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00:01:00.000Presumably, they had done some sort of internal investigation and found that the story was legit in order to parrot it and make it, you know, the number one story in the world.
00:01:09.000Or alternatively, they are just unbelievably full of crap and decided to go woke or go broke and simply believe whatever story Bubba Wallace told them.
00:01:17.000So wherever the story came from, the story was promulgated.
00:01:20.000And the story now that is being promulgated is Bubba Wallace really didn't know what was going on from the very beginning.
00:01:25.000Bubba Wallace was told that there was a noose in his locker and he didn't really check it out and then he repeated the story and all this.
00:01:31.000And listen, I'm willing to give people the benefit of the doubt until the point where they completely blow the benefit of the doubt.
00:01:36.000And at this point, I feel like NASCAR has blown the benefit of the doubt.
00:01:39.000I feel like Bubba Wallace has blown the benefit of the doubt.
00:01:40.000And this feels a lot like everybody decided to jump to a ridiculous conclusion based on non-evidence and based on something that obviously was not in the news in order to promulgate a particular narrative.
00:01:56.000I always say a tribute to stupidity, virtually everything, and malice, virtually nothing.
00:01:59.000I'm having a real hard time on this one.
00:02:01.000I'm having a real hard time not attributing to malice what happened here.
00:02:05.000Because, again, NASCAR has cameras there.
00:02:23.000It was the pull that had been there for a year before this.
00:02:26.000I mean, could NASCAR have been this ignorant?
00:02:28.000Could Bubba Wallace have been this ignorant, that he was just traipsing through the daisies here, basically singing the song that NASCAR had written for him?
00:02:35.000Or is it possible that Bubba Wallace kind of knew that this was BS all along and decided to exaggerate it?
00:02:40.000So again, I'm willing to grant people the benefit of the doubt.
00:02:42.000I was willing to grant NASCAR the benefit of the doubt until they lost the benefit of the doubt.
00:02:46.000And even last night, after this story came out, I was willing to grant Bubba Wallace the benefit of the doubt, that he was told by NASCAR there was a noose in his locker.
00:02:53.000And then he, or in his garage, and then he saw a picture and it looked kind of like a noose.
00:02:57.000And he was like, well, if NASCAR says that that's the case, then probably that's the case.
00:03:19.000And first of all, this came after people online, right?
00:03:22.000The online researchers did some very easy research where they showed pictures of the garages last year.
00:03:28.000And what they showed is drawstrings on the garage, right?
00:03:31.000The pull strings on the garage door that were shaped like a hand, basically like a handhold, right?
00:03:36.000They were not really looking like a noose so much as, you know, a drawstring that you pull down on a garage like everyone has in their garage in America, like that.
00:03:45.000The Wood Brothers Racing Group put up a statement, and we are thankful there was no one involved in perpetrating hate during this week's race.
00:03:52.000Just like the rest of the NASCAR garage, we were shocked and appalled to learn of the existence of the rope fashioned like a noose.
00:03:57.000One of our employees alerted us yesterday morning that without knowing the details of the incident, he recalled seeing a tied handle in the garage pull down rope from last fall.
00:04:04.000We immediately alerted NASCAR and have assisted the investigation in every way possible.
00:04:08.000What transpired over the past day, plus, is a unity.
00:04:10.000that has only served to strengthen the bonds between each and every crew member, fan and non-fan alike.
00:04:14.000The Woodrow Brothers organization is proud to stand with Bubba Wallace and the entire industry as we work to make every race fan a part of our NASCAR family.
00:04:22.000Okay, now that would all be well and good if NASCAR had waited to jump to this conclusion and then spread it as the number one news story in America and proclaim that this was indicative of broad and deep American racism.
00:04:31.000I pointed out yesterday, by the way, that even if there had been a news in the garage, the fact that every single driver and pit crew in NASCAR marched with Bubba Wallace to the front of Talladega Motor Speedway was a pretty good indicator that the person who did it was an outlier.
00:04:43.000Now it turns out the entire thing was bullcrap from beginning to end.
00:04:46.000And now we're supposed to believe that this is a unifying incident as opposed to, um, guys, somebody did something wrong here.
00:04:54.000The FBI has completed its investigation at Talladega Super Speedway and determined that Bubba Wallace was not the target of a hate crime.
00:05:00.000The FBI report concludes and photographic evidence confirms that the garage door pull rope fashioned like a noose had been positioned there since as early as last fall.
00:05:08.000This was obviously well before the 43 team's arrival and garage assignment.
00:05:11.000We appreciate the FBI's quick and thorough investigation and are thankful to learn that this was not an intentional racist act against Bubba.
00:05:17.000We remain steadfast in our commitment to providing a welcoming and inclusive environment for all who love racing.
00:05:23.000Okay, and that should be, by the way, the normal reactions, they should be, oh, that's good that there wasn't a racist incident in NASCAR.
00:05:28.000I mean, the guy just called for a massive change and NASCAR just went along with it as far as confederate flags.
00:05:32.000It's kind of good to know that there wasn't a massive racist incident.
00:05:36.000But it seems that there are many people who are very disappointed today, namely people who are looking for a supply of racism that is actually a little bit short for what they are looking for at this point.
00:05:45.000I've said before that the demand for racist incidents in order to promulgate the narrative that America is deeply racist and covered with racism stem to stern, that the demand for that much racism is not met by the supply of racism.
00:05:57.000Well, if it were met by the supply of racism, you wouldn't have to manufacture incidents like this one into national stories or cling to the story once it had been completely debunked.
00:06:04.000And yet, there are people who are completely clinging to this story after it is debunked.
00:06:16.000And he said, this was a despicable act of racism, and then suggested that anyone who doubted the story was a racist.
00:06:22.000So, if you doubted the story, you were racist.
00:06:24.000Now, I didn't express doubt about it, again, because, at least not publicly, because again, NASCAR had basically put out a statement.
00:06:31.000I figured, okay, NASCAR's a major organization with internal deliberative bodies, and they're a massive corporation, they probably had done an investigation, they probably couldn't be this stupid.
00:06:40.000Well, it turns out, wrong I was, wrong I was, but, You can ask my producer Colton.
00:06:45.000Behind closed doors, I was a little skeptical that this thing was actually a noose placed in Bubba Wallace's garage.
00:06:51.000The reason I was skeptical is not because I don't think there are bad people who are racist out there.
00:06:54.000It's because we've seen probably, in my lifetime, in the last 5-10 years alone, probably a dozen cases of people claiming that a noose was left as a racist symbol, and all of them, so far as I'm aware, turned out to be bullcrap.
00:07:05.000We had one in the last two weeks, right?
00:07:07.000We had one in Oakland where a black guy put up some ropes on a tree so that people could use them for exercise.
00:07:13.000And the Oakland mayor, Libby Schaaf, then launched a hate crime investigation suggesting that the intent of the ropes didn't matter, only the impact of the ropes matter.
00:07:21.000And she was going to investigate it anyway, even though a black guy had put up things that didn't look anything like nooses.
00:07:26.000So whenever I hear a news story, my first reaction is, well, Maybe we should wait for, you know, all the evidence to come out, unless a giant major organization backs the story.
00:07:33.000Well, now I'm just gonna go with, okay, I'm just gonna doubt it no matter whether a giant organization backs the story or not.
00:07:39.000Anyway, Wallace went on national TV and not only did he say this was a despicable act of racism, he said anyone calling it a hoax is a racist.
00:07:45.000If you even had doubts, you were a racist.
00:07:48.000People are entitled to their own opinion to make them feel good, whatever, help them sleep at night.
00:07:53.000It's just unfortunate circumstances and a terrible time that we're in right now.
00:07:58.000Year 2020 will be one year to for sure forget moving forward.
00:08:05.000But, you know, it's simple-minded people like that, the ones that are afraid of change.
00:08:10.000They use everything in their power to defend what they stand up for.
00:08:15.000And instead of trying to listen and understand, Simple-minded people afraid of change.
00:08:22.000Those are the people who are doubting the story about the news in the garage.
00:08:27.000And then he suggested that anyone who called it a hoax or staged was a racist.
00:08:32.000And if you said that it was a hoax or a stage, then you were also a racist as well.
00:08:36.000So, good stuff here from Bubba Wallace.
00:08:38.000This was all before the report came out.
00:08:39.000And again, I was willing to grant him the benefit of the doubt even here.
00:08:45.000I mean, at the time, he'd been told by NASCAR, presumably, that there was a noose in his garage.
00:08:48.000So, you know, maybe he believed the same thing that I believe, maybe.
00:08:52.000And then you had people like Jemele Hill, right?
00:08:54.000Jemele Hill, who has declared all of American society Root to branch, racist, everything is racist.
00:08:59.000Jamila Hill, she said yesterday that the news was a reminder of who the sport was for.
00:09:03.000Not the giant numbers of people, drivers and pit members who are walking with Bubba Wallace.
00:09:10.000The news was the reminder of who the sport was for, said Jamila Hill yesterday.
00:09:14.000NASCAR, they've had to deal with maybe not directly nooses and stalls, but the shadow of the Confederate flag being considered a symbol that you often saw at NASCAR races.
00:09:27.000These very overt reminders about who this sport is exactly for and who should be a fan of this sport, This is something that they've been dealing with a long time, and unfortunately, in this way, these issues bubble to the surface.
00:09:40.000In this way, they bubble to the surface.
00:09:42.000Right now, as I mentioned on the show, the way that we do conversations in this country is maybe the dumbest way to do conversations ever, which is, we wait for a flashpoint incident, and then we attribute it to a broader system.
00:09:54.000They wait for a flashpoint incident and then they attribute it to a broader system.
00:09:56.000So instead of citing statistics or disparities that are based on things that are not behaviorally explainable, instead what they will do is they will say, Noose in Bubba Wallace's garage, this means all NASCAR fans are racist.
00:10:10.000Even if there was a noose in Bubba Wallace's garage, which there was not, then that would not mean that all NASCAR fans are racist.
00:10:15.000But that's who Jemele Hill is and this is the way that she promotes her message.
00:10:19.000Now as it turns out, We have pictures of it.
00:10:22.000The old drawstrings here, it was pretty obvious from anybody who had seen this thing.
00:10:27.000I mean, as soon as I saw these pictures online last night, I was like, oh, yeah, that's a pretty credible explanation because literally people had uncovered photos from last year showing the picture of the drawstring on the garage door from last year that had the hand tie in it, right, that looks basically like a loop.
00:10:49.000So it looked as though it had been cut.
00:10:51.000Hey, now, again, I was willing to grant Bubba Wallace the benefit of the doubt here, right?
00:10:55.000You can see in that picture, there is the hand hold in the rope, and then the very next year, it's just gone, because somebody had cut it off, for whatever reason.
00:11:03.000Okay, before Bubba Wallace got there, long before Bubba Wallace got there.
00:11:07.000Okay, so, I was willing to grant everybody the benefit of the doubt, everybody was acting in good faith and had good intentions.
00:11:12.000Then Bubba Wallace went on Tom Lemmon's show last night.
00:11:14.000And Bubba Wallace on Don Lemon's show decided to not only stick with the story, but to double down on the story after the release of the NASCAR statement on the FBI report.
00:11:21.000So Bubba Wallace said, no, no, no, no, no.
00:11:58.000Now this makes me wonder whether Bubba Wallace knew all along it wasn't news.
00:12:01.000Because up until now, I was willing to grant him the credibility of sincerity.
00:12:05.000That he sincerely believed that this thing was a racist symbol.
00:12:09.000But once it comes out it's not, instead of being relieved like, oh good, that's great, I'm not the victim of racism, it was all misinterpreted.
00:12:15.000Instead of that, he's like, no, no, no, it definitely was racism.
00:12:18.000I have very little sympathy for this at this point.
00:12:20.000I will admit to you that my sympathy levels have dropped below zero at this point.
00:12:26.000As somebody who has been victimized by an awful lot of people saying extraordinarily anti-Semitic things, I was the number one target of anti-Semitism in the United States online in 2016.
00:12:40.000There was an incident where somebody sent a piece of mail directly to my house.
00:12:44.000Now, my house is not registered online or anything, and so this was weird.
00:12:48.000When people send mail directly to my house, I'm a little suspicious.
00:12:51.000And I, like an idiot, decided to open this piece of mail.
00:12:53.000I opened the piece of mail, and in the mail is a folded up Paper towel, basically.
00:13:02.000And folded up paper towel, I open it a little bit, and it looks like there's powder inside.
00:13:05.000And I think to myself, oh good, somebody's sending powder to my house, like that's probably not a good thing.
00:13:10.000So I call my security people, my security people check it out, they coordinate with the police, they look at it, and they decide that it actually is not in fact a dangerous substance, there's a note that comes along that explains what this stuff is, it's not dangerous.
00:13:19.000My immediate reaction was, oh good, it's not somebody trying to kill me and my family.
00:13:24.000Right, I don't go around claiming, oh this was another anti-semitic incident against me.
00:13:27.000Your normal human reaction when you find out you are not a victim of a hate crime is relief.
00:13:31.000Your normal human reaction when you find out that somebody is not targeting you for destruction and hatred is, oh good, well that makes my life easier.
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00:15:07.000My sympathy is gone and it's gone because he went on Tom Lemon last night after the FBI investigation found this was not a news and proceeded to double down on it and explain that it was in fact a news.
00:15:17.000Here was Bubba Wallace last night on Tom Lemon.
00:15:19.000But from the evidence that we have, that I have, it's a straight up noose.
00:15:26.000The FBI has stated it was a noose over and over again.
00:15:29.000NASCAR leadership has stated it was a noose.
00:15:34.000I actually got evidence of what was hanging in my garage, over my car, around my picker guys, to confirm that it was a noose and never seen anything like it.
00:15:46.000How about last year, when it was on The Garage?
00:15:49.000I understand that you weren't there, because I guess it was for All-Stars, and maybe Boba Waltz wasn't an All-Star, but, like, it was there, guys.
00:16:21.000Okay, by the way, it's not just Bubba Wallace who's maintaining this.
00:16:24.000Again, the desire for the story to be real is the part that's really telling here.
00:16:28.000The deep, abiding desire on the part of many people to make the story real is indicative, again, of a desire to paint America in a particular way.
00:16:38.000As I've said, were I supposedly victimized by an anti-Semitic incident and then I found out it was not, in fact, an anti-Semitic incident, I'd be like, great!
00:17:49.000So I don't think this answers a lot of questions.
00:17:52.000And clearly from what we just saw of Bubba Wallace, it does not seem he who is the victim and possible target in this matter seems to be satisfied with this.
00:18:02.000So I do not think that we've seen closure in this particular inquiry.
00:18:08.000I definitely, by the way, believe what Al Sharpton has to sell me on investigations.
00:18:12.000I think I need the word of Al Sharpton that an event actually happened before I go any further.
00:18:18.000Because when I think of credible sources on criminal investigations, I think about the guy who faked a rape of a young girl in the 1980s and blamed a white DA for it and ruined his life.
00:18:29.000I definitely believe Al Sharpton when it comes to this kind of stuff.
00:19:14.000The closer we get to Peak Stupid, the further away it still seems.
00:19:17.000And Zeno's Paradox is the idea that if you keep halving the distance between yourself and a goal, you'll never reach the goal because you can always divide by half.
00:19:23.000Okay, that is what we have done at this point.
00:19:53.000And for you to simply suggest that it's a racist fanbase because you think that all Southerners are snaggle-toothed pumpkins who hate black people is absurd.
00:20:01.000It's absurd and it demonstrates your own bias.
00:20:19.000But once you start maintaining the credibility of a story, once the story has been completely debunked by the FBI, I don't think you're sincere anymore.
00:20:26.000I just think that you're pushing a narrative on the back of crap.
00:20:43.000I want to talk here about, you know, not the Jemele Hills or the Al Sharptons or people who make a living off of polarizing people on race.
00:20:51.000I want to talk about why so many people go along with this, because I think it really is kind of important.
00:20:56.000Basically, a cult has been formed among progressive white woke people.
00:21:01.000And that cult is that the standards for declaring somebody racist have changed, and they will continue to change, and you will be made to bow before the mob.
00:21:09.000And that's incredibly dangerous for the country.
00:21:10.000We're watching that happen all over the country right now.
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00:22:40.000Okay, so meanwhile, we have seen the white progressives leading the way in all of this, right?
00:22:45.000Declaring their fealty to the woke cause.
00:22:48.000And as I've been suggesting for weeks at this point, what started off as perhaps a good-hearted quest to curb police brutality has now morphed into basically race baiters taking advantage and white woke people feeling good about themselves.
00:23:03.000And that is how you end up with video like this.
00:23:55.000And just because I haven't experienced racism, and just because I don't know anything about racism, that doesn't mean that I can't yell at these black cops about racism.
00:24:03.000That's the most self-censored, arrogant nonsense I've ever seen.
00:24:06.000And again, this is breaking out across the country.
00:24:09.000White women screaming at White House officers.
00:24:12.000This is something that happened yesterday, straight from their yoga class.
00:24:15.000These Karens yelling at black police officers.
00:25:26.000There are sitting Congress people who are cheering, bringing down the Emancipation Monument in Washington, D.C., which is a monument of Abraham Lincoln.
00:25:31.000And he is standing sort of over and with his hands out to a freed black slave.
00:25:37.000It was recently turned, the monument, to face a black educator.
00:25:40.000So it shows Lincoln paying deference to a black educator now in terms of proximity to other monuments.
00:25:44.000And they're talking about bringing that down.
00:25:47.000Also in Wisconsin, The group of protesters, again, largely white, have decided that it was necessary to pull down a series of Capitol Hill statues.
00:25:57.000According to the Journal Sentinel online, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, fury exploded outside the Wisconsin State Capitol on Tuesday night as protesters smashed windows at the statehouse, attacked a state senator, and tore down two iconic statues, including one of an abolitionist who died trying to end slavery during the Civil War.
00:26:12.000The unrest began earlier Tuesday following the arrest of a black man who was arrested after bringing a megaphone and a baseball bat into a Capitol Square restaurant.
00:26:20.000It followed weeks of mostly peaceful protests of the death of George Floyd.
00:26:23.000Okay, mostly peaceful protests is like, it's just the greatest euphemism in history.
00:26:28.000It's the greatest euphemism, mostly peaceful protests.
00:26:30.000They shut down the entire city of Los Angeles at 6 p.m.
00:26:33.000for a week because of mostly peaceful protests.
00:26:35.000Okay, if I spend 23 hours and 59 minutes of my day being mostly peaceful, and then I abuse my child, that was not a mostly peaceful day, guys.
00:26:44.000That was a day in which I did something bad.
00:26:46.000That's a day in which I deserve to go to jail.
00:26:49.000If I protest all day, and then I walk into a Capitol Square restaurant carrying a baseball bat and apparently threatening people, that was not a mostly peaceful day, gang.
00:26:57.000During the melee late on Tuesday, Democratic State Senator Tim Carpenter, he's a Democrat, was assaulted after taking a photo of protesters.
00:27:04.000All I did was stop and take a picture.
00:27:05.000The next thing, I'm getting five, six punches, getting kicked in the head.
00:27:09.000Protesters chanting for the release of the man who'd been arrested earlier also broke glass at the Tommy Thompson Center on West Washington Avenue, smashed windows and lights at the state capitol, and set a small fire at the Dane County Jail before police arrived just before 1 a.m.
00:27:22.000In Madison, statues of the Wisconsin motto forward, which by the way is a progressive statue.
00:27:27.000It was a statue that was erected originally in order to pay homage to the broadening of voting rights in the state of Wisconsin.
00:27:34.000It was commissioned by Wisconsin women and sculpted by Wisconsin women and designed explicitly as a symbol of progressivism in the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment, allowing women the right to vote.
00:27:48.000They also ripped down a monument of Colonel Hans Christian Hegg, who was an anti-slavery activist who fought and died for the Union during the U.S.
00:28:34.000You can see that it's mostly white Americans who are doing this sort of stuff at this point.
00:28:37.000And it's like these woke college students who are off on break because of COVID-19, and they've decided to get active and prove to everybody how non-racist they are.
00:28:46.000They all read Right Fragility by Robin DiAngelo and decided to interrupt the system.
00:28:50.000I'll explain what exactly all that bullcrap means in just a few minutes here.
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00:30:15.000Okay, so we are watching the simultaneous destruction of America's common history, our philosophy of equal rights before law, and our culture that suggests that rights are paramount.
00:30:23.000I talk about all this in my new book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps.
00:30:34.000It's available on pre-order over at Amazon.
00:30:37.000And anywhere else books are sold, how to destroy America in three easy steps.
00:30:39.000But the destruction of America does in fact continue apace.
00:30:43.000It's not just the Wisconsin statues coming down or the attempt to take down the Emancipation Monument.
00:30:49.000Everybody is now being forced to bow before the mob.
00:30:52.000So we have Jimmy Kimmel who's now being forced to bow before the mob, which is exciting stuff.
00:30:57.000I do love the passive-aggressive mob bowing of Jimmy Kimmel.
00:31:00.000So Jimmy Kimmel dressed up in blackface as Karl Malone for several sketches for The Man Show in the early 2000s.
00:31:06.000Now, I have long maintained, unlike other hypocrites, I have long maintained That if you dressed up as a particular person, that is not the same thing as dressing up as a stereotypical black-faced person in 1920 designed to mock all black people.
00:31:20.000So I don't put Jimmy Kimmel in the same category as people who are doing this in 1920.
00:31:47.000Well, now Jimmy Kimmel wants to both maintain his moral authority and also apologize for having done this horribly, supposedly racist thing back in the early 2000s.
00:31:56.000Also, on K-Rock Radio in the mid-1990s, he did a rap album where he imitated Snoop Dogg and dropped the N-word a bunch of times.
00:32:02.000Now, if that happened to a right winger, Jimmy Kimmel would be out there calling for that person's head.
00:32:06.000But Jimmy Kimmel doesn't want to lose his head.
00:32:07.000So instead, he says, listen, I'm woke, so leave me alone.
00:32:10.000Here was the statement Jimmy Kimmel put out.
00:32:13.000to address this, as I knew doing so would be celebrated as a victory by those who equate apologies with weakness and sure for leaders who use prejudice to divide us.
00:32:37.000I did a recurring impression of the NBA player Carl Malone.
00:32:40.000In the late 90s, I continued impersonating Malone on TV.
00:32:42.000We hired makeup artists to make me look as much like Malone as possible.
00:32:45.000I never considered that this might be seen as anything other than an imitation of a fellow human being, one that had no more to do with Carl's skin color than it did his bulging muscles and bald head.
00:32:55.000I've done dozens of impressions of famous people, including Snoop Dogg, Oprah, Eminem, Dick Vitale, Rosie, and many others.
00:33:00.000In each case, I thought of them as impersonations of celebrities and nothing more.
00:34:38.000The idea that black Americans do not have agency, and so they need white woke people to save them.
00:34:44.000These people have a white savior complex beyond belief.
00:34:47.000They need Jimmy Kimmel out there on the front lines speaking on behalf of black people.
00:34:51.000And if they don't have Jimmy Kimmel, well, no one else can fill that gap.
00:34:55.000You want to know how ridiculous this is?
00:34:57.000If they got rid of Jimmy Kimmel tomorrow and they replaced Jimmy Kimmel with a black guy saying all the same woke stuff, would that be a victory for social justice?
00:35:03.000According to social justice warriors, it would, right?
00:35:06.000Because presumably, late night would now be more diverse.
00:35:08.000Is Jimmy Kimmel giving up his job to a woke black person who can mirror the same messages but also can claim to have experienced racism, which Jimmy Kimmel never has?
00:35:48.000And it also leads to paternalistic garbage policy, as we will see in just one second.
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00:37:14.000Okay, in just a second, we are going to get to the rest of the white woke left's bad policy and the cultish attempts to purge the white woke left of all of the unbelievers.
00:37:25.000And then I want to talk a little bit about the root ideology of this and where it is coming from.
00:37:29.000Best expressed in Robin DiAngelo's garbage book, White Fragility, which is topping all of the bestseller lists.
00:37:36.000She sounds like a Scientologist, frankly.
00:37:38.000I mean, she's cleansing you of your racist thetans.
00:37:40.000We're gonna get to that in just a moment.
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00:38:51.000A completely divided country, which obviously we are seeing, and also purges and also bad policy.
00:38:56.000Because all you have to do is claim that somebody is racist and not in line with the mob thinking, and then all of the nuance goes away and the person can simply be purged from polite society.
00:39:06.000There's an amazing story out by Jonathan Chait over at New York Magazine today called, an elite progressive listserv melts down over a bogus racism charge.
00:39:15.000On May 28th, progressive election data analyst David Shore tweeted about a new paper by Princeton professor Omar Wasow, showing that peaceful civil rights protests moved public opinion toward protesters, while violent protests had the opposite effect.
00:39:26.000The tweet violated a taboo in some left-wing quarters against criticizing violent protests and led within days to his firing.
00:39:32.000What happened after that was even more bizarre.
00:39:34.000On June 11th, says Jonathan Chait, I wrote an article briefly describing Shore's tweet and firing.
00:39:38.000Four days later, Progress Files, a list served for left-of-center data analysts, kicked Shore off.
00:39:43.000In a message to the group, the moderator describes his tweet as racist, and further accused him of having encouraged harassment of another member of the list.
00:39:50.000The racist tweet simply summarized the findings of the study, which said that if you violently protest, it shifts people away from your cause, while if you peacefully protest, it tends to shift people toward your cause, which is number one, perfectly obvious, and number two, backed by data.
00:40:04.000Jonathan Chait says, I've obtained the entire thread.
00:40:06.000I'm omitting the names of contributors because they had an expectation of privacy when they contributed to it, and their identities aren't terribly relevant.
00:40:12.000It reveals first a cruel attempt to destroy the professional reputation of Schor by smearing him with unsubstantiated charges in front of his professional peers.
00:40:19.000Second, it suggests an unsettling fear of open inquiry within the left-of-center professional data world.
00:40:24.000Progress Files has 1,000 members, only a tiny percentage of whom participated in the discussion about Schor, many more of whom received a chilling message from his expulsion.
00:40:31.000More important, the debate offers a case study in the norms of discussing race and gender within the progressive universe.
00:40:36.000Many progressives have sidestepped the problem presented by the illiberalism of these norms, dismissing them as goofy campus pratfalls.
00:40:42.000Over the past few years, and especially the past few weeks, these norms are gaining a foothold in elite professional settings, codified by tomes like white fragility into tightly circumscribed scripts of accusation and confession.
00:41:04.000They disagree with me on everything political, and they're saying I'm scared out of my wits at the censorious cultish culture that is being promulgated in our newsrooms, online, in our journalistic establishment.
00:41:37.000Lincoln County health officials announced last week all residents must wear face coverings when in public places in which they are likely to come within six feet of another person who's not from their own household.
00:41:45.000But people of color do not have to follow the new rule if they have heightened concerns about racial profiling and harassment over wearing masks, officials said, according to the New York Post.
00:41:53.000Okay, first of all, this is blatantly illegal.
00:41:55.000You cannot have a law that applies to white people but not black people.
00:41:59.000Second, if you want to kill black people, this is a great way to do it.
00:42:02.000Honestly, like, if you want black people put at higher risk of COVID-19, tell all of them not to wear masks because of racial profiling.
00:42:15.000Speaking of bad policy, Nancy Pelosi is trying to push her prevailing view on police reform.
00:42:21.000And because of her white wolf credentials, she's suggesting that the GOP that disagrees with her is trying to re-murder George Floyd or get away with the murder of George Floyd.
00:42:28.000It's a hell of a thing to say about a bill being pushed by the GOP, co-sponsored by Senator Tim Scott, the black Republican senator from South Carolina.
00:42:38.000For something to happen, they're going to have to face the realities.
00:42:42.000of police brutality, the rallies of the need for justice in policing, and the recognition that there are many, many good people in law enforcement, but not all, and that we have to address those concerns.
00:42:56.000So when they admit that and have some suggestions that are worthy of consideration, but so far they were trying to get away with murder, actually, the murder of George Floyd.
00:43:30.000It is not an argument about changes that need to be made to the structure.
00:43:34.000It is basically, you must listen to Robin DiAngelo and pay her as a diversity trainer in order for your thetans to be removed.
00:43:41.000All of your unspoken sins that you haven't even committed, you have committed by dint of your white skin, and that can only be, you can only be cleansed of your thetans if you listen to Robin DiAngelo.
00:43:49.000I mean, the book is such garbage that there are many people who, again, are on the left who are looking at this and going, this is insane.
00:43:57.000Jesse Singel and Katie Herzog have a podcast that is, again, a podcast from the left in which they talk at length about Robin DiAngelo's book, White Fragility.
00:44:14.000I think it's imperative to talk a little bit about what's in this book because it's so popular and because all of your white woke friends are recommending it to you.
00:44:45.000The way that she describes it, there are eight problems in broad strokes.
00:44:49.000One, it is filled with historical nonsense.
00:44:51.000Okay, she suggests that the history of America has not changed.
00:44:53.000For example, this is a direct quote from her book.
00:44:56.000Women were denied the right to vote until 1920, and black women were denied access to that right until 1965.
00:45:02.000No, black women were allowed to vote in 1920, just like all other women.
00:45:06.000Now, if you want to talk about the Voting Rights Act and the necessity of broadening the capacity for black women to vote, that's okay, but you can't read this book without coming away with the idea that black women were legally not allowed to vote in the United States until 1965, which is not true.
00:45:19.000In some ways, racism's adaptations over time are more sinister than concrete rules such as Jim Crow.
00:45:25.000The adaptations produce the same outcome.
00:45:28.000People of color are blocked from moving forward, but have been put in place by a dominant white society that won't or can't admit to its beliefs.
00:45:33.000So Jim Crow was less bad than what we have today, according to Robin DiAngelo.
00:45:38.000Quote, there is a curious satisfaction in the punishment of black people, the smiling faces of the white crowd picnicking at lynchings in the past and the satisfied approval of white people observing mass incarceration and execution in the present.
00:45:49.000She's literally comparing people who attended lynchings in 1916 with people in 2020.
00:45:57.000Who are watching the workings of the criminal justice system, which is patently insane.
00:46:02.000And again, the historical narrative matters.
00:46:04.000As I talk about in my book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, if you draw America as thoroughly evil and never changing, well then, it is very easy to talk about destruction of the system, which of course is what she is talking about.
00:46:14.000Which brings you to number two, right?
00:46:16.000Big problem number two with Robin DiAngelo's book.
00:46:17.000Problem number one is historical nonsense.
00:46:19.000Problem number two is that she basically labels the big problem all of America's systems.
00:46:23.000She says individualism is very bad because if you think of yourself as an individual, then you don't actually understand that you are a member of a race.
00:46:29.000So thinking of yourself as an individual is really bad.
00:46:31.000And thinking of others as individuals is just as bad.
00:46:33.000You have to think of them as members of race, which, again, last I checked, is actually the predicate to all of white superiority and racism.
00:46:41.000If you think of people as members of groups rather than individuals, that is a bad thing.
00:46:51.000Denying that we have few cross-racial relationships by proclaiming how diverse our community or workplace is, is enacting racism.
00:46:58.000Attributing inequality between whites and people of color to causes other than racism is racism.
00:47:03.000Meritocracy, if you back the meritocracy, that's racist.
00:47:07.000If you back objectivity, these are things she says, if you back objectivity, the idea of objectivity is racist.
00:47:11.000Okay, so ripping on American systems, ripping on American history.
00:47:14.000She also talks about Problem number three, she treats black people as tokens.
00:47:19.000I mean, clearly treats black people as tokens.
00:47:20.000You're seeing this with that white lady who's screaming at the black cops and saying, I can talk about racism, I'm a white lady, and racism is our problem.
00:47:27.000Treating black people as tokens is clearly a Robin DiAngelo thing.
00:47:34.000She said, perfect example, quote, I told my fellow white participants, this is at a meeting, that if they felt moved to tears, they should please leave the room.
00:47:41.000I would go with them for support, but I asked they not cry in the mixed group.
00:47:45.000That white women not cry in front of black people.
00:47:50.000After the discussion, I spent the next hour explaining to a very outraged white woman why she was asked not to cry in the presence of people of color.
00:47:56.000There is a long historical backdrop of black men being tortured and murdered because of a white woman's distress.
00:48:01.000We white people bring these histories with us.
00:48:03.000Our tears trigger the terrorism of this history, particularly for African Americans.
00:48:07.000She suggested if a white woman cries in front of a black man, the black man's immediate response is to think he's going to get lynched.
00:48:52.000her book, how can I say that if you're white, your opinions on racism are most likely ignorant when I don't even know you?
00:48:56.000I can say so because nothing in mainstream US culture gives us the information we need to have a nuanced understanding of arguably the most complex and enduring social dynamic of the last several hundred years.
00:49:07.000Okay, so in other words, the only way that you can be disabused of your ignorance is by reading her book.
00:49:13.000She suggests that if you claim you're colorblind or that you celebrate color because you marched in the 60s or because you marched for a particular cause, you can't say that.
00:49:23.000If you say that, then you have taken race off the table.
00:49:27.000If racism is not a topic of discussion between a white person and a person of color who are friends, this absence of conversation may indicate a lack of cross-racial trust.
00:49:35.000So if you don't talk with your black friend about race, it's not because you're friends and you don't feel like talking about race because you're just having a good time and your friend doesn't want to talk about it.
00:49:42.000Also, though, she says in this book that if you ask a black person about racism, then you're tokenizing the black person because it's not the black person's job to explain racism to you, which leaves only one person who can explain racism to you, Robin DiAngelo.
00:49:56.000This whole thing is insane, but the main goal of it is to make white people feel superior for interrupting the system and for tearing down the system.
00:50:05.000Everything is encapsulated in that one clip of the white lady screaming at the black cops that it is her job to take care of racism, not the black cops.
00:50:11.000And she has more to say about racism than the black cops do.
00:50:14.000That perverse attempt to self-aggrandize at the expense of the actual country, and at the expense of black people in many cases, is truly horrible for the country, but we are watching it apace.
00:50:24.000Alrighty, I'm gonna do a deep dive, by the way, on Robin DiAngelo's book this weekend.
00:50:28.000I'll go through it in detail, so stick around for that.
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