host of the pseudo intellectual podcast a really interesting follow on twitter as well that lauren chen go check and i thank you for thank you. russia is celebrating the 7th anniversary of reunification with crimea and 2014 more than 96 percent of the people are voting to break away and rejoin mainland russia following months of political turmoil and civil unrest in ukraine ortiz only a patrol can tell us how the day is being marked. the biggest and loudest celebrations as usual war of course rocking the cities of crimea itself but here in moscow something special was happening at the biggest arena of the capital luzhniki where a lot of our putin gave a very emotional speech but the president didn't only congratulate crimean for a vast majority of locals there this day march 18th and 2040 was the happiest day as most of them say in the years or decades the russian president also sent an emotional message to the whole of russia and to the rest of the world reminding everyone where the crimean peninsula belongs as he sees it the sure but as you have seen today is a very special day for th

in the workplace babes in the workplace a women's rights advocate also we have got lauren chen lauren is host of this pseudo intellectual podcast welcome to you both lauren can we kick off with you cancel culture truly is a divisive issue conservatives tend to see it as one of the most pressing concerns today many liberals say it simply doesn't exist why such a great disparity. well i think the reason why there's such a disparity is because according to a lot of people on the left what we see is cancelled culture is simply people being held accountable for their views which is concerning because a lot of the times what people are being canceled for are run of the mill abuse why should you have to be held accountable for something for example as simple as supporting donald trump as a president or questioning things like election integrity these are not views that you need to be held accountable for in a normal free society that is not by not run by some orwellian tech not kersey and what's especially concerning is now we're seeing that cancel culture isn't just happening on social medi

representing asian americans has linked the massacre to white supremacy but political commentator lauren chen told me she believes the term is being overused and over politicized well i think it's very concerning over the past few years how we've seen the definition of white supremacy get watered down to the point where now the term is essentially meaningless is that unfortunately people are very very liberal in applying the white supremacist label label where it simply does not belong and what that actually does it is makes it harder to combat real threats there was the recent shooting where asian women were killed that is an unfortunate tragic incident yes but there is a big difference in terms of how we prevent these attacks from happening when we say that someone was attacked and they happened to be asian versus they were attacked because they were asian and sadly that is a distinction that it seems the media is increasingly unwilling to make it's gotten to the point in terms of media coverage where you would assume that there was an anti asian or white supremacist shooting every week bas

show that asian americans are the least likely group to have hate crimes committed against them lauren chen is our lots for not so good a time as any to remind you that the very latest global news updates can be fun to on our twitter page i promise you will be bored there so yourself. one of the worst ever mass shootings in america was in last vegas in 2017 the tragedy exposed a little of the real last vegas where many say elected officials are controlled by casino owners the vegas shooting reveal where the l.g.m. p.d. really is and now it's part of the stand as sheen has to the american public barely remembers that it happened but just shows you the power of money in las vegas the powerful showed that true colors when the pandemic hit the most contagious contagion that we've seen in decades and then you have a mayor who doesn't care so here's care i goodman offering the lives of the vegas residents to the control group to the shiny facades concealed deep indifference to the people could have been saved if they were taken action absolutely keep the roads shrinking due to slot machines doing