Brainwashing and Language Control: How We’re Being Manipulated | Ep. 148

In this episode of the Wellness Connection, Fiona Kane reacts to Buck Sexton’s book on modern brainwashing and explores how indoctrination, propaganda and language manipulation are shaping today's cultural debates.

Fiona breaks down the latest controversies in Victoria, where Premier Jacinta Allan continues to push policies that ignore women's safety, including placing male offenders in female prisons and dismissing risks despite documented assaults. She also revisits the Victorian government’s ad campaign telling women to ignore their intuition, and why that message is dangerous.

Fiona looks at the broader global landscape, including Canada’s ruling forcing citizens to “believe in gender identity.” She explains how this mirrors historical authoritarian tactics, where controlling language becomes a tool for controlling belief.

This episode covers:
• How brainwashing works in modern democracies
• Why language policing matters more than people realise
• The Victorian prison assault case and its political cover-up
• The push to replace biological sex terms with “assigned at birth”
• Canada’s Human Rights Tribunal ruling on gender identity
• How unsafe policies are being defended with victimhood hierarchies
• Why intuition is critical for women’s safety
• The mental health side of gender dysphoria and why affirmation isn’t always support
• Why authoritarianism often starts with language control

If you want grounded analysis on culture, politics and the impact of ideology on everyday life, this episode gives important insight into what’s happening, and why it matters.

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Transcript

Opening And Book Setup

Fiona Kane 0:14

Hello and welcome to the Wellness Connection. I'm your host, Fiona Kane. Lately I've been reading a book by Buck Sexton, and it's uh it's about brainwashing. Um, and it's uh Manufacturing Delusion, how the left uses brainwashing, indoctrination, and propaganda against you. And I just thought it was interesting the way he described it as what I've been seeing and what I've been railing against, but I didn't always have the language for it, what I've been seeing in our culture, in our world over the last five to ten years, but um, particularly sort of the last five years or so. And so I thought it would be interesting to talk about that, interesting to talk about language and why it matters so much, but also some things in the news that I think are relevant and important. So um, interestingly, uh since the last time I was talking about these issues, there's a few things that there's been some updates on. Um, so one is um I wrote about and did a podcast about Jacinta Allen, uh the Victorian uh premier, uh the victor in Australia. So this is the Australian Victorian premier, so the leader of that state. And uh and I remember I was looking back, I was like, when did I last write it? Because I thought it was a while ago, and it was in actually July 2024. I first started uh talking about how terrible this uh politician was. And who would have thought there could be someone worse than Dan Andrews, who was before her? But uh she's uh equally as bad as Dan Andrews. So a couple of years ago I was writing about her, and I was talking about the fact that she what she was doing is she put out an advertising campaign essentially to make women and young girls not use their intuition. And I'll go into that in a little bit detail in a moment. But what I also noticed that the thing that was in the news currently is that um essentially there was an issue in Victorian prisons where uh an inmate was sexually assaulted by a man dressed pretending to be a woman, right? This is an issue in all of all of the countries that are still hanging on to this ideology, which would be places like the UK, although they're they've let go a little bit of some of this stuff, and Canada, terrible at this, and Australia is one of those places as well, where we continue to hang on to this ideology that says trans women are women full stop, therefore they can be in all women's spaces, including prisons. And there was a case here where it was like when when people were fighting back against Deshenta Ralan and saying that that um that you know women shouldn't have men in their prisons with them, that um she had already had a situation where there'd been a sexual assault and she's paid off, you know, this there's been a this woman was paid out for what she'd been through. But at the time that all this was going on, uh Jacinta Allen was saying, oh, there's no risk, there's blah, blah, blah. Even though she already knew it had it had already happened at the time. We only just found out it had happened at the time. But even though it had already happened, she was uh claiming that there's no risk and that you know women are perfectly safe with men in their prisons. And you know, the argument they use is that these men are unsafe in men's prisons, which is kind of the argument for for women, like why we don't want them if if men are unsafe in men's prisons, why do we want men in women's prisons, right? But in this particular case, it was just terrible because it turns out the um, besides all the reasons, obviously it was terrible, but the people associated with the prison actually also did say this was a you know terrible idea, not it it was going to end badly, blah, blah, blah. So there was a whole lot of warnings against this happening. Uh, this man was put into a prison cell with a woman who who was a with had a small baby with her who had um been a victim of sexual assault. And um, and yeah, guess what happened? Uh just horrific. So that's just centre Allen's government uh covering this up and pretending it's pretending it's not an issue and still thinking it's okay to put women uh men in women's prisons, in women's cells, and uh and you know, too bad for you know suicidal empathy, right? You care about the the victim class here, the oppressed class is the person who identifies as trans, not the women. So because it's the person who identifies as as trans, is the victim class here, is the oppressed class. Too bad about everybody else, their rights do not matter. When we we've always we've always got to remember that this ideology that champions the you know the victimhood and the victim class, and the victim class who is the biggest victim and class is the one who wins out, and everybody else is too bad. So, in a situation where it's up against someone who's trans, they're the biggest victim. So everybody else doesn't matter. And so this uh this yeah has been going on with this uh in Victoria. Well, the the thing that I first sort of riled against her in regards to this is that in Victoria in um you know what did I say was July two years ago, uh there was an advertising campaign run. And the advertising campaign was a campaign to reduce transphobia, which is a made-up word. People aren't afraid. Well, actually, that's a whole other sort of the reason people reject the trans thing is not because they're against individuals or because they hate individuals or because they're terrified of people a man and address or whatever. It's because they understand reality and they want safety for certain groups or fairness and that sort of thing. Um, but anyway, she put brought out this ad and the advertise advertising campaign was the you know, the unsaid says a lot. And um, and at the very least, this advertising campaign was offensive to women, but I would say it was actually dangerous to women. And the reason why is because it was telling women to ignore their intuition. So women have been uh harnessing and and using their intuition since forever, and we've had to because women are in general the weaker and more vulnerable sex, and so we have had to learn how to listen to our intuition so we could survive. And also, we're usually protectors of children, you know, infants, old people, whatever. So, you know, that the vulnerable. So we've had to learn how to listen to our intuition. This particular advertising campaign, uh well, in one of the ads, uh, like a man who was a man who's identifies as a woman gets into a lift, and the woman who was already in the lift decides to get out. Now, this man was like six foot five big man. I think he might have been, I don't know if he was Aboriginal or Islander or what he is, but just a really, really big man, right? And the the way that this campaign, that the way that the ad plays it out is essentially the woman's a bigot for getting out of the lift. Now, most women will tell you there's been situations where they've been, you know, in a lift or in a in some situation where they've been alone with a man where they've felt unsafe and they've chosen to remove themselves from that. And unfortunately for women, whoever's feelings get hurt by this, it's too bad. Because women need to protect themselves. And sometimes that means listening to our intuition. Now, whether or not that is a man in the lift or a woman in the lift or a man who thinks he's a woman, whether or not that person's got this colour skin, that colour skin, the other colour skin, this race, that race, this religion, it's irrelevant. If you feel unsafe, you have a right to remove yourself from that situation. Now, is are you sometimes overreacting and that that man might be the nicest person in the world? Possibly, but that's actually something that men just have to deal with. It's men can't have their feelings hurt by that. It's just too bad because the the risk, the risk is too high for women. So essentially we have to use our radar, we have to get out of situations where we feel unsafe. And but what we're doing now is we're saying, you know, what the Victorian government is saying is and not just them, but just all of these idiots who do the same, say the same things, is stop listening to your intuition. The feelings of the other person are more important than your safety. So what we're being taught is forget your safety, it's all about the feelings of the other. And the feelings of the other, it's you know, it's whatever victim group group because whatever victim group it is, they're more important than you. So essentially, we're being taught to ignore our intuition. And um, there was another ad in the same campaign, and this other ad was you know, a man joining a woman's football team. And um, and everyone's smiling because they're so inclusive and you know, whatever. And again, there's a lot of danger associated with this. It's a whole episode in itself. I think I've talked about it before actually, with the dangers of men in women's sports, but um, you know, the dangers of especially a contact game like that where um you know you could get tackled or or harmed by a man not intentionally, but yeah, it's that's a rough sport. It's rough already without adding uh that element to it. Um, besides the fact that, you know, uh things like privacy and and fairness and a woman misses out on being in the team because a man's on the team and and um and safety and uh locker rooms and all that kind of stuff. So the Victorian government have absolute form on this sort of stuff, and it's the same story, and and so it brings me back to this book that I've um started reading by Buck Sexton, and you know, essentially Buck is talking about how how this brainwashing occurs, and he's he's comparing it to the brainwashing that happened in you know in the USSR under Stalin and in um in China under the Chinese Communist Um Party. And essentially the stuff he's saying, it's kind of you know, it's it's the playbook is is as perfect. So I was having a look at this, and and uh he was talking about that uh, you know, it's this whole totalitarian uh thing where they want to take over and they want to control the language and they want to control what everyone thinks and says, etc. And something came up actually in the news this week that kind of uh confirms it really, uh, and it shows how ridiculous this stuff is. Um, in Canada, this is a classic example of this like brainwash stuff, right? So in Canada who have gone absolutely mental with their progressivism, socialism, social justice stuff, it's just oh way over the top. This will give you an example of why. So uh Barry Newfeld, a former school trustee who opposed gender ideology in schools, has been ordered to pay$750,000 to the Chili Whack Teachers Association. So the BC uh British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal literally stated the following If a person elects not to believe that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, I would argue, well, it's not assigned, it's um observed. But anyway, I'm quoting. If a person elects not to believe that gender identity is separate from sex assigned at birth, they do not believe in trans people. This is a form of existential denial. A person does not need to believe in Christianity to accept that another person is Christian. However, to accept that a person is transgender, one must accept that their gender identity is different than their sex assigned at birth. So they've actually said that British Columbians must believe in gender identities. It's illegal not to. So they're actually telling you what you're legally allowed to believe. That you must believe in gender identities. And that is, you know, that is well, what do you think all of this hate speech stuff going on in Australia is about? In Australia, we they brought in all these hate speech laws, and and essentially it was, oh, it's it's to it's a good thing, and it's because we care about what happened to Bondi and we care about the Jewish community. And look, if it was, I'd be all for it. Like I'm I'm all for that, right? I'm all for let's uh have a whole lot less of what happened at Bondi and a whole lot uh more care about um our Jewish friends and that sort of thing. However, the Albanese government didn't bring that in because he cares about the Jewish community, he brought that in so he could use it in other ways, in my opinion. And one of those ways will be this sort of stuff, right? It will be um, I'm offended by what you said, and you're not allowed to believe or say certain things. And, you know, this language thing, it's it's it shows the language thing in here, right? So so first of all, man is allowed to believe whatever he wants to. And you know, I I believe that trans people exist, uh, I believe that they believe that they're trans, and that uh, but I also believe it's a mental health issue, it's a mental illness. And so indulging in that and um and saying, oh yes, you really are a woman when someone is not, I don't think is helpful. However, this is about language policing. And notice in that article, uh in that judgment twice, they referred to assigned at birth. This is one of the language changes that they've made. So when you look at the language changes they made in places like China and places like USSR, a lot of it had to do with changing the language. And you change the language, and changing the language is part of brainwashing, right? So we say assigned at birth, not observed at birth. It's always been known that sex is observed at birth, right? Doctor looks and says, Oh, that's a boy, oh that's a girl, right? That's pretty obvious and you know, and makes sense. Suddenly now we're saying assigned, like, oh well, we don't know what they're going to be, so we'll just say what we think they are, and then later on they can decide there's something else, right? So that is indulging in the mental health issue and indulging in their their sort of language, uh the language policing. So, you know, the other thing is that, you know, when you read stories about someone who considers themselves trans, their leftist media, which is most of the media, go out of their way to only identify them as whatever sex that they identify as. They won't identify them as who they actually are. And you see that a lot in one of the reasons I think that people don't realize how many violent acts are being committed by people who um who consider themselves trans is that the media just calls them whatever they want to be called. So most recently, it's a young man who thought you know who identified as a woman who did a school shooting. It just had horrible, horrible school shooting where he killed all these young children and and harmed all these young children. And he also killed his own mother and brother. And uh, but they the media's all saying her, this girl, and it's not a girl, that was a that was a guy. Um but to protect him, oh, we have to protect you know his identity and his feelings. No, we don't. He just killed a whole bunch of people, we don't. Um, and the fact that you know he his mum supported him and was really supportive and actually started being involved politically in the community in regards to supporting trans teens, and ultimately he killed his mother and his brother, tells you how much of a mental health issue it is and tells you how much of an issue it is if you just blindly support this ideology. Blindly support, I'm not saying not to have sympathy and empathy for people who were in this situation, it's a dreadful situation to be in, and it must be terrible to feel like you were born in the wrong body. So I absolutely have all the sympathy and all the empathy in the world for that. But you know, it's but it's no different to if someone feels like they're in the wrong body and they feel like they're too fat and they must starve themselves. If I say, yeah, he go on a diet, he takes a zen pick when a person, you know, is starving themselves to death. I haven't helped them, right? So so we can't we can't affirm people in their delusions. It doesn't help them. And as societies, we've been doing that, and it doesn't help them, it just actually goes because the problem is you say, Oh, yeah, yes, you are a woman, and yes, you the doctor made a mistake, and you you know, you really are a different sex and you really can change sex, blah, blah, blah. And in the reality of the world, they can't. The reality is no matter how many surgeries they have, no matter what they do, they can never be the opposite sex. They're never going to be able to do the same things or be be the same as the opposite sex. And at some point they realize that, right? Um, and then what they do is they frame not being accepted, you know, in like women's prisons and things like that. They frame that as a genocide. You're being genocided because people don't accept you. All this Canadian people who made this ruling against this guy who doesn't sort of believe in the trans identity thing. Um, you know, that's that that's a genocide. Not believing that is a genocide. So you you affirm these people in a delusion that means that they cannot accept the body they're in and they have to spend their whole life fighting against the body they're in. You affirm that, you support that, makes their life worse, they get more mentally ill. And you wonder why that happens. Like it's it's just crazy town. Um, anyway, and and you think that you're helping the person, you're not helping the person. We have to help people live in the world that they are in and the body that they're in and the reality that they're in. Reality matters, and you can fight up against reality as hard as you want to, but ultimately reality will smack you in the face at some point. And so it's better to actually deal in reality with people and help people be in the real world. So um, the other thing that uh, you know, he talks about in here, he so he talks about, you know, this mass delusion and the conditioning. Um, and a lot of the conditioning has been around language. So they've said that we're not allowed to call, you know, uh so parents instead of being called mother and father in Australia, they tried to change the language in in hospital situations, you'd go in and as a as a you know, as a mother, and you'd be called the birthing person, or the birthing parent, I think it was, can't remember now. And the the husband was like the non-birthing person, you know, that sort of stuff. And um, people did fight back against that, and I think they've got mother and father back in there again. But you know, taking away our language, you can't use the term breastfeeding, it's offensive. You have to use chest feeding, you know, it's offensive to the guy who wants to take hormones so he can pretend he's breastfeeding, right? Crazy town, but that's where we are. We've got to use real language, and we can't be afraid to use real language, and we can't let these people control the narrative and control the language. So, you know, trans women are men, they're not women. Women are women, women are adult human females. That's what a woman is. A woman is not a feeling, that's not a thought, it's not how I feel today. A woman is an adult human female. We need to actually use real language. And, you know, and I like uh Billboard Chris has a great way of describing this. He says that there is there are two sexes, zero genders and infinite personalities, and I agree with that. Uh you know, gender used to be a synonym synonym for sex, right? So it's just another way of saying sex, or we could have or we might have used it in terms of where we were talking about your gender, you know, how what different genders would do. So, like if one was more likely to place border or be strong or be whatever, be mother, be uh parents, be like I'm using all the wrong language, my brain's just like clocked out. Um we use gender in terms of talking about um the way society, you know, gender roles. Okay, that's how we use the term gender a lot. I don't use the word gender anymore because it's been hijacked and it's all about you know their feeling and it's and it's this belief that you know everyone has a gendered soul and so you are in the body that you're in but you've got this gendered soul that it might be completely opposite to that and you know how about you've just got a personality you've just got the personality of who you are and that might be more one way more the other as far as feminine masculine whatever but it doesn't matter it doesn't mean you're born in the wrong body just express who you are be who you are fine but you don't need to change your sex to do that and and it's actually um yeah I think it's really regressive to do that not progressive to do that so a lot of uh this changing of language a lot of it it's deliberately meant to create confusion you know trans women are women blah blah blah uh half the time people don't know if you're talking about men or women or what you're talking about. They also talk about deadnaming you're not allowed to name a person you know like I if I called uh Bruce Jenner Bruce Jenner that's dead naming him and that's really offensive and um and so it's like this weird thing where you know because what does he call himself now um now bro I can't remember his name what he called Caitlin Caitlin Jenner I think he calls himself and look fine he he calls himself Caitlin good on him whatever he's still a man and Bruce did exist and the problem with saying that you know as as part of the delusion isn't it as just saying we we're banning people a dead name and you can't name who you were before as kind of it reminds you it reminds me a lot of uh things like Scientology and in Scientology you're not allowed to talk about the things that happened before or who you were before whatever. And um and when people have different opinions like if someone actually says it actually yeah the truth uh you can say that they're they're a problematic person and you know and you don't want to be around or listen to problematic people. So uh it's it's just uh the same thing here there's so much around language that they try and uh try and change so um you know the other thing that we talk about here is that um sorry I'm just trying to get my bearings of where I am with my notes here because I wanted to make sure I was making sense. What what they also do is they suppress dissent and they try and destroy the people who say the things. And so anyone who says the stuff I've said here today is called a transphobe or a bigot or this or that or a turf trans exclusionary radical feminist whatever all sorts of names and um and you know I I've lost friends over this I have because I just want to tell the truth and it's because I actually care about these people it's not because I don't care. That's a thing it's like it's framed as if if you don't accept someone's identity and just go into the delusion with them that you are an evil and bad person and you hate them and you want to you want them genocided and it's a complete opposite I want these people to have full lives I want them to actually be happy and comfortable living in their own body and be able to have children if that's what they choose to do when they get older and be able to have you know sexual pleasure which is what they miss out on if you interfere with their bodies too much and be able to just be full humans that live a full human life that they were meant to live in the body that they have. And that's what I want for these people. And what they've what we've done is we've completely framed it the other way around where it's you know um if you don't accept the delusion if you just don't go along with it if you don't join them hook line and sinker and just go the whole way uh then then you're evil and bad and you hate them and you're hateful. And that's how they've um hooked in all the women into this because women are particularly caring and and we care about the vulnerable and you know we've been convinced that if you care about the vulnerable you'll help all of these trans kids. There's no such thing as trans kids as confused kids but we've created a whole new category of trans kids and we've turned it into you know a human rights issue as in if we don't again if we don't accept and fully go into and and and and fully embrace the whole trans agenda and the whole trans ideology that we're anti-human and anti-human rights and hateful and um and you know it's it's and it's opposite it's the opposite to that it's because we care. And I just was seeing if there's anything else in regards to that um that book that I wanted to share. I think there'd be there will be more over time but um just remember that when you hear a lot of the language when they want you to call a man a woman and when they want you to ignore the elephant in the room and when they want you to stop using terms like you know mother and and breastfeeding and or if they want to start saying things like you know uh assigned at birth rather than observed at birth things like just notice the language and reclaim it back. Don't let them change the language and preferred pronouns and all that sort of carry on. Don't let them change the language this is all subtle ways subtle ways to re they're programming you they really are programming you they're programming us that is the whole idea and they do that to um well they do that to control you and they want to um make a whole bunch of changes and the destabilizing the a society is a good way of doing that. Now some good news is that in the US they're doing some sensible things around this and because a whole bunch of hospitals are going to lose their funding if they keep doing these gender surgeries on children a whole bunch of hospitals have stopped doing that there's a whole list of them all over the US it's fantastic news they're stopping doing their gender transition surgeries. In the UK they were about to do a trial on um doing puberty blockers for children and again they've um put a hold on that because there's questions about how safe that is because we are actually starting to really look at the data I I will have a future episode coming out where I'm going to be talking more about the endocrinology just more about physically what happens when you use um puberty blockers on children and um it's not good news. It's not healthy at all so that's really good that's um that's happening in the US some sensible things happening in the world um also the other good thing that's happening is um is is in in Australia we actually had a ruling um a sensible ruling so we've got our e Karen here in Australia and again she's parading as someone who cares about kids and banning kids from social media and all the rest of it and like I've read Jonathan Heid's stuff so I've got I I get the good side of that I absolutely get the good side of keeping kids away from a lot of things on social media. However the stuff that she's going after she spent over$250,000 going after um this woman Celine and what um what Celine's uh Celine was guilty of I'll tell you what Celine was guilty of she was guilty of a a tweet where I think it was a tweet or a video where she was talking about um she was talking she was talking about a um oh now I've lost it here we go uh no I've lost it I'll come back to you in a sec just a moment I found it what I so it was Celine who calls herself Celine against the machine on um on on X. So she won this fight against the e-safety commissioner Julie Inman Grant over attempts to block a post criticizing the existence of a queer club in a Melbourne primary school. So Celine um who herself is bisexual so she's not again she's not ate or whatever uh that sort of thing um but she questioned why kids in years three to six which is what three to six is like from I'm trying to remember the age is it nine through to nine through to eight through to twelve something like that eight through to eleven something along those lines so very young children. So she was questioning why they needed an LGBT club that focused on sexuality and I think that that's a really good question. Why do they need that? And so the the this e-commissioner spent all of our taxpayer dollars over 25000 to fight her and in the end she won and just and just fight to have her have it not be able to have her tweet removed that's what she was fighting for right is this ridiculous uh it is okay to question why people want to sexualise young people young people children should just be allowed to be children. There's time for sexuality when they get older and then we can argue about and talk about the balance and what they should be taught and what they shouldn't. But what's happening here especially with this trans ideology is that they're bringing in all of this to children at a very very young age they're introducing them to the fact that you might actually be born in the wrong body and and so the whole idea that they might be born in the wrong body and all sorts of sexual stuff that just does is not appropriate for small children let small children be small children. Anyway I hope today's episode made sense I know my brain's a bit scattered so I don't know how scattered this episode is I just wanted to yeah Victorian government massive fail they this disgusting what Jaclen is doing there and it is this mind virus that I've been talking about and it's it's this mind virus of we just have to support whoever the oppressed party is and damn the effects and damn what happens to everybody else. Once we have to decide who the oppressed is we just do everything to help the oppressed and nothing to help the real victims often in these situations all the real the people who are really at risk you know women, children, that kind of thing. Anyway, I'll leave it there. I decide to have real conversations here about things that matter I think we need to be honest. I think we have to rail against the um the this re-education that has been happening for the last few years. Identify where it's happening around you and don't take part in it. Don't change your languaging don't don't um let the language in place tell you what you can and can't say because you might just think oh well you know it's just kind but I tell you what like in Canada it's going to be it's it's at one point what they want to be able to do is uh is make it law that you have to you know impelled speech impelled thought and spell impelled speech that you must think or say whatever. And like you might think well that's great because I agree with these things but that it'll also be used against you for things that you don't agree with. So you know that's just the way of it when you bring in laws to um you know to work for your political advantage that they won't work when someone else is in power. Anyway I'll leave it there we need to tell the truth we need to be honest we need to protect people we need to help people learn how to live comfortably in their own bodies and we need to identify who the real victims are and who the real oppressed are and stop supporting the inverted commas oppressed class based on all this stupid ideology in favor of um helping the people who really need our help. Anyway I'll talk about more next time I talk to you. I hope you have a great week please like subscribe share all that jazz and talk to you later. Thanks bye bye