On this week's episode of The Mug Club, the boys are joined by a special guest, Timmy, a high school student from Minnesota, to talk about a police officer who gives him PCP, the Ukraine, and much more!
00:03:40.000It's not indentured servitude, it's indentured styling!
00:03:44.000So we'll talk about that, and also my real question of the day is, do you trust the police?
00:03:50.000We're going to be talking about the difference here in Canada, what's happening.
00:03:52.000People on the left, the violence versus the police, versus people on the right.
00:03:56.000I think there's a healthy mistrust of police.
00:03:58.000I think there's a healthy mistrust of authority.
00:03:59.000Comment below where you line up with the police because there is right now a record high as far as, I guess I should say, a record low as far as confidence in the police.
00:04:08.000And look, there's something we should be able to find common ground on.
00:04:31.000So if it ends up just ironically getting me banned from YouTube and not TikTok, you can always watch the show, Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m.
00:04:38.000Eastern here on—I know it's 1030 today—10 a.m.
00:04:41.000Eastern on Mug Club or Rumble, and today we have another full hour of show on Mug Club.
00:04:46.000The best place to watch it is Mug Club.
00:08:24.000In 1916, just to let you know, African-American actor Noble Johnson and his brother George founded the Lincoln Motion Picture Company, a studio owned and operated entirely by black filmmakers.
00:08:34.000That's what George Clooney was talking about.
00:08:35.000Also, at a 1960 screening of Psycho, Calvin Watson of Peoria, Illinois, was the first man to yell, BITCH, HE GOT A KNIFE!
00:09:45.000It is, look, we'll talk about Russia, but I don't really want to, we'll talk about it on Mug Club, because it is one, I hate to use the word nuance, but you and Lane have disagreements.
00:09:54.000That actually did really well last time.
00:10:11.000But he did on his congregation, claiming, he claimed, as a pastor, and hold on a second, let me just say this, as someone who is a, Gerald, you're a Christian, I'm a Christian, Dave, you know, he's kind of knocking at the door, but knock, knock, knocking, but they're like, not yet.
00:13:07.000And this is a good example too, we'll get to John Oliver, what he does trying to say, you know, conservatives who oppose critical race theory, they just find someone who's crazy, like Jordan Klepper did yesterday, and they try and point to that as emblematic of Christianity.
00:13:16.000Look, don't look to that guy, look to Christ.
00:13:18.000That's why I have a problem with Islam, because I look to Muhammad and I go, Ooh, sex slavery!
00:13:22.000So, the point is, we have differences.
00:13:24.000Look to the founder of the feast, and this guy, it's fakery.
00:17:56.000All right, so yesterday, we'll just hit this really quickly, Vladimir Putin recognized the independence of Donetsk and Luhansk, two separatist regions.
00:18:06.000So just when I say recognize their independence, what I mean is he, right, he wants to Yeah, so that's a little bit misworded pretext for him.
00:18:44.000And today I'm addressing you directly, not only to talk about what's happening, but also to inform you about the decisions we're making about possible steps in this regard.
00:18:57.000Once again, I would like to underscore that Ukraine is not just a neighboring country to us.
00:19:03.000It is an inherent part of our own history, culture, spiritual space.
00:19:09.000They are our comrades, relatives, not only colleagues, friends, but also Our family.
00:19:19.000People we have blood and family ties with.
00:19:22.000Yeah, I usually show up to poker night at my friend's with tanks.
00:19:25.000I bet every one of those phones hurt someone when they're picked up.
00:21:58.000Now, here's something else, a story, though, to give you an idea, and I want to talk about the difference between The approach to police because we've talked about this and sometimes we catch flack as people who are more conservative.
00:22:08.000Look, especially when Black Lives Matter was happening and they were simply targeting police officers.
00:25:27.000I don't want to tell you what it should be for you, but this isn't too far off from what can happen in the United States of America if All it takes is one executive order, unfortunately.
00:25:36.000That's what's happening here in this country.
00:25:37.000We used to have a process, and you know, remember Schoolhouse Rock, three branches of government?
00:25:41.000We've seen a lot just get rammed through executive orders.
00:25:59.000If no one in office in Canada is willing to stand up to a Prime Minister who's done blackface more times than we can count, freezing people's bank accounts, and arresting people, and fining them $100,000 simply for a peaceful protest in a truck... You know what, Sonny Gamora?
00:26:20.000I just hope, you know what, if you look back at Canada, you'll turn into a pillar of salt, because I don't know if that country is redeemable at this point, and I would love to see Canadians come to the United States.
00:26:27.000We could use people like these truckers here in the United States, and we could use a movement like the Freedom Convoy here in the United States.
00:27:04.000Did they have their clipboard out to check to make sure the oil is at the right temperature, you know, the floors are clean, the bathroom's clean, like everybody's good here?
00:27:53.000What do you think happens if they break down the window?
00:27:55.000And by the way, the police, allegedly, I couldn't hear it but it did sound like, threatened to suspend this man's business license forever.
00:28:03.000So the police can come in and say, you have the wrong opinion, you support the wrong people.
00:28:07.000And by the way, this is not an inference that needs to be, this is not a stretch because we just heard the police chief say, there will be no quarter.
00:28:59.000Their business depends on customers coming in.
00:29:02.000They have made that impossible, and now they've essentially blacklisted them and said, look, we're going to come back and harass you and make sure that you guys have to pay the penalty.
00:29:20.000Everybody is so desperate that these police are trying to do this to save their own asses, while these people are trying to save their cafe, and all they're trying to do is feed people that are hungry?
00:29:30.000How does this happen in such a short amount of time?
00:29:51.000It's a goal... I'm not saying that Trudeau is a Nazi.
00:29:54.000I'm just saying he's a blackface tyrant.
00:30:00.000And I think this is important, too, because we need to recognize the difference between the left and the right in their approach to police officers.
00:30:13.000Now, I am not saying that you should go out and treat police officers as, when you look at the mass protests from the left, We saw this.
00:32:05.000But that is not at all inconsistent with... Here's what is inconsistent.
00:32:09.000Saying that's justifiable, or saying, well, it's the language of the unheard, and then saying, hey, police officers, come shut down this cafe.
00:32:16.000Hey, police officers, come take their guns away.
00:34:31.000And if enough of you do that, maybe some officers in Canada might start feeling some accountability.
00:34:36.000And I know there are a lot here in the United States, but we certainly don't blindly support the police officers.
00:34:41.000We just support them being able to go out and do their job and not be shot, not be harmed, not be maimed.
00:34:45.000There's nothing wrong with telling them that they're breaking their oath.
00:34:49.000Yeah, and every single officer out there right now, I don't care what country you are in, I was just doing my job has never been a good excuse.
00:35:16.000I mean, how many times are you going to take somebody's business, ruin their life, hurt people, take away in front of their children, until it becomes the exact same thing?
00:35:25.000Until it becomes us versus authority and it's just all-out war and chaos.
00:35:28.000Well, I think what you will see is, before that happens with anyone on the right, They will be defending their own property.
00:35:35.000They're not going to go out into the streets and haunt police officers as the Black Lives Matter people have done, as Antifa have done, which of course should be condemned entirely.
00:35:44.000But I do think at a certain point, for example, go through the timeline... Well, you don't own that apartment.
00:36:16.000And of course you have to have a passport and you have to be treated as a second-class citizen if you don't opt to take this mRNA injection into your body.
00:36:24.000Protestors peacefully show up to simply say stop with the mandates and stop with the lockdowns and then you have officers threatening to close those businesses down.
00:36:34.000So they're already unemployed and the people who are not unemployed are actually going out and protesting for the unemployed and then you decide that you're going to intimidate them.
00:36:43.000At what point do you think, and that's why I'm saying, I don't think the Canadian police right now, when they say we're going to pursue you even after this protest is done, they want to be given a reason.
00:36:53.000You don't understand what you're asking.
00:36:54.000When you talked about the vote that happened in Parliament, fortunately I think there was 141 people who voted against it.
00:36:59.000It was like 175 or 180 that voted for it.
00:37:04.000One of the guys who voted for it said two things.
00:37:07.000One, this is all based on disinformation.
00:37:09.000And two, this isn't just truckers wanting to end the mandate.
00:37:12.000This is foreign people coming in and doing it.
00:37:15.000That's the only caveat in the Emergencies Act that says you can implement this because it's for... They've shown no proof of that, by the way.
00:38:27.000I was raised in Montreal, which is far more European than it is American in a lot of ways, and I was raised to... My mother's side is French-Canadian, and I was surrounded by a French-Canadian family.
00:38:35.000We didn't speak English on any holidays.
00:38:37.000I went to French-speaking schools for half my life.
00:39:38.000After a year of a- And legal fees and battles.
00:39:41.000Jordan Peterson basically- And comedians cheered it.
00:39:43.000Yeah, Jordan Peterson is basically the devil for saying, if I can't tell the difference between male and female, I'm gonna say it one way or the other, and I might offend you.
00:39:51.000He basically said, I'll respect what you say, but I can't teach something that's actually not scientific proof.
00:40:19.000Rumor that the queen is being treated with a certain drug that may be inexpensive.
00:40:25.000So the rumor... Which is obviously a big deal for the Queen because they can afford what they... They can afford anything, really.
00:40:34.000And if somebody was, I don't know, 114 years old, you would assume it could work on somebody who's, I don't know, 30.
00:40:41.000Part of that is, let's say the entire world was collapsed based on the fact that an industry based on human health was all just to make money off of this entire thing.
00:40:53.000Shouldn't people be a little bit more angry than this?
00:40:57.000On the side of the truckers and a little less on the side of the authority?
00:41:34.000Yeah, when his dad Fidel's gone, he's like, let's break into a liquor company.
00:41:38.000He summed it up perfectly in a speech that he gave, actually.
00:41:41.000He said, That if you voted against the Emergencies Act being implemented for the full length of time that he asked for, then you don't trust in government to handle these situations.
00:41:50.000And I was like, no, no kidding, Justin!
00:43:08.000And they sent me home because they said, this is a true story, they said, that's not your social security number, that's your tax ID number.
00:43:33.000Come back, I'll get you the front line.
00:43:35.000So, I had one of my producers run over my social security card, which they used to tell you tear up sometimes, because you don't want someone finding it, and I had to bring it to the DMV to get my license renewed.
00:43:45.000My point is, take them and put them in charge of health care and wounds, and your right to speak freely, and the economy, and you've got the DNC and the Liberal Party of Canada.
00:43:55.000Okay, and it's not too far off from the next topic that we're going to cover, TikTok.
00:45:26.000Communist China, when you look at what... It's not... There's not enough of a contrast between them and Australia and Canada at this point.
00:45:45.000Think about the quarantine camps that you see in Australia.
00:45:47.000It's not a... Look, if Communist China, if there's not enough of a stark contrast between that and the free world, the free world is screwed up!
00:46:09.000So, um, we started this movement, and in no uncertain terms, I did my level best to try and get yours truly banned from TikTok.
00:46:19.000I was going to manually delete TikTok, was the plan, like on my phone, go look, and then I realized, wait a second, I don't need to do that!
00:46:25.000I can just say, I can just say true things!
00:46:28.000Yeah, we'll give you the floor and let you, let you get it off your chest.
00:48:58.000Don't let this tin can I'm about to kick hit you in the teeth.
00:49:02.0001979, China tried to invade Vietnam and proceeded to get your ass kicked.
00:49:09.000China, Chinese officials, you guys silenced and disappeareded Dr. A. Nguyen when she tried to blow the whistle on COVID.
00:49:17.000You also, China, I'm talking, I'm talking to you, not him, China, you, you lied about the WHO that there was no human-to-human transmission when there in fact was.
00:54:24.000And he's becoming less and less funny because he's really focusing more on Claptor.
00:54:28.000And I watched this segment and there was very little to find funny.
00:54:31.000A couple of digs at Ted Cruz that were kind of funny.
00:54:35.000And it's just a total misrepresentation.
00:54:37.000This is another example of most Americans, including by the way, I'll get to this, black Americans, minority Americans of all colors and sizes and shapes, are not big supporters of critical race theory.
00:54:51.000Okay, because they don't want their children being indoctrinated, they don't want to sow division in this country.
00:54:56.000There really is a clear dividing line right now between Americans who want to unify, and you hear this all the time, common ground, but you can't find common ground and unify if the elites in power don't want it and won't allow it.
00:55:08.000So, John Oliver did this segment yesterday, and it always gets thrust into my YouTube timeline.
00:55:12.000When's he going to be banned from TikTok?
00:55:16.000So his first show back in 2022, he tried to make every parent who's concerned about critical race theory, he tried to make them out to look like crazy conspiracy theorists.
00:55:25.000And I don't know, gaslighting is thrown around a lot.
00:55:28.000I think this is almost a masterclass in gaslighting.
00:56:20.000America can't be racist because of Obama?
00:56:22.000I don't know if you remember the 2008 election, but things got pretty racist back then.
00:56:27.000People kept saying he was born in Kenya, people said he was a secret Muslim, and then a few years later, we elected that people president.
00:56:34.000So, let's just agree to disagree on that one, shall we?
00:56:37.000Okay, really quickly, first off, just notice the straw man right away.
00:56:42.000In other words, he's pulling the worst examples of radical conservatives that you can think of, right?
00:56:46.000We just showed you people knocking police unconscious and running them over in the streets, and he shows somebody at a school board using a legal term saying, we do not want to co-parent with the government.
00:56:57.000And then we're supposed to believe that, look, I get it, Obama was not born in Kenya, I understand it, but the idea that Obama was a secret Muslim This isn't based on race, it was based on his own writings!
00:57:08.000Well, hold on a second, this guy claims that he converted to Christianity, but then he described the Islamic call to prayer when he was in Indonesia as, quote, one of the prettiest sounds on earth at sunset.
00:58:33.000Everything's, nothing's changed in 20 years.
00:58:35.000You got former Vice President Biden, he doesn't even deserve, he shouldn't even be relegated to a cabinet position, he shouldn't be relegated to a cabinet.
00:58:41.000If I open, if that's the Indian in my cupboard and it's Biden, I'm just squashing him.
00:58:45.000I wouldn't let him watch my kid for eight minutes while I ran to the store.
01:00:08.000Now, he claims that critical race theory is only a graduate-level legal theory, and that it is, and he says this, we're going to use his own words and his own examples throughout this rebuttal, that it's not taught to children.
01:00:23.000And to be clear, CRT is graduate-level legal theory, so unless your five-year-old is currently pursuing a law degree, they're not reading Kimberley Crenshaw.
01:00:56.000K-12, no, that's the vitamin that drives the, you need it with vitamin D, otherwise you can't drive it into your cells, something like that.
01:01:27.000So while in reality, critical race theory traditionally is a law school class, the truth of the matter is some of the basic inspiration, some of the things that we're all trying to do is the same.
01:01:41.000We're trying to create a more A more inclusive democracy.
01:01:45.000And we know, as Brown versus Board of Education said, inequality in education undermines our democracy.
01:01:53.000Well, some of that inequality is lack of access to the stories that make us.
01:01:59.000Stories that are core to understanding what America is.
01:02:03.000What America is is partly made up of what America has been.
01:02:08.000So critical race theory is simply now the huge container for anti-racist work, anti-racist education.
01:02:18.000And what they're telling us is Oh, I thought I was going to hear what they're talking about.
01:02:39.000So the name Critical Race Theory, now used as interchangeably for race scholarship as Kleenex is used for tissue, was basically made up, fused together, to mark a possibility.
01:02:48.000Well, what kind of a possibility might that be?
01:02:50.000Let's look to Critical Race Theory scholars Richard Delgado and John Stefankinick That's a tough one.
01:02:58.000I don't know if I'm pronouncing it properly and I don't care because I don't like this person.
01:03:02.000Although CRT began as a movement in the law, it has rapidly spread beyond that discipline.
01:03:09.000And this guy who, by the way, John Oliver just tries to dismiss as silly, Chris Rufo, he's done a bunch of work and compiled extensive evidence on critical race theory and its founders and the documents that they write themselves, you know, using this kind of witchcraft trickery like their own words.
01:03:44.000But Brown vs. Board of Education, I believe that was about equality, not teaching students that one race was far more valuable than the other, correct?
01:04:22.000Yeah, you could have sledded back over, right?
01:04:25.000No, but seriously, I knew about the Brown vs. Board of Education, I knew about slavery, I knew about white people owning slaves and being a horrific thing, and I knew about all of the terrible stories about slavery before this CRT thing was being... So you're making an argument here that's like, oh, you don't want us to teach about the stories we already were.
01:04:43.000Name me one American born after 1960 who was not taught that slavery was bad.
01:05:59.0002015, going down this trail, the Virginia Department of Education told schools to, quote, embrace critical race theory.
01:06:03.000That's almost a word for word, the problem that we have with it.
01:06:07.000And, quote, to re-engineer attitudes and belief systems.
01:06:11.000Detroit school superintendent Nikolai Vitti had this.
01:06:15.000Because Detroit, if it's Detroit schools, you know it's good.
01:06:18.000He had this to say about critical race theory.
01:06:20.000Our curriculum is deeply using critical race theory, especially in social studies, but you'll find it in English language arts and the other disciplines.
01:06:31.000We were very intentional about creating a curriculum, infusing materials, and embedding critical race theory within.
01:06:40.000Now here's the thing, I'm going to continue going back to this.
01:07:04.000Yeah, depending on whether you look at the estimates.
01:07:05.000And again, this is why I say slavery wasn't really about race, it was about people enslaving other people, because you can find people from every race enslaving people from every other race, including their own race.
01:07:14.000So to see it solely through the prism of race is to misinterpret what the slave trade was.
01:07:19.000Not saying, like Whoopi did, the Holocaust was not about race!
01:07:21.000No, they said we're doing this because of race.
01:07:23.000Slavery, they just said, well these are the ones who are being sold.
01:07:27.000And it wasn't exclusive to one race of people.
01:08:05.000So, Seattle Public Schools, I'm just going to rapid fire through this, they push critical race theory as a part of the racial equity and black studies programs.
01:08:12.000Universities, here's something else, universities are actually preparing teachers on how to teach social justice to children using Critical race theory scholarships.
01:08:22.000Now, let me make sure that you understand this.
01:08:25.000You're gonna say, well, they're teaching at universities?
01:09:00.000And by the way, for a thousand more examples, you can go to Chris Ruffo's Twitter, because John Oliver tried to tar and feather him, and he, of course, provides original sources, so we have the references all available.
01:09:08.000Okay, here's another point that John Oliver makes.
01:09:10.000He tries to say that Chris Ruffo pointing to CRT and government is, and this is what John Oliver does, of course, we know that he cherry-picks.
01:09:19.000If the side accuses you of doing something, they're often accusing you of what they're doing, if it doesn't really make sense.
01:09:23.000He's accusing There's Chris Rufo, a man who studies critical race theory and is critical of it, of cherry picking.
01:09:30.000But in the wake of the George Floyd protests, just as America was beginning to grapple with systemic racism, Fox News began featuring Rufo a lot as part of their efforts to swing that pendulum back hard.
01:09:42.000And in one appearance, he pointed to diversity trainings in government as evidence of CRT's influence.
01:09:48.000And he spoke directly to President Trump through the camera about what he wanted to see happen.
01:09:53.000And with that, CRT, or crucially, Rufo's definition of it, was suddenly absolutely everywhere.
01:10:01.000Fox News kept pushing it, mentioning the term critical race theory nearly 5,000 times last year alone.
01:10:08.000And the network zeroed in on its supposed use in schools, with Rufo telling Fox's audience that CRT has really become the default ideology of the public education system.
01:10:30.000So, we just showed you examples from, well, we used his examples to show you what they
01:10:38.000We've just showed you examples of what they're teaching in some school, public school boards, and what they want to teach.
01:10:43.000And now he's saying that this man is cherry-picking, particularly he seems to have an issue with Chris Ruffo, I guess, misrepresenting government-affiliated organizations.
01:10:53.000So let's go to one government-affiliated organization like Lockheed Martin's.
01:10:57.000They have white privilege statements that you can read.
01:11:19.000This is Lockheed Martin, this is a government-affiliated organization.
01:11:21.000I didn't think that was white or black or anything else.
01:11:22.000And they unironically use white privilege.
01:11:24.000Look, I don't care if you're left or you're right, okay, at this point.
01:11:27.000I think we can, can we all find common ground and agree that if you hear someone unironically use the term white privilege in day-to-day life, they're an asshole you don't want to be friends with?
01:12:46.000That's the point, John, is that the worst examples are actually being taught.
01:12:51.000Right, the worst examples are being taught.
01:12:53.000Unlike your worst examples of radical conservatives saying, we don't want the government co-parenting with us, we should be able to teach our children right from wrong.
01:13:01.000Which, by the way, I know is considered a ra- They consider that a more radical theory than the idea that the world is layered entirely through prisms of race, right?
01:13:12.000See everything through the lens of race.
01:13:13.000They think it's more radical for a parent to say, I should be able to raise my own kid.
01:13:28.000Both sides were used, and when you looked at it, it was black and white, especially when you talked about slavery, the different people that were involved in it and how they helped each other.
01:13:35.000How they helped each other out of it, the people that influenced the other people to change their ways, looking through a different spectrum, and that's the way that it was taught.
01:13:42.000It was not taught that there was a white savior in any way whatsoever.
01:13:46.000In many ways it was taught as a black savior.
01:13:48.000Harriet Tubman, people like that, people that were very, very brave, that's what was taught to us.
01:13:52.000And where we were, and of course we knew that there's always going to be room to grow, there's always going to be things to change, but we were always taught that.
01:13:59.000It was always taught as what unified us, now it's what divides us.
01:14:21.000So let me ask you this, because school is supposed to equip children History only serves a purpose if it equips you for the world of today, right?
01:14:31.000You don't simply learn history for history's sake.
01:14:33.000Okay, so it's meant to equip you for the world of today, hopefully to create better upstanding citizens who can improve the world and make them a better place.
01:15:10.000Let me ask you, I had to—when you talk about schools, public schools, being propaganda arms of a bastion of right-wing extremism, I had to unlearn things that I learned in school, like, my God, there was a Native American genocide.
01:15:24.000I didn't realize that we have more people who are 1 16th Cherokee or Apache Algonquin than ever before because they were encouraged to intermarry.
01:16:13.000Yes, and when you're taught, when you're young, it's just you can be kidnapped, this and that, whatever, they obviously can't get into it with certain children, I understand that.
01:16:20.000But if you're talking about teens and you're talking about sex education, which I believe that should be taught, I certainly think that human trafficking should be a part of that.
01:16:27.000You're talking about the most vulnerable age of the most vulnerable people on the planet, I mean other than babies and everything, but you're talking about easily manipulated people.
01:16:35.000Here's the thing, I will tell you this, you've just sort of bought an adult...
01:16:38.000A lot of people hear human trafficking and they equate it with sex slavery.
01:16:41.000There is human trafficking... But it's for work!
01:16:44.000Yeah, most human trafficking is not sex slavery.
01:16:46.000So that's where they go, oh, human trafficking, and people think, oh, it's a pimp, it's like the deuce.
01:17:12.000We should also learn that slavery still goes on.
01:17:13.000However, John Oliver believes that your children, and you can watch it, you can watch it get more drastic, and I encourage you to go watch the full clip, should learn all of it, including the opinions, taught as fact, from schools, not their parents.
01:17:25.000Educators are working very hard to find age-appropriate ways to talk about race and racism in the classroom, and if you do it right, you don't stop at the civil rights movement.
01:17:36.000You tell the story all the way to the present day, which kids want and need.
01:17:40.000They have questions about what they can see with their own eyes, and they deserve good answers.
01:17:46.000And it is, frankly, far better for them to have these discussions in a supportive, How do you answer a black kid asking why his neighborhood's been burned down?
01:17:57.000He's not wrong, he just has the wrong answers.
01:18:04.000Well look, so he's making this satirical ardor in the San Francisco Chronicle look a lot less satirical.
01:18:10.000It says, the left's introduction of anti-racism and gender identity in schools face a bitter backlash from parents.
01:18:16.000Ending parenthood would end the backlash, helping dismantle white supremacy and outdated gender norms.
01:18:21.000My proposal would merely make mandatory handovers of babies to the state.
01:18:24.000Now, this is meant to be satirical, but that's not what he's saying.
01:18:28.000Look, what do you think is going to happen?
01:18:29.000He's just assuming that he has the right answer.
01:18:32.000Especially, if anything, right now, who's been most negatively impacted by, and you said this, the lockdowns, by the protests, the riots, people in those communities.
01:18:46.000So, what should be the answer from a teacher if they go, why did my dad's business get burned down?
01:18:51.000By the way, if they're fortunate enough to have a father, and that's a big... because statistically, that matters.
01:19:00.000Could it be, well, you know what, because of the Model Cities program, because of the modern welfare state, because of, if you look at Lyndon Johnson, this is why we actually encourage single-parent households, or, well, you know what, your father's franchise, the Walgreens, was burned down because of people who were looking to commit violence, and your father committed no wrong, and you know what?
01:19:15.000No, the answer is going to be systemic racism, and that is taught to your kids, and parents right now are saying, we don't want that taught to our kids.
01:19:26.000Yeah, and the questions that'll come up that I'm sure they're going to answer correctly, too, are, why did that police officer shoot that girl with a knife?
01:19:32.000Well, because she was going to stab somebody else, so I saved her life.
01:19:54.000You know, like a heterosexual male chance of getting AIDS in North America.
01:19:57.000You're more right than you want to be.
01:19:58.000There are a few stragglers, but it's statistically less than 1%.
01:20:02.000I bet you would find less than 1% of teachers on the Eastern Seaboard addressing high school students when teaching the Jacob Blake situation.
01:20:08.000I don't think you'll find a single teacher teaching that.
01:20:10.000I guarantee you you'll find at least half saying that there's systemic racism from police shooting black men.
01:20:14.000sexually assaulted, who called the cops to enforce the restraining order, then reached
01:20:18.000for a knife under the floorboard of his car to try and stab cops before they shot him.
01:20:22.000I don't think you'll find a single teacher teaching that.
01:20:24.000I guarantee you you'll find at least half saying that there's systemic racism from police
01:20:50.000It's just white people bad, and by the way, let's make sure that some kids in this class feel shame for something that is no fault of their own.
01:22:10.000Now, to be fair, only 32% of blacks think it will make it worse, but the point is, when you include all of the minorities, because you know, I think it matters, it can't, oh no wait, it's just, depending on the day, right, is it, oh, anti-race, anti-Asian hate crimes, until, okay, then it's, it's, it's the oppression Olympics, right?
01:22:25.000Okay, so it's only the black, only the black statistic matters?
01:24:42.000So here's another claim that John Oliver makes, that Critical Race Theory is not actually like a revolutionary program that would do away with our societal foundations.
01:24:52.000And by the way, this is something also that's pretty important.
01:24:55.000Conservatives, people on the right, okay?
01:24:57.000We're concerned with the destruction of, not institutions like Reliable Sources with Brian Stelter, not Nancy Pelosi's house, right?
01:25:08.000This is what they say, and I'm like, oh, they're trying to- Do you know that guy's 36?
01:26:14.000What you're complaining about is Americans sowing mistrust, and by sowing mistrust what you mean is not trusting media, not trusting their House of Representatives, not trusting this current former Vice President, and you say that's a problem because these institutions that currently exist are what make America, America.
01:26:31.000Okay, now you have people on, I'm doing it for you, your right my left, but you have people on the right and what they have a problem with Is sowing distrust and sowing, uh, creating cracks in the institutions that made our country what it is.
01:26:46.000Not current media, not current Supreme Court, not current person in office, but our founding documents.
01:26:53.000The Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, the foundations, the principles that made this country not only what it was, but also ultimately led to the quickest abolishment of slavery It's unprecedented.
01:27:05.000Leaving a world superpower one century to become the only world superpower the next while ending a centuries, millennia-long practice, at least in this portion of the world.
01:27:16.000It still exists across the globe, which we'll get to.
01:27:17.000So, John Oliver tells you that conservatives are just concerned that CRT is a revolutionary program that might overturn constitutional principles.
01:27:28.000But critics of it argue that the ideas behind CRT are being taught in schools and often present a hyperbolically distorted version of what those ideas are.
01:27:38.000And a key person here is this man, a conservative activist named Christopher Rufo.
01:27:43.000He claims CRT is actually a revolutionary program that would overturn the principles of the Declaration and destroy the remaining structure of the Constitution.
01:27:56.000I don't really like to hear about what we should do with our Constitution from a guy who comes from a country that was so shitty we left and drafted it!
01:28:22.000Just like, by the way, that bumper sticker.
01:28:24.000A lot of those little symbols can't coexist because the C wants to eat all the other letters.
01:28:29.000So this is the definition of CRT from the founders.
01:28:32.000They wrote, critical race theory questions the very foundations of the liberal order including equality, theory, legal reasoning, enlightenment, rationalism, and neutral principles of constitutional law.
01:29:22.000That's not the problem that people in this room have with critical race theory.
01:29:27.000It's not that we think, oh, no, it should be easy to teach histories.
01:29:30.000No, none of us are saying it should be easy to teach the history of slavery.
01:29:34.000None of us are saying it should be an easy conversation to teach the history of the Holocaust.
01:29:37.000For crying out loud, Whoopi Goldberg needs remedial.
01:29:40.000But what we're saying is, Not whether it will be comfortable, whether it's appropriate.
01:29:49.000That's the problem that Americans have.
01:29:51.000And by the way, Americans of all colors have with critical race theory.
01:29:55.000They have a problem with race being injected into math.
01:29:59.000into science, into English as you just heard from that language.
01:30:03.000The question here isn't whether discussing race will be easier, whether it be through CRT, Black Liberation Theology.
01:30:10.000The question that matters is when is it appropriate, is it appropriate at all, and is it accurate?
01:30:17.000And by the way, while we're talking about this and the gross misrepresentation of people who oppose Critical Race Theory, namely, by the way, parents, that's also very telling when you look at who the left opposes.
01:30:26.000Truckers, working class people, the people who oppose Critical Race Theory, if you look at the demographics, mostly parents.
01:30:32.000We want the single white females with the mohawk.
01:30:34.000We want them to be in charge of what our government does because it's worked so well for us recently as we've been just, not even slowly, now we're racing down the path to serfdom.
01:31:06.000We can teach critical race theory in schools.
01:31:09.000If, if, there has to be a 50-50 percentage at least, so equal time given to the fact that there are more slaves today on earth than ever in recorded history.
01:32:58.000I've got a friend, I hope she doesn't mind me telling this story.
01:33:01.000This, uh, this girl, grandmother was from Poland.
01:33:05.000And by the way, while we're talking about reparations, we're talking about, right, reparations, we've sort of seen a little bit of that, haven't we, in the pandemic, where we've had checks to everybody, right?
01:33:13.000I'm not saying it's a race thing, but everybody got a check, right?
01:33:15.000At this point, of course, we had the moratorium rent, we had catch and release, you could steal what you wanted as long as it was under $999.
01:33:59.000There's more to the story, I can probably let this person tell it sometime.
01:34:03.000Is there anything you can think of more terrifying?
01:34:04.000Imagine, when we're talking- slavery's horrible!
01:34:07.000But this is a person who wasn't- g-g-g-g-grandfather wasn't- or g-g-g-g-grandmother didn't have someone come into their town and forcibly rape them to carry Aryan children.
01:34:37.000Instead of, how about, how about this?
01:34:39.000Instead of just bitching about things that happened that we all agree were wrong, and none of your solutions would do anything, How about we focus on issues that we can do something about today?
01:35:00.000The job of schooling is to equip people in this country to make the world a better place.
01:35:05.000You think you're making the world a better place by putting them through the public schooling system, then offering them a critical race theory scholarship so they can go back and tell white kids what a piece of shit they are?
01:35:15.000No, we can teach critical race theory if it's taught alongside more slaves than ever in recorded history today.