The Ben Shapiro Show - July 01, 2020


July 4 Is Cancelled | Ep. 1043


Episode Stats

Length

51 minutes

Words per Minute

218.72923

Word Count

11,188

Sentence Count

782

Misogynist Sentences

9

Hate Speech Sentences

28


Summary

Whites are the only people who can be woke when it comes to Black Lives Matter because they are the ones who control the systems and are complacent, and if they do not fight back against the systems of power, then they are letting down Black Americans. And if they don t fight back, they are robbing Black Americans of all agency in Rob and D'Angelo's world. And this means that white woke liberals might even have to be paternalistic toward Black people. This is the same thing as the white yoga pants wearing Lululemon mamas, young moms, and young moms are screaming at Black cops in New York City and Washington, D.C. because they have come for all of us, and that means that they are unwoke. Ben Shapiro explains how America is working these days, and how we are all complicit in racism and anti-racism, and why it s time to wake up to the fact that we are in a system that is racist, sexist, classist, and classist and that is designed to favor white people over black people, and white people who are black and brown people who don t have the same level of education, and who are poor, and therefore don t get the same opportunities, and are therefore not as entitled to the same things as other groups of people in the same circumstances, because they don't have to live up to what they were brought up to by their parents, grandparents, their teachers, their grandparents, or their great-grandparents, etc. Ben Shapiro argues that we need to be woke about racism and white privilege, because we are not to be racist because we're all the same as they are all the things that other people have in the United States because we have in fact are racist. . This is a must-listen to this episode of The Ben Shapiro Show, and it's a reminder that racism has been redefined, not just about race, it's about class, but about class and class privilege, not about race and class, and not about being woke. This show is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Get protected online data at ExpressVPN, and get protected at Express VPN at Protect Your Online Data Protections at ProtectYour Online Data at Paranoia at ParrisVpn.org Get protected! Get protected, get protected, not racist, not white, not black, not brown, not blue, not Asian, not Indian, not poor, not rich, not better, not more white, and so on.


Transcript

00:00:00.000 Pharrell Williams announces July 4th is canceled.
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00:00:23.000 So remember when this whole thing was about trying to put together solutions for instances of police brutality?
00:00:29.000 Remember it was about better policing?
00:00:31.000 And now it has nothing to do with better policing.
00:00:33.000 Now it is just about virtue signaling, largely by white, woke leftists who Oddly enough, I've decided that they are the most important people on planet Earth.
00:00:42.000 Now, that is a natural outgrowth of the sort of philosophy promulgated by Robin DiAngelo and her crappy book, White Fragility.
00:00:47.000 I have a brand new YouTube video you should go check out about White Fragility.
00:00:50.000 It's 30 minutes of hate about White Fragility because the book is just terrible.
00:00:54.000 But the entire thesis of the book is the only important people on planet Earth are white woke liberals.
00:00:59.000 They're the only people who are important because they are the ones who control the systems and are complacent.
00:01:04.000 And so if they do not fight back against the systems of power and the hierarchies of power, well then they are letting down black Americans.
00:01:09.000 And black Americans are robbed of all agency in Rob and D'Angelo's world.
00:01:13.000 And this means that white woke liberals might even have to be a little paternalistic toward black people.
00:01:18.000 Well, you can see all of this on display in a video that was going around Twitter yesterday.
00:01:22.000 There's a man of color who is going to a fence in his neighborhood that is covered top to bottom with sort of Black Lives Matter propaganda.
00:01:30.000 And he's taking down the signs because he lives across the street.
00:01:34.000 And he says, I'm sick of looking at this fence covered with signs, right?
00:01:37.000 I want to look at the park.
00:01:38.000 And a young white man then proceeds to try and tackle him, comes charging down the street and starts screaming at him and explaining to him he is not woke enough.
00:01:47.000 So this I think fairly encapsulates how America is working these days.
00:01:51.000 This is the same thing as the white yoga pants wearing Lululemon.
00:01:56.000 Moms, young moms, are screaming at black cops in New York City and Washington, D.C.
00:02:02.000 This idea that the white woke left, they have come for all of us.
00:02:05.000 And that if they do not listen, if they do not listen, if they take a perspective on America that is different than the perspective taken by Black Lives Matter, this means that they are un-woke.
00:02:15.000 As I say, this thing has extended far beyond the idea of police brutality or even disproportionate police use of force.
00:02:21.000 Which again, there's no evidence that police disproportionately use deadly force on Black and Hispanic Americans.
00:02:27.000 According to Roland Fryer, there is some evidence that police may use disproportionate force in low-level force situations.
00:02:34.000 So for example, patting people down or grabbing somebody during a police encounter, but it's very difficult to control for that because you don't know exactly how people are interacting with the police or what prompted that.
00:02:43.000 But that's what Roland Fryer's study says.
00:02:46.000 But the idea that black people are overwhelmingly being shot by the police or that the police are overwhelmingly systemically racist or that they are stopping people for driving solely because of the color of their skin as opposed to how they are driving, the evidence for that is incredibly scanty.
00:02:57.000 But the narrative has moved from that to the more broad application of the quote-unquote anti-racist narrative.
00:03:03.000 And as I discussed yesterday, the very term racist has now been redefined.
00:03:06.000 So Ibram Kendi, who is most famously associated with this neo-Marxist notion of anti-racism, that has been redefined.
00:03:15.000 So anti-racism is the basic idea that if you do not oppose the promulgated systems of the United States, if you do not oppose the Declaration, the Constitution of the United States, capitalism, then you are complicit in racism.
00:03:27.000 You are part of the problem.
00:03:28.000 There's just racist and anti-racist.
00:03:30.000 There is no such thing as not racist.
00:03:32.000 Because racist used to mean that you believe that one race is inherently superior to another.
00:03:36.000 And if you don't believe that, you're not a racist.
00:03:38.000 But now racism has been redefined to mean any system that results in inequality between outcomes for groups must be a systemically discriminating system.
00:03:49.000 And therefore, if you stand for any of those systems, you yourself are discriminatory and you are complicit in white privilege and you are complicit in whiteness.
00:03:57.000 That is the theory of Ibram Kenzi.
00:04:00.000 It makes no sense, obviously, because the fact is that Asians and white people don't have the same level of income.
00:04:05.000 Does that mean that the systems were built for Asians?
00:04:07.000 That the inequality of outcome means inequity designed by a privileged hierarchy in the United States?
00:04:12.000 Of course, that's not what it means.
00:04:13.000 But the Ibram Kenzi idea is if you don't oppose the systems, then the systems themselves are the root of the inequality.
00:04:21.000 They're the root of all inequality and the systems must be torn down.
00:04:23.000 And this means that anything that has to do with the systems has to be torn down.
00:04:26.000 And this is how you end up with somebody like Pharrell Williams suggesting that July 4th is bad.
00:04:32.000 So Pharrell Williams is, of course, an incredibly famous and successful singer, songwriter, and music executive.
00:04:38.000 This is not somebody who has led a radically difficult life in the United States.
00:04:43.000 By all indicators, he's led a pretty great life in the United States.
00:04:46.000 This person is probably worth hundreds of millions of dollars at a minimum.
00:04:49.000 This is a person who was born in Virginia Beach, Virginia, and he has a couple of brothers.
00:04:55.000 His mom was a teacher.
00:04:55.000 His dad was a handyman.
00:04:57.000 He went to seventh grade summer band camp, and then he ended up at Northwestern University for a couple of years.
00:05:03.000 This does not sound like the story of wild unsuccess that supposedly America is fostering.
00:05:10.000 It does not sound like the story of discrimination and evil that America is fostering.
00:05:13.000 But according to Pharrell Williams, Pharrell Williams says that July 4th is really, really bad.
00:05:17.000 And this is a very bizarre view of July 4th, because as we will see, the great black liberators in American history, particularly people like Frederick Douglass, understood that July 4th originally did not apply to slaves.
00:05:28.000 He gave a very, very famous oration, a very Hard-nosed and edgy oration did Frederick Douglass before slavery was abolished in which he talked about the fact that July 4th was not applied to black Americans.
00:05:39.000 The black Americans looked at July 4th and they said, it's not our holiday.
00:05:41.000 We're still in slavery.
00:05:42.000 It liberated you, but it didn't liberate us.
00:05:45.000 But he said, the point is that July 4th is the ideal to which you guys need to be held.
00:05:50.000 July 4th is the standard that you will be held to.
00:05:53.000 Martin Luther King Jr.
00:05:54.000 said the same thing.
00:05:55.000 But the new brand of black leadership is to suggest that July 4th is inherently evil, that the end of slavery, the end of Jim Crow, none of that means anything.
00:06:02.000 And so July 4th itself needs to be canceled.
00:06:05.000 Because basically America needs to be canceled.
00:06:07.000 It is not that America was built on high ideals that people failed to live up to.
00:06:11.000 It's that America's ideals were the founding creed of racism, sexism, bigotry, and homophobia.
00:06:15.000 The systems themselves created racism, right?
00:06:18.000 This is a case that Ibram Kendi actually makes explicitly.
00:06:20.000 That the systems themselves created racism.
00:06:22.000 Racism was not even the progenitor of the systems.
00:06:25.000 The systems created racism.
00:06:27.000 And then those systems are still in place today and therefore nothing has changed.
00:06:31.000 And therefore the systems need to be ripped down.
00:06:33.000 And so you can have people like Pharrell Williams, who are incredibly successful within the system, who are fighting the system because the system itself is the racism.
00:06:40.000 The system doesn't have to be shown to be racist.
00:06:42.000 You don't have to look at the system and say, here's a racist thing about the system.
00:06:46.000 Instead, all you have to do, even if you're Pharrell Williams and you're a very, very wealthy black man in America who's led an incredibly successful and blessed life in the United States, you can still look at the group inequality data and say, this system is unfair and bad, and therefore July 4th has to go.
00:07:00.000 We're going to get to Pharrell Williams and where this idea comes from in just one second.
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00:08:17.000 Okay, so Pharrell Williams does this interview on CNBC.
00:08:21.000 And he criticizes Independence Day, and then he advocates for reparations.
00:08:26.000 He also suggests that we take off Juneteenth as a paid holiday, which, by the way, I don't have really a problem with.
00:08:30.000 Juneteenth seems like that should be a day of American celebration.
00:08:32.000 That is the day on which the Emancipation Proclamation was finally read to the freed slaves of Texas, which was the last state to read the Emancipation Proclamation.
00:08:40.000 I have in June 19th, 1865.
00:08:42.000 So that is a day well worth celebrating.
00:08:45.000 And by the way, the reason it's worth celebrating is because it marked an actual shift in American history, a shift that so many of the folks of the woke left refused to acknowledge because slavery, according to the woke left, merely went underground, right?
00:08:57.000 Slavery never really ended.
00:08:58.000 It just became, according to Anna Duvernay, a system of prison industrial complexes.
00:09:03.000 It simply became, according to Robin DiAngelo, the soft bigotry of the regular corporate world and all of this sort of nonsense.
00:09:09.000 The reason we should celebrate Juneteenth is because it was in fact a sea change and it was a living up to ideals.
00:09:13.000 So here is Pharrell Williams ignoring all of that and suggesting instead that Independence Day is really bad and therefore it shouldn't really be a national holiday.
00:09:23.000 It's not really a national holiday for everyone.
00:09:25.000 When July 4th, 1776 took place, the only ones that were free from the British monarchy were our white brothers.
00:09:36.000 When you think about June 19th, that marks a two-year period where we were supposed to be freed, but we hadn't been still.
00:09:44.000 We feel like the day that we were freed, everyone was free.
00:09:49.000 So why not make that a paid holiday?
00:09:52.000 We deserve that.
00:09:56.000 There's a word that scares so many people.
00:09:58.000 You know, it's called reparations.
00:10:01.000 And we deserve that too.
00:10:03.000 Okay, I don't understand how Pharrell Williams, who's worth $200 million, deserves reparations from a white Appalachian guy who's worth $20,000.
00:10:09.000 Or zero.
00:10:10.000 Or zero.
00:10:11.000 That doesn't make any sense to me.
00:10:12.000 Now, to be fair to Pharrell Williams, he's suggesting, again, Juneteenth in addition to July 4th?
00:10:17.000 Okay, and that again, I don't actually have a problem with.
00:10:19.000 But the criticism of July 4th ceased to apply when Juneteenth happened.
00:10:23.000 Okay, the criticism of July 4th became irrelevant by the terms of the deal.
00:10:28.000 What I mean by that is that July 4th was an aspirational holiday about American freedom.
00:10:32.000 And Frederick Douglass criticized July 4th in really strong language, right?
00:10:36.000 Because he said that you're not living up to your own founding creed.
00:10:39.000 But July 4th is a day of celebration for everyone.
00:10:42.000 The suggestion by Pharrell Williams that it's not a celebration for everyone today is obviously very silly.
00:10:47.000 It is a day of celebration for everyone because it does represent the key point in the liberation of all Americans.
00:10:54.000 It just took far longer because of cruelty and evil for black Americans to gain the freedoms that should have been promised to them on July 4th.
00:11:01.000 Here's what Frederick Douglass It seems to me that Frederick Douglass had a lot more to say about the problems of racism and bigotry and cruelty of racism than anybody who's alive today.
00:11:11.000 I mean, Frederick Douglass actually lived as a slave.
00:11:14.000 Here's Frederick Douglass talking about this.
00:11:15.000 He gave a very famous oration on this.
00:11:17.000 And it's a beautiful, beautiful piece of both writing and oratory.
00:11:20.000 Very famous.
00:11:21.000 It's one of the reasons why I've suggested that Frederick Douglass is the second founding father who should be put on the American currency.
00:11:26.000 Because he, along with Abraham Lincoln, really understood that the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States were ideals to aspire to, and America was not living up to those ideals, and they had to be brought into balance, right?
00:11:38.000 They had to be brought into rectification.
00:11:40.000 Because, according to a lot of people, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were in opposition to one another.
00:11:45.000 In fact, John C. Calhoun, who was one of the leaders of the sort of pre-Confederacy Confederacy, right?
00:11:51.000 He died before the actual Civil War, but he was an ardent pro-slavery advocate.
00:11:56.000 He suggested that the Declaration of Independence was bad.
00:11:58.000 That the only thing that mattered was the Constitution.
00:12:00.000 Whereas Abraham Lincoln suggested that the Declaration of Independence is what he called the apple of gold and the Constitution the frame of silver.
00:12:06.000 What he meant by that is the ideals of the Declaration of Independence were protected by the Constitution.
00:12:10.000 So if you read the Constitution without the Declaration, then you would miss the high ideals, which are the reasons that the Constitution was brought about in the first place.
00:12:18.000 And again, slaveholders said, okay, well, the Declaration doesn't matter.
00:12:21.000 That was just kind of something we said at the time.
00:12:23.000 It was something that we just put out.
00:12:24.000 There's a piece of propaganda.
00:12:25.000 The only thing that matters is the hard terms of the Constitution.
00:12:28.000 The reason the Declaration of Independence matters, and that's what we're celebrating on July 4th, right?
00:12:31.000 That's not Constitution Day.
00:12:32.000 That's July 4th.
00:12:34.000 The reason we celebrate the Declaration of Independence is because the philosophy of the United States is embedded in the Declaration of Independence.
00:12:40.000 Really three separate propositions.
00:12:42.000 First, the reality of natural rights, pre-existing government, inalienable and precious, and endemic to all human beings.
00:12:47.000 Right?
00:12:47.000 Natural rights that exist for you.
00:12:50.000 No matter where you are, right?
00:12:51.000 Not equally realized for everybody at all times, but those natural rights pre-exist government.
00:12:55.000 Second, the equality of all human beings before the law and in their rights.
00:12:59.000 All men are created equal.
00:13:01.000 That doesn't mean all men are created with equal capacity or equal ability.
00:13:04.000 It means that all men are to be treated the same by the law because you are equal in your rights, those rights that pre-exist government.
00:13:10.000 And finally, the belief that government exists to protect natural rights and to enforce that equality before the law.
00:13:15.000 That's what the Declaration of Independence is about.
00:13:15.000 That's the role of government.
00:13:18.000 American philosophy believes that these propositions are self-evident.
00:13:22.000 And then the founders attempted to effectuate that philosophy in the Constitution of the United States.
00:13:27.000 And that's what Frederick Douglass recognized in a way that so many of today's modern race thinkers refuse to recognize.
00:13:33.000 Frederick Douglass said, look, the obstacle here is racism.
00:13:36.000 The obstacle is old-fashioned, brutal bigotry.
00:13:40.000 The obstacle here is slavery and Jim Crow and institutions of discrimination.
00:13:44.000 You remove those, and what you are left with is, again, that gold apple in the silver frame.
00:13:49.000 But according to so many thinkers today, that's not really the problem.
00:13:52.000 There was no gold apple, the gold apple was always worm-ridden, and the silver frame was always made of dross.
00:13:57.000 Right?
00:13:57.000 That's the actual argument here.
00:13:59.000 It's whether the Declaration and the Constitution are inherently good, or whether the Declaration and Constitution are inherently corrupt and evil.
00:14:04.000 Frederick Douglass said they're inherently good.
00:14:06.000 We're not living up to them.
00:14:07.000 Here's what Frederick Douglass, a freed slave, who, let me tell you, has suffered a hell of a lot more than Pharrell Williams ever has in his life.
00:14:12.000 And that is not a close comparison.
00:14:14.000 By the way, Fair to say, Frederick Douglass suffered a hell of a lot more than virtually every person living in America.
00:14:19.000 The man lived as a slave.
00:14:21.000 Here's what he says.
00:14:22.000 The signers of the Declaration of Independence were brave men.
00:14:24.000 They were great men, too.
00:14:25.000 Great enough to give fame to a great age.
00:14:27.000 They believed in order, but not in the order of tyranny.
00:14:29.000 With them, nothing was settled that was not right.
00:14:31.000 With them, justice, liberty, and humanity were final, not slavery and oppression.
00:14:35.000 What he's saying is that the principles they established would allow for the extirpation of slavery and oppression.
00:14:40.000 And the question he asked, this was his big question in his July 4th peroration.
00:14:44.000 He said, "Are the great principles of political freedom "and of natural justice embodied in that Declaration "of Independence extended to us?" Right, the entire thing is, I'm not ripping on the Declaration, I'm not ripping on the Constitution.
00:14:55.000 I'm not even ripping on the Founders.
00:14:57.000 What I am saying is what Frederick Douglass says is when these words were written, they were not true for us.
00:15:03.000 But we need to make them true for us because they are great principles of political freedom and of natural justice.
00:15:08.000 What exactly are those great principles?
00:15:10.000 So Calvin Coolidge, probably the most underrated president in American history.
00:15:13.000 Calvin Coolidge was a very good president.
00:15:15.000 He gave the 150th anniversary speech in 1926 about the Declaration of Independence.
00:15:22.000 And here is how he described the philosophy of the Declaration of Independence.
00:15:25.000 He said, if all men are created equal, that is final.
00:15:27.000 If they are endowed with inalienable rights, that is final.
00:15:30.000 If governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed, that is final.
00:15:33.000 No advance, no progress can be made beyond these propositions.
00:15:37.000 If anyone wishes to deny their truth or their soundness, the only direction in which he can proceed historically is not forward, but backward.
00:15:43.000 For the time when there was no equality, no rights of the individual, no rule of the people.
00:15:47.000 We live in an age of science and of abounding accumulation of material things.
00:15:51.000 These did not create our Declaration.
00:15:53.000 Our Declaration created them.
00:15:55.000 That's what we're celebrating on July 4th.
00:15:56.000 And that's something that all Americans should be celebrating this weekend as we approach July 4th.
00:16:00.000 But unfortunately, there is a case afoot to not celebrate those things.
00:16:04.000 Because in the view, again, of so many of the disintegrationists as I describe in my upcoming book, How to Destroy America in Three Easy Steps, In the book, I describe people who want to disintegrate the union as disintegrationists.
00:16:15.000 It's not right versus left.
00:16:17.000 It's disintegrationists versus unionists.
00:16:18.000 People who'd like to see the country held together on the basis of fundamental principles and people who would like to see the country fall apart.
00:16:25.000 The basic idea that those principles are themselves rooted in sexism and bigotry and racism and have promulgated sexism, bigotry, racism, inequality.
00:16:35.000 That's a battle for the heart and soul of the country.
00:16:37.000 That is a battle for the entire mind and future of the country.
00:16:41.000 And it's a battle whether we are going to go forward or whether we're going to go backward, because Coolidge was exactly right.
00:16:45.000 Progress, what made America unique, what makes America powerful, what makes America good, are the original founding principles that we have so often failed to live up to, but that we have always striven to move toward as a country.
00:16:56.000 Not everybody in the country, but the country as a whole.
00:16:59.000 And that we've always, we've tried to move toward that.
00:17:02.000 Stumbling, falling, but overall moving toward that progress.
00:17:06.000 And if you move away from those fundamental principles, and that's what we're talking about right now.
00:17:09.000 Destruction of those fundamental principles, right?
00:17:11.000 That all men are created equal and endowed with inalienable rights, and that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.
00:17:17.000 As we move away from that, we move toward regression, not progression.
00:17:21.000 We move toward either mob rule or autocracy, right?
00:17:25.000 That is what we move toward.
00:17:26.000 Not freedom, not liberty, Not prosperity.
00:17:30.000 All those things become a figment of the imagination.
00:17:33.000 And by the way, the disintegrations are fighting all of these principles right now.
00:17:37.000 The notion that all men are created equal is something that is denied.
00:17:40.000 It is fundamentally denied by the white fragility, anti-racism outlook of Ibram Kendi and of Robin DiAngelo.
00:17:46.000 Because again, you can judge someone and their complicity in the system simply on the basis of their race.
00:17:52.000 That denies, it doesn't actually acknowledge that all men are created equal in their rights.
00:17:56.000 What they do is they play a little word game.
00:17:57.000 They say, what we mean by all men are created equal is that if all men are truly created equal, and this is basically what Ibram Kendi says, if all men are truly created equal, they should all have equal outcomes.
00:18:07.000 That's not what all men are created equal means.
00:18:09.000 All men are created equal means they were created with rights.
00:18:12.000 That they were created equal before the law.
00:18:14.000 It doesn't mean that Colton and I both have the same jump shot.
00:18:17.000 It doesn't mean that I'm going to play in the NBA or be a WWE wrestler or that somebody else is capable of hosting a successful podcast.
00:18:23.000 We all have different abilities.
00:18:24.000 That's called being a human being.
00:18:26.000 What it does mean is that in the eyes of God and the eyes of the law, we are all equal.
00:18:30.000 The notion that we're endowed with inalienable rights, the left doesn't believe in inalienable rights.
00:18:34.000 The left believes, like the French Revolution believed, that rights can be put aside in favor of the common good.
00:18:41.000 The idea is the common good can overreach those rights.
00:18:44.000 And so this is why you are seeing right now an attack particularly on freedom of speech, which we'll get to in just one second.
00:18:51.000 The idea that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed?
00:18:54.000 That too is overridden.
00:18:56.000 Instead, the left would love to see mob rule.
00:18:59.000 Because what we're seeing right now has nothing to do with the consent of the governed.
00:19:01.000 Is Chaz about the consent of the governed?
00:19:03.000 And the left is rooting for it.
00:19:05.000 Is pure majoritarianism the consent of the governed?
00:19:09.000 Because who consents to be governed by a pure 51% majority?
00:19:11.000 Nobody.
00:19:15.000 Your inalienable rights cannot be alienated by a simple majority vote.
00:19:19.000 The founders understood this, but all of these things are being disintegrated in the name of a new utopia.
00:19:23.000 And that's really terrible.
00:19:24.000 July 4th has to stand because July 4th is really, really important.
00:19:28.000 Instead, we seem to be moving away from the principles of July 4th by grouping people together in races, by moving away from the principles of Juneteenth, by the way.
00:19:37.000 I'm moving away from the principles of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln, and yes, the principles of the Declaration and the Constitution.
00:19:42.000 And that's a disaster for the country.
00:19:43.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
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00:21:09.000 Okay, so the media are complicit in this attempt to destroy basic American ideals and divide us as much as humanly possible.
00:21:16.000 The New York Times has decided, for example, that they are simply going to change the language.
00:21:20.000 So just like we are now changing the definition of racism, so that racism doesn't mean belief in superiority or inferiority of a particular race, racism is now instead going to mean you're complicit in the systems that produce inequality, right?
00:21:32.000 That is the basic definition of racism.
00:21:35.000 Now we are going to shift the definitions of race in a bizarre way as well.
00:21:39.000 So now, apparently, the New York Times is going to use the uppercase Black to describe people and cultures of African origin, both in the United States and elsewhere.
00:21:48.000 According to the New York Times, we believe this style best conveys elements of shared history and identity, and reflects our goal to be respectful of all the people and communities we cover.
00:21:57.000 The change will match what many readers are seeing elsewhere.
00:21:59.000 The Associated Press and other major news organizations have recently adopted Black, which has long been favored by many African-American publications and other outlets.
00:22:08.000 The new style is also consistent with our treatment of many other racial and ethnic terms.
00:22:11.000 We recently decided to capitalize native and indigenous, while other ethnic terms like Asian American and Latino have always been capitalized.
00:22:17.000 We'll retain lowercase treatment for white.
00:22:20.000 While there's an obvious question of parallelism, there's been no comparable movement toward widespread adoption of a new style for white.
00:22:25.000 And there's less of a sense that white describes a shared culture and history.
00:22:28.000 Again, this goes back to the, I keep quoting white fragility because that's where this crap is coming from.
00:22:32.000 The basic idea here is that whiteness only exists in opposition to blackness.
00:22:35.000 There's no such thing as a white identity.
00:22:37.000 There's only a cohesive black identity.
00:22:40.000 Well, you're going to have to explain that one to me.
00:22:42.000 Seriously.
00:22:43.000 Because you're going to have to explain to me why a person from Haiti and a person from Zimbabwe have the same cultural heritage and history.
00:22:52.000 So they deserve to be capitalized as Capital B Black.
00:22:55.000 They're part of the same cultural and ethnic history.
00:22:58.000 But a guy from Austria and a guy from Germany, nine miles apart, Who are both white.
00:23:03.000 They share no common ethnic heritage.
00:23:05.000 None.
00:23:05.000 According to this.
00:23:06.000 I mean, it's ridiculous, obviously.
00:23:08.000 The basic idea, instead, is that whiteness is bad, blackness is good.
00:23:12.000 Because blackness is an identity.
00:23:13.000 White can only exist in opposition to blackness.
00:23:15.000 And therefore, whiteness is truly about racism, right?
00:23:18.000 This is a word that you will see very often in the woke literature, is whiteness.
00:23:21.000 Whiteness is a descriptor of badness.
00:23:24.000 You have internalized your whiteness.
00:23:25.000 If you integrate into the systems, you are internalizing your whiteness.
00:23:28.000 This is how they can call people like Clarence Thomas an Oreo.
00:23:31.000 Because the idea is that he has internalized his whiteness.
00:23:33.000 He's a black man, but he's white on the inside because he's internalized his whiteness.
00:23:36.000 By the way, this is sort of the premise of the...
00:23:40.000 It's unbelievable this movie really was not perceived as how racist it is.
00:23:43.000 The movie Get Out is really about this, right?
00:23:45.000 The idea of Get Out is a black man who's being treated incredibly well by a white family and then of course it turns out to be a horror story about them attempting to capture his body and then turn him into a white person on the inside, right?
00:23:55.000 They literally want to take his body and then take their white souls and put them in his black body to take control of his body.
00:24:02.000 This notion that whiteness is the threat because whiteness only exists in opposition to blackness.
00:24:06.000 The only thing that brings white people together is being in opposition to black people.
00:24:10.000 It's quite a linguistic twist.
00:24:13.000 But this is the way that we are going to divide the country and make the country worse and worse.
00:24:17.000 That is the direction in which we are moving.
00:24:18.000 Okay, in just a second, we're going to get to the funniest story of the day because things are getting wild over at Chazz in Seattle.
00:24:24.000 We're also going to get back into the social media wars, because it is pretty obvious right now that the entire woke mentality that says that the hallmarks of your culture of rights need to be disintegrated.
00:24:33.000 If they're not disintegrated, then you are exacerbating inequality.
00:24:36.000 We'll get to that in just one second.
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00:26:04.000 Meanwhile, this is the best story of the day.
00:26:08.000 out of Seattle, and it does demonstrate how the media are willing to go along with violence, so long as that violence suggests that the system is bad and the system is racist.
00:26:15.000 So, in Seattle, they've had this idiotic Chazz Chop dangerous place, right?
00:26:20.000 I mean, they've had several shootings, I think four shootings in Chazz Chop since the police were forced out, and Mayor Jenny Durkan called it a street fair, and she said that it was just a wonderful, wonderful place.
00:26:28.000 Well, the chickens finally came home to roost, because it turns out that Shama Sawan, who's a nut, okay?
00:26:32.000 Shama Sawan is the Socialist City Councilwoman in Seattle, I know Councilwoman Salwant.
00:26:37.000 I debated her when I had a specific local show on KTTH, one of our affiliates here, on the Ben Shapiro show.
00:26:43.000 And we debated $15 minimum wage.
00:26:45.000 You should watch it.
00:26:46.000 It's quite entertaining.
00:26:47.000 But Shama Salwant led a rally outside of Jenny Durkan's home.
00:26:52.000 And now Jenny Durkan is calling for Shama Salwant to be punished or expelled from the city council for doing that.
00:27:00.000 She wrote a letter to the council president, Mayor Jenny Durkan.
00:27:03.000 So, Jenny Durkan is perfectly willing to allow fully law-abiding areas of the city to fall victims to anarchy.
00:27:09.000 And she's going to just allow people to get shot willy-nilly in this part of the city.
00:27:12.000 But somebody marched outside her house, that means it's time to fire the city councilwoman.
00:27:17.000 The city's residents and businesses expect us to work on many important issues together, including unprecedented challenges, such as a global pandemic worsening in our city, an economic downturn that could become the worst economic event in our city's history, and a civil rights movement in our streets.
00:27:30.000 The public deserves to see their government working together to resolve differences and face these challenges.
00:27:36.000 Article 4, Section 4, provides the council may punish or expel a member for disorderly or otherwise contemptuous behavior.
00:27:42.000 Some of these violations may be additional violations of the Seattle Ethics and Elections Committee, but all of these fall within the city council's purview.
00:27:49.000 So, she's going after Shama Sawant.
00:27:51.000 Why is she going after Shama Sawant?
00:27:52.000 Because she helped people illegally occupy city property, which, by the way, Jenny Durkan praised at the time.
00:27:59.000 Right?
00:28:00.000 She encouraged people to do this in the middle of a pandemic.
00:28:03.000 And, quote, she used her official position to lead a march to my home, despite the fact it was publicly known I was not there.
00:28:08.000 And she and organizers knew my address was protected under the state confidentiality program because of threats against me due largely to my work as U.S. attorney.
00:28:15.000 All of us have joined hundreds of demonstrations across the city.
00:28:18.000 But council member, Salwant, and her followers chose to do so with reckless disregard of the safety of my family and children.
00:28:24.000 In addition, during or after council member, Salwant, speech at that rally, her followers vandalized my home by spray painting obscenities.
00:28:29.000 Oh, well, it seems what?
00:28:32.000 The chickens came home to roost for the mayor, and now she wants Shama Salwan gone.
00:28:36.000 Now she's blaming Shama Salwan for all of this.
00:28:39.000 Why, it's just amazing.
00:28:40.000 It seems like when liberals get mugged by reality, suddenly, they're not so fond of their Chazz Chop New Republic beautiful utopias anymore.
00:28:51.000 It's pretty incredible.
00:28:51.000 But the media will go along with this nonsense, right?
00:28:53.000 The media will go along with people who are threatening other people and defacing property and breaking into private property.
00:28:59.000 Block of wood, Chris Cuomo, over on CNN.
00:29:02.000 He tried this routine last night.
00:29:04.000 So he had on the male from the famous couple, the so-called Ken and Karen couple from Missouri.
00:29:09.000 He's a lawyer in the area.
00:29:11.000 His name is Mark McCloskey.
00:29:13.000 And he was He came out of his house with his wife when the situation was, when Black Lives Matter protesters broke into a private gated community and walked down the street.
00:29:25.000 And there were some pretty stellar pictures of him walking out of his house carrying an AR-15, and his wife had a small pistol in her hand, and she's shouting at the protesters.
00:29:33.000 And it turns out that according to him, the protesters were threatening to burn down his house and do property damage.
00:29:38.000 Okay, so Chris Cuomo has them on his show last night.
00:29:41.000 And Chris Cuomo's first question, his questions are like, why would you do such an evil thing as to defend your house?
00:29:46.000 Why are you defending your house?
00:29:47.000 It's really bad.
00:29:48.000 You need to stop defending your house.
00:29:50.000 Cut it out.
00:29:51.000 And Martin McCloskey was like, um, it's my house.
00:29:53.000 And the reason they didn't burn it is because I was out there with a gun.
00:29:57.000 I understand what you say your rationale was.
00:29:59.000 To be clear, did anything happen to you or your property?
00:30:04.000 Yeah, my life has been ruined.
00:30:08.000 We'll get to that, Mr. McCloskey.
00:30:10.000 I don't mean to cut you off, but I'm saying that night, did anything happen to you, your family, or your property?
00:30:17.000 Yeah, it's called social intimidation.
00:30:19.000 It's called terrorism.
00:30:21.000 Chris, what's the definition of terrorism?
00:30:23.000 To use violence and intimidation to frighten the public.
00:30:26.000 That's what was happening that night.
00:30:27.000 It's what happened to me, and that's the damage I suffered.
00:30:30.000 Okay, so the bottom line there is, Chris, my favorite part of that is Chris Cuomo suggesting, so nothing happened in your house, did it?
00:30:35.000 Right, because he was standing out there with a gun.
00:30:37.000 He was standing out there with a gun.
00:30:38.000 But the bottom line is that once you accept that all behavior, individual, bad individual behavior is the result of the system, then the system is to blame.
00:30:45.000 July 4th is to blame, right?
00:30:46.000 Once the entire system is to blame for all the bad things, then you can't blame the individual protesters shouting at this guy they're going to burn his home.
00:30:53.000 You have to blame the guy who's defending his home because after all, his home is property and property is bad.
00:30:57.000 And you have to understand that his property is a symptom of an unequal system.
00:31:02.000 And just because the people protesting past his house didn't have houses like that, that means that they are the victims of the system, whereas he himself is actually the perpetrator of this evil, unequal system.
00:31:11.000 That is the nonsense that the left is pushing.
00:31:13.000 Now, if anybody ever came up to Chris Cuomo's house, it would be a different story.
00:31:16.000 If anybody ever calls Chris Cuomo Fredo, for goodness sake, then it's like the N-word, apparently, if you use Fredo, according to Chris Cuomo.
00:31:25.000 So apparently he's allowed to take great offense at people saying innocuous things like calling him the dumb brother from the godfather.
00:31:33.000 But if somebody threatens to burn your house, you're supposed to just sit inside and wait on it.
00:31:39.000 We'll get to more of this in just one second.
00:31:41.000 We'll get to the crusade against social media, which again, is being ramped up in real time.
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00:33:10.000 Alrighty, in just a second, we're going to get, again, to the attacks on social media, which is the attempt to shut down rights as a symptom of the evil system.
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00:34:39.000 So there's a concerted effort right now by the politically Machiavellian and by the woke to unite in an attempt to use social media to crack down on messages they don't like.
00:34:56.000 That is the latest iteration.
00:34:57.000 So wokeness is being used as an excuse to blackmail social media companies into reinstituting a monopoly on informational dissemination.
00:35:05.000 What that means is that it used to be you only got your information from CBS, NBC, ABC, New York Times, Washington Post.
00:35:09.000 That was basically everything.
00:35:11.000 Then the Internet comes about, thank God.
00:35:12.000 And the Internet, led by people like Matt Drudge, really opens everything up.
00:35:16.000 They really open up the dissemination of information.
00:35:18.000 Now you can go to Daily Wire and you can get a more accurate take on the news from a conservative perspective.
00:35:23.000 Now you can head on over to Drudge and you can check all the headlines from Drudge's perspective.
00:35:27.000 You can go all over the internet.
00:35:29.000 You can go to Daily Caller and check out their News Foundation, which does a great job.
00:35:32.000 You can do all of these things.
00:35:34.000 And that's great.
00:35:35.000 You can check out the Federalist.
00:35:36.000 We've got lots of friends on the right and we hope all of them do really well.
00:35:39.000 And you can check all of them.
00:35:40.000 That's what the internet does.
00:35:41.000 It allows for broader dissemination of information.
00:35:43.000 You can watch Fox News now, which is great because now you're no longer relegated to CNN or just MSNBC.
00:35:49.000 And that's a wonderful thing.
00:35:50.000 But the problem is that the media liked being the gatekeeper for information.
00:35:54.000 The media loved being the gatekeeper for information.
00:35:56.000 The problem was they never had a great response to, okay, freedom of speech.
00:36:00.000 The response was freedom of speech.
00:36:01.000 Freedom of speech is great.
00:36:03.000 More information is better.
00:36:04.000 Aren't you the ones who used to proclaim that you would die for everybody else's right to say something you disagreed with?
00:36:10.000 That was literally the slogan of the ACLU, basically.
00:36:13.000 We may disagree, but I'll die for your right to say it.
00:36:16.000 So the left had to come up with a new rationale for why exactly they should re-institute a monopoly on informational dissemination.
00:36:22.000 The new rationale is the Wokeness Crusade.
00:36:25.000 And the Wokeness Crusade is, your dissemination of information damages me.
00:36:30.000 Freedom of speech does not fall equally on everybody.
00:36:33.000 Freedom of speech is actually a re-institution of the hierarchy.
00:36:36.000 Freedom of speech is inherently threatening.
00:36:38.000 I mentioned Therabert Marcus a couple days ago, to reiterate the point, Frankfurt School professor from the 1960s, very important thinker.
00:36:44.000 And Herbert Marcuse promulgated an idea called what he called repressive tolerance.
00:36:48.000 And what he suggested was the problem is if you tolerate bad opinions, those opinions might in fact increase intolerance.
00:36:54.000 So instead, what you have to do is you have to stop tolerance for bad opinions and you have to only tolerate good opinions.
00:36:59.000 Which normally we would call censorship.
00:37:01.000 Normally we would just call that tyranny.
00:37:03.000 That's repressive tolerance.
00:37:03.000 But he says, no, no, no.
00:37:05.000 In order for tolerance to flourish, in order for the correct perspectives to flourish, what we really have to do is shut down freedom of speech.
00:37:11.000 And this is what you are seeing right now from the woke left.
00:37:13.000 They went after the media.
00:37:14.000 They went after corporations.
00:37:16.000 And corporations are the big leverage point right now.
00:37:18.000 So they're using corporations to go after social media platforms.
00:37:21.000 Now, social media platforms, their original mandate was, they're platforms.
00:37:24.000 You can have debates, you can have open conversations, they can be rough, they can be in their sort of incipient form, but at least you're having a conversation.
00:37:33.000 That is a good thing.
00:37:34.000 More information is better information, right?
00:37:35.000 This was sort of the motto of social media.
00:37:37.000 Then, the woke left decided to go to the corporations, which are responsible for a lot of the advertising on these platforms, and say, well, Do you stand with the worst?
00:37:46.000 Do you stand with the worst people?
00:37:48.000 And now this has always been a dishonest trick.
00:37:49.000 It's really been dishonest.
00:37:50.000 So this is a trick the left always loves to use with regard to a variety of topics.
00:37:55.000 So I've said before, I believe in freedom of association.
00:37:58.000 I do.
00:37:59.000 I think you should be able to associate with whomever you want.
00:38:01.000 I may not agree with how you choose to use that freedom of association, but I believe you should be able to associate with whomever you want.
00:38:06.000 I believe that if you run a restaurant, you should be able to have whoever you want in and not let whoever you want in.
00:38:10.000 And that means that bad people are going to be able to misuse that freedom.
00:38:13.000 But I think it's important that people have that freedom because I don't think government should have the power to compel you to run your business in any particular way.
00:38:21.000 I think that if you are an advocate of gay marriage, and somebody walks in who you don't like, I think you have every right to say to that person, I don't want you in my business.
00:38:31.000 I think, really, I do.
00:38:33.000 I think likewise that you're a Christian baker, and somebody walks in and says, I want you to bake me a transgender celebration cake, the baker has every right to say, you know what, I'm not going to do it.
00:38:40.000 I'm sorry.
00:38:41.000 No, I'm not doing that.
00:38:42.000 Freedom of association matters.
00:38:43.000 I think it's an important concept.
00:38:45.000 So what the left will say is, ah, so what that really means is you're standing up for bigotry.
00:38:49.000 No, I'm standing up for the possibility that my perspective may not be the correct perspective.
00:38:54.000 And the left used to appreciate this.
00:38:55.000 You know why?
00:38:56.000 Because the leftist perspective used to be a minority in America.
00:38:59.000 If the right had been successful in limiting freedom of speech, there would be no gay rights movement in the United States.
00:39:05.000 There wouldn't be.
00:39:06.000 If the social right had been successful in the 1950s in limiting freedom of speech from a legal perspective or even a socio-cultural perspective, those conversations never could have happened.
00:39:15.000 But now that the left is in commanding position, they are seeking to shut down the methods of dissemination so that only their messages can be heard.
00:39:22.000 And Democratic senators are excited about this because, obviously, one of the effects of this will not just be to shut down the quote-unquote racist messages.
00:39:31.000 And this is, again, the left uses the term racist to describe everything they don't like.
00:39:35.000 Things can be things you don't like and still not be racist.
00:39:38.000 They've used this in order to say, OK, basically, we just want democratic messages out there.
00:39:42.000 This is why Mark Zuckerberg is coming under so much fire over at Facebook.
00:39:45.000 Zuckerberg is the only major social media leader who has come out and clearly expressed a perspective in favor of American standards of free speech.
00:39:53.000 It's not happened to YouTube, it's not happened to Google, it's not happened to Twitter.
00:39:56.000 Instead, those platforms have basically decided that they are going to cave to the woke left, and they are just going to decide that they are perfectly willing to mirror whatever are the political priorities of the woke left these days.
00:40:07.000 And they'll ban anybody or target anybody who disagrees.
00:40:10.000 That's the way that these social media companies are moving.
00:40:15.000 So instead, Boycott groups have decided to go after corporations, which are risk-averse and don't like boycotts, and tell them to pull their money from Facebook.
00:40:24.000 And now, Democratic senators are getting on board, right?
00:40:25.000 This is just a blackmail program to reestablish a monopoly of information.
00:40:28.000 That's all this really is.
00:40:29.000 It's just a blackmail program from Democratic legislators and social activists going after corporations.
00:40:35.000 That's all this is.
00:40:36.000 It is a simple blackmail program.
00:40:39.000 Limit the information that you put out there, or we are going to either regulate you if we're Democratic senators, or we are going to call for boycotts if we are the activist types.
00:40:47.000 According to Bloomberg, Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg faces demands from Senate Democrats for answers about hate groups on the platform.
00:40:53.000 At the same time, a growing number of companies are pulling advertising from its sites over harmful content.
00:40:58.000 I love the vague term harmful content.
00:41:02.000 No one ever defines these terms.
00:41:03.000 What is harmful content exactly?
00:41:05.000 Does that mean that you saw something that offended you?
00:41:07.000 Or does it mean that somebody's calling for your explicit killing?
00:41:09.000 There seems to be a little bit of difference.
00:41:11.000 In a letter to Zuckerberg on Tuesday, three Democratic senators questioned what they call the company's, quote, lack of action to prevent white supremacist groups from using the platform as a recruitment and organizational tool, despite Facebook's stated policies on hate speech.
00:41:23.000 Senators Mark Warner, Robert Menendez of New Jersey, and Mazie Hirono of Hawaii, who's all three of those senators, wrote that the nation is undergoing a long overdue examination of systemic racism, but suggested Facebook is failing to do its part.
00:41:34.000 So now they're using the anti-racist crusade as a leverage point against Facebook.
00:41:40.000 By the way, every major executive which is a donor to the Democratic Party.
00:41:44.000 While Facebook has attempted to publicly align itself with this movement, its failure to address the hate spreading on its platform reveals significant gaps between Facebook's professed commitment to racial justice and the company's actions and business interests.
00:41:55.000 Senators want Facebook to detail by July 10th whether and how the company will enforce its policies against hate speech, violence, incitement, and white supremacy, and who at the company is responsible for doing so.
00:42:06.000 So now they are threatening.
00:42:08.000 Nick Clegg, the VP for Global Affairs, he said, we do not profit from hate.
00:42:11.000 We have no incentive to have hate on our platform.
00:42:12.000 We don't like it.
00:42:13.000 Our users don't like it.
00:42:15.000 But it doesn't matter.
00:42:16.000 The bottom line is that the Democratic senators are attempting to basically find rare posts that get through the system on Facebook and then use that to club Facebook into submission.
00:42:28.000 Pushing that has always been the ex-Scribble technology columnist at the New York Times, Kara Swisher, who has been picking on Facebook for a long time because she would love to see Facebook just shut down all content she doesn't like.
00:42:37.000 This, of course, is the same Kara Swisher who suggested to Susan Wojcicki over at YouTube that she was very angry that her own kid was watching my videos.
00:42:44.000 And could YouTube do anything about that?
00:42:46.000 Kara Swisher is just awful.
00:42:47.000 And it is amazing to watch major media companies.
00:42:49.000 Remember, the New York Times was supposed to be a free speech outlet, right?
00:42:52.000 They used to be pro-First Amendment, not anymore.
00:42:54.000 Now they just want to shut down social media outlets that they don't like.
00:42:57.000 And those social media outlets have to be brought to heel.
00:43:01.000 Reddit, by the way, is now banning the Donald sub-thread.
00:43:05.000 They also banned Chapo Trap House.
00:43:08.000 And they're doing all of this because they just don't like the content, right?
00:43:12.000 So they've just decided they don't like it.
00:43:14.000 So they made a new rule change that doesn't even make any sense.
00:43:17.000 They basically said that you can also talk badly about members of a quote-unquote majority group, which I suppose means that we can now talk badly about women in the United States, since women are a majority group in the United States.
00:43:27.000 So that's exciting stuff.
00:43:28.000 But all of this is just incredibly, incredibly Terrible and bad for the country.
00:43:34.000 All it's gonna lead to is more siloing and more polarization, but that's what the disintegrationists want.
00:43:38.000 They want everything disintegrated.
00:43:40.000 That is the goal.
00:43:40.000 Okay, now, quick update on COVID.
00:43:42.000 So, you're reading all of these sort of panicked headlines about how COVID is going to kill all of us?
00:43:47.000 And I'm failing to see the evidence that COVID is going to kill all of us from the death statistics.
00:43:52.000 So the spike in the United States started approximately two weeks ago.
00:43:57.000 I'm looking at the case spike in the United States right now.
00:44:01.000 The United States coronavirus case spike began.
00:44:05.000 I'm looking at the chart.
00:44:06.000 The diagnosed new cases, the spike started around June 6th, June 7th.
00:44:14.000 If you look at the chart, that's when it started to uptick.
00:44:16.000 So we're now at the end of June, right?
00:44:18.000 You would expect that there would be a massive uptick in death because that's what happened at the beginning.
00:44:21.000 The deaths were highly correlative with the positive test cases.
00:44:24.000 Instead, what you have seen is, so let's put it this way.
00:44:27.000 There were a grand total on June 6th of about 22,000 diagnosed cases in the United States.
00:44:34.000 Let's use June 8th, because that was kind of a low point in terms of diagnosed cases.
00:44:38.000 About 18,921 diagnosed cases, according to Worldometers.
00:44:42.000 They get their info from Johns Hopkins.
00:44:45.000 Close to 20,000 diagnosed cases.
00:44:47.000 Yesterday, there were 46,000 diagnosed cases in the United States.
00:44:51.000 So that means that two and a half times as many diagnosed cases as about three weeks ago, or close to a month ago at this point.
00:45:00.000 Wouldn't you expect there to be like, Three times as many deaths?
00:45:03.000 Two times as many deaths?
00:45:04.000 One time as many deaths?
00:45:06.000 50% as many deaths?
00:45:07.000 Well, instead, what's happened is that the deaths in the United States have declined radically.
00:45:11.000 So in the same period, if you look at the number of deaths on a daily basis, on June 4th, there were over a thousand deaths in the United States from COVID.
00:45:19.000 Yesterday, there were 764 deaths from COVID in the United States.
00:45:23.000 There has not been a massive death spike.
00:45:25.000 The reason there has not been a massive death spike is because, as it turns out, older people are being smart and staying home, and younger people are getting infected, and when younger people get infected, they don't die.
00:45:32.000 Right?
00:45:33.000 They're not hospitalized for as long, so even the hospitalization statistics are not quite apples to apples.
00:45:38.000 When an older person was hospitalized with COVID, they would get hospitalized, then they would go to the ICU, and then, in many cases, they would die.
00:45:43.000 When a younger person is hospitalized, they go to the hospital, and many times, they leave the hospital.
00:45:48.000 So the number of people who are leaving the hospital now is much higher.
00:45:51.000 So Mike Pence points this out, and of course this means he's a bad guy.
00:45:54.000 But the reality is they keep saying things like the hospitals are being overwhelmed, we're all in trouble here.
00:46:01.000 They just ignore the fact that hospital CEOs are saying no.
00:46:04.000 So here is Houston Hospital CEO Mark Bloom with Houston Methodist.
00:46:08.000 And he's one of several.
00:46:10.000 They did their own little press conference, all the heads of the hospitals in Houston.
00:46:14.000 They did their own little presser, and they talked about the status of ICU beds.
00:46:17.000 Listen to them talk about ICU beds.
00:46:18.000 They sound like they're panicked because according to the media, we are on the verge of overrunning the ICU beds in places like Houston, right?
00:46:23.000 Houston is literally like ground zero for the places where they are worried about ICU beds being overrun, if you read the media.
00:46:28.000 Here are the actual CEOs of the hospital talking about whether they're going to be overrun.
00:46:31.000 Houston Methodists, we're somewhere in the low 90s right now in terms of capacity of ICU beds, but let me put that in perspective.
00:46:41.000 Okay, what was our ICU capacity at one year ago today?
00:46:45.000 It was at 95%.
00:46:48.000 We are highly experienced at utilizing our ICU beds for the sickest of the sick patients day in, day out, as I've said.
00:46:55.000 And it is completely normal for us to have ICU capacities that run in the 80s and 90s.
00:47:02.000 That's how all of us operate hospitals.
00:47:03.000 That's how all hospitals operate.
00:47:06.000 This is not the only hospital CEO saying this.
00:47:07.000 Dr. Doug Lawson with St.
00:47:09.000 Luke's Health, another big hospital.
00:47:11.000 He says the same thing.
00:47:11.000 And he says, we're all concerned about the spread of the virus.
00:47:13.000 The spread is increasing and incredibly concerning.
00:47:15.000 However, our hospitals are OK and ready to manage the surge appropriately and effectively.
00:47:19.000 Mark Wallace with Texas Children's Hospital, he says the same thing.
00:47:23.000 He says that they are only at 74 percent occupancy.
00:47:28.000 He says, all of us on this call today, we approach this from a very mission oriented basis.
00:47:33.000 We're going to be here to fulfill our missions, take care of the patients and families that need to be taken care of.
00:47:36.000 We're going to take good care of our employees and our medical staff.
00:47:39.000 He says we have plenty of capacity to take care of the children that get to the doorstep of Children's Texas Hospital.
00:47:45.000 So all of these hospital CEOs are saying the same thing, which is, Like, we're concerned about the rising COVID cases, but we're not panicked.
00:47:52.000 And the media is running around with their hair on fire.
00:47:53.000 We're all going to die.
00:47:54.000 Look at the spiking cases.
00:47:56.000 The cases are awful.
00:47:57.000 Look at this terrible cases.
00:47:58.000 We're all going to die.
00:47:59.000 So Anthony Fauci testified before the Senate yesterday, and he said that we're going to be at 100,000 new cases a day.
00:48:04.000 Okay, well, I have a question.
00:48:06.000 Does that mean that a hundred, like, how many people are those are going to die?
00:48:09.000 He's asked this by Elizabeth Warren.
00:48:10.000 He says, there's gonna be a lot of serious death.
00:48:12.000 Thank you for that lack of specific information.
00:48:15.000 Thank you.
00:48:15.000 Because guess what?
00:48:16.000 There's a lot of serious stuff right now.
00:48:18.000 We're still seeing hundreds of people a day die from this thing.
00:48:20.000 But here's Anthony Fauci talking about the caseload.
00:48:22.000 The caseload is not the real issue.
00:48:24.000 The question is, who is getting it?
00:48:25.000 The question is, how serious are the cases that you are seeing in the hospital?
00:48:28.000 The question is, Are the number of deaths in ICUs going down?
00:48:32.000 Are the number of deaths in hospitals going down?
00:48:34.000 Because if not, I mean, if those things have gone down, then really what we have done effectively is use the exact strategy I advocated a couple of months ago.
00:48:43.000 The controlled avalanche strategy keeps the people who are older and more vulnerable safe.
00:48:47.000 And then if young people get it, then young people get it.
00:48:49.000 And that's just how we reach herd immunity.
00:48:51.000 Here is Dr. Fauci, though, lamenting the rising cases.
00:48:54.000 When you have an outbreak in one part of the country, even though in other parts of the country they're doing well, they are vulnerable.
00:49:01.000 I made that point very clearly last week at a press conference.
00:49:05.000 We can't just focus on those areas that are having the surge.
00:49:09.000 It puts the entire country at risk.
00:49:12.000 We are now having 40 plus thousand new cases a day.
00:49:17.000 I would not be surprised if we go up to 100,000 a day if this does not turn around.
00:49:23.000 And so I am very concerned.
00:49:25.000 OK, like, again, concern is is warranted.
00:49:28.000 Concern is relevant.
00:49:29.000 You should keep wearing masks when you're out in public, because, again.
00:49:31.000 Even if young people get sick, it ain't the greatest thing.
00:49:33.000 But the idea that we're about to be overwhelmed in the healthcare systems, I'm not seeing the day that suggests that we're about to be overwhelmed.
00:49:38.000 That we're in a New York-level overwhelming of the healthcare system, nor am I seeing the vast uptick in deaths that we were promised.
00:49:43.000 The spike began again in early June.
00:49:45.000 It is now July.
00:49:46.000 And today's the first day of July.
00:49:47.000 So...
00:49:49.000 All of that could change, right?
00:49:50.000 I'm only going to go based on the evidence.
00:49:51.000 If that starts to change, if we start to see massive upticks in death, then all of the panic that we're seeing from the media and from our governors, maybe that starts to look justified.
00:49:59.000 But if the idea is a bunch of 20-year-olds are getting it and they get like, they can't taste something for three days and then they're okay, that is just one more person who now cannot pass the disease on to somebody who is older once they are done with the disease.
00:50:10.000 Alrighty, so we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.
00:50:14.000 We have plenty more for you where this came from.
00:50:16.000 Plus, we'll be back here tomorrow with the conclusion to our broadcast week because Friday, I believe, we have off for the wonderful July 4th that we should all celebrate.
00:50:24.000 Otherwise, we'll see you here tomorrow.
00:50:26.000 I'm Ben Shapiro.
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