping mechanism. That's an unhealthy one. Bad Hijabi (47:32.147) Yeah, maybe that's a Bad Hijabi (47:39.155) Pick the healthy coping mechanisms, right? Justin Sunseri (47:46.35) Yeah, yeah. So if you come home from work and you're completely overwhelmed and you can't handle another thing, but the best you can do is lie face down on your bed and take some breaths, that's fine. Like that's what your body needs in that moment. It's not happiness. It's not life satisfaction, but it just kind of feels right in that moment. Bad Hijabi (48:04.051) Seeking balance. Seeking like because the body always wants to be at homeostasis, right? So, you know, just knowing yourself and seeking balance. Justin Sunseri (48:12.078) Yep. Yeah. Yeah. So that that collapse onto the bed might be a step toward homeostasis and balance, but you kind of have to give it that first and then over. And then as you take some breaths in, you might notice like, I have more capacity to sit up to breathe into my chest or in my belly more. I'm ready to go hug my spouse or say hi to my dog or I don't know, whatever. Like once you listen to what you need, then it opens up the next level of self -regulation. Bad Hijabi (48:22.803) Sure. Bad Hijabi (48:42.003) Mm -hmm. Justin Sunseri (48:42.062) And that might be more mobility or it might be connecting with others. Bad Hijabi (48:45.683) And there's really no shortcut or hack to learning what you need except to just practice asking yourself, knowing yourself. Yeah. It's kind of like when you're it's kind of like for parents, you just have to learn that with your kid. So you have to learn that with yourself, you know, like you just have to practice asking and practice, you know, being in, you know, what do you need? And it's like, you know, it's kind of like you have to do that with yourself first, like. Justin Sunseri (48:53.198) The shortcut is to listen to what you need and do it. That's the shortcut, that's it. Justin Sunseri (49:14.03) Hmm? Bad Hijabi (49:15.091) Really, that's what it's about. And just. Justin Sunseri (49:17.102) That's a good way to put it, practice asking and hopefully noticing and listening and over time differentiating what you truly need versus what would just kind of feel good. So like eating a bunch of Oreos probably feels good for people, but it's not what you need. What you need might be something else. Bad Hijabi (49:32.499) Exactly. Exactly. And like the power of noticing yourself, like because you know, I have a nursing background, like sometimes, you know, I went through this thing where I decided I would monitor my heart rate. So I just would do that once in a while. And just the act of doing that, just the act of stopping and doing it and recording it and noticing just that over time just made a difference. If you just take, it's just like if you pay attention to somebody else. Justin Sunseri (49:55.342) Sure. Bad Hijabi (50:04.051) like that year cultivating a relationship. I was surprised by that, because I didn't realize the power of something so small as observing something about myself. But I think people think that people are, maybe sometimes people think, you need these big monumental special answers that look fancy and shit. And it's not. Justin Sunseri (50:16.718) Mm -hmm. Bad Hijabi (50:29.843) It's just like you're like, I think what's cool about this Polly Bagel thing is sort of like, like we all have, we sort of have, we are equipped to handle the challenges of, you know, what we face. That's how we are like, that's kind of why we're like this, right? Cause we evolved. Justin Sunseri (50:51.79) On a biological level, yeah, we are. But in our lived experience, or something like that, but practice, you know, have you practiced that? Have you listened to, you're in a world, are you familiar with it? Like that conscious level of experience of it and practice is probably not there for most people. For... Bad Hijabi (50:54.163) Yeah. Bad Hijabi (51:08.211) And that's why it's really important for people to establish that relationship with themselves because you know, you can't get that from anywhere. You can't. What your your capacity to get anything from the world is limited if you, you know, your own internal structure and system within yourself is not optimized. You know, so I feel like that's what this is. Exactly. And it's a you. Justin Sunseri (51:12.59) Mm -hmm. Justin Sunseri (51:30.318) Yeah, yeah, and you're not born one way or the other. It's something you have to practice and develop. Bad Hijabi (51:35.475) everything that happens if you have kids. I was just reading about how, you know, after you become a parent and then there's like a whole like, you know, adolescence that your nervous system goes, if you will allow me that metaphor, you know, like, you know, as things happen, if there's like your parent dies or somebody gets sick, you know, whatever professional that like all of these things are like, they impact you, they leave an imprint on the surveillance system of your internal organs, like, you know, Justin Sunseri (52:05.23) Yeah, sure. Bad Hijabi (52:05.491) don't know if we could like, it seems now nothing really seems like mysterious or like baffling or like terribly, you know, catastrophic for any length of time to me anymore because I understand what's happening. So I don't need like to make up a story about a thing, you know, like a Gabor Maté is like, the story are you telling yourself, right? And then like you. Justin Sunseri (52:24.238) Nice. Bad Hijabi (52:30.355) he has this way of unraveling it and stuff and ultimately you just get down to whatever state you're in. So I just find it really helpful and I just wish everyone could just do their part and you know and it feels like it feels I hate this word because it's overused but it feels empowering and it feels like you're triumphing over something in a time when people Justin Sunseri (52:30.958) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (52:54.158) It is. Bad Hijabi (52:56.915) when society or whatever, the machinations or whatever, are trying really hard to make people feel helpless. Like, I just feel like there's like so many forces trying to make us feel helpless. And like, you know, it's constant like battle against that. And so that's why I wanted to this conversation because I feel like, like exploiting helplessness and farming helplessness and making it into this thing and making things monumental and saying, you have like, you know, even the term, this is ideological, you can disagree, whatever. Like from my background, making this like, you have a personality disorder, you have like a mental illness or whatever. Like people feel like, my, like people's like, feel like their life is over. Like you just, you just trashed their house to, you know what I mean? So like, you know, I don't know, I just. Justin Sunseri (53:51.79) Well, they might feel like life is over or they feel like now there's an avenue, something they can identify with and get treatment for on the positive end. I don't like that personally, but people do say to me like, there's a name for it. There's a medication for it. I go to therapy. I'll be like this forever. Like it's sadly, that's what it's like a tattoo, but. Bad Hijabi (54:00.723) Maybe, but then, yeah. Bad Hijabi (54:10.995) Or, you know, yeah, yeah. And I'd like, I hate that. Cause like, you know, like I was raised, you know, my mom was of the, like the, the generation that was affected by mother's little helpers, you know, so much that my mom was of that like era where, the doctor will fix it and go like that kind of thing. So like, I really like, I feel like that's really disempowering because like people were told some things and they really believed it, right? Justin Sunseri (54:15.502) Me too. Bad Hijabi (54:38.995) And so like now I'm sort of like maybe this is my overcompensation or something. That's why I'm like this. I'm like, no, like it's just there's a nervous system. And like, like I had no idea. Like I just was like menopause is really weird. And this is like a nervous system thing. And I learned all about it and stuff. And that's how come I learned about novel polyvagal is I wanted to understand like why was menopause making me so weird and what's happening with my like. Why do I feel like I'm gonna pass out and all these things I was like vagalling out and it's just really bizarre. So that's like how come I like learned because no one was giving me the answer. And I was like, well, this is like my machine, I better figure it out. So I don't know that people like everyone can do that. Obviously not everyone has a nursing degree and can figure it out and stuff. But like, I think that like, if people are like, hey, like I can do that. I can just go listen to a few like. you know, podcasts and like maybe think about some stuff and like, you know, see things in a different way. And like, you know, like people need to know that they have the answer inside them. I feel like, like that's why I'm, this is my message. So. Justin Sunseri (55:49.55) I'm right there with you. I'm doing what I can to get that out as far and wide as I can. Yeah. Bad Hijabi (55:53.427) So any thoughts or anything you want to say or add or any words of wisdom or? Justin Sunseri (56:03.214) Just invite people to try to slow down, notice the present moment in between phone binges or getting angry at people. Notice how you feel. Just look inward, check in, ask yourself how you're feeling. Check in with how you're breathing. And I know I'm focusing on the negative, but just randomly throughout the day, set an alarm if you need to. Just ask yourself, what's happening within me? How's my breath? How do I actually feel? What's my capacity right now to give somebody a hug or smile? And just... Breathe, take a breath in. Yeah, I guess it's just really interesting to encourage more curiosity as much as you're capable of. It's a good starting point. Bad Hijabi (56:42.643) Curiosity is a good word, instead of making judgments, just being curious and being like, what's happening now? Why am I feeling like this? Or, you know, like... Justin Sunseri (56:45.006) It is a. Justin Sunseri (56:52.334) Yeah, well, I would if someone's evaluating themselves and feel like they have a mental disorder and they they're going to be like that forever. Like, OK, I'm not going to argue with you on that. But in the meantime, can you also just check in about your breath and how you're actually feeling and just become a little bit more curious about what's happening within you internally? And if so, then all right, cool. That's a step forward. Bad Hijabi (57:12.851) Yeah, like in one of your things you said, like, you know, is your feelings appropriate for the context of your life or something like that? And I think it's like, you know, we're like plants, like we just imagine like plant, if you put like certain plants in the full sun, they will not do well. And if you, you know, they'll, but that doesn't mean that, right, if you move that plant somewhere else, then they'll do fine. So I think human beings are kind of like that too. So. Justin Sunseri (57:20.622) Yeah. Justin Sunseri (57:31.438) Yeah. Yeah. Justin Sunseri (57:42.062) Kinda, yeah. Yep. Yeah, the way you feel might make sense, completely based on the context of your life. It's not a random thing that's afflicting you. Bad Hijabi (57:43.955) So. Bad Hijabi (57:50.771) And it's yeah, like feelings are not necessarily bad or good. They are just a messenger. They just are, you know, intelligence to tell you like information to tell you a thing. So. Great. Well, thank you very much for your time. Sorry, I made you like we had this whole thing and then are like, my God, I'm not recording. Oops. Anyway, the psych. Justin Sunseri (57:54.99) To just feel it. Justin Sunseri (58:02.622) Yep. Justin Sunseri (58:09.71) You're welcome. Justin Sunseri (58:17.038) That was fun. Yeah, the initial rollout was really fun. Bad Hijabi (58:20.755) Okay, well we'll have to do this again sometime Okay, thank you so much. Bye Justin Sunseri (58:25.23) Yeah, anytime. Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. We appreciate your support! Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/theres-no-hack/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/theres-no-hack?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDUyMDAxMDYsImlhdCI6MTc1NTE2Mjc1MywiZXhwIjoxNzU3NzU0NzUzLCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.Bb83F6R8PmWbRnICUgYsmT4ge_mc3pxiBsMqFBYcR0Y&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
22 Mar 2024
Can We Talk About Men?
Summary In this first of a series of conversations about masculinity I will be having with me, I chat with Tyler. We explore the impact of upbringing and the absence of a father figure on one's perception of masculinity. Our chat delves into the challenges faced by individuals who have experienced childhood abuse and the differential treatment within abusive families. The importance of male role models and the need for support, protection, and teaching in masculinity are discussed. We addresses the negative perception of patriarchy and the cultural perspectives on masculinity. The evasion of responsibility in society and the lack of confrontation and directness are examined. The influence of wealth and privilege on masculinity is explored, along with the comparison between residential schools and boarding schools. Our conversation explores the challenges of political leadership, the impact of gender weighing on society, and the anti-female nature of transgender ideology. We talked about the role of Kim Campbell in judicial appointments and the dictatorial leadership of Justin Trudeau. The chapters highlight the need for businessmen in politics, the punishment for acting on values, and the language war surrounding gender. Our session concludes with a discussion on the dehumanizing effects of gender equity and the failure of gender neutrality. We explore various themes related to gender identity, masculinity, and the distortion of societal norms. We talk about the importance of embracing biological sex and the harm of denying the reality of male and female bodies. We touch on the weakness of men who support ideologies predicated on avoidance of male biological reality and the need for men to exercise restraint in finding balance and reject hypermasculinity. We delved into the impact of puberty blockers on children and the denial of their sexual experiences. We touch on the historical abuse of women and children in medical experiments and the unlikelihood of justice for those responsible. Overall, our conversation emphasizes the importance of embracing one's physical biological reality and the need for struggle and responsibility in childhood. Takeaways * The absence of a father figure can significantly impact one's perception of masculinity and upbringing. * Childhood abuse can have long-lasting effects on individuals and their relationships. * Support, protection, and teaching are essential tenets of masculinity. * The negative perception of patriarchy overlooks the positive aspects it has contributed to society. * The evasion of responsibility and the lack of confrontation hinder personal growth and societal progress. * Wealth and privilege can influence one's understanding and experience of masculinity. * Residential schools and boarding schools have different contexts but share similarities in their impact on individuals. The political infrastructure needs businessmen to bring fresh perspectives and challenge the status quo. * Acting on values can result in punishment and backlash, making it difficult for individuals to enter politics. * The language war surrounding gender creates division and hinders meaningful discussions. * Gender weighing and transgender ideology have an anti-female nature and can lead to the erasure of women's rights and experiences. Embrace and acknowledge the importance of biological sex. * Reject hypermasculinity and exercise restraint as a sign of strength. * Children should be allowed to experience their sexual development and not be denied the profound neural modulator of sexuality. * The distortion of masculinity and the weakness of men who support transgender ideology are harmful to society. * Children should be given the opportunity to face challenges and develop resilience. Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. To support my work, to hear more conversations like this one, please consider becoming a paid subscriber. Chapters 00:00 Background and Upbringing 01:19 Lack of Father Figure 03:29 Childhood Abuse and its Effects 04:52 Differential Treatment in Abusive Families 06:29 Parenting and Self-Reflection 07:35 The Importance of Male Role Models 09:20 Challenges Faced by Men in Society 11:10 Masculinity as Support, Protection, and Teaching 14:26 The Negative Perception of Patriarchy 16:25 Cultural Perspectives on Masculinity 23:06 The Evasion of Responsibility in Society 25:14 The Lack of Confrontation and Directness 28:26 The Inconsistencies in Political Leadership 30:59 The Influence of Upbringing on Masculinity 33:11The Impact of Wealth and Privilege on Masculinity 35:43 Residential Schools and Boarding Schools 36:20 The Lack of Accountability in Privileged Individuals 36:32 The Need for Businessmen in Politics 37:14 Building Political Infrastructure 37:57 The Challenges of Leadership 38:25 Punishment for Acting on Values 39:11 The Language War 40:04 The Catholic Church and Gender Weighing 41:16 Living a Normal Life with Gender Weighing 41:47 The Impact on Women 43:00 Forcing Gender Ideology 43:35 The Anti-Female Nature of Gender Weighing 45:05 The Impact on Autistic Individuals 46:19 The Influence of Gender Weighing on Society 48:04 Political Appointments and Bias 49:14 Kim Campbell's Role in Judicial Appointments 50:23 Kim Campbell's Political Legacy 52:05 Trudeau's Dictatorial Leadership 52:43 The Hypocrisy of Transgender Ideology 54:20 The Anti-Female Nature of Gender Weighing 55:00 The Synthetic Nature of Transgenderism 56:23 The Predatory Behaviour of Transgender Individuals 58:01 The Dehumanizing Effects of Gender Equity 01:00:19 The Inauthenticity of Transgender Women 01:02:14 The Failure of Gender Neutrality 01:03:08 The Lysenkoism of Gender Ideology 01:05:16 The Limitations of Legal Recognition 01:05:56 The Importance of Embracing Biological Sex 01:06:54 The Distortion of Masculinity 01:07:26 The Power of Restraint 01:07:54 Rejecting Hypermasculinity 01:08:18 Mediocre Men in Sports 01:09:22 The Importance of Physical Fitness for Men 01:10:19 The Journey from Boyhood to Manhood 01:11:08 The Harm of Puberty Blockers 01:12:08 Denying Children the Experience of Sexuality 01:13:13 Teaching Children that Sexuality is the Enemy 01:14:08 The Importance of Embracing One's Body 01:15:08 The Need for Comprehensive Therapy Before Transitioning 01:16:23 The Distortion of Science and Studies 01:18:39 The Historical Abuse of Women and Children 01:20:23 The Weakness of Men Who Support Transgender Ideology 01:22:09 The Inability to Change Biological Reality 01:23:02 The Importance of Embracing One's Identity 01:24:09 The Risks and Ethics of Plastic Surgery 01:25:15 The Dark History of Medical Experiments 01:26:43 The Unlikelihood of Justice for Medical Experimenters 01:28:05 The Token Punishment of a Few 01:29:51 The Weakness of Men Who Support Transgender Ideology 01:31:16 The Importance of Exercising Restraint 01:33:13 The Need for Struggle and Responsibility in Childhood 01:35:17 The Crippling of Children by Overprotection 01:37:15 The Inability to Handle Real Life Challenges Thank you for subscribing. 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27 Feb 2024
Conversation with Theo Jordan
🚨This is a cross post of an episode that originally appeared on Theo’s Substack🚨 Summary In this conversation, the Theo and I discuss various topics, including recent events, the awakening to anti-Semitism, the influence of environment on character, the connection between wokeness and the USSR, and the insult of wokeness to those who have lived under oppression. The conversation covers topics such as fiscal sponsorship and BDS, funding radical movements, the pendulum swing of ideologies, and the inverse casting of woke ideology. It also explores the parallels between Catholicism and woke activism, the impact of friction and character development, and the saviour complex in decolonization efforts. We delve into the funding of domestic radicalism in universities and the audacity of removing leaders and conclude with a discussion on the cult-like following of Justin Trudeau. Theo and I cover topics such as foreign interference inquiry, nepotism, the World Economic Forum, Klaus Schwab's remarks, lack of accountability, media coverage, passing of laws in British Columbia, the role of the fourth estate, differences between Canadian and American politics, the misuse of emergency powers, abuse of power and majority rule, dehumanization, propaganda, selective valuing of lived experiences, hatecraft and cult speak, cognitive dissonance and denial, the burden of history, and bath time as an opportunity to consume information. Takeaways * Recent events have sparked conversations and awakenings to issues such as anti-Semitism and wokeness. * The environment in which people grow up can shape their character and perspectives. * Wokeness can be seen as an insult to those who have lived under real oppression. * It is important to have open and uncomfortable conversations to understand different perspectives and challenge preconceived notions. Foreign interference and nepotism are concerns in the Canadian political landscape. * The World Economic Forum and its Young Global Leaders program raise questions about influence and radicalization. * The lack of accountability and media coverage in Canada is troubling. * The misuse of emergency powers and abuse of majority rule are issues that need to be addressed. * Dehumanization and propaganda play a role in shaping public opinion and justifying harmful actions. * Selective valuing of lived experiences and hatecraft contribute to division and polarization. * Cognitive dissonance and denial can prevent people from acknowledging and addressing societal issues. * Understanding history and consuming information critically are important for informed citizenship. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Getting to Know Each Other 02:12 The Impact of Recent Events on the Conversation 09:09 The Awakening to Anti-Semitism 15:01 The Influence of Environment on Character 31:38 The Insult of Wokeness to Those Who Have Lived Under Oppression 34:24 Fiscal Sponsorship and BDS 37:11 Funding Our Own Demise 38:05 Communist Movement in Haiti 39:28 Funding Radicalism in Universities 41:21 Decolonization and Saviour Complex 43:13 Privilege and Woke Activism 45:31 Friction and Character Development 46:50 The Pendulum Swing of Ideologies 49:31 Funding Radical Movements 51:41 The Audacity of Removing Leaders 55:03 Inverse Casting of Ideologies 58:15 Confession and Struggle Sessions 01:00:37 The Cult of Trudeau 01:09:32 Foreign Interference Inquiry and Nepotism 01:10:56 The World Economic Forum and Young Global Leaders 01:11:22 Klaus Schwab's Remarks and Government Response 01:12:48 Lack of Accountability and Media Coverage 01:13:18 Passing of Laws in British Columbia 01:14:15 Lack of Media Coverage and Fourth Estate 01:15:41 Comparison of Canadian and American Politics 01:16:38 Importance of Local Politics 01:17:07 Differences in Political Engagement 01:18:06 Misuse of Emergency Powers 01:19:02 Abuse of Power and Majority Rule 01:20:00 Unconstitutional Actions and Dehumanization 01:21:21 Similarities to Historical Genocides 01:23:05 Propaganda and Dehumanization 01:24:43 Modern Examples of Dehumanization 01:27:03 Selective Valuing of Lived Experiences 01:29:31 Hatecraft and Cult Speak 01:31:29 Language and Propaganda 01:34:09 Cognitive Dissonance and Denial 01:36:16 The Girl with the Flowers 01:39:05 The Burden of History 01:41:18 Taking Baths and Consuming Information Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/conversation-with-theo-jordan/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/conversation-with-theo-jordan?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDE5NzcxMjMsImlhdCI6MTcyOTMxMDcxOCwiZXhwIjoxNzMxOTAyNzE4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.dAiIJI2No363F4uxXkUVbqeC3i2nz8PjAOBDccrnsqE&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
21 Feb 2024
Toxic Activism
Summary The conversation explores the topic of toxic activism and its impact on society. It discusses the controversy surrounding gender identity and the behavior of some activists. The conversation also highlights the issue of online harassment and doxing, where individuals are targeted and threatened for expressing their opinions. It delves into the difference between activism and bullying, as well as the consequences of cancel culture and misrepresentation. The conversation touches on the importance of ethics in journalism and criticism. It also criticizes political leaders for their hypocrisy and lack of connection with the people. The concept of passivity and the banality of evil is examined, along with the disillusionment with media. The conversation explores the balance between politeness and offense, and the implications of gender identity on human rights. It concludes by emphasizing the need for critical thinking and leadership in combating thoughtlessness and promoting a more ethical society. Takeaways Toxic activism can hinder productive conversations and lead to online harassment and threats. Cancel culture and misrepresentation can have a detrimental impact on individuals and society. Ethics in journalism and criticism are essential for fair and accurate reporting. Political leaders should be held accountable for their actions and hypocrisy. Passivity and thoughtlessness can contribute to the banality of evil. The media plays a significant role in shaping public opinion and should strive for unbiased reporting. Politeness should not hinder discussions about important issues, but offense should be approached with empathy and understanding. Gender identity should be considered in the context of human rights, while also acknowledging the importance of biological sex. Critical thinking and leadership are necessary to combat thoughtlessness and promote a more ethical society. Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Background 01:00 Toxic Activism and Gender Identity 03:12 Online Harassment and Doxing 06:24 Activism vs. Bullying 07:18 Cancel Culture and Misrepresentation 09:11 Ethics in Journalism and Criticism 12:03 Political Leaders and Hypocrisy 14:22 Passivity and the Banality of Evil 16:37 Disillusionment with Media 19:23 Politeness and Offense 21:19 Gender Identity and Human Rights 22:41 Deconstructing Gender Identity 23:39 Thoughtlessness and Leadership Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/toxic-activism/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/toxic-activism?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDE4OTk3MDIsImlhdCI6MTcyOTMxMDcxOCwiZXhwIjoxNzMxOTAyNzE4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.CQa8DKMc8V-9FQdjLna_hrxRddewiRV64EIgjZTqBTo&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
21 Feb 2024
Bacha Bazi: How to Make a Terrorist
Summary In this conversation, Bad Hijabi discusses the practice of Bacha Bazi in Afghanistan and its connection to misogyny and the absence of women from society. She highlights that Bacha Bazi is a form of pederasty that is prevalent across cultures and regions. Bad Hijabi emphasizes the neglect of boys' issues and the use of abuse as a tool for radicalization. She also discusses the CIA's involvement with warlords and the impact of these abuses on radicalism and extremism. Bad Hijabi calls for awareness among NGOs and journalists and questions the accomplishments and interests served by Western interventions. She criticizes the sexualization of children and highlights the societal impact of suboptimal decisions. Takeaways Bacha Bazi is a practice of pederasty in Afghanistan that is enabled by misogyny and the absence of women from society. Abuse of boys in Bacha Bazi contributes to the radicalization and extremism in the region. The CIA's involvement with warlords and the enabling of abuses raises questions about the interests served by Western interventions. The sexualization of children and the neglect of boys' issues are concerning aspects that need more awareness and attention. Chapters 00:00 Introduction to Bacha Bazi 01:03 Misogyny and Women's Absence from Society 02:23 Pederasty Across Cultures 03:11 Neglect of Boys' Issues 04:13 Life After Bacha Bazi 05:12 Abuse as a Radicalization Tool 07:20 CIA's Involvement with Warlords 08:46 Impact on Radicalism and Extremism 09:14 Awareness Among NGOs and Journalists 10:31 Questioning Accomplishments and Interests Served 12:18 Accountability and Unacceptable Behaviour 13:18 Children's Rights and Sexualization 16:02 Enabling Abuses and Creating Extremists 19:01 Societal Impact and Suboptimal Decisions 20:18 Conclusion Thank you for subscribing. Leave a comment (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/bacha-bazi-how-to-make-a-terrorist/comments?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_5) or share this episode (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/bacha-bazi-how-to-make-a-terrorist?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=podcast&utm_content=share&action=share&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo1ODUwODYwLCJwb3N0X2lkIjoxNDE5MDA4MzQsImlhdCI6MTcyOTMxMDcxOCwiZXhwIjoxNzMxOTAyNzE4LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMjQ2MDUiLCJzdWIiOiJwb3N0LXJlYWN0aW9uIn0.zzEF2E3oVeoa_5xuIt5-7WtoJVFOhSLJTkNKRN54a6g&utm_campaign=CTA_5).
20 Feb 2024
A Comparison Queerification & Aryanisation
Hello, welcome to the inaugural podcast episode of Adventures of Bad Hijabi. I decided I would begin with a short discussion of my previous essay. The entire episode runs about 41 minutes in length and it’s behind the paywall. I have provided a 13 minute clip for non paying readers. Here are a few show notes. Hannah Arendt (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/arendt/) wrote about the banality of evil in Eichmann in Jerusalem, she reconceptualised evil as mediocre and ordinary. Tania Crasnianski (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/34336194-children-of-nazis) wrote Children of Nazis. SURJ Showing Up for Racial Justice (https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/showing-up-for-racial-justice/) is a leftwing agitprop group. Reliability (https://www.scribbr.com/methodology/types-of-reliability/) as I used the word has a specific definition in research methods. The National Post has provided good coverage on the issue of DEI creep into the Judiciary, Jamie Saronak (https://nationalpost.com/opinion/jamie-sarkonak-house-arrest-for-impregnating-daughter-a-result-of-race-based-sentencing) and Tristin Hopper (https://nationalpost.com/author/thopper/) have written at length about this topic. Black only performances created a stir in Canad (https://nypost.com/2023/01/29/canadas-national-arts-centre-sparks-outrage-with-black-only-events/)a a while back. You can find the latest scoop on the DEI derangement from Jon Kay and Chanel Pfahl on X. You can find the Perpetrator Testimonies (https://genocidearchiverwanda.org.rw/index.php?title=Category:Perpetrator_Confessions) of the Rwandan Genocide online. You can find David Livingstone Smith here (https://www.npr.org/2011/03/29/134956180/criminals-see-their-victims-as-less-than-human). Also here (https://case.edu/inamori/justice/david-livingstone-smith-93020-book-launch). You can find full 41 minute podcast episode, together with a pdf copy of the transcript, behind the paywall. Summary In this audio clip, Bad Hijabi discusses the concept of queerification and compares it to the historical process of Aryanization. She explores the rejection of Christian morality, the manipulation of language, and the contempt for Judeo-Christian values. Rukhsana also highlights the similarities in thinking processes between the two phenomena and the manipulation and exploitation by elites. She discuss the violation of reality, distortion of history, and the dehumanization of certain groups. The clip concludes with Bad Hijabi urging listeners to be aware of the societal changes happening and to think critically about the current state of society. Takeaways * Queerification can be seen as a process that parallels the historical phenomenon of Aryanization. * There is a rejection of Christian morality and a manipulation of language in both queerification and Aryanization. * The contempt for Judeo-Christian values and the dehumanization of certain groups are common themes in both phenomena. * The manipulation and exploitation by elites play a significant role in both queerification and Aryanization. Episode Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Definition of Queer 01:22 Fascination with the Denazification Period 03:16 Understanding the Banality of Evil 04:14 Fascination with the Horrors of the Holocaust 05:12 Rejection of Christian Morality 06:07 Comparing Queerification to Aryanization 08:28 Similarities in Thinking Process 09:21 Propaganda and Manipulation 10:16 Language War and Redefining Language 11:13 Contempt of Judeo-Christian Values 12:11 Reparative Sociopolitical Process 13:36 Subverting Natural Lines of Attachment 14:06 Contempt of Women and Manipulation 15:31 Oppression Paradigm and Heterosexuality 16:25 Identity as the Whim of the Fuhrer 17:48 Favoring Designated Victim Groups 18:45 Manipulation and Repackaging of White Supremacy 19:35 Similarities in Societal Grievances 20:02 Violation of Reality and Distortion of History 21:29 Dehumanization and Distorted Beauty Standards 22:23 Responsibility for Past Wrongs and Current Opportunities 23:23 Designating Scapegoats and Dehumanization 25:18 Manipulation and Exploitation by Elites 26:17 Violation of Constitution and Abuse of Power 27:41 Manipulation and Demoralization of Society 31:59 Comparison to Iranian Revolution 35:07 Society Broken by Radicals and Sexual Depravity 36:03 Elimination Policies and Forced Measures 38:00 Manipulation and Tolerance of Corrupt Leaders 39:24 Sensationalization and Wounding Language 40:22 Future Plans and Conclusion Adventures of Bad Hijabi is a reader-supported publication. To unlock the full episode please purchase a paid subscription, annual sub sale 67% off ends March 3rd. You can find the original essay I have discussed in this podcast here (https://www.badhijabi.com/p/queerification-reminds-me-of-aryanisation). You can read about the children of nazis here (https://nypost.com/2018/02/03/how-nazi-offspring-dealt-with-their-familys-hellish-histories/). You can read a thoughtful piece about the human condition during the times of the Nazis here (https://jacquesdesrosiers.blog/2023/09/07/german-autumn-by-stig-dagerman/). The transcript of the full episode is below. Thank you for subscribing. 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