Whitney Cummings Got in Trouble for Saying "Merry Christmas" | Joe Rogan

That's why I think for a lot of guys, you know, walking into an MMA gym, it's terrifying. But it's okay. Everything starts with, you know, one tiny step. And I like doing anything that makes me feel uncomfortable and takes me off my pins. Huge. Because it opens up new pathways of understanding somehow. Or it certainly forces me to... So what I do now with people who I disagree with philosophically, you know, like say I'm talking to somebody who's a hardcore socialist or something like that, it's okay. But what I try to do is I just try to listen to them really... I try to kind of zero in instead of like immediately throwing my hands up. Did you see what Britney Cummings said the other day? Britney Cummings? Or Whitney Cummings? No. Did I say Britney? Did I? I think I was slobbering. It's okay. Too much of that turmeric coffee. Bro, you gotta... And people say, why are you coughing so much? I don't want to tell the truth. It's turmeric coffee. You gotta full mouth, bro. It gets phlegm- You gotta full mouth. You gotta... Shit. What was I just saying? You said Whitney Cummings. Oh. She got reported to HR on a show she was on because as she was leaving, she said, Merry Christmas. Some intern. No. Yes. Intern was offended. It's called Human Resources because she said Merry Christmas. Her response was, hey, I really don't give a fuck if you have a good Christmas. Just a nice thing to say. Yeah. I don't give a fuck about your Christmas. I don't even know you. They reported her. Something that's very fucking important for people to realize about the West, something that's really unique about the West in Western civilization, is that imperialism, racism, sexism, all these isms that we are guilty of. The West didn't invent these things, but we did... We were egregious violators in some cases of that. Slavery was a real thing in this country. What's unique about the West, and I'm getting into this thing, is that we were the first to label it and condemn it. The West has always been a country that seems always to be in the process of repenting for its past, repenting for its sins. That is not common. That is unique to... And self-criticism is part of it. As a society, we are... So people like that silly girl who... That's been going on, actually, in one way or another for a long time. Now it's... The intern? Yes. Now it's way more... I don't know if it was a girl or a boy. I'm not sure. Now it's a little bit more. It's way more. But that's actually to the character of this country. We have always had people who kind of went, uh, meh, uh, you know, that's wrong. I don't want to do that. This isn't fair, all that kind of stuff. And it was a fucking... It would always cause all kinds of problems. But that's extreme. That's a silly goose. Whoever's doing that is dumb enough. Well, it's Hollywood. There's a Hollywood thing where these people can't be liberal enough. They're trying so hard to be progressive that they're just becoming ridiculous. Yeah, I know. Dude, they get so reactionary and everyone's scared that they're going to be out of the woke loop. Like maybe they're behind. They're letting something slide that they should have stepped up for. Because now you can get in trouble if you don't come out against someone saying, Merry Christmas. Like, hey man, you know, where were you when that fucking pig said Merry Christmas? Do you know what Christmas means? Yeah. Like, dude, they want to take away the word supremacy and quantum supremacy, which is quantum computing. It's next level, next step computing. There was an article about Google achieving quantum supremacy. And they were like, well, we don't like the term supremacy because it reminds people of white supremacy. But do you know what I think about those people? Do you know anything about a lot of those people? They're ready. They're young. They're not experienced. And they're not that bright. I'm sorry. Well, this is the thing is they are bright. They just aren't wise. They're very smart. And they know they are, which is one of the reasons why they want to make an argument to push something like that through and think that it makes sense. It's because they're so smart. But what they're not is, is you get seasoned by your interactions with human beings. You're naive when you're younger. And then as you get older, you get seasoned. Your mind changes. But you also get seasoned, meaning you experience so many different human beings that exhibit these sort of stereotypes and these like patterns of behavior. And you got to know when people are being knuckleheads and you got to know when people are being wise and objective and you got to know when people are being kind and loving and you got to know when people are being assholes. Like you can see all the different things. As you get older, you get more data. And a lot of these kids are like 20. They're 22 and they're yelling about the world. That Greta Thorneberg chick, they keep breaking every... She's 16. She's a kid. Listen, you've got some good points, but they're using you now. What happens is as you get older and you try to solve problems at the level of detail. So if you and I had to really solve some problems, let's say healthcare, you and I are sitting here... I'm not solving shit. If we had to try, right? Well, what happened is we might come with more of a Republican or a Democratic or a Liberal or a Conservative sensibility initially. I think once you get down to the level of detail and you're trying to solve these problems, all that ideology kind of goes out the window because now you're dealing with hard numbers and math and you're trying to deal in percentages and you're trying to deal with what's the best policy for the most number of people. And so it becomes way, way grayer and way less teamy if you are somebody that has to solve problems. If you are somebody who has to turn a profit, if you're somebody who has to figure out what your clientele actually will buy. And I think sometimes that's why people who own businesses and people who have to make the trains run on time have a different philosophical and political point of view than do people who essentially spend a lot of time reading, thinking and writing in an academic institution. Because you don't need to get down to the level of detail. You can stay in that wonderful world of theory. And that's an important world. It's not to say that you shouldn't have that, but a lot of journalists come from that world. They come straight from that world of theory, that intellectual pursuit and they come right into, then they see the world. And I think that might be why a lot of times people in the media tend to be a little bit more ideological, maybe a little bit more liberal, depending, because you could say Fox News is just as fucking ideological on the other side. But I do think your perspective changes when you have to get down to business. When you're out there in the real world. It's like fighting. You need both though. And this is what I think we need to make this distinction. You need these quantum theorists, you need these historians, you need these people that are just completely engaged in whatever the subject is again. And they're just lifelong academics. You need both. You need both. But the real problem is when people come out of these universities and they have these sort of hard line ideas of how the world needs to change. They're revolutionary. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it's very exciting. It's very exciting. So they want to burn down the whole building. And then you start looking for witches. Okay. And then you start going, that bitch said Merry Christmas. And that's what that is. That's what's nuts. Google's calling it quantum supremacy. Can you fucking believe this shit? Like, yeah, we got to burn it down. They're here. They're down. There you go. It's a lot of it is being young. But young people can do some, when they get together, the communist revolution was, you know, this is also where why discourse is so important, right? Like young people need to talk to other people, you know, like a lot of these people with these ideas are one day going to laugh at those ideas. They're one day going to look back and go, Oh my God, when I was 20, I was so stupid. Just like you have done, just like I have done, just like basically everybody does is they get older. You start thinking, Oh my God, when I was 18, what a fucking moron I was. Oh my God, when I was 24, you want to hear the stupid shit I thought I should do. I mean, that's part of life.