一年，他们要我写有色人种对于白人的10个新年立志。我最后写了。我想，要吸收我从大学，和研究院学到的一切，然后在这种媒体环境中，我就像是一个完美的风暴，可以在非常反美的地方制作反男人和反资本主义的内容。但那个时候有趣的是，我的前夫把我给翻转了。我们逐渐在家里进行这些对话。当时我的丈夫问我要否看一个电视访谈节目。那次采访是坎迪斯·欧文斯（Candance
Owens），这是她在2017年《鲁宾报告（Rubin
Report）》上的第一次。我只记得看着这个女孩，对自己说，我被媒体骗了。感觉这里有些东西不对劲，然后我进行了深入的探索。我看了很多Victor
Davis
Hanson的节目。也看了他的许多演讲。我经常听《鲁宾报告》，那段婚姻在我的生活中起了非常重要的作用，因为它揭开了那方面纱。他确实帮助我理解了很多我被教导的和我作为一个编辑和作者所出版的很多东西显然是弥天大谎，完全是谎言。
Women
are completely dominating America. We get more college degrees, the
gender wage gap was a complete myth. It was little by little the modern
feminists in me was just sort of dying. My name is Gina Florio and this
is my story.
I grew up in a Christian home. Yah my
parents really taught me that this is the land of opportunity and my mom
always told me, she says you can do anything you want to do. She says
you can be anything you want to be. I remember hearing that from a very
early time when I was a kid, she said that as long as I got a great
education that I’d be able to do pretty much anything I wanted to do
with my life. Um, so that was a really big moment for me when I got
into Harvard, but I got there and then I even remember because it was a
divinity program that’s where you really get the machine of the
brainwashing and the indoctrination. I took a class my first year called
race ethics in the U.S. prison system. and the professor, she flat out
told us that it was a white supremacy system that ruled America and
that the U.S. prison system treated back people like slaves. We read
the new Jim Crow, and so I was really digging deep into the theology
into this critical theory and I was getting deeper and deeper.
But when I got done with my degree
program, even more I asked myself, what on earth am I going to with
this? I have to take responsibility too, but I think in a way higher
education kind of destroyed me. It little by little took away all the
layers that really gave grounding and meaning and it gave me an entirely
new viewpoint of the world, a new lens through which to see the world.
And that lens did not see the world kindly. You know there was an
agenda there. They wanted us to hate America. They wanted us to hate
the free market in capitalism. I came out of Harvard not only as an
atheist but I was angry. I hated America and I wanted to leave. So at
the end of that year, I moved to Australia. I just picked up my stuff.
I got rid of my apartment. I was like I am out of here., and I was
convinced that I was just gong to kind of live in this little small
beach town called Byron Bay. I was really soul-searching. I was
searching for something. And because I had abandoned all the things
that were most meaningful to me, I felt so empty. I kept denouncing all
the things that I had held dear in my life before, and spent a long
time looking for meaning and happiness in all the wrong places.
I was partying a lot. I was doing a lot
of drugs. It was a rough time. And God happened. I mean I don’t’ even
know how to explain it. I was turning on the gas tank to the barbecue,
and the gas tank wasn’t hooked up correctly. It set off. The gas tank
exploded. I ended up gong to the hospital at first and second degree
burns all over my face, my neck, my face was completely charred. All of
the delicate skin that was peeling off. A couple weeks went by. I had
to leave the country in order to renew my tourist visa. They found out
that I was essentially working on a tourist visa, which is obviously
illegal. And I had no choice but to go back home. My mom said when I
called her from the detention center, she said she was so relieved. She
was so relieved, not only because I was alive, but because I was coming
home. Sorry, I never expected to cry doing this. It was a rough time
and it was strange and you know I feel bad I put my mom through that she
had to watch me go from a straight A student and having real ambitions
for my life and then all of a sudden I was just sort of like, you know,
kicking it all away, and so I don’t want any of that. I just want to be
free.
I was a freelance writer for a couple of
media publications. You write whatever they give you. So at the start
of a week my editor would give me a list of topics, and I could choose
which ones I wanted. The list was always something like 10 ways you can
be more of an intersectional feminist. Ten ways you can support more
women-owned businesses. Ten ways that cultural appropriation hurts
everyone especially minorities. So they would assign us
very very leftist, very feminist issues that we would just sort of have
to produce because the name of the game for these media companies is
quantity over quality. It’s all about clicks and views and traffic,
because that’s how they make their money. That’s how the advertisers
will buy ads. So they just give you topics that they know will get a
lot of clicks and views, and you are just expected to write them.
One year they asked me to write 10 new
year’s resolutions that people of color have for white people. I ended
up writing that. I would, you know, take everything that I learned from
college and university and graduate school, and then being in this
media environment, I was kind of just the perfect storm of a place to
produce content where it was very anti-America, very anti-men,
anti-capitalism. But what’s interesting about that time is that my
ex-husband red pilled me. Little by little we would have these
conversations at home. My husband at the time asked me if I would watch
an interview, and that interview was Candance Owens, the fist time she
was on the Reuben Report in 2017. I just remember watching this girl
and thinking to myself I am being lied to by the media. There’s
something wrong here and then I took a deep dive. I watched so much
Victor Davis Hanson. I watched a lot of his speeches. I was listening
to the Reuben report a lot。 that marriage played a really big role in my
life because it brought me, it pulled back the veil. He really helped
me understand that a lot of the things that I was taught a lot of the
things that I was producing as an editor, and as a writer were just
patently, blatantly false, and a complete lie.
A really big sort of red pill for me was
the lie of modern feminism, the relationship between men and women is
not the way that modern feminists say it is. Then I started researching
more about how women were doing in America and I started to realize
that women are completely dominating America. We get more college
degrees. I learned that the gender wage gap was a complete myth, a lot
of the Prager University videos at the time. I remember watching the
video of Christina Hoff Sommers, talking about the myth of the gender
wage gap. It was little by little, the modern feminism, the modern
feminists in me was sort of dying.
All these facts and data and statistics
that were just kind of bubbling up All of the lies of America being a
racist white supremacist country was really dividing us. I started
doing Jiu Jitsu when I was in San Francisco towards the end of my time
there, and something occurred to me that sports and fitness are almost
inherently conservative. They are based on merit, they are based on
hard work, they are based on tangible results, no matter where you come
from, no matter what the color of your skin is, no matter what kind of
background you had, what kind of socioeconomic status you come from, if
you work hard enough, you can lose 20 pounds。 If you work hard enough
you can win that Jiu Jitsu fight.
I do think there is a very strong, a very
interesting connection between being getting physically fit and going
through that process, because I found myself very inspired to improve
other part of my life. I look back on all of my experiences, and I just
really hope I just hope and I pray that all the pain and the suffering
and the turmoil and the chaos and the inner struggle that I dealt with
as a woman in my 20s, i hope that my story can really inspire young
women to take the narrow path, and not be seduced by the lifestyle that I
think is pushed today in mainstream media as pushed by， you know, our
culture and our society to be free.
I love this country. I love the
opportunities, but it is given my mother that it is given my family. I
love the opportunities that it is given to me every Fourth of July. Now
I just have a deep reverence for this country and I really believe that
God has blessed America in unique ways. We are a very very unique
experiment that has gone right. Right now I am reading Dinesh D’Souza’s
“United States of Socialism”. You know these books really make me
clutch the book to my chest and I am just so grateful that I was born
here. My mom always told me since I was a kid she said, girl, you got
the golden ticket you were born in America, and my mom was right. I am
so lucky now and so fortunate to be here. I just love America. I love
our country.
