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LA Fire Dept DEI Video Engages in Victim Blaming

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0:00 [Music] what do you guys think is a very important um most important thing for a firefighter like qualties water what is it oh qualities oh sorry I mean like the hose I know bravery bravery is good not having asthma yeah oh that's cuz you get disqualified don't you I think so you can't have asthma if you have asthma why cuz you'll be like I can't coming to work I have asthma and then you're like but you need to get into the smoke oh that's okay you can stay home today you can't get hot too easily can't get hot too easy you got to run cold that's really good you don't want a guy putting on a fire like ████ it's so hot in here physically fit and capable like above average physical fitness okay now let's flip it around if you were uh Daenerys

0:51 perfect fireman truear tarian she she probably do most of the firefighting by herself if you're a medieval fantasy character good point good point you have a dragon let's flip it around let's flip around you're the victim of a fire what are you hoping to see in a firefighter who's coming oh they got water in their hose the guy with the blade legs oh yeah maybe not really but then if their feet doesn't get hot they can walk on coals that's true that's really good that's really true walk on too many coals it might turn into maybe that would be an advantage it might turn into a frying pan because you know how the heat goes up and he's like my KNE no but it's rubber at the top at the connector rubber at the top yeah they figured that out a long time ago come on BART I didn't know stay up to date on the technology I want to see you don't what

1:41 what do you want to see in the person coming to rescue I want to see a bunch of freaking Buff Ass Lumberjack looking white guys wait you don't want to see a bunch of people who look like you a bunch of Filipinos or or like who look like I feel like they're not going to take it seriously I want a person that look how would they come to your house I want a person that looks like they could put me on on their back and then run like 2 miles to safety yeah thank you thank you Mr firefighter oh my God I was coughing up a lung in there she was crazy thank you for saving me and my kid and my dog I want a grandma you want grandma Yeah I want a grandma to come in and I'm like oh bro Grandma's if you're about to die a grandma holding you is probably much nicer than a buff man so you want just a nice death versus to be saved I want five dudes I'm die anyway I want five dudes that are the third generation firefighter and their family and they

2:31 all got hired by nepotism yeah yeah yeah that's legit that's legit no no I want so what they should look like honestly should look like Thunder from Down Under should feel safe we should be like hey can you do 20 pull-ups and they'll rep out 25 I feel safe save me and it should be music playing too okay these are great guesses but the um Dei Deputy Chief of the Los Angeles Fire Department has some thoughts about what people want to see when they're being rescued you want to see some that responds to your house your emergency whether it's a medical call or a fire call that looks like you it gives that person a little bit more ease knowing that somebody might there's one really good point to this like what happens if it's like just listen to the ████ all right fine no go for it what's your point just like maybe like a older person who doesn't speak like uh English as well and they need

3:22 like to communicate something about like yeah yeah like they their dog or their something that's like stuck absolutely okay cool and not look like but just somebody who can so now they can tell them in their language I can't carry any of your family that's what you want hang on check this out yeah listen that Darkness needs to be controlled and brought back to Nevada Godless I got dark your emergency whether it's a medical call or a fire call that looks like you it gives that person a little bit more ease knowing that somebody might understand their situation a ████ out of which my response is he got himself in the place if I have to carry out of a fire seeing the good part okay everyone shut the ████ up real quick shut up you guys here we go he started it damn it understand her situation better is she strong enough to do this or you couldn't carry my husband out of a fire which my

4:12 response is he got himself in the wrong place if I have to carry him out of a fire what what the ████ but no I'm sure your commentary is better than that yeah that's victim someone in a ████ fire well you shouldn't have left your cat there bro to be fair my commentary I'll say this if if you could hit the Ben diagram of like the perfect person that could carry your husband do all your fire fighting activities and also relate to whatever problems I'm having okay that's a w but I don't think she can carry my husband dude what kind of a a reasoning you shouldn't have been in the fire in the first place fire to begin with I like to Assassin that too it's like he got himself into a pretty bad situation on his own and they're like this is a good ad we should put we should we should put some money behind this put a little bit po music behind I didn't that upload it who's the ████

5:02 idiot that decided to do this wow I feel like we should repost that on our socials dude you can't even work at Office Depot without having to like lift 40 lbs or some ████ like you have to there's requirements for every job yeah it's pretty crazy I don't know man dude that's insane that's insane imagine blaming the customer that why you can't lift the paper at Office Depot well you should have got pay with without heavy like the first part is just corny like ████ we hear all the time right but the second part is like wait what that's crazy no one wants the fire department there right it's like and then it's all it's all self induced like everyone ████ is burning themselves and they're like what here's a ████ another idiot doing it to about yeah a fire person taking someone out with a blanket Raptor on them and then laying them down on the gurnie and being like what the hell were you thinking yeah like everyone was cooking meth that's how that's every source of the fire guys

5:53 we can't just hive mind in here okay okay yeah yeah yeah what's your what's your representative of the w tell us Morpheus I'm just saying they got a point they shouldn't have been hanging around fire that's well your husband's not mad enough to walk himself out cuz cuz I bet they do answer some calls where you're like dude what the ████ were you doing in there or like there's somewh the classic one where they fall asleep with a cigarette and it lights their but that's but you ask that that can happen to anybody though I I don't blame those people I don't think that question after you take them out of the fire not during the ████ how' you end up over here you also don't make generic statements about this just like what were they doing like he got himself into a bad situation on your own but you but she still didn't answer if she could carry the husband or not like you still save you still save gunshot victims even if they were the robber like when they get

6:43 to the hospital yeah that's crazy well you shouldn't have been robbing that Walmart yeah exactly but they still have they still have to save their life and imagine when that gunshot victim gets to the hospital and then the doctor takes down their little mask and they're like we're the same race Isn't that cool is that cool same way doesn't that make you feel good had to take off the master does that make you feel a lot better that is ridiculous and then a guy comes up and you're like you ain't Asian get the ████ out of here I don't trust you happens all the time I'm sure like why make any mask and they go I also have the same sexual preferences as you why don't they do ████ too wait wait wait can't all be H H mine HP mine h m what if there are instances where like let's say a white Aryan firefighter

7:33 right racist sa runs into the house and then sees a nonf fellow white and it's like I'll save you last yeah you know runs the other rooms huh what if there's a lot of data be like cool at least one person got saved versus her come in and go can't pick up any of you guys and leave no she comes in and she goes you guys are in a bad situation yep why are you here in the first but I look like you bye did you see that video of that of that cop that couldn't pull the guy off the tracks cuz she she was like too weak and he and the train took out his legs oh my God what is this on face of death he shouldn't have been on the tracks though he shouldn't have been track what was he doing track he was he was on a wheelchair and he got stuck on the on the railroad TR what was he doing that got him in the wheelchair dude he's got to go around the tracks he can't go

8:24 through the tracks got to go 8 compant what did he do to even get BR in the first place yeah why is the track yeah some ████ I don't know what's wrong with his genetic code dude but he got stuck and then like she was like radioing for help for to like pull him off and then she was like trying to like go like this he was so heavy and she's like oh I can't she's like move your legs help me Diet like she's like this guy ████ walks dude I ████ know I saw him walking earlier pretty rough imagine drowning at the beach and the lifeguard's like what were you doing there in the first place and it just like help you should have got yourself in a rip tide man yeah imagine saving some your lifeguard yeah somebody's drown or whatever and then you come over and you're like hey I'm white too how about that how about that what are the chances you and me twole I hate how it's so like

9:14 pick and choosy like you're not doing this with Cobalt miners I know right that's so true you're not doing it with like like underwater welders or sewer workers people in the foxcon facilities in China and they also had a budget for this they had a budget for this video they're like all right we got to make this video to spend time doing this this is Outreach dude Outreach this is ter at what point When people's like near death they go H H you're not Asian I'm not I don't want you yeah or like oh I don't think you're going to you have my best you know you don't have me like my best interest yeah yeah ████ this you're getting why why solve this tiny ass little problem that they made up when the problem of fires still exist like if they nailed the the whole fire situation they ████ did it all in a couple days I we have no problem

10:05 with this we we we probably would a little bit but it wouldn't be as big of a deal as it is now because they failed everything and then you have you're spending time and budget doing this you're like all right bro what imagine you're imagine you're on top of a roof right and everything's flooded around you there's 9 ft of water around you and then you got the helicopter fliw overhead and they throw the rope down and the guy comes down he's like come on come on come on and it's like wait are you are you also gay and then you're like if you're not gay I don't trust you not send the gay nurse over here I'm in a vulnerable Community yeah wait before we go any further is this that's not a parody commercial is it no it's not it's legit are you are you are you messing with us no I got on this website called The Babylon B you ass no it's real it's actually real is it for Los Angeles Elon even posted it too shut up no legit and yes it's actual lauty fire man it's so ████ up believe

10:58 it dude this ████ is like not comedy is Just Happening that's insane last stat literally says in text like only about 5% of working firefighters are women so I think IG focus on the last not a lot of ladies want to be firefighters right wait what is that is that is that a hot tap wait you think that's why it's a burning one when you were growing up with like all the girls in your classes and stuff none of them want to be like I want to be a firefighter not one not one I don't care what if they want to be whatever they want to be like who cares I don't can you do the job yes or no yeah I just want to make sure that they can do the job do the job all that matters you know yeah I'm like you can firefight for me cuz you probably throw me it just matters if you could do the job it's like if you're a cook can you make good food if you suck at cooking don't be a ████ Chef yeah and I don't think the job should lower the bar to be more accessible I think there's a high

11:49 standard that everybody should be able to hit cuz a short dude can't do it like if you can't lift you know it's like why should yeah for sure yeah if you're five five and your guy you better be ████ stacked you better be able to yeah squat there are some studly firefighters that are short too but they can do the job but they're physically there there should be limits right like you could be able to hold your breath for x amount of time or whatever like you got to hit these markers you're be able to carry people out of buildings actually turns out if this chick was like yo can you carry my husband and she's over here squatting like 500 lb hey you're all good bro all you brother put her on the truck it's not like a gender or race or anything it's like some of these jobs have a requirement for safety strength all that and that should be that should that's the way it should be if you're a lady you just got to be strong enough to carry a human body right you got to be

12:41 able to withstand the smoke and you have to you have to eat ████ if the whole equality thing is so stupid cuz if it if it's true equality then you would take the jobs that also don't have Prestige and make that 50% women that's true they're only focusing on the jobs that have some form of Merit yeah like there's a lot of really crappy ones and the reason why this job has Merit because it's a really ████ hard job that not many people on this Earth can actually do yeah like it's a very exclusive job for a good reason it's like honor like associated with exactly but it's not the world's hardest job which is being a single mom and only a man can do that to a woman [Applause]

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