The Auron MacIntyre Show - January 18, 2024


Civil Rights Law Is a Problem ｜ 1⧸18⧸24


Episode Stats

Length

8 minutes

Words per Minute

140.07826

Word Count

1,253

Sentence Count

65

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

3


Summary

The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was a landmark piece of legislation that helped end racial segregation in the United States. But it also helped pave the way for a massive government bureaucracy with the power to govern every organization in the country. And it led to the creation of a system of unaccountable federal agencies that enforced racial quotas, forced busing, and racial quotas across the country, and created the all-powerful human resource departments that terrorize conservatives today.


Transcript

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00:00:30.000 A minor panic has broken out among the chattering class
00:00:33.080 after a few conservative commentators demonstrated an interest
00:00:36.220 in interrogating the Civil Rights Revolution and its accompanying legal framework.
00:00:41.780 Publications, both liberal and conservative,
00:00:44.400 have expressed grave concern that anyone might question
00:00:47.580 the necessity of an oppressive bureaucracy
00:00:49.700 that has spent trillions of dollars and wielded unprecedented state power
00:00:54.580 in an effort to detect the slightest amount of wrongthink
00:00:57.920 in the public and private sector.
00:01:01.000 While the ideological core of wokeness may have involved a heavy dose of cultural Marxism,
00:01:07.260 the juridical and moral vehicle used to advance this ideology was clearly civil rights law.
00:01:13.460 The fear of being called mean names has driven conservatives away from many critical battles.
00:01:19.680 But if the right can't face the fact that civil rights law has played a central role in the destruction of their nation,
00:01:25.900 then there's simply no future for the movement.
00:01:28.320 In Christopher Caldwell's essential book,
00:01:32.540 The Age of Entitlement,
00:01:34.120 he lays out the process by which civil rights law supplanted the American Constitution.
00:01:40.740 According to Caldwell,
00:01:42.040 the Civil Rights Act was adopted in good faith
00:01:44.900 by a then-overwhelmingly white American population
00:01:48.080 as a temporary emergency measure designed to solve the problem of discrimination.
00:01:52.580 Politicians sold the bill as a way to end the ugly practice of segregation that lingered in the South
00:01:59.940 and put the black population on equal legal footing.
00:02:03.920 Most of the legislation's supporters couldn't imagine a scenario
00:02:07.600 where the Civil Rights Act would apply to their neighborhood or impact their children.
00:02:13.520 Voters were in for an ugly surprise when just a few years later,
00:02:17.660 the federal government implemented forced busing and racial quotas across the nation.
00:02:22.820 The unprecedented authority granted by the Civil Rights Act
00:02:26.940 was used to create a vast enforcement bureaucracy
00:02:29.660 with the power to govern every organization in the country.
00:02:34.180 Government offices, corporations, and private institutions
00:02:37.260 were required to keep meticulous records
00:02:39.600 detailing the racial characteristics of those they employed or served.
00:02:44.280 Companies instituted racial preferences
00:02:46.580 and warped their hiring policies around the goal of avoiding lawsuits
00:02:50.500 based on their lack of diversity,
00:02:52.860 which gave birth to the all-powerful human resource departments
00:02:56.460 that terrorize conservatives today.
00:02:59.700 Basic instruments of employment screening, like aptitude tests,
00:03:03.380 were banned due to their disparate impact on minorities
00:03:06.560 that routinely scored lower despite there being no evidence of intentional discrimination.
00:03:12.060 This is one of the primary reasons why ultra-progressive universities
00:03:17.780 became the dominant form of legal credentialization for employers.
00:03:23.420 Civil rights law destroyed or curtailed several core constitutional rights,
00:03:28.780 including freedom of association, property rights, and freedom of speech,
00:03:33.400 while circumventing the amendment process.
00:03:35.820 A web of executive orders, judicial decisions, and litigation
00:03:40.820 replaced the legislative process
00:03:42.820 and became the standard by which every organization defined its own policies.
00:03:49.060 The Civil Rights Act played a critical role
00:03:51.300 in the development of the administrative state,
00:03:53.600 where experts implement their plans for social engineering
00:03:56.500 through the dictates of unaccountable federal agencies.
00:04:00.220 In an era of democratic gridlock,
00:04:02.600 civil rights law became the permanent state of exception
00:04:05.660 through which government could shape society
00:04:08.100 without regard for the previous boundaries
00:04:10.520 drawn around its power by the Constitution.
00:04:13.960 The cause of civil rights was holy,
00:04:16.160 and anyone who questioned the method of its implementation
00:04:18.720 could simply be labeled racist.
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00:04:33.680 When the in-laws decide that, actually, they will stay for dinner.
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00:04:53.520 Activists of every stripe recognized the power of this new political weapon
00:04:58.580 and adjusted their strategy accordingly.
00:05:01.400 If you wanted to avoid the difficult and messy task
00:05:04.540 of convincing the voting public and passing legislation,
00:05:07.940 you could instead gain access to the new and more powerful Constitution
00:05:11.360 by turning your issue into a civil rights issue.
00:05:16.160 Immigration, feminism, gay marriage, and trans inclusion
00:05:19.840 made amazing strides by appealing more often
00:05:23.220 to the architecture of civil rights law than to the will of the voter.
00:05:28.040 When the question was put to residents of ultra-liberal California in 2008,
00:05:33.780 they supported Proposition 8 and its restriction on same-sex marriages.
00:05:38.140 Activists responded by bypassing the democratic process
00:05:41.280 and assuring that the Supreme Court could enact their will
00:05:44.440 via the civil rights constitution.
00:05:46.660 Despite the obvious fact that civil rights law
00:05:50.580 has destroyed the American Constitution,
00:05:53.260 many conservatives feel compelled to defend it
00:05:55.720 as if it's a sacred institution,
00:05:57.800 which would be laughable if it wasn't so tragic.
00:06:01.120 Like every cancerous growth of government power,
00:06:04.260 the Civil Rights Act was sold to the public as a temporary measure,
00:06:07.880 but Republicans treat this as the one government bureaucracy
00:06:11.300 that can just never be questioned.
00:06:13.320 Many conservative leaders pretend that if the Civil Rights Act
00:06:18.060 was removed tomorrow,
00:06:19.600 Jim Crow laws targeting blacks would suddenly sweep the nation.
00:06:24.300 This is the same logic that Joe,
00:06:26.580 they're gonna put y'all back in chains,
00:06:28.760 Biden uses when he's race baiting.
00:06:31.700 It reveals that Republican leaders believe the exact same thing
00:06:35.620 about their base that Democrats do.
00:06:38.020 Conservatives are all secret racists
00:06:40.060 and without a giant web of government monitoring
00:06:42.560 their every interaction,
00:06:44.120 they would revert back to their natural state.
00:06:47.400 The sad truth is that institutional racism
00:06:50.020 does exist under the Civil Rights Act.
00:06:53.860 Corporations hold mandatory training
00:06:56.460 on how to be less white.
00:06:58.780 Organizations offer scholarships,
00:07:00.980 internships, home loans,
00:07:02.980 and small business assistance,
00:07:04.880 which are all marked whites need not apply.
00:07:07.440 And these institutions proudly proclaim
00:07:10.720 their bigoted initiatives
00:07:12.180 as part of a commitment to
00:07:13.940 diversity.
00:07:15.980 This discrimination has existed comfortably
00:07:18.920 under civil rights law,
00:07:20.700 as did affirmative action until just a few months ago.
00:07:25.060 While change is hopefully coming
00:07:27.340 after the Supreme Court's ruling
00:07:29.000 on Harvard admission standards,
00:07:31.060 racial hiring quotas and institutional bias continue.
00:07:34.040 We can debate the particulars
00:07:36.800 about the intellectual origins of wokeness,
00:07:39.580 but what's beyond debate
00:07:40.800 is that civil rights law created
00:07:42.820 the second constitution
00:07:44.040 that allowed this progressive crusade
00:07:46.280 to rapidly conquer our entire country.
00:07:50.040 The Civil Rights Act was a temporary fix
00:07:52.960 for a temporary problem,
00:07:55.420 but it's grown and mutated to the point
00:07:57.660 where it dominates every institution.
00:07:59.980 Civil rights law has created
00:08:02.960 a second and illegitimate constitution
00:08:05.860 through which the left rules the United States,
00:08:09.780 and it needs to go.
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