EZRA LEVANT | Leftists despise humanity and consider their opponents to be 'invalid people'
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A big interview with one of my favorite guys, one of the smartest guys. I know I learned so much from him. I try and talk less and listen more with him. You know who I mean, Dr. James Lindsay. He talks about cultural Marxism, and really it unlocks what's going on in our universities and our institutions. A special full length interview with him that's ahead.
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Big interview with one of my favorite guys, one of the smartest guys.
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He talks about cultural Marxism, and really it unlocks what's going on in our universities
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and our institutions, a special full-length interview with him.
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Tonight, a feature interview with Dr. James Lindsay, America's leading critic of cultural Marxism.
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It's December 7th, and this is The Ezra LeVant Show.
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One of my favorite guests is the guest that really makes me think.
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One of the few guests where I listen more than I talk.
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One of the guests that gives me a vocabulary that I need to understand what's going on.
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Do you ever have that gut feel that something fishy is going on?
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Sometimes it's because you actually just need the word.
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And when you have the word or a concept that unlocks the understanding of so many things,
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And you probably know I'm talking about Dr. James Lindsay,
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I had the pleasure of seeing him in person in Calgary a few weeks ago where he gave a speech.
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It was a populist gathering, and yet they hung on his every word.
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I felt like it was a professor giving a course in university,
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and yet he held the crowd raptured by what he was saying for that very reason.
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And I think the light switch went on for everyone in that room,
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and that's how I feel when I follow him on Twitter.
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But it can actually, if you curate your sources correctly,
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I like to follow my friends, but I also like to follow people
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where I'm just going to slow down and read every word they say slowly.
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And Dr. James Lindsay is one of them, and I'm delighted he's going to join us
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And I know I'm heaping praise on you, but it is true.
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You say things, and I don't understand them sometimes,
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I want to start with a tweet that you said just the other day.
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Almost everything the left does only makes sense
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when you understand that there are broadly two classes of people
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The people are those who support leftist theory and practice,
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The enemies of the people are those who resist or reject leftism,
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have something leftists don't want them to have,
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break from leftism, or represent any opposing faction.
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so long as it is consistent with advancing leftism, is wrong.
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Violence, hate, and malice are, quote, resistance.
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They are taught these are necessary moral goods,
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Nothing the enemies of the people do can be right.
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Everything they do is bad and must be punished.
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The only thing they can do is to confess over and over
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and start their journey to becoming a leftist, too.
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I think of anti-hate activists now being fountains of anti-Semitic hate.
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I think of the recently revealed barbaric rape crimes committed by Hamas,
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and I see the woke feminists providing context for why it's justifiable.
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Go ahead and tell me more about the two classes of people in the revolution.
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Well, I got this idea from the source, really, from Mao Zedong,
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from reading and studying the original CCP dictator,
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He separated the people in China into those two categories.
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There were the people, and he says in this speech he gave in 1957
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that who counts as the people, we have to understand that, he said,
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changes during time, during different contexts.
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the people were the people who supported the war against the Japanese,
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and the enemies of the people were Japanese sympathizers.
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Then he says when we were having this struggle internal to the party,
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the people who supported the direction the party was going to take,
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those were the people, and the people who were against that,
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Then he says that in the struggle with the nationalists,
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the people who supported the CCP were the people,
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and the people who supported the Guomindong were the enemies of the people.
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If you supported the nationalists, you were the enemy.
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And then he said finally, and this was in 1957,
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at this stage the people are the people who support the building of socialism,
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and everyone who is against the building of socialism are the enemies of the people.
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And so you see what this is, is this separating of the population
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into those who support the regime's cause, get to be treated as people.
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He said that they are citizens, that they have free speech,
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they have all these other privileges and rights,
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whereas on the other hand, the enemies of the people receive the dictatorship of the people.
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And what that means by that, he says that they will have their freedom of speech,
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their right to vote taken away from them for a time.
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They will be treated differently as enemies of the people.
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And what he taught relentlessly across that line of division
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was that the people should hate the enemies of the people.
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The enemies of the people are what are keeping us from succeeding
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in our socialist goals or our socialist country.
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We would be successful if only we could stop the enemies of the people.
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And you see this happen again and again and again
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in all these movements in the West, just repeatedly, like you said,
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You know, I'm 51, so when I went to university,
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And one of my fondest memories is that there were debates, student debates.
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And in Canada in the 90s, in my university, there were four main political parties.
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And all the time, all four parties would show up to a debate,
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And there would be a hundred or sometimes hundreds of people gathered.
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And participating in the debate was considered your proof of being,
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you know, an active, valid citizen worth listening to.
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or that you would marginalize them or cancel them,
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You debated them, you laughed at them, you mocked them,
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But this, I will not appear on the stage with you, you are the enemy,
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which is part of this hatred, you know, you must destroy the enemy.
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Anything you do against them is excused and justified by the context.
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And that's what we saw after the October 7th pogrom in southern Israel.
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The most barbaric Stone Age torture ever captured on film.
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It was like the Holocaust Museum came to life in full color.
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And the reaction by the woke West in universities,
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from the fancy people, from the human rights people,
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And sure, they may have been children and women,
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I think, I don't know, I'm lacing together a bunch of things here.
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That basically any violence, including murder, including rape,
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which is to say the avatars of Western civilization,
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or capitalists, or white people, or straight people, or men,
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are constantly, by their very existence and by their activity,
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always doing violence to those that they oppress.
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but he's usually identified as a French psychoanalyst
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who's considered the father of post-colonial theory,
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where a lot of this specific branch of the thinking comes from.
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because he's now been colonized by colonial oppression.
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This is why when you see people by the millions
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literally colonizing and settling in, say, Ireland
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it's the Irish people who are the ones who are wrong
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because they represent that same Western hegemonic,
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They represent the spreading of Western hegemony
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whether it's taking the property that they live in,
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whether it's filling their country and bankrupting it.
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And there are the bad guys who are the enemies of the people
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who must be destroyed, which is the logic of Maoism.
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in the French port city of Marseille a few months ago.
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It was Muslims who were about 40% of the population of Marseille,
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a complete riot, burning things, stealing things.
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And the police force really felt more like an occupational army
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because you colonized Algeria for more than a century.
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Dans votre cœur, est-vous Algérie ou français à première?
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Parce qu'ici en France, il y a trop de racisme.
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Le racisme, il est au premier degré ici en France.
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Pourquoi millions de musulmans immigrent à France
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I said, how bad can it be in France for Muslims
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This is not just a philosophical book on a shelf.
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he says, these barbarians that you've colonized
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these sentiments were intentionally brought there
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The global left has been stoking this for decades,
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which was an embarrassment for her a few weeks ago,