JD Vance
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Yeah, and that that's the kind of guardrails.
Logic man logic is it's a problem when you have ideologies and logic is a colonial idea man Yeah, and that's math is racist Well, okay, so It's interesting
There's this movie that's probably like extremely influential to my entire political worldview, and I didn't realize until last night because I got into Austin late.
Usually my wife travels with me.
She wasn't with me last night.
She's taking care of the kids today.
So I get in the hotel room in Austin, and it's very late, and I watch this movie, Boys in the Hood.
Have you ever seen Boys in the Hood?
I watched that movie a ton when I was eight, nine years old, and I didn't realize how much that movie has had an influence on me until I watched it last night.
Furious Styles, a lot of his stuff about not letting financial institutions buy up all the stuff in your communities.
Obviously, he's talking about black people in LA and not white people in rural small-town America.
But I was like, oh, like that's maybe the first place that I ever heard this idea.
Or he talks about like the importance of fatherhood, the importance of especially young boys having a father in the home.
It's like I got that from Boys in the Hood.
And obviously it spoke to me when I was a kid because I grew up at the time and I didn't have much of a relationship with my dad.
He makes this observation, math being racist.
He's criticizing the SAT for being culturally biased.