0:00 [Music] And welcome back everybody to another episode of Lee for Boys. Hey everybody, give it up for Subie. Subie [Applause] [Music] captain. My captain. It's a cute mug you got there. Yo, don't look at the color. It's okay. There's nothing wrong with that color. No, I like pink. I know something else is pink. Anyways, um you guys you guys see that sticky. What the ████ You guys see the clip of what? What are you laughing at? What are you thinking about this pink though? Well, they could go multiple ways, right? If you say, "I know what else is pink." It could go multiple ways. Yeah. But which way? Which way are you going? I think we both went a certain way. I think Anthony was being a pervert and I think me and Subie caught him. Exactly. We got you. Caught him. We caught you. What was I thinking about? I was thinking about the pink ranger. Yeah.
0:51 No, you No one's thinking about the pink ranger, dude. Not with those fond eyes. Yeah. You guys don't think I was thinking about the pink. had some fond eyes. You guys don't think I was think about the pig rangers. How'd you pull them out so quick? Why is that like first on your camera roll? Are they all guys? Yeah, they're all guys. That being said, the real one. That being said, have you guys seen that clip of uh Whoopy Goldberg that's kind of going around right now where not that one. Is it the one where she's like it's it's like being black in or is the same as being in Iran? I'm just going to Yeah, I'm just going to show you guys this clip. What? I can't maximize it cuz it's on Instagram. So, you'll mainly just listen to it. Do people listen to Whoopi? Cuz I feel like she says some stupid ████ dude. Every year she says something dumb. She's very out of touch. I'm super convinced though. Okay, let's watch this. No, we're going to agree with her because no hive mind. Yeah. No hive mind. Hey. Hey. Volume, eh? No. No
1:42 rightwing talking points. We don't grow. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. No. I think it's very different to live in the United States in 2025 than it is to live in Iran. Not if you're black. Not for everybody. Not if you're black. Guys, don't go. Damn. That many people. tell you about being in this country. This is the greatest country in the world. But yeah, I know that. I know that and we all know that. But every day we are worried. Do we have to be worried about our kids? Are their kids going to get shot because they're running through somebody's neighborhood. These are they they are not big deals. And I I don't mean to say they're not big deals to you cuz that's not what I meant. And they are not doing well there either. They are not doing well in Iran. They are not educated. They cannot be nobody wants to diminish the very real problems we have in this country. That
2:32 is no one's intent. But I think it's important we remember there are places much darker than this country and people deserve right. Not everybody feels that way. Not everybody feels that way. Listen, I'm sorry. You know, when you think about the fact that we were we got the vote in 1965 as you Okay, they don't have free and fair elections in Iran. universe out of their house. You know what? There's no there's no way I can make you understand. Let me try cuz your wife You don't know what I go through. Oh my god. For real? That first sentence. I feel like Whoopi's been rich for so long that she just she's just out of touch. She's been in another class majority. But you you know how like when old people when they get to a certain age, they just say the most outlandish things. That's true. Right. Or they're just completely out of touch. Like they just she couldn't vote
3:23 since until 1965. I know. And that's what I was saying. That's what I was saying. Tell that to the ladies in Iran. Whoopy just wanted to the fact she's like, "We don't even have free election." They're like, "What's the vote? What's the vote?" I don't know why Whoopi wanted to hijack the topic and make it about like the struggles of black America because she was just trying to talk about how ████ up situations were in Iran. And then it's like, how do you even compare? How do you compare, dude? A third world country. You can't even compare that. We're the It's the US. Like the poorest people in the US have stoves and refrigerators and like showers and I'm like the poorest people in the US is still richer than like 70% of the world. Yeah. That's not how everybody feels though. She's worried about kids getting shot. I don't know what the ████ she's talking about. Just the just the sheer idea of like would
4:14 would everyone in Iran trade places with everyone in the States? A thousand%. Yes. But no one would want to go there. Yeah. So like you can't even compare. What's crazy is remember when uh we were evacuating Afghanistan? Like places like that that are so war torn. It's so bad that moms will throw their babies over barbed wire fences hoping a US soldier would catch the baby and make the baby land in America. Right. That's places like Iran and Afghanistan. That was happening in Vietnam. And Whoopi Goldberg thinks it's still worse here. Like, have you been to Loiaga? It's ████ crazy, bro. When I go to write in, everything is taped up, dude. I can't get to anything. Like, damn. Everything's behind security. That's crazy. That is such a bizarre thought,
5:04 dude. And from their perspective, they're like, as bad as black people had it, at the end of the day, you guys had a black president. That's the upward mobility that is realistic. that has their perspective is like you can leave your house, you can go outside your door. I just I don't even think most even though everybody clapped when she said that. I just don't feel like a lot of black people even agree with her. That doesn't seem like it's it's almost like how many people would want to like give up their spot in America. I think if you're live audience on the view, you're the producers are like, "Okay, I think the view is just rage bait now." I don't actually think they they believe it. I think they get views. The view gets views from people going they're ████ doing some out of pocket. Oh dude, Whoopi is killing it. You think you think most of the viewers are at Whoopy's age? Probably, right? I don't know. But Whoopi was born in 1955, so
5:55 she was 10 when she could vote, I guess. I think honestly I think most of their views are actually people going that's crazy and then they go see the the That's true. That is true. They they probably are rage baiting a lot. Yeah. But what's sad is there are like, you know, moms that watch soap operas at home and then they're listening to it and then this is their gauge of where society is. So they're like, I guess it is crazy, isn't it? You know, and then like the whole narrative and like social fabric starts to change and warp. It's just the most American take ever. Like like that's the most cliche. My mom was like recently she goes uh she made a Xerox in my birth certificate cuz I was visiting her and she goes, "You have to carry this with you right now." And I was like, I have to carry my birth certificate. Like what what are you talking about? She goes, "Don't you know they're picking up all the brown
6:46 people?" See, cuz like I don't know how people like our mom's age, they get the news and then that is the truth. She go she really, my mom actually believes they're snatching all the random if you're just brown. She's like they'll pick you up. A lot of people like not even just people our age, they believe that. So they don't understand how um the process works. They just think they're going to pull up and then they're like, "Oh, they're not white. They're dark." Yeah. Let's just throw them in the van. Yeah. Like there's no intel. But then the crazy thing is that she she's like, "No, I saw it on the news." Did you hear what Whoopy said? Like Yeah. It's like if she saw it on the news, it's like it's sealed. Like damn, that's crazy. And that's just like one outlet of media. Like imagine if you really like eat that like whole. Your life must be really hard to navigate. Yeah. If you eat it every day. Yeah. Yeah. They are on every day, right? Cuz
7:36 like like that's to say like the things that they say they're probably not really living by their word. D. So imagine if you are because you think that's correct. Like that's very complicated. Whoopy probably has a ████ Iranian makeup artist backstage doing her makeup, ironing her clothes and ████ You're Armenian, right? Not our opinions, but because we we report the news here, uh factual news. Uh let's just read some of the top liked comments on this uh on this particular post. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just so we can get a bearing of maybe what society might think. Top liked one says um no hood like victimhood. Stupid. Another top liked one. When did you last visit Iran? Whoopi. Um uh this is a when you weren't on set.
8:26 Yeah. Yeah. This person says, "Yes, I am a black man in America. Can relate to the suffering and oppression of the people of Iran so much after the gym later on, I'm not sure if I should go get steak and sweet potato for dinner from either Longhorn or Texas Roadhouse." Damn's first world problem. That's awesome. Uh, top one says, "Can we get her a one-way ticket? I'll pitch in." Uh, Whoopi should move to Iran. Um, Whoopi, you aren't disliked because of the color of your skin. and you are disliked because of the content of your character or maybe the lack of it. So yeah, it most like that was a good one. That was a bad I don't even know what country has like the poorest people in their country that are obese. Like yeah, that's the hard part. Like they eat good, you know? Like I don't know. I
9:16 don't know what the ████ she's talking about. It's tough because like when when like people who have been like a higher class or celebrities for majority of their life, you just as a normal person have almost nothing in common with them. So if they're trying to tell you like, oh, life is like this, life is like that. It's like, bro, you're better off just listening to another person like you, like why would you go by someone's experience that you don't even have a fraction of what they have? And and here's the truth. What she's saying uh in a certain context is like completely true. It's just like it's not like if somebody, you know, if you get a kid who gets like a cut and needs a band-aid, you're not telling them about like when you broke your arm a different time so they can't complain about it. It's like no, you just give them the band-aid. You you hear that they're hurt in that moment, you know? What up, guys? Come join our Patreon cuz there's hundreds of videos dating back to 2019. Support the
10:07 channel's growth and new ideas. And tap into the closer community by joining our Discord. Come chat with me inside and then you can say funny things to me and get the opportunity to suggest new video ideas. Come join our Patreon. Thank you. Link is in the description box below. That's what I feel like the manipulation tactic is. Is it's drawing from a very real place of hurt that someone has. That's not necessarily that, but it's like taking advantage of like a sentiment that does exist, but it's not literally that it's worse than Iran. You know what I mean? So, it blows it way out of proportion. It's not apples to apples. And it's it's like saying, "I hear you, but at the same time, I don't because this is totally irrelevant." It's like, "Oh yeah, you have this like black experience and I'm going to go ahead and take that whatever rage or dissatisfaction you have with the culture and just make it a way bigger thing." Like without actually solving
10:58 any problems. Like I just don't I don't get why like she's talking about Iran and then she has to be like, "Well, some of us in America are like going through the same stuff." I'm like, "Why do you have to ████ let her finish her point?" She's trying to make a point about Iran and then now it's diverted. It has to be now it has to be like an argument of which one oppression of Olympics and there's time to solve all the problems like equally. You don't got to like be like hey guys you can't worry about this happening over there and then it's it it's like s█████ for her to also go when she's like there's there probably are darker places in the world and she's like someone like you just wouldn't understand like dude that's crazy. That's not reverse racism. I don't know what. And that's just like the that's such a go-to I don't know what to say. It's like whenever people get confronted with like, oh, it's starting to get really hard to like explain this, so I'm just going to stop
11:49 and just totally cut access to my point. I think some people that develop this like her perspective, right? Like like there was a time when she was like a part of normal society. I think that's her reference point. And then so like she is old enough to remember segregation and all that ████ So she's still stuck on that. The world has kind of moved forward. There's been so much progress and she's gotten rich, but her mind is still like going back to those times as if we're still living in it. But it's crazy how she's even starred in her own movies. So she's never even really like her exper like she's accomplished so much. Yeah. She's not even speaking from her experience. Her true experience is you can be a minority in this country and be a mega star. Right. Her actual statistical be on a uh
12:39 running TV show for like a decade. That's her true experience. She's not even speaking from her experience. Exactly. Yeah. She's not going to be able to help you with your life. That's totally different. Yeah. That's Hollywood, baby. Cuz that's like that's like me saying, you know how hard it is for Asian-Americans to be on YouTube? Meanwhile, I've been on we've been on YouTube for like 20 years. I keep spewing that thing. It's so ████ hard, bro. you don't understand. And it's like, dude, that's not even your experience. Exactly. You know, you know what I think might be happening is um you know how like there's like uh survivor guilt. So like she sees people of her community not doing well, but she also doesn't want to gloat like that. So she just like it becomes the more richer you become, the more the gap is. People tend to be way more um what do you call it? It's not empathetic, but like they feel guilt they feel guilty that they're so
13:31 much more richer. And then that's why sometimes they say like um most billionaires and rich people become so liberal because the policies or and all those things are so um it's so empathetic to the poor, right? So and then they feel like, oh well, I'm in Silicon Valley and I'm like a mega ████ rich person. So, I'm like, "Yeah, let's do everything that's like great for social justice and stuff." I would rather it be I would hope that that's what it is, but I feel like a lot of people it's a play. It's a virtue signal. I think it's a play because like you're uh kind of like Chris Brown becoming a Pyru after he's already successful. You know what I mean? It's like it's like a play to have legitness like like oh no, I'm still like Jenny for the block. You know what I mean? Where it's like you know that Yeah. You know that you have higher mobility with these people in this group. like you can mobilize that unit. You can't really
14:22 mobilize the unit that's above you. Yeah. But it's like a thing where that's why I don't I don't buy it because I feel like it's she still sees herself above the people she's commanding to like do the dirty work, I guess. Like she's having all this rage, but she wants you to do the damage. She's not going to get out of her house and like, you know, do no rioting or nothing like that, but she'll be totally happy if you do. So you're So you're telling me Whoopi is going to be a pyroo. That's her way out of but I think ████ I think she's going to be a ████ It just has that it has that same vibe of like that's why I really I I hate too when like when let's say like somebody did something bad and like all the people in the comments are dropping the address and they're like go to it internet go do your thing internet. But it's like you won't do it but you want to mobilize the craziest people in your group to do the dirty work so you can be like oh they're active but it's like she's not actually doing it. That's what
15:13 the view is to me. It's a bunch of people that they don't get active. They just like want to monetize and mobilize their craziest people. That's what I feel like she's doing. Yeah. Which is the it's a tough indirect part about it because like that's their understanding and version of being active because it's like oh this is my platform so this is my responsibility which is also why so many people are calling out social media influencers like you have to say something. If you don't say something then you're complicit. You know it's like that's your version. But what if we say something and it's not what they like and then it's like it's you told me to say something but they thought that we were going to say the thing that they wanted us to say. That's the thing. If you're like an influencer, it's not enough to go like donate behind the scenes or show up to the protest. You have to you have to show that you're doing it so that other people can like feel that like you did something righteous, you know, and like that's that's a bit of like our current culture
16:03 as well. Again, it's not about right and wrong. It's just like that's like a part of like what we all coexist in today, right? Like I even even with the LA protests and stuff, 90% of people I feel like they had to go post about it and it's like dude like I remember when we were just doing protest because you wanted to protest something and so now it feels Ironically and I maybe I hate that I feel this but sometimes I wonder if it's a genuine action. It's good marketing. It's definitely not dude. It's virtue signaling. As soon as this whole thing came around I was like oh this is black square part two. Remember they're like co like all that stuff. I was like, "Oh, this is just black part two." But you know, you know what's I think different from co and now is um back then there was a clear it was more clear like what's who's on the right side or like it was more like okay
16:53 here's another Rodney King situation, right? So it was more like the world could get behind a certain thing. But I think now it's so confusing because there's so many different angles and not everyone agrees like even within the community that it's supposed to be like whatever. And I I think that's what's it's too confusing now. So I don't know like it's gotten to this point where um it's also like corporatebacked or it's also like there's like different motives behind it, you know? The corporate back thing is weird. Yeah. Yeah. There's like there's like um it's been you know what a scop is like a lot of things have been scoped by like different groups where you don't have like one voice where everyone's like yeah that was completely wrong like let's let's talk about like even look at the whole Israel Palestine thing it's so complicated like it's not
17:44 that simple right so I think a lot of issues now which is why a lot of the narrative out there is like no it is simple yeah oh wait it is simple that's what That's what a lot of them. Yeah. It's like it's No, it is simple. It's like there's a right and there's a wrong. They try to get rid of all the nuances. I see. I think it's way more complicated now cuz you actually hear so many different perspectives. Like for example, one thing I didn't know was um Orthodox Jewish people are against Israel. And I thought all Jewish people were just that's their country. But then I realized like there's so many or uh Orthodox Jewish community people that are like, "No, we shouldn't have a country. It's against our religion." And I was like, "What the ████ I didn't know that." So then there's like Jewish people on free Palestine side marching
18:37 and I'm like, "This is too confusing, bro. Like I don't know. You really got to know the world and s███." Yeah. But that's the thing is you'll get you'll get persecuted socially for even doing research. Like you're not supposed to look nothing up. Yeah. Yeah. You're not supposed to look anything up about anything and people go, "Hey, today we're going to be rioting because ice." Like you're not allowed to say nothing else. Yeah. Like we think too much. Yeah. But I think that's what happened also to like um this channel. We're like we just talk about whatever, right? And then what ended up happening was um people became so like hey if you if you don't just ride with us and if you even like start having any type of critical thought that doesn't fit with what we believe ████ you guys. And then it it ████ us because we're truly independent. Like we can entertain the
19:28 right ideals or the left, but then we end up becoming either a Boba liberal or we end up becoming a Trump ████ and it's like there there's no there's no in between. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah, that didn't help. Boba liberal on this side. Bubble liberal. Bubble liberal. Give him the bubble time hat. I'm a bubble liberal. The true be time. Well, you know, I'm a ba liberal sense of humor. In an optimistic point of view though, it's like I just to give a non-h high mind mentality. What's kind of dope about this clip even with the view is that it's an argument and and it creates moments even for us to like have a critical conversation about something that's like fairly complex. So even for us to like or or people to rally behind a perspective, it at least like helps to point like there there's two different sides of a conversation versus like
20:19 they're all just saying like, "Yeah, yeah, I totally agree. I totally agree. The the black experience is is comparable or worse than the Iranian experience." Like they're arguing about it and that like makes it so that people have to think about which side they might like fall into. And and that's a good thing. I think critical conversations are important. I think if anything people like started maybe feeling a type of way even about us is because maybe we were all a little bit more like-minded about certain things and that becomes an issue because if they don't get to see an argument they don't get to participate in active critical thinking for themselves versus just being spoonfed a belief system. True. So I mean as long as as long as we can argue all the time we're good. Yeah. That's to me still like a good example like what she's saying in response to the Iran thing. It's a good example to me of like you're now treading into the world of like you're over the line and now you're contributing to the quiet
21:10 invisible fatigue for this topic. Like you're not you're riing people up on your side which is good for I guess activism but it's bad for the sentiment of people to support you from the outside. Yeah. Because then people are like you get that like lethargic like god damn dude like she's talking about Iran. Like like if we stopped her and went yeah but what about Asian hate? You know like what if we stopped Whoopi and did that? We'll never win that one. We'll Yeah, we we won't but we shouldn't win that. We shouldn't win that because you should even bring it into the conversation because it's insufferable to do and we're losing points. You know how much homework I had to do after school? It was ████ crazy. You had to go to Kuman. Okay. It was so hard. Uh, some of us went to Silven Learning Center. Yeah. Learned a lot. Learned a lot. What a dream. Open up.
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