Ep. 281 - Running Train On Racism
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To quote Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Misgendering white privilege and transphobia . Today we re running on the progressive agenda. Then what should be done about Steve King? We analyze congressional Democrat hypocrisy. Finally, the left is furious that Karen Pence is starting to work at a Christian school.
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31st, 2025. TD ready for you. Misgendering white privilege and transphobia to quote Alexandria
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Ocasio-Cortez. Today we run train on the progressive agenda. Then what should be done about Steve
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King? We analyze congressional Democrat hypocrisy. Finally, the left is furious that Karen Pence is
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starting to work at a Christian school. Heaven forfend. I'm Michael Knowles, and this is the
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like Shakespeare. Speaking of people who are not great with their words, speaking of people who could
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probably use a thought processor herself, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, our gaffe-prone congresswoman
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from upstate New York. She's really done it again. This was probably the funniest one she's
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done yet. She was doing an interview with a newspaper and she said, quote, I'm six days into
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the term and you already used all your ammo. She's referring to the right wing. So enjoy being exhausted
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for the next two years while we run train on the progressive agenda. So for those of you who don't
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know what running train means, running train is, um, when a man and a man and a man and a man and
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another man and like 10 or 20 other men and a woman don't love each other very much, but they all get
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together and they do that thing that men and women do when they do love each other. That is running
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train. It's a very graphic sexual act. And, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez apparently thought,
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oh, running train means succeed in implementing. I don't know. Is that what she thought it meant?
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Uh, you can check out Urban Dictionary if you don't believe me. Although I do warn you about
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putting that phrase into your Google searches, you will get some results that probably you don't want
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to see. Uh, this is, uh, just a lovely gaffe. It doesn't have much to do with her policy proposals.
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It's not a major news story. The reason though that I really like this one is it, this is what
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happens when a nice girl from the suburbs, all of a sudden at the age of 28 decides to pretend that
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she's Jenny from the block. This is what happens is you have this girl who grew up in this lovely
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little place where the, the does are jumping and the little rabbits are there, you know, and it's so,
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so lovely. You go to the community festivals, whatever. And she's pretending now that she's
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from the Bronx, that she's from the South Bronx, the mean streets of the boroughs. And she's not.
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And so she's trying to use slang terms, uh, you know, vulgar expressions as though she grew up in
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those areas and she didn't, and she doesn't know what they mean. And it's really funny. This, uh,
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this is an authenticity, authenticity issue for her. She has a lot of things going for her in the media.
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She's likable. She's bubbly. She's relatively attractive. She is young. Uh, so she's got all
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those things going for her. This authenticity thing though is an issue because pretty soon you're
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going to see her like misquoting Biggie Smalls or something. It doesn't, she, she has all of the
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trappings of, uh, of people who are from really privileged areas. She's a socialist. She's kind of
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ditzy. She has a very expensive education, even though it didn't teach her very much. And she,
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she's pretending to use urban language or vulgar language in a way that, that doesn't quite work.
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Uh, Donald Trump, you know, knock him. If you will, the guy really did grow up in Queens and he
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really talks like he grew up in Queens. And I bet he knows what that phrase means. Um, moving on to a
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more important story, but equally frivolous on CNN, a CNN analyst, Areva Martin, uh, went on a radio
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show with conservative radio host, David Webb, whereupon she accused David Webb of white privilege.
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There's only one problem. David Webb is a black guy. Here's the exchange.
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I never considered my color. The issue I considered my qualifications, the issue.
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Well, David, you know, that, that's a whole nother long conversation about white privilege and things
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that you have the privilege of doing that people of color don't have the privilege of.
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How do I have the privilege of white privilege? David, by virtue of being a white male, you have
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white privilege with this whole long conversation. I don't have time to get to it.
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Areva, I hate to break it to you, but you should have been better prepped. I'm black.
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You went to white privilege. This is the fall suit in this.
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Do you hear what she started to say? Areva, I hate to break it to you. I'm black.
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And then there's that moment of silence that she says, well, okay, I can either apologize for just
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being a race hustling, ignorant, uh, cynical politician, or I stand by my, and then he starts
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to cut her off there. This is obviously hilarious. One of the best media moments of the year in a year
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full of them already. Um, but this is the problem with, uh, the left right now is I identify this in
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left-wing rhetoric. When you're debating a leftist, when they go on television, when they're in the
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halls of Congress or wherever, they use so many logical fallacies and specifically they use these
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ad hominem fallacies. They can't argue with the points that you're making. So they just start
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attacking the person who's making them. And I've just identified a few of these. You've got to look
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out for it because whenever the left throws one of these at you, you know that you've won the
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argument. The first one you saw it right here is privilege. Um, privilege. I mean, the way this woman
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did it from CNN, she went in, she felt, I don't need to look up who this guy is. I don't need to
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look up what this guy thinks. All I'm going to do, I'm assuming he's a conservative. I'm going to
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assume he's a white guy and I'm going to assume that he has all of this privilege. And, uh, she didn't
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take a second to even second guess this notion. And then he tells her, I'm a black guy. I, uh, you,
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you've done no homework. You know nothing about me. But imagine if that host were a white guy,
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what could he have said? It would have convinced half the country, at least if he had been a white guy
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and she'd say, ah, but you have white privilege. And even though she can't explain how that
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manifests, it still would be convincing. This privilege thing is obviously an ad hominem attack.
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And it means that arguments are not as important as the arguer that you should judge a person's
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argument based on the color of his skin or who he is or, or where he is rather than the quality
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and content of his arguments. The thing that's funny about privilege though, is that no privilege
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disqualifies anyone from conversation? What privilege would disqualify anyone from debate?
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In fact, privilege should overqualify you for debate. Shouldn't it? If I, I've had the privilege
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of maybe a few extra brain cells than the average Joe on the street. Maybe if I'm lucky,
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I've had the privilege of a good education from kindergarten all the way through college. Those are
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privileges which have actually prepared me better to think about certain things and to discuss
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certain ideas. That's a privilege of education. That's a good thing. That's not a disqualification
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from debate. Uh, the left, as we talk about a lot, gets reality backwards. So what is a privilege?
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A privilege is a special advantage for one person or one group. That's a privilege.
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It's an advantage. What the left has turned privilege into is a disadvantage. They're saying
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that if you are privileged, you are now at a disadvantage. You can't give your opinion.
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Your opinion is invalid. Your, your political work is invalid and your vision is invalid.
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It's, it's, it per, as the left always does, it's perverting the thing into the opposite of the
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thing, the advantage into the disadvantage. And by the way, everybody has different privileges.
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I, I'm not suggesting that nobody has privilege. I'm not suggesting that everybody has privilege.
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If that were true, there'd be no such thing as privilege, but some people have different
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privileges. Some people are more athletically gifted. I'm not an Adonis of a man. They have more,
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of a natural privilege in that regard than I do. Some people are more mathematically gifted. They
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have a privilege in that way. Some people are financially gifted. They're born into money.
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I met a lot of people in my life who were born into money. I was not, but many people are. That's
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a privilege. That's an advantage. I'm not going to demonize that. I'm not going to vilify that.
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If you're born into money, good for you. I'm, I'm hope that helps your life and you get a good
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education and you, you have, you can enjoy all the pleasures in the world. Uh, some people have
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other privileges. There is a privilege to not being born into money. And the privilege of that
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is you learn a little bit how the world really works. You, you can see more how most people are
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living. You can go through a little bit of suffering. Maybe that suffering helps to form
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your character, makes you stronger, makes you more courageous. Maybe it makes you more daring or more
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ambitious. I've seen plenty of people born into wealth who become wastrels. And I've seen plenty of
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people who had nothing growing up really make something of themselves succeed at the highest
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level. Privilege is really hard to quantify in some hierarchy of victimhood, which is exactly what
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the left wants to do. We all, uh, to varying degrees can have a privilege of reason. Some
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people are unreasonable and some people have a very low privilege of reason. But, but if one has the
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privilege of reason, then you shouldn't say you have privilege. So you're not allowed to speak.
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You should say you have that wonderful privilege of reason. Please use it. Please enlighten me and,
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and describe the world as you see it. The next one, which is very closely related, is mansplaining.
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Uh, this is also obviously an ad hominem attack. This is also an attack that says that the arguer
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is more important than the argument. Um, what, what mansplaining does, the funniest thing about that
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stupid word is it's like man spreading. Mansplaining is when men sit, but if they're
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sitting, these are their two legs, instead of sitting with their legs crossed over one another
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really tight, they're sitting so that their legs are a little bit apart. The reason they do this,
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in case you didn't take high school biology class, is that they're making way for certain
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anatomical, uh, privileges that, that only men have and women do not have. So there's a reason for
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this. It's a commonplace occurrence. Half of the population does it. The same thing with
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mansplaining. Mansplaining is when a man explains something. Now we all explain things to each
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other. The reason we do it is because we're human beings with the faculties of speech. So we use
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speech and speech is politics. Speech is civilization. We speak to one another. We don't grunt like the
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brutes most of the time. So we just talk and we persuade each other and we try to get each other
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to come around to our points of view and we learn and we instruct and we're curious and we ask
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questions. So that's just men explaining what the term mansplaining does is it portrays as bizarre or
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strange when half of the population does the most basic human thing. That's supposed to be really
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weird and strange. So you're talking to a girl who's not girl understanding to use Andrew Klavan's
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term. And she says, you're mansplaining. You say, damn right. I'm mansplaining. What else can I do?
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I can't womansplain. I don't identify as a woman. I'm sorry about that. The way that they use this,
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of course, on the left is that it's a way of shutting up half of the population. All it means,
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these phrases, check your privilege, these phrases mansplaining, it just means shut up.
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And the reason that they go after men is men are more likely to be conservative. Obviously, there are a
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lot of conservative women. There are a lot of very sad left-wing men. But generally, men trend more
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conservative and certainly in America. So they use it to shut up half the population. The other one
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they use is the phrases safety and comfort and safe space and that sort of thing. This is a little bit
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different, but it's playing on the same idea. It still means shut up. It's still a logical fallacy
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or a discursive fallacy. But what it does is when they say, your ideas are making me feel unsafe.
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The things you're saying are making me feel threatened. They're making me, I'm not in a
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place of comfort anymore. I hear this all the time when I go around to colleges. We speak at these
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colleges. We'll get protested. There have been student groups that have tried to shut us down with
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the administration. And they'll say, the things that Michael is saying are unsafe. They threaten us.
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But of course, what do they threaten? What am I talking about? I'm talking about Edmund Burke and
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that threatens them or something? Of course not. What they do is they conflate speech with violence.
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And so when the left, if you're having a conversation, when they accuse you of this,
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of threatening them, of making them feel unsafe, of making them not feel comfortable,
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what they are essentially doing is accusing your speaking as physically assaulting and battering them.
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They're saying, your words are punches. Your words are hurting me. It says, when you couple that with
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mansplaining, it's that if you're speaking to a woman and you're disagreeing with her, you're the
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equivalent of a wife beater because you're threatening her, you're making her unsafe, you're making her
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uncomfortable. That's the third one. And then just one other, this is a broader observation in the
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culture of what it's being led by the left, it's being weaponized by the left, is mental illness.
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Mental illness is all the rage these days. It's all anybody can talk about. It's used as an excuse
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to excuse terrible behavior. And it comes from a real place. Young people are much more likely
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today to be anxious, to be stressed, to be depressed. An ASU study found that a quarter of
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college students are suffering PTSD because Donald Trump won the presidential election in 2016.
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their rates of suicide are increasing, and especially among young people. Teen suicide
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is up 70% now. And rates of being prescribed these depression drugs, all of these SSRIs and
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those sorts of things are way up. They're also through the roof. So everybody thinks they have
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a mental problem. Everybody is on depression drugs. Constantly talking about mental illness,
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what it's really about is not the people, the few people who really could benefit from taking drugs
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all the time. Not the few people who have worked through their psychological problems and actually
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have a physical problem that requires medication. What this is about is relativism. This is what it's
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all about. You see it all the time on Everyday Feminism, on all the really far left-wing websites and
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podcasts. They all say that they have mental illness, and we need to talk about mental illness,
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and we need to describe mental illness. And the reason that they talk about mental illness all
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the time is because it brings to the fore different visions of reality, but not different visions of
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reality using right reasons. Specifically, different insane visions of reality to say, well, this person
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views things this way, and their mind is inaccessible to you. Because when people are sane, when they have
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mental health, we can use our faculties of reason to communicate with one another. And we're speaking
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about an objective outside world. But if everybody's a little crazy, if everybody's a little kooky,
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nobody's really accessing the objective world in the right way, then we don't have access to
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objectivity anymore. We don't have access to reality anymore. We're back in the tyranny of
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subjectivism. We're back in the tyranny of our feelings. We can't talk about facts. As we say here on the
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Daily Wire a lot, we have to talk about feelings. And nobody can be wrong, and nobody can be right.
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Every opinion is valid. Everything is your truth or my truth or this truth or that truth.
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This is why the left is focused on that. This is why not necessarily on CNN or the Washington Post,
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but when you go to the really more fringy, more radical left-wing websites, blogs, podcasts,
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that's what they're focusing on. It is not out of compassion for people who have psychological
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problems. Very often, by the way, people who have psychological problems have philosophical
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problems. The issue isn't the synapses in their brain. The issue is how they're living their lives
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and how they view the world and how they view themselves in relation not only to their creator,
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but the rest of the creation. And so they talk about that not out of compassion for those people,
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but they do it as a way of advancing their base agenda, which they've had now for at least 50 or 60
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years, which is radical subjectivism. Speaking of mental illness and speaking of radical
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subjectivism, this video first cropped up on the internet, I guess really between Christmas and
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New Year's, but because everybody was shut down in the commentary, we haven't gotten a chance to
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talk about it. We have to talk about it. This is a transgender guy, so a guy who dresses as a woman,
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goes into some store and starts losing his mind, losing what's left of his mind, because he thinks
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that somebody has referred to him a six foot two giant man as a man. Take a look.
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Excuse me, it's ma'am. It is ma'am. I can call the police if you'd like me to. You need to settle down.
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You need to settle down and mind your business. Okay? Ma'am. Once again, ma'am.
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I said both of you. No, you said sir. Once again, it's ma'am. I actually said both of you guys.
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Right beforehand, you said sir. Sir? Okay. Motherf***er, take it outside. If you want to call me
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sir again, I will show you a f***ing sir. Motherf***er. I follow guys now. I need your
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corporate number, because I'm going to call them and talk about how it was misgendered
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several times in this store. I need your corporate number now. Get it for me now.
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I'm going to ask you to calm down and stop cussing. Get me your corporate number. Well,
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I'm going to ask you for the fifth time to stop calling me a man, because quite clearly
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I am not. And I have followers, but I'm sorry for that, ma'am. I will get you that number.
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Is that okay? Yes. Get it for me now. I'm asking you to stop cussing. Get it for me now.
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Yes. The giant person screaming, shouting, six foot tall, knocking over products, screaming
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that he's going to go take the kid outside and beat him up. That person is clearly not a man.
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Giant Adam's apple. I assume down below. Well, I don't know. Maybe let's not assume.
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That guy is a man, obviously. He has a psychological condition, one imagines. He also has a philosophical
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condition, which is being indulged and encouraged by our mentally insane society, which is that
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he thinks that a man can be a woman, and a woman can be a man just because he puts on lipstick.
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If you put on lipstick, then you're a woman. But of course, that's not what makes a woman.
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Growing your hair a little longer is not what makes a woman. I know plenty of scraggly-haired
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hippies out in LA who have long hair and don't think that they're women.
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This thing that we've just watched here, the kid, I guess he said, okay, guys, calm down. I think he
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was using guys in a gender-neutral way. And this guy, who thinks he's a woman, loses his mind, starts
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screaming. And this kid backs down and says, I'm sorry, ma'am. I'm sorry, lady. It's okay.
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You know? And the reason I bring this up is, look, this guy's obviously lost his mind. And what's
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unfortunate for him is that the society is even crazier than he is. So they're going to encourage
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him and let him continue down this path of self-degradation. But the reason I bring this
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up, too, is because it shows where the rubber meets the road between various schools of conservative
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thought. If you look at this guy, this guy is a man who wants to be a woman. And if you find your
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political views are rooted really in individualism, self-definition, I can do whatever I want to do
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absolutely at any time, I own my life, I can define myself however I want to define myself,
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then he actually makes a pretty good case for always making other people call him ma'am or call
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him a woman. The line from individualism to collectivism is actually pretty direct. I think
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sometimes among conservative circles, we want to pretend that the big dichotomy in the world
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is between individualism and collectivism. One prioritizes the individual as the absolute
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most important thing in society. The other prioritizes the collective, all of those individuals
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together. There are two sides of the same coin. There's a direct line between them. If you
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say that the individual is the most important atomic fundamental building block of society,
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that in a state of nature, individuals are just floating around in free space without any ties
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of loyalty to family or friends or tribe or country or whatever, if you believe that,
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then the government's job is first and foremost to protect individualism. That's the purpose of
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is to protect individual liberty to the point of individualism. But if the government is there to
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protect individualism and our corporate society decides that they're not going to recognize
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somebody's own self-definition, then that corporation is infringing on individualism.
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If this guy says, I am a woman and corporate America or the government, state government or whatever
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says that he's not a woman, they're not going to call him a woman, they're infringing on his radical
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individual self-definition. And so it makes perfect sense for there to be regulations over how
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businesses can treat people, how schools have to refer to people, how to use pronouns. They use
00:23:26.840
the phrase misgendered. Obviously, the only person who has misgendered this guy is himself. He is
00:23:32.400
misgendering himself because he thinks that he's a woman. But they've inverted this phrase. And it does
00:23:36.980
make sense. There is a reason why in the thinking of all of those early, what we would call classical
00:23:41.960
liberals or even libertarians. If you look at Thomas Paine, for instance, the guy who wrote Common Sense,
00:23:49.040
Force in the American Revolution, or the writings of Thomas Jefferson, or people who come after that
00:23:54.380
throughout the Enlightenment and onward, you can see a line from exalting the individual as the be-all
00:24:00.840
and end-all atomic unit of society and protecting the collective of individuals. The actual difference
00:24:07.940
here, the actual different worldviews is between liberalism or modernism or individualism or
00:24:15.140
collectivism or everything that goes along with it and the conservative worldview, which says,
00:24:20.480
there is a reality. You cannot self-define. You cannot by yourself define reality. There is an
00:24:28.440
objective reality. You are a man. No law passed by any government will change the fact that that guy's
00:24:34.580
a man. No surgery that is cosmetic and alters his cheekbones or his Adam's apple will make that guy
00:24:40.640
not a man. No corporate code of conduct will make that guy not a man. No market, no free market,
00:24:47.920
which is now getting all of these corporations to start playing into the social justice warrior
00:24:52.920
handbook. We saw this with Gillette. We've seen this with Nike. We've seen corporate America leading
00:24:57.700
the way on liberalism and leftism. No free market is going to change the fact that this guy is a guy,
00:25:06.980
and it's where we have to appeal to something deeper, more profound, more transcendent rather than
00:25:13.280
the individual or the free market or certain documents, the constitution or state constitutions
00:25:21.540
or laws or whatever. We have to appeal to something which is transcendent, which is the natural law and
00:25:26.980
the natural law maker and the natural law giver and the institutions and the traditions that have
00:25:32.700
transported these metaphysical realities into our modern age. That is what we've got to talk about.
00:25:39.900
The question is not about rights. It's not about the rights of the guy who thinks he's a woman.
00:25:43.940
It's not about the rights of the guy working at the store. It's not about the rights of a democratic
00:25:47.680
republic to pass laws changing the definition of men and women. It's about reality, and we have to
00:25:53.740
recognize reality. We have to prioritize reality above any of the various ideologies, left-wing or right-wing,
00:26:00.680
that everybody is so crazy about today. We've got to talk about Steve King. We haven't had time. We've
00:26:04.840
run out of time in the last few days. We've got to talk about him. We've got to talk about those
00:26:08.740
cackling hens on The View, to quote Norm MacDonald. We've got to talk about different kinds of bigotry,
00:26:14.480
not just racial bigotry, but also religious bigotry. And if we have time, we'll talk about why we can't
00:26:20.220
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with Steve King. Steve King, we've all talked about it, but we haven't had time to address it
00:27:57.240
fully on this show, which is Steve King, longtime congressman. He made these comments, allegedly,
00:28:04.740
though he hasn't really denied them, in an interview with the New York Times where he said white
00:28:09.580
nationalism, white supremacy, Western civilization, when did these things become offensive? Now,
00:28:17.900
obviously, that is offensive to a great many people, and just as a simple matter of fact,
00:28:26.140
just as a simple matter of language being offensive, white supremacy has always been offensive to a very
00:28:32.220
large number of people. Some people didn't find it offensive in the past. Now, more people find it
00:28:37.420
offensive, but it has always been offensive to some people. I think we can safely say white supremacy
00:28:42.720
has always carried offense to some people. Now, he has apologized for this. There were calls for him
00:28:51.340
to step down from Congress. He looks like he's certainly going to be primaried. He looks very
00:28:55.280
politically weak. He'll probably be beaten next election, but there were calls to do this, to do
00:29:00.660
that. He came out and apologized immediately, and he condemned white supremacy as an evil ideology.
00:29:06.960
Here's that. I reject those labels and the evil ideology that they define. Under any fair political
00:29:13.120
definition, I am simply an American nationalist. Okay. The evil ideology. He rejects them. He disavows
00:29:21.500
them. Okay. Good. I'm glad he did that. I think he felt that was the right thing to do. A lot of his
00:29:28.760
colleagues felt that was the right thing to do. Then the Congress went out and they voted to condemn
00:29:33.500
or rebuke Steve King. It's a little unclear what the effect of this is as a matter of terminology.
00:29:39.780
Was it a rebuke? Was it a condemnation? Was it a reprimand? Well, okay. The effect of it, though,
00:29:46.800
is he's already been stripped of his committee assignments. He won't sit on any committees.
00:29:51.040
He's basically powerless in the Congress now. Pretty harsh action was taken against him.
00:29:56.020
And I'll point out, harsh action was taken against him for speaking to a reporter. The things he said,
00:30:01.700
nobody's defending the things he said. I haven't seen one conservative defend the things that he
00:30:05.940
said. But it is a little scary as far as a precedent goes that when you say things to a reporter,
00:30:13.900
you can lose everything in your political career, not by the people who elect you, but from other people
00:30:19.060
in the government. Nevertheless, okay, that's fine. They took a vote to condemn King and his remarks.
00:30:26.240
And Steve King actually voted in favor of that bill. Here is King on his own condemnation.
00:30:32.580
So I want to compliment the gentleman from South Carolina for bringing this resolution. And I've
00:30:38.380
carefully studied every word in this resolution. And even though I'd add some more that are stronger
00:30:43.340
language, I agree with the language in it. So I want to ask my colleagues on both sides of the aisle,
00:30:50.360
let's vote for this resolution. I'm putting up a yes on the board here, because what you state here is
00:30:56.880
right, and it's true, and it's just. And so is what I have stated here on the floor of the House of
00:31:03.680
Representatives. Thank you, Madam Speaker. And I yield back the balance of my time.
00:31:06.920
Okay, so he's stripped of his committee seats, which means he's doing nothing in Congress,
00:31:13.100
essentially. He is condemned by the Congress. He voted for his own condemnation. He's called those
00:31:21.980
remarks, which he says were misinterpreted, he's called them an evil ideology, which he disavows.
00:31:29.880
What more do they want from him is the question. Here is his defense of the remarks that he made,
00:31:36.540
or rather, he's not defending them, but he is excusing them, because he says that they were
00:31:41.360
misinterpreted. So I'm going to tell you that the words are likely what I said. But I want to read it
00:31:48.800
to you the way I believe I said it. And that's this. White nationalist, white supremacist,
00:31:57.440
Western civilization. How did that language become offensive? Why did I sit in classes teaching me
00:32:04.580
about the merits of our history and civilization? That's the end of the quote. Just to watch Western
00:32:10.800
civilization become a derogatory term in political discourse today. Okay, so do you buy it? Do you buy
00:32:17.140
that they were separate thoughts? He said, white supremacist, white nationalist, beat, beat, beat,
00:32:23.000
beat. Western civilization, how did that become offensive? Because, of course, the phrase Western
00:32:28.140
civilization is not offensive. The left finds it offensive, but there's nothing wrong. Western
00:32:33.060
civilization is the greatest political achievement in the history of the world. Now, do you buy that
00:32:41.060
excuse? I don't really buy it. Even the way he's describing it, it's a little mealy-mouthed. I don't
00:32:47.600
know. It's a little too clever by half. So let's say that Steve King said it. He conflated Western
00:32:53.220
civilization with white supremacy. He said remarks that had been universally condemned across the
00:32:58.100
political aisle by his own party, by his own colleagues. He's been condemned, rebuked, reprimanded.
00:33:05.020
He voted for his own condemnation. He's off of all the committees. Okay. Okay. That's all fine. I'm with
00:33:11.540
you so far. But what about the Democrats? What about, what about, what about? Michigan first term
00:33:19.940
representative Rashida Tlaib was pictured just recently, just within the last couple of weeks,
00:33:24.600
with a Palestinian activist named Abbas Hamidat, who regularly praises Hezbollah,
00:33:31.720
Hezbollah, a terrorist organization, and has called Jews Zionist terrorists. Rashida Tlaib,
00:33:38.980
that same person, right when she got into the Congress, took a sticky note to the map of the world
00:33:45.400
in her office, wrote in Palestine and covered up Israel. Israel, the only state for Jews in the world,
00:33:52.780
plenty of states for Arabs, plenty of states for Muslims, one state in the entire world in all of
00:33:57.700
history for Jews. She symbolically wipes it off the face of the map. Where is her condemnation?
00:34:08.160
Where is her apology? I didn't ever saw her apology. Steve King apologized. He called it an evil
00:34:12.440
ideology. Where's her calling it an evil ideology? Minnesota representative Ilan Omar,
00:34:19.220
another Democrat freshman wrote on Twitter, quote, Israel has hypnotized the world. May Allah awaken
00:34:27.740
the people and help them see the evil doings of Israel. Hashtag Gaza, hashtag Palestine, hashtag Israel.
00:34:36.000
Now, Steve King referred to white supremacy. He was conflated with neo-Nazis, these types. In his
00:34:42.520
speech condemning that evil ideology, he said it was the evil ideology that led Hitler to wipe
00:34:48.380
six million Jews off of the face of the earth. That anti-Jewish ideology is an ideology being
00:34:55.960
embraced by Ilan Omar and Rashida Tlaib. Openly embraced, not in an unrecorded interview with the
00:35:03.580
New York Times where we don't have the tape to listen to it, but publicly on Twitter. They defend
00:35:08.660
it still and the Democrats defend it still. Where is that apology? Where is that vote of condemnation?
00:35:14.400
Barack Obama, former president, two-term president, hope and change, took a smiling photo with Louis
00:35:20.980
Farrakhan, the head of the Nation of Islam. He's called Jews Termites. He refers to every other race
00:35:28.480
as awful and terrible white devils, a minister, truly a minister of racial bigotry and hatred.
00:35:35.980
And there's Barack Obama smiling with him. Couldn't be happier. And you know what happened? The
00:35:40.080
mainstream media had that photo before the 2008 election. They hit it. They didn't want it to
00:35:44.880
come out. It has since come out. Where's Barack Obama's apology? Where's Barack Obama calling that
00:35:49.600
an evil ideology? I just see smiles. I don't see him calling it an evil ideology. Where is the vote to
00:35:56.200
condemn and rebuke and reprimand Barack Obama? You might say, Michael, this is whataboutism.
00:36:02.500
Whataboutism is when we're talking about one topic, one person, one act, and then you point out
00:36:11.580
hypocrisy by saying, well, what about this other person or this other act that hasn't been equally
00:36:18.320
condemned? And really, whataboutism compares apples to oranges? When the phrase became popular during
00:36:24.260
the Cold War, it was about comparing apples to oranges. I'm comparing apples to apples here. I'm
00:36:29.540
comparing contemporary politician to contemporary politician on both sides of the aisle. The only
00:36:35.220
difference, of course, is that Steve King has been remorseful and has apologized, and Democrats are
00:36:40.120
still proud of it all. They're still smiling, and they're still championing these almost identical
00:36:45.120
ideologies. And if it's whataboutism, well, what about whataboutism? What about it? I would vote,
00:36:52.060
along with Steve King, for that rebuke, for that condemnation of Steve King and his remarks.
00:36:57.920
But before I did that, I would insert an amendment if I were in Congress, and I would also include a
00:37:04.520
rebuke of Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar and Barack Obama for smiling with Louis Farrakhan. I would insist
00:37:10.800
on that being included in the condemnation and the rebuke, and we should have done that as well. I think
00:37:16.800
Republicans, they want to get rid of Steve King because he's politically poisonous at this point,
00:37:21.740
and he's passed his political usefulness, and he's been in the career for a long time, and he's probably
00:37:27.560
going to lose his primary next go around. They just want to stop talking about it. Fine. I get the
00:37:33.340
political expedience of that. But I would insist on including those condemnations of Omar Tlaib and
00:37:41.280
Barack Obama because without those condemnations, also in the condemnation of Steve King, it is very
00:37:48.000
clear that Democrats have no interest whatsoever in condemning racial bigotry. They're only interested
00:37:53.960
in attacking the GOP, and they're not even just interested in attacking the GOP. They're interested
00:37:59.000
in using Steve King as a proxy to attack Donald Trump. They don't care about Steve King. Steve King
00:38:05.760
is just some congressman, one of over 400 people, just doesn't, who cares? He doesn't affect the
00:38:13.060
country in the way that the president does, and they want to call the president racist and bigoted and
00:38:17.780
thisist and thatist. They want to tie the issue of illegal immigration to racism somehow. That's all
00:38:23.800
they want to do, and they are unwilling to deal with it in their own party. Linda Sarsour, another
00:38:32.960
anti-Semite, was given an award by Barack Obama in the White House. She has had close ties to the
00:38:39.100
Democratic Party and to the Women's March. The list goes on and on and on. If they want to condemn Steve
00:38:47.760
King, by all means, go for it. If they want to condemn racial bigotry and hatred, please, great. More power
00:38:54.080
to you, but do it on both sides. Otherwise, you're a fake, you're a fraud, you're a cynical politician. That's what the
00:39:00.040
Democrats are on this issue. Let's see what those cackling hens, to use Norm MacDonald's phrase, had to say at the
00:39:06.820
view about this issue. Will Republicans now step up to the plate with Donald Trump? Because he has been using, I
00:39:16.140
think, the border wall as sort of this dog whistle for racism. The government is still shut down, and I think it's all
00:39:24.140
about, let's not let all these brown people in, right? Unless they're working for farmers, unless they're working in
00:39:30.020
agriculture. So now will the Republican Party step up to him and say, we don't want this anymore?
00:39:34.820
There are 40, there's 42% of this country that support the wall. Are they all racist?
00:39:41.380
That's a good question. I'm asking you that. I don't, I don't think so. I don't think so. I think
00:39:46.960
there are a lot of people that believe in security. I don't know. Okay. So it goes on. Gotta love
00:39:50.880
Abby Huntsman, my old pal. She just is great there. She says, what do you think half the country is
00:39:55.420
racist? And this woman whose name I don't know says, well, that's a good question. And whenever
00:40:01.460
someone says, well, that's a good question, it means they just have no idea what they're going to
00:40:04.640
say. They have nothing to say. You always, I would always, whether I'm conducting an interview
00:40:09.460
or I'm on a panel with somebody and we're doing interviews, and you say, what do you think about
00:40:13.340
this? They'll say, that's a good question. Say, I know it's a good question. I thought it up.
00:40:16.300
Thank you for the compliment. Answer the question. But she thinks so. This woman clearly thinks that
00:40:20.240
half of the country is racist and Republicans are. Is Steve King racist? Is the wall racist? They
00:40:26.140
ask. Okay. Are Barack Obama and Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib racist? Are they, are Democrat
00:40:32.460
analysts on CNN racist for trying to shut up white people by using these ad hominem attacks,
00:40:39.100
white privilege, ironically against a black guy? Doesn't work every time, but do your research
00:40:43.760
next time. What about other kinds of bigotry? Because we're just focusing on racism, but I don't
00:40:48.560
only want to run train on racism. I want to run train on all sorts of bigotry. And the biggest
00:40:53.440
one that's cropping up in the news cycle is religious bigotry. This is far more prevalent.
00:40:58.720
Obviously, Christians around the world are the most persecuted religious group on earth right now,
00:41:04.480
and it's reached record highs, certainly in modern history. The left doesn't get this. The left
00:41:11.100
doesn't get religious bigotry, whether it's Islamic militants abusing Christians in the Middle East,
00:41:16.720
or whether it's leftists in a different way, in a more legal way, or rather a legislative way,
00:41:25.880
or a regulative way trying to attack Christians in the United States. The left doesn't get this
00:41:34.500
because the left doesn't take religion seriously. The left takes race very seriously. The left takes
00:41:39.460
race too seriously. They think that everything is about race, so much so that a CNN analyst will
00:41:44.820
accuse a black political commentator of having white privilege. That's how obsessed they are
00:41:49.020
about race. They take race too seriously. They don't take religion seriously enough. So Karen
00:41:53.860
Pence, who is the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, she was a school teacher. It was just announced
00:42:00.440
she's going to take a job as a school teacher. She's going to teach at this Christian school and
00:42:05.140
continue her career. I think she got tired of hanging around the Naval Observatory, and so she's going to do
00:42:10.580
this. Wonderful for her, great opportunity for the students. How did NBC News report it? They said,
00:42:15.460
quote, Karen Pence to teach at school that bans LGBTQ employees and students. What? What school does
00:42:26.300
that? Let's look a little more closely here. The school, which is a Christian school, in reality,
00:42:33.420
this is quoting from later on in the NBC article, bars its employees from engaging in or condoning
00:42:38.560
homosexual or lesbian sexual activity and transgender identity. So it's not banning people
00:42:44.800
who are attracted to members of the same sex. It's not banning people who identify or think that they
00:42:50.180
are members of the opposite sex. It's just saying you can't engage in that sort of activity, which
00:42:55.760
what that really means is that a Christian school expects its teachers to agree with Christian sexual
00:43:04.160
teaching, which is not just Christian sexual teaching, but it's Jewish sexual teaching.
00:43:10.820
In the extremist world, it would be Muslim sexual teaching. Christian sexual teaching is pretty
00:43:17.940
loosey-goosey compared to other religions' traditional moral teachings on sex. The basis of a Christian
00:43:26.380
education, which is what these kids are going to this school for, is to teach the Christian view of the
00:43:31.880
world. And a lot of atheist or secularist or whatever, humanist, modernist people now, they
00:43:38.220
want to say, oh, what do they want to learn? That stupid Christian view of the world? What do you think?
00:43:42.540
People were walking around with dinosaurs? What are those big dumb idiots? The Christian view of the
00:43:48.060
world as a basis for education is the only basis for education, just historically speaking. If you enjoy
00:43:57.160
all of the advancements over the last 1,200 or 1,300 years in math or science or literature or
00:44:03.420
history, historiography or philosophy or anything like that, you can thank the Christian view of the
00:44:10.500
world and the Christian basis of education. Education as we know it would not exist anywhere in the world
00:44:15.700
if it were not invented by the Catholic Church in the mid to late Middle Ages. It would not exist.
00:44:22.520
All of the universities, all of the cathedral schools, all of the metaphysical basis of education
00:44:31.600
itself that we have in our modern world, it comes from Christianity and it comes from specifically
00:44:37.040
the Catholic Church. So she wants to teach at this Christian school. That's fine. The Christian
00:44:43.120
school wants its students and employees to agree to a Christian morality. The left, of course,
00:44:49.500
hates Christianity. So it's very upset about this. What if it were announced? What if we had a
00:44:55.120
president whose first lady was Muslim and it was announced that this woman was going to teach at a
00:45:00.940
madrasa, a Muslim school? Do you think that madrasa would celebrate homosexual activity, sexual
00:45:08.360
activity? Do you think it would celebrate the transgender movement, transgenderism? Something tells me it
00:45:14.460
wouldn't. And what would happen then? NBC News would be thrilled. They would be, oh, how brave,
00:45:21.040
how brave and beautiful. This first lady, she's teaching because she loves children and she loves
00:45:26.920
education and she, oh, she's at a Muslim school. This is so wonderful. But because it's a Christian
00:45:33.500
school, they hate it. And this is why NBC News and the left, they don't care about the LGBTQ,
00:45:38.520
LMNOP employees or students. They don't care about that whatsoever. They are using them as they
00:45:43.800
always use the ever-multiplying victim groups as an instrument, as a tool with which to clobber
00:45:51.080
conservatives and the tradition. That's all it's about. I would love it if Karen Pence went on
00:45:58.020
sabbatical at the Christian school, went to teach at a madrasa. We'd see how the news covered that,
00:46:02.860
probably very differently because they are, unlike us, they are unwilling in the progressive agenda to
00:46:09.220
run train on bigotry and hatred and racism and all of those other nefarious ideologies. That's our
00:46:15.440
show. We've got a lot more to get to, but too bad. Get your mailbag questions in for tomorrow. In the
00:46:19.480
meantime, I'm Michael Knowles. This is The Michael Knowles Show. I will see you tomorrow.
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