The actual cause of the sex imbalance in China is because in Chinese culture, the son is supposed to take care of his parents when they are too old to work, while a female would leave the family when she gets married.

It's stunning to think that Brett Weinstein lives in his own little universe where he's a public intellectual

You’re really doing something when you’re too racist for Tucker Carlson.

I'm not sure why no one brought up why Chinese couples wanted males. Males take care of the parents as the parents age. So married couples take care of the male's parents, while the female's parents would have to be taken care of by their male child. If they don't have a male child, they don't get taken care of. Homelessness among Chinese senior citizens is on the rise.

I'm finally glad some people are speaking up about this. As an asian person I am deeply offended by a Jewish man on one hand voicing his fear about the rise of antisemitism online against Jews, but then spewing his racist fear mongering theories against the Chinese. Though I'm not Chinese, as an asian, when hate against the Chinese rise, we get it too. And YES Mr Weinstein does have children.

Why is Tucker interviewing on a Brontasaurus steak? Freddy Flintstone might see that and just eat his table. Better be careful with his interviewees.

This guy started a conversation about selective breeding and then had the gall to bring up evolutionary forces. He's either immune to critical thinking or his brain takes him so far in every wrong direction possible that he could never course correct.

It is also like Weinstein has never heard of a concept called "dowry".

Is Tucker Carlson broadcasting live from the set of the Flintstones?

Why is he using the logic of evolutionary biology to understand a sociological phenomenon? He's talking about the Chinese as if they're social insects.

Brett Weinstein talks about evolution like it’s an all knowing god figure that responds to the desires of humans lol

Convince me a far right-wing mindset is not an indicator of mental illness.

I love how Brett’s like “oh, maybe there’s some other factor at play” and instead of doing the most cursory research into Chinese culture and the gender roles of men and women in relation with their parents across the lifespan, he just skips right to “it’s a biological imperative to create an invading Army!”

This guy talks about Chinese people like he's narrating a bloody nature documentary, and then turns it into a military scare tactic.

As a side note, I study math and physics and I yet have to meet an actual mathematician or physicist who considers Brett’s brother Eric to be a serious scientist.

When I was younger I used to think professors and doctors had to be intelligent to get where they are.

I have to say, the parity between how uninteresting and hollow Brett's ideas are, and how droning and miserable his delivery is, is about right.

In every appearance Bret Weinstein makes, he manages to find a way to pat himself on the back. It's embarrassing.

How do you pull off being more unserious than Tucker Carlson? That's a talent

So Tucker saw how successful “The Joe Rogan Experience” is and the first thing he did was look up the word Experience in the thesaurus

Brett Weinstein clearly doesn't understand traditional Chinese culture, which he could learn by simply looking it up. Like European culture, Chinese culture is historically patriarchical, and in pre-industrialized China, the only way to continue the family name was to have a son to carry it. Daughters would move in with their husbands' families once they married, and for many parents in that society, investing in the raising of a child to adulthood only for them to be married off to another family was a huge financial strain on the family, especially when most families lived in multi-generational homes and the next generation was responsible for taking care of the parents in old age. That was the whole point of a dowry. It was logical from their cultural POV, and this doesn't even reflect modern Chinese families anymore. All it takes is for Mr. Weinstein to do a little research into the historical context of it all. Meanwhile, in the 19th century, America banned Chinese women from immigrating to the States long before it banned Chinese men from immigrating for another 60 years. Specifically, white Americans accused Chinese women of all being prostitutes and carrying venereal diseases, when in fact they didn't want the Chinese to marry and reproduce within US borders. Oh how much the present continues to echo the past...

Brett Weinstein is the "excess male" in this scenario.

That lady in the white turtleneck “charging in formation,” I cannot stop laughing. Thank you so much.

Brett Weinstein could have had a dull but safe career as a professor of evolutionary biology. Maybe not as famous as Richard Dawkins, but definitely not an embarrassment. Instead, he let himself fall *way* off the deep end and keeps embarrassing himself again and again.

Tucker doing his best Patrick Bateman business card scene impersonation with that ‘… remarkable’, what a hollow man

When I saw the whole interview "military age" chinese men was so extreme I could not stop laughing. My English teachers never taught me another synonym of "Young Adult" is "Military Age" lmao.

Is there a historian in the house😂

China is a patriarchal society, so if a one child policy is in place, most males are going to want a male heir.

The high sex-ratio imbalance is due to a strong son preference coupled with easy access to sex-selective abortion. He could have just done a Google search to find this out.

BW is an evolutionary biologist. He's talking about Fischer's sex ratio theory... it... is supposed to apply at the evolutionary (not cultural) level, which is to say if there's a *genetic* mutation with one genotype that produces more male offspring and and another that produces more female offspring, then there's "fequency dependent/balancing selection" and whichever genotype is more prevalent in the population actually has less chance of reproducing, so the rare genotype will rebalance... If this clip is taken out of context and he's talking about non-human animals and plants it makes sense. If he's talking about humans with culture and authoritatian politics it's a complete non sequitur bc its culture/politics and not genetic variation that are controlling how people behave. 100% what Dawkins said.

What is so baffling to me is that Brett lives in a right-wing "intellectual" (cough) space where China has been heavily criticized for the one-Child policy, forced abortions and sterilizations, etc., from the pro-life angle. A part of that discourse is how that, plus traditional gender norms and traditions in China, has created a preference for male children. For Brett to just have missed that is... I can't explain it as anything other than him losing what little grasp on reality he had left.

Tucker Carlson Encounter is what happens in the mens room in a gay bar.

I think Jordan Peterson revealed the active Chinese sperm dispersal laboratory in one of his tweets lol

Weinstein: it didn't work out the way I thought it would, so I lost interest. Haaahaaaahaaaaa

want to ruin Brett's life? pronounce his last name WEEN-STAIN

Never occurred to him that in [edited for spelling] China, female dowries and male oriented inheritance, perceived greater utility and income prospects of sons as workers on the farm or factory have been a traditional concern in china. That's why they got rid of the female children. Because they were perceived as costly to the family, both in terms of ability to contribute and loss of the family inheritance/land etc. We did this in Europe already.

It seems insane that Bret Weinstein actually used to be a professor of evolutionary biology. You'd think that even occasionally, by sheer chance alone, a scientifically tenable thought would leave his lips.

"that's like a mech suit" killed me hahaha

A stupid person couldn't come up with something this crazy. This is something so far beyond that.

It's amazing that this interview isn't taking place in a padded room.

“Charging in formation” “They’re charging now” 🤣🤣🤣

Bret Weinstein talked in a serious manner. Sam and Emma responded in an unserious manner, by "making jokes." An intelligent person has a serious temperament. They're objective. Weinstein has a serious demeanor. Most people can't take him seriously. It's because they themselves can't be serious, not because he isn't. Fani Willis' responses to serious questions were unhinged. She failed to show basic decency. The way she responded was her own derogatory treatment of the serious questions. Leftists hear the truth and they become derogatory: "You're a racist." The people who can't take reality seriously have derogatory minds.

“Excess males” sounds so inhumane. People without mates are still important and can live their life.

I love how Tucker has now been reduced to interviewing every crackpot and has to maintain his perpetual confused face when he’d prefer to laugh at them.

the amount of money and time we spend on the border is stupid if ppl wanna live here then let them live here this is annoying

When Tucker thinks you're being too racist you need to check yourself

The litter 😂😂😂

There’s no “evolution” here, just sociology and sexism. Chinese people were limited to one child, and social pressures heavily in favor of males meant couples were statistically more likely to abort female fetuses. The trend never corrected itself partly because those same sexist pressures remain in place and partly because the gender imbalance only became apparent relatively recently. Nobody really knows what can or should be done about it, anyway, since this has pretty much never happened before. The closest analogues would be early Rome or Colonial South America which had mostly men and almost no women, so they just kidnapped women from somehwere else. Something tells me China isn’t planning to raid Vietnam or Mongolia or something to fix their sex imbalance.

public intellectual or public toilet? You decide.

Wow. That sounds just crazy enough to be completely crazy!

Brett Weinstein shoehorns square-peg history into his round-hole Darwinian Theory.

Saying you're a delusional leftist without saying you are a delusional leftist.

"You know when Dawkins doesn't want to boil things down to evolutionary biology you've lost the damn plot" -Emma Vigeland

What the hell is he even talking about

Bro just said a 'yellow hoard'? He's pretty racist by the sounds of it

You're misrepresenting what Weinstein is saying. He is saying that in the extreme situation that exists in China a rational parent would consider the likelihood that a male offspring would be able to find a mate. That's a perfectly reasonable assumption to make.

The average soldier is 20 years old so you're saying that the collective body of a country would have to look ahead 20 years to know to produce sons for the war that it might do in 20 years

Could you imagine the Weinstiens poor parents having to live with these two for 18 years. The horror,the horror..

Bret could have done a simple Google search or watched the documentary One Child Nation to find the right answer. With the introduction of the one-child policy, many women were forced to have abortions. There were even cases of female infanticide in a few regions. Male kids were sadly valued more in a society which probably contributed significantly towards the tilt in demographics.

"I was looking for evidence in evolutionary science studies and since I didn't find any, I moved ahead and called my theory true".

How does society choose gender at the time of conception? How does that work?

Brett, who has a crappy PhD in evolutionary biology, totally misunderstands evolution.

The one-child policy began in 1979-80. Sooo those 'children' would now be _44+_ ...is that the army we're supposed to be worried about? Winded, beer-bellied 30-40 year olds coming to get us? LMAO

This displays a shockingly poor understanding of biological evolution from a so-called specialist

Every time i see that guy, I think - whatever happened to Thunderfoot? 😂

"The Tucker Carlson Encounter" or "Close Encounters of the 3rd Reich"

These two are so diabolical😫

These people are so disingenuous. It would only take them seconds to look up the Chinese migration camps in the Darien gap and see that there is a concerted effort to migrate Chinese nationals into Panama and the US. Their attitude is so pompous.

Sam said "we have footage of that weapon being deployed" and I thought he was about to show that clip from Jordan Peterson talking about the Chinese semen milking machines 😂

They have two male children. China's old culture has always favored male children. When the CCP decided to mandate only one child per family, there were a lot of "stillborn" female births.

Good old the Chinese are coming the Chinese are coming yellow peril fear rhetoric. FAN THAT FLAME BRETT! 🔥

3:08 The random Perry Mason theme clip that started playing at this moment made a lot more sense than this guy's entire twaddell.

Dont know what happened to this guy, my cousin who took his classes had high praise for him before he publicly came out as a racist and lost his fuckin mind.

Ah, yes. I remember the time before Dawkins lost his fucking mind. The good old days.

biological Essentialism is what he is doing and it writes out the self determination of living and thinking creatures.

“Hmm you don’t know Emma” 🤣🤣☠️

Non stop sarcasm. 😂

Now I know why his students chased him off campus - he's racist to the bone 😂

The Evergreen State College must be so relieved that they no longer have to humour this person.

this incel culture is genuinely starting to annoy me

America's obsession with other nations is crazy.

That theory is the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. Even if it were the case, has he completely forgotten we’re in the age of advanced weapons? He sounds like he thinks we’re going back to a time when we belted each other with clubs and rocks.

These two got really nervous when the guy raised the subject of goofy podcast names.

tfw you think your wife is suffering from post-partum depression but actually shes just really upset over skewing the demographics of the country

Dawkins looked at him like he was a loon! 😂😂😂😂

The only thing that came to mind while listening to this Brett Weinstein gibberish was a quote I read somewhere: (Only he who has heard the woman's cry at the hour of childbirth, understands the true meaning of life)..

I was not aware that Brett Weinstein is so intellectually underwhelming, to be polite.

Tucker wants to be Joe Rogan so badly

All this show proved is they don't understand Chinese culture at all.

This is the stupidest, most insane collection of words I’ve heard this year.

The sex-ratio imbalance in China is a vastly overstated. Chinese people got around the one-child policy not by practicing female infanticide or sex-selective abortion on anywhere near the scale supposed, but by simply not registering their extra children with the authorities.

No fool, they were only thinking of the girls expensive dowries, and who's going to take care of me in old age. Lol

Damn Brett really has fallen hard. I used to like him. 😢

They’re coming to use our bathrooms!

Weinstein is a classic "armchair" scientist in that he sits around supposing things without the troublesome steps of data collection and analysis.

Did he ever take a biology class?

"The Tucker Carlson Encounter" I'm waiting for an indi-horror game now 😂

Brett has the most believable hair I’ve ever seen. That is totally not fake hair, everyone. It is a glorious full head of natural hair. Hahaha

You guys need to stop. HUMAN SKIN SUIT!!!!!!!! Hilarious.

Where is the racism, did I miss it or is everything default racist if you speak negatively about a non-white majority country? (not a fan of weinstein whatsoever btw)