The Michael Knowles Show - June 04, 2020


Ep. 557 - With Malice Toward All


Episode Stats

Length

47 minutes

Words per Minute

177.76959

Word Count

8,372

Sentence Count

660

Misogynist Sentences

3

Hate Speech Sentences

22


Summary

The left-wing media is now admitting that the Antifa rioters are not white supremacists, and that they are actually leftist counter-protesters. The problem is not the white supremacists. It's the liberal establishment supporting political violence.


Transcript

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00:00:37.660 Remember when the media were saying that the riots are actually peaceful protests?
00:00:43.840 Well, we are way past that now.
00:00:46.040 Here is just a very quick timeline.
00:00:47.860 First, they said that the riots were peaceful.
00:00:51.180 You remember they were standing there in front of all the burning buildings,
00:00:53.560 and they said, actually, no, no, ignore the burning buildings.
00:00:55.860 Really, it's peaceful.
00:00:56.980 Then they admitted that the protests weren't peaceful,
00:01:00.400 but they said that all the violence was being committed by white supremacists.
00:01:04.580 And we were looking at the videos, and we thought, you know, man,
00:01:06.660 those are some pretty confused white supremacists.
00:01:08.620 They do not look like the typical Klansmen that we see in the movies,
00:01:12.780 and I don't think there are that many Klansmen in America,
00:01:15.180 so probably not white supremacists.
00:01:17.400 Then, when it was pointed out that the violent people,
00:01:20.260 even the violent white people, actually, were Antifa.
00:01:22.540 They were radical leftists, and there weren't really any white supremacists in sight.
00:01:27.900 Then, the left-wingers sort of denied that the Antifa even existed.
00:01:32.500 Then they kind of went a little silent for a while.
00:01:34.320 Now, though, now, we have reached a moment of honesty,
00:01:39.240 where the left-wing media are admitting that the rioters are leftists,
00:01:45.660 the rioters are not white supremacists.
00:01:48.520 They're admitting that the protests have turned violent,
00:01:52.060 that the protests and the riots are basically the same thing,
00:01:54.720 and they're defending violent protests.
00:01:59.000 Here is Chris Cuomo, brother of Governor Andrew Cuomo,
00:02:03.560 head, silly, silly man on CNN,
00:02:07.680 defending the violent protests.
00:02:09.540 Now, too many see the protests as the problem.
00:02:13.240 No, the problem is what forced your fellow citizens
00:02:16.640 to take to the streets,
00:02:18.580 persistent and poisonous inequities and injustice.
00:02:21.960 And please, show me where it says that protests
00:02:25.020 are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
00:02:27.540 Show me where it says that protests
00:02:29.520 are supposed to be polite and peaceful.
00:02:31.360 So he's not just saying that they don't have to be polite.
00:02:36.400 He's also saying they don't have to be peaceful.
00:02:38.100 Let me show you where it says that.
00:02:39.740 The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
00:02:41.880 Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion
00:02:43.900 or prohibiting the free exercise thereof
00:02:45.420 or abridging the freedom of speech or the press
00:02:46.920 or the right of the people to peaceably assemble.
00:02:50.160 That's where it says it, right there,
00:02:51.900 right in the First Amendment,
00:02:52.880 the only place in the Constitution
00:02:54.040 that talks about these sorts of protests.
00:02:56.880 The liberal establishment is now
00:02:58.440 publicly supporting political violence,
00:03:01.220 not just CNN.
00:03:02.660 This goes all the way through academia.
00:03:04.720 This goes all the way into our legal system itself.
00:03:07.560 Welcome to Mob Rule.
00:03:08.600 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:03:09.300 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:03:10.300 This goes way higher than Chris Cuomo.
00:03:19.560 Chris Cuomo is a clown, right?
00:03:22.320 Chris Cuomo actually was said on tape just a few weeks ago
00:03:26.440 that he hates what he does professionally,
00:03:28.520 that it's sort of ridiculous.
00:03:29.900 So it's beyond him.
00:03:31.620 It goes all the way up to the attorney general of Minnesota,
00:03:34.500 where this whole thing started,
00:03:35.840 who himself is a radical leftist defending political violence.
00:03:38.640 We'll get to that in one second.
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00:04:53.480 Keith Ellison is the radical leftist
00:04:56.480 in the Democratic Party
00:04:58.020 who is now the Attorney General of Minnesota.
00:05:00.780 He was a congressman.
00:05:02.720 He tried to run the DNC.
00:05:04.040 Now he's the AG of Minnesota.
00:05:06.100 You remember, Minnesota is where this whole thing started
00:05:08.180 with the killing of George Floyd.
00:05:10.480 Keith Ellison announced yesterday
00:05:11.700 that he's going to be upgrading the charges
00:05:14.360 on the police officer who was involved in the killing.
00:05:17.440 He's going to upgrade them from third-degree murder
00:05:19.420 to second-degree murder.
00:05:21.880 And there's a big problem and more threats underway
00:05:25.340 because of this decision.
00:05:27.160 First, today, I filed an amended complaint
00:05:31.100 that charges former Minneapolis police officer
00:05:35.280 Derek Chauvin with murder in the second degree
00:05:38.040 for the death of George Floyd.
00:05:41.100 I believe the evidence available to us
00:05:43.740 now supports the stronger charge of second-degree murder.
00:05:47.600 We've consulted with each other and we agree.
00:05:50.820 Oh, does it now?
00:05:52.200 What new evidence?
00:05:53.700 Have we seen any new evidence at all?
00:05:55.400 Well, no, the new evidence is the riots going on
00:05:57.360 around the country that are helping this guy get cover
00:06:01.040 to increase the charge.
00:06:03.040 What's the charge?
00:06:04.240 Third-degree murder, unintentional.
00:06:07.040 Second-degree murder, intentional.
00:06:09.420 So if you want to believe that this was warranted,
00:06:13.380 you have to believe that this cop
00:06:15.140 was intentionally murdering George Floyd.
00:06:18.880 Does anybody seriously believe that?
00:06:21.120 No, of course not.
00:06:22.180 One, because he, why would this cop want to bring down
00:06:24.520 all this mayhem on himself?
00:06:26.420 Obviously, his life is ruined now.
00:06:28.620 There are race riots all over the country.
00:06:30.800 Everything is caught on video now,
00:06:32.400 so he had to know this sort of thing would be happening.
00:06:34.880 There's just no evidence of it.
00:06:36.420 Also, if he had wanted to intentionally kill George Floyd,
00:06:38.940 wouldn't he have done it more quickly
00:06:40.660 than within eight minutes?
00:06:42.700 No.
00:06:43.440 When you watch that video, very sad video,
00:06:46.420 you watch this man saying,
00:06:47.140 I can't breathe, please watch this man dying.
00:06:48.880 You don't get the impression that this cop
00:06:53.620 is actively murdering him.
00:06:55.460 Like, ha ha, I'm going to kill you now.
00:06:57.280 What would the cop have to be thinking to do that?
00:06:59.620 It wouldn't make sense.
00:07:00.740 Now, was the cop acting, I don't know, recklessly?
00:07:04.080 Was the cop acting callously?
00:07:05.680 Was the cop, maybe, yeah.
00:07:07.320 I mean, that's for the court to decide.
00:07:08.820 That's what people were looking at on camera.
00:07:10.580 But now, with a second-degree charge,
00:07:12.280 he's more likely to walk
00:07:13.660 than if he had the third-degree charge,
00:07:15.220 because it's much easier to prove the third-degree charge,
00:07:17.480 much more difficult to prove the second-degree.
00:07:20.000 Ellison goes on, charging the other cops
00:07:22.760 who just happened to be present at the arrest.
00:07:25.340 Second, today, arrest warrants were issued
00:07:28.900 for former Minneapolis police officers
00:07:31.360 J.A. King, Thomas Lane, and Tu Tao.
00:07:37.400 Finally, I'd like to announce that today,
00:07:40.900 Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and I
00:07:43.660 filed a complaint that charges
00:07:47.700 police officer King, Lane, and Tao
00:07:51.160 with aiding and abetting murder
00:07:53.220 in the second-degree felony offense.
00:07:56.160 I strongly believe that these developments
00:07:58.160 are in the interest of justice for Mr. Floyd,
00:08:01.860 his family, our community, and our state.
00:08:03.980 In the interest of justice,
00:08:05.920 you believe that these other cops
00:08:07.440 who were present during the arrest
00:08:08.820 actually secretly had been colluding
00:08:11.280 with the officer Derek Chauvin
00:08:14.140 to murder this guy,
00:08:17.200 and they just decided to carry out their murder,
00:08:19.860 they were going to do it on camera
00:08:22.300 in the most public way possible.
00:08:24.280 That would make them completely vulnerable,
00:08:26.000 and that's why they would be charged
00:08:27.600 long after this murder,
00:08:29.540 but not long after the riots
00:08:31.260 started to burn down all the cities.
00:08:32.640 Obviously, this has absolutely nothing
00:08:34.240 to do with justice,
00:08:35.260 but that's Keith Ellison's M.O.
00:08:36.860 Keith Ellison is probably the most prominent
00:08:39.020 Democratic politician in America
00:08:40.540 to publicly endorse Antifa.
00:08:43.800 Antifa is a terrorist organization.
00:08:46.400 Antifa is a group of radical leftists,
00:08:48.680 communists, and anarchists
00:08:50.360 that uses political violence against civilians
00:08:54.080 to achieve political ends.
00:08:55.660 That is the definition of terrorism.
00:08:57.600 Keith Ellison has smiled with holding up
00:08:59.580 the Antifa handbook,
00:09:00.880 the Antifa handbook written by an academic
00:09:03.040 from Dartmouth College.
00:09:05.280 Keith Ellison has not just posed with the book,
00:09:06.840 he's posed with Antifa leaders.
00:09:09.020 Keith Ellison is supporting,
00:09:11.900 not justice, but terrorism.
00:09:14.260 These guys, Chris Cuomo, Keith Ellison,
00:09:17.880 they think, I think a lot of leftists
00:09:20.120 in this country think that supporting terrorism,
00:09:23.240 I mean, they wouldn't use that word,
00:09:24.680 but that's what the definition is.
00:09:26.620 They think that by supporting political violence,
00:09:28.620 that makes them edgy.
00:09:29.940 They think that that makes them revolutionaries.
00:09:32.420 They think that that makes them
00:09:33.680 on the right side of history.
00:09:35.220 The real effect of that,
00:09:38.120 the real effect of the political violence
00:09:39.860 they support is to get people killed.
00:09:41.380 For instance, Italia Marie Kelly,
00:09:44.720 who is 22 years old,
00:09:46.680 a biracial girl, speaking of racial justice,
00:09:49.400 who was shot and killed at a protest
00:09:51.340 against police brutality
00:09:52.760 by a protester, by the way,
00:09:54.800 outside of Davenport, Iowa,
00:09:56.420 at Walmart on Monday.
00:09:58.660 Here is Italia's sister describing the scene.
00:10:01.920 I'm waiting for everyone to get on.
00:10:04.580 So I know, I hope y'all know
00:10:06.080 what the f*** you did.
00:10:08.420 My sister is gone.
00:10:10.540 And it's not from a cop.
00:10:12.240 It wasn't from no f***ing cop.
00:10:14.020 I don't get on live.
00:10:15.140 I don't care about this Facebook s***.
00:10:17.380 But my sister is gone
00:10:18.780 because one of you,
00:10:20.340 a protester, shot my sister.
00:10:23.080 A protester.
00:10:24.580 Not even the police.
00:10:25.840 Because you guys,
00:10:27.240 I lost my sister.
00:10:30.100 I lost my sister.
00:10:32.000 Because you,
00:10:33.480 you,
00:10:34.400 you're so mad at the police.
00:10:36.700 You're hurting everyone else.
00:10:38.280 You're so mad at the police.
00:10:40.020 You guys killed my sister.
00:10:42.580 So this is what Chris Cuomo
00:10:44.360 and Keith Ellison are supporting.
00:10:46.660 They wouldn't put it in those words.
00:10:47.880 They would probably say,
00:10:48.480 no, I don't support that.
00:10:49.860 Well, then what do you support?
00:10:51.000 You're saying that protests
00:10:52.400 don't have to be peaceful.
00:10:54.200 Chris Cuomo said that
00:10:54.860 on national television.
00:10:56.520 To all seven people watching CNN.
00:10:58.660 Keith Ellison smiling
00:10:59.620 with the anti-fascist
00:11:00.680 political violence handbook.
00:11:02.260 So what are you saying?
00:11:03.340 What they're really saying,
00:11:04.780 I would imagine,
00:11:05.380 is no, no, no.
00:11:05.840 We don't want
00:11:06.440 the civilians to be killed.
00:11:08.880 We want the,
00:11:09.640 the unpeaceful protests,
00:11:12.320 the violent protests
00:11:13.120 to be directed at cops.
00:11:14.480 So if they killed a cop,
00:11:15.280 that's fine.
00:11:16.120 But you kill an innocent civilian,
00:11:18.260 that,
00:11:18.580 that's not so fine.
00:11:19.560 Well, this is what happens,
00:11:20.440 by the way.
00:11:20.800 Even if you,
00:11:21.300 even if you held
00:11:22.140 that repulsive premise,
00:11:24.120 this is what happens
00:11:25.460 when you allow mob rule
00:11:26.860 to take over your cities
00:11:28.100 is they don't just aim perfectly
00:11:31.160 at the person
00:11:32.160 that you've designated the enemy.
00:11:34.240 Everything goes haywire.
00:11:37.040 Lots of different people
00:11:38.260 of lots of different persuasions
00:11:40.140 and categories get killed.
00:11:41.800 Buildings get burnt down.
00:11:43.740 Law goes out the window
00:11:44.780 and law has gone out the window
00:11:46.300 all the way up
00:11:47.020 through our legal system.
00:11:48.680 The lawlessness,
00:11:50.800 the unreason
00:11:51.400 is not just in law enforcement,
00:11:53.240 which by the way,
00:11:53.700 we're seeing here,
00:11:54.140 Eric Garcetti,
00:11:54.800 mayor of LA,
00:11:55.420 just announced
00:11:55.840 they want to cut
00:11:56.460 over $100 million
00:11:57.700 from the LAPD budget,
00:11:59.400 which is really what you,
00:12:00.080 when they're burning down cities
00:12:00.960 and smashing buildings
00:12:01.840 and harming people,
00:12:02.420 that's what you want.
00:12:03.000 You want to smash
00:12:03.680 the,
00:12:04.360 the LAPD budget,
00:12:05.660 but,
00:12:06.100 but it's not just
00:12:06.720 in law enforcement.
00:12:07.240 We're seeing it
00:12:07.700 in science too.
00:12:08.740 So I actually,
00:12:09.660 there is some
00:12:10.100 slightly good news here.
00:12:11.780 You remember hydroxychloroquine?
00:12:13.780 Hydroxychloroquine
00:12:14.140 was that cure
00:12:14.800 for coronavirus
00:12:15.500 or was a treatment
00:12:16.380 for coronavirus
00:12:16.980 that was showing
00:12:17.620 very promising results
00:12:18.760 and then there was
00:12:19.420 a study that came out
00:12:20.800 that said it was really
00:12:22.280 actually dangerous and bad
00:12:23.900 and that study came out
00:12:24.840 after Trump
00:12:25.520 had publicly
00:12:26.760 supported hydroxychloroquine.
00:12:29.020 Well,
00:12:29.300 now that Trump
00:12:29.800 has stopped
00:12:30.380 publicly supporting
00:12:31.360 hydroxychloroquine,
00:12:32.520 hydroxychloroquine
00:12:33.240 is good again.
00:12:33.940 It's okay.
00:12:34.640 Now that Trump's
00:12:35.260 not talking about it,
00:12:36.120 actually,
00:12:36.680 it's healthy for you.
00:12:37.940 The Lancet
00:12:38.580 and another medical journal,
00:12:39.780 the New England Journal
00:12:40.680 of Science,
00:12:42.640 of Medicine rather,
00:12:44.080 issued an expression
00:12:45.160 of concern,
00:12:46.300 each of them,
00:12:46.980 for studies
00:12:47.560 that were co-authored
00:12:48.220 by Dr. Sapan Desai
00:12:50.100 and Desai is the one
00:12:52.000 who raised the alarm
00:12:52.940 about hydroxychloroquine.
00:12:54.920 It's hard to look
00:12:55.800 at all of this
00:12:56.380 and not think
00:12:58.040 it's just arbitrary,
00:12:59.980 right?
00:13:00.280 It's hard to look
00:13:00.900 at the charges
00:13:01.480 in Minnesota
00:13:01.860 and say,
00:13:02.300 you're not basing this
00:13:03.680 on any,
00:13:04.060 there isn't any new evidence,
00:13:05.000 you're just doing it
00:13:05.560 because the mob says so
00:13:06.880 and you're moved
00:13:07.320 by those emotions.
00:13:09.160 Hydroxychloroquine,
00:13:10.240 when Trump was touting it,
00:13:11.840 you said it was really bad.
00:13:13.140 Then when Trump
00:13:13.800 stopped touting it,
00:13:14.580 you say it's really good again.
00:13:16.660 Beyond hydroxychloroquine,
00:13:18.120 look at what the public
00:13:18.840 health officials have done.
00:13:20.180 The Pennsylvania
00:13:21.240 health secretary,
00:13:22.860 Dr. Rachel Levine,
00:13:24.760 I present this to you,
00:13:27.500 first I will point out
00:13:29.000 the obvious,
00:13:29.500 which is that
00:13:29.840 the health secretary
00:13:30.860 of Pennsylvania
00:13:31.420 is a man who thinks
00:13:32.520 he's a woman
00:13:32.960 and he goes by
00:13:34.200 Rachel Levine.
00:13:35.240 That is obviously
00:13:36.360 an ironic circumstance.
00:13:37.640 that's not actually
00:13:39.600 the absurd aspect
00:13:40.620 of the situation
00:13:41.360 that I want to draw
00:13:41.940 your attention to.
00:13:42.580 I want to draw
00:13:42.980 your attention to
00:13:43.720 what he is saying
00:13:45.160 that many other
00:13:47.500 public health officials
00:13:48.300 are saying too,
00:13:49.160 which is they're
00:13:50.220 answering our question.
00:13:51.800 Why is it
00:13:52.720 that if you walked
00:13:53.660 outside,
00:13:54.280 even for a little bit,
00:13:55.420 even just to go down
00:13:56.860 the street and get groceries,
00:13:58.400 three weeks ago
00:13:59.040 you were endangering
00:13:59.740 public health
00:14:00.340 and the deadly virus.
00:14:01.560 But today,
00:14:02.340 if you gather in crowds
00:14:03.360 of hundreds of thousands,
00:14:04.600 you're not
00:14:05.920 endangering public health
00:14:07.060 as long as you're
00:14:07.660 rioting and protesting
00:14:08.660 and hanging out
00:14:10.820 with leftists.
00:14:11.560 Why is it that
00:14:12.540 when you go to church
00:14:13.400 it's endangering
00:14:14.440 public health,
00:14:15.140 but when you're protesting
00:14:16.280 and smashing windows
00:14:17.740 and stealing Nikes,
00:14:18.720 you're not endangering
00:14:19.380 public health?
00:14:21.020 The PA health secretary
00:14:22.320 with a completely
00:14:23.840 straight face
00:14:24.580 gives the answer.
00:14:26.160 Secretary,
00:14:26.920 Dolphin County
00:14:27.500 just moved to yellow
00:14:28.440 on May 29th,
00:14:30.320 which means
00:14:31.040 no large gatherings
00:14:32.060 and apparently
00:14:32.700 there's remarks
00:14:33.280 going on
00:14:33.800 that has more
00:14:34.380 than 200 people
00:14:35.000 today in Dauphin County.
00:14:37.240 Can you clarify
00:14:37.900 the administration's
00:14:38.700 position on May 11th
00:14:39.980 business owners
00:14:40.460 were called cowards
00:14:42.200 for wanting to reopen
00:14:42.860 their businesses
00:14:43.400 and today the governor
00:14:44.400 is actually marching
00:14:45.200 in that.
00:14:47.060 Is that not in violation
00:14:48.040 of your order
00:14:48.700 and his order
00:14:49.660 for large gatherings?
00:14:50.700 Well,
00:14:51.040 so we have,
00:14:52.200 and the governor
00:14:52.700 has always said
00:14:53.560 that people have
00:14:54.400 the right to protest
00:14:56.460 and to demonstrate
00:14:57.620 and the right
00:14:58.760 of free speech.
00:14:59.640 And so overall,
00:15:01.040 we want large gatherings
00:15:02.700 such as maybe a party
00:15:07.860 or some type of concert
00:15:09.980 or something
00:15:10.520 to be under 250 people.
00:15:13.180 But we are not restricting
00:15:15.620 people's right to protest.
00:15:17.080 There are obviously
00:15:18.700 significant social issues
00:15:21.340 that are present
00:15:23.280 that people feel
00:15:24.000 that they need
00:15:24.440 to have a voice.
00:15:25.580 And so the governor
00:15:26.360 is always supportive
00:15:27.420 of that
00:15:27.920 and is participating
00:15:29.540 in that.
00:15:30.740 So let me distill
00:15:32.580 that down for you.
00:15:33.900 If the people
00:15:34.580 are doing something
00:15:35.440 that the Democrats
00:15:37.580 support,
00:15:38.600 it's fine.
00:15:39.560 And if the people
00:15:40.320 are doing something
00:15:41.020 that the Democrats
00:15:41.740 don't support,
00:15:42.540 it's not fine.
00:15:44.100 That was the kind
00:15:45.280 of long rambling answer.
00:15:47.120 I also love now
00:15:48.280 that these Democratic leaders
00:15:50.160 are so in favor
00:15:50.840 of free expression.
00:15:51.680 That's not what I was
00:15:52.200 hearing from them
00:15:52.760 a few weeks ago
00:15:53.360 during the anti-lockdown
00:15:54.260 protests.
00:15:55.080 During the anti-lockdown
00:15:55.940 protests,
00:15:56.340 I heard this is going
00:15:57.020 to kill grandma.
00:15:57.940 This is going
00:15:58.340 to kill lots of people.
00:15:59.300 You've got to stay home.
00:16:00.060 It's selfish.
00:16:00.640 It's a wrong version
00:16:01.640 of freedom.
00:16:02.400 But now that the hundreds
00:16:05.980 of thousands of people
00:16:06.840 in all sorts of municipalities
00:16:08.020 are protesting
00:16:09.120 based on a lie, right?
00:16:10.900 Based on the lie
00:16:11.540 that there is this scourge,
00:16:12.560 this epidemic
00:16:13.040 of police officers
00:16:14.720 killing innocent black men
00:16:15.880 around the country.
00:16:16.560 Not happening.
00:16:17.240 We went through it
00:16:17.600 on the show yesterday.
00:16:18.680 It simply is not taking place.
00:16:20.460 Even when you look
00:16:21.220 last year at the number
00:16:22.000 of unarmed black men
00:16:23.160 killed by police officers,
00:16:24.780 and by the way,
00:16:25.400 unarmed does not mean
00:16:26.400 not dangerous.
00:16:27.020 But even the number
00:16:27.820 of unarmed,
00:16:28.660 what's the number?
00:16:29.280 9,000?
00:16:30.060 No.
00:16:30.360 900?
00:16:31.000 No.
00:16:31.360 90?
00:16:31.900 No.
00:16:32.340 The answer is nine.
00:16:33.800 Nine.
00:16:34.460 And many of them,
00:16:36.260 many of them,
00:16:37.340 virtually all of them,
00:16:38.880 were posing a threat
00:16:40.140 to the police officer.
00:16:41.380 Not saying that every death
00:16:42.380 isn't a tragedy.
00:16:43.180 Every death is a tragedy.
00:16:44.700 But that is not evidence
00:16:45.820 of systemic slaughter.
00:16:46.920 So going out and rioting
00:16:50.500 and killing people,
00:16:51.560 now killing more people
00:16:53.320 in the riots
00:16:53.980 than were killed
00:16:55.360 as a matter of unarmed black men
00:16:58.600 last year by police,
00:17:00.180 doing that is perfectly acceptable
00:17:02.380 because,
00:17:03.200 because I,
00:17:04.140 because why?
00:17:04.520 Because the Pennsylvania
00:17:05.460 health secretary said so.
00:17:07.060 He is not the only one.
00:17:08.900 There is an open letter
00:17:10.160 from over 1,200
00:17:11.520 public health expert scientists
00:17:14.040 saying that,
00:17:16.020 yeah,
00:17:16.140 the other kinds of protests
00:17:17.220 that were conservative are bad,
00:17:18.860 but these riots and protests
00:17:20.620 are essential for public health.
00:17:22.880 Open letter advocating
00:17:23.780 for an anti-racist
00:17:25.180 public health response
00:17:25.980 to demonstrations
00:17:26.620 against systemic injustice
00:17:29.000 occurring during
00:17:29.960 the COVID-19 pandemic.
00:17:31.940 At least the scientific experts
00:17:33.440 acknowledge it here.
00:17:34.360 They say,
00:17:35.120 on April 30th,
00:17:36.100 heavily armed,
00:17:37.040 heavily armed,
00:17:37.640 give me a break,
00:17:38.240 and predominantly white protesters,
00:17:40.000 well, that's terrible.
00:17:40.680 They can't be,
00:17:41.100 white people can't protest,
00:17:42.560 entered the state capitol building
00:17:43.860 in Lansing, Michigan,
00:17:45.200 protesting stay-at-home orders
00:17:46.500 and calls for widespread
00:17:47.960 public masking
00:17:48.880 to prevent the spread
00:17:49.680 of COVID-19.
00:17:50.940 Infectious disease physicians
00:17:52.020 and public health officials
00:17:52.880 publicly condemned
00:17:53.920 these actions
00:17:54.880 and privately mourned
00:17:56.120 the widening rift
00:17:57.080 between leaders in science
00:17:58.540 and a subset of the communities
00:17:59.660 that they serve.
00:18:01.680 That's the first part.
00:18:02.660 Second part,
00:18:03.120 as of May 30th,
00:18:03.900 we are witnessing
00:18:04.460 continuing demonstrations
00:18:05.940 in response to ongoing
00:18:07.260 pervasive and lethal
00:18:08.200 institutional racism
00:18:09.480 set off by the killings
00:18:11.980 of George Floyd
00:18:12.540 and Breonna Taylor,
00:18:13.100 among many other
00:18:13.840 black lives
00:18:14.480 taken by police.
00:18:15.600 Many other.
00:18:16.160 We went through the numbers
00:18:16.900 just a few seconds ago.
00:18:18.480 Not many other
00:18:19.600 when we're talking about
00:18:20.500 this kind of specific injustice.
00:18:22.840 A public health response
00:18:23.780 to these demonstrations
00:18:24.540 is also warranted,
00:18:25.940 but this message
00:18:26.560 must be wholly different
00:18:27.800 from the response
00:18:29.160 to white protesters
00:18:30.240 resisting stay-at-home orders.
00:18:31.960 They're actually saying,
00:18:33.060 yeah, I know they look the same.
00:18:34.740 Well, they don't look the same
00:18:35.500 because the anti-lockdown protesters
00:18:37.840 were completely peaceful
00:18:39.060 and then went home
00:18:40.760 and very respectful
00:18:41.500 and these rioters
00:18:42.900 are killing people
00:18:43.640 and torching cities.
00:18:44.540 But, you know, okay,
00:18:45.440 they're both protesting,
00:18:47.220 but we need to treat
00:18:48.680 the really peaceable,
00:18:49.920 nice ones
00:18:51.300 in the American tradition
00:18:52.440 horribly
00:18:53.400 and we need to treat
00:18:54.520 the rioters wonderfully.
00:18:56.920 That's what we're being told.
00:18:58.540 They say white supremacy
00:18:59.460 is a lethal public health issue
00:19:01.580 that predates
00:19:02.500 and contributes
00:19:03.000 to COVID-19.
00:19:04.020 Is it now?
00:19:08.160 Like, I don't,
00:19:09.580 nobody,
00:19:10.120 nobody here is defending
00:19:11.700 white supremacy.
00:19:13.380 I don't know.
00:19:14.000 It's the whole thing.
00:19:14.900 It's like,
00:19:15.200 nobody,
00:19:15.640 nobody thinks that black lives
00:19:16.920 don't matter.
00:19:17.980 Nobody is defending
00:19:18.760 white supremacy.
00:19:19.960 How many,
00:19:20.240 how many white supremacists
00:19:21.520 are there?
00:19:21.940 Not too many,
00:19:22.900 I don't,
00:19:23.200 I don't think.
00:19:24.780 But does anybody think
00:19:25.980 it's a public health issue?
00:19:27.900 I don't,
00:19:29.080 it can,
00:19:29.780 and even if you thought
00:19:30.680 it were a public health issue,
00:19:31.640 do you think it contributes
00:19:32.460 to COVID-19?
00:19:34.020 You know,
00:19:34.640 we don't know a whole lot
00:19:35.400 about this virus.
00:19:36.280 Some people say
00:19:36.760 it's transmitted by air.
00:19:38.280 Some people say
00:19:38.940 it's transmitted on services.
00:19:40.260 No one says it's transmitted
00:19:41.420 by white supremacy.
00:19:42.700 Okay.
00:19:42.920 I haven't seen a scientific paper
00:19:44.340 on that.
00:19:45.060 They go on protests
00:19:46.100 against systemic racism,
00:19:47.360 which fosters
00:19:48.460 the disproportionate burden
00:19:49.760 of COVID-19
00:19:51.180 on black communities
00:19:52.200 and also perpetuates
00:19:53.840 police violence
00:19:54.620 must be supported.
00:19:56.600 So according to public health,
00:19:58.240 public health science,
00:19:59.940 can't debate science.
00:20:01.100 You can't refute science.
00:20:02.200 According to science,
00:20:03.280 we need to keep rioting
00:20:06.620 and torching cities.
00:20:08.220 Signed by 1,288
00:20:09.580 public health professionals.
00:20:10.860 What this,
00:20:11.380 what this letter tells me
00:20:12.520 is that I should never again
00:20:13.960 listen to public health professionals
00:20:15.160 because it's obvious
00:20:16.700 that they're charlatans.
00:20:17.860 It's obvious that they have
00:20:18.900 no idea what they're talking
00:20:19.840 about,
00:20:20.180 about anything.
00:20:21.160 And it's obvious
00:20:22.480 that they are using
00:20:23.220 their credential
00:20:23.900 to weigh in on a subject
00:20:25.440 that has absolutely
00:20:26.620 nothing to do
00:20:27.580 with their credential.
00:20:28.700 It doesn't really teach me that
00:20:30.720 because frankly,
00:20:31.440 I've known it for a long time,
00:20:32.380 but I think it shows
00:20:33.320 the rest of us that now.
00:20:35.300 Public health officials
00:20:36.280 are now saying
00:20:36.980 it is good to riot
00:20:37.940 and coronavirus won't spread
00:20:39.720 if you do riot.
00:20:41.500 But if you protest
00:20:42.640 for your civil liberties,
00:20:43.680 that would be a very bad thing.
00:20:45.680 And by the way,
00:20:46.040 they go further.
00:20:46.720 I kid you not,
00:20:47.380 they go further
00:20:47.780 in the New York Times.
00:20:48.420 They say,
00:20:49.300 if the police
00:20:50.720 break up the riots,
00:20:52.540 then coronavirus will spread.
00:20:55.080 Not the hundreds of thousands
00:20:56.280 of people pouring in
00:20:57.220 next to one another.
00:20:58.280 Then it's,
00:20:58.980 they're immune somehow.
00:21:00.300 But when the cops break it up,
00:21:02.060 because,
00:21:02.780 as the New York Times says,
00:21:04.780 there are corrosive effects
00:21:07.040 of tear gas
00:21:08.100 that could intensify
00:21:10.260 the coronavirus pandemic.
00:21:12.820 Tear gas.
00:21:14.620 So you can't,
00:21:15.360 cops got to stay home.
00:21:16.800 The scientists said so.
00:21:17.760 And the scientists,
00:21:18.960 they know.
00:21:19.280 They know what they're talking about
00:21:20.360 because they have PhDs.
00:21:22.720 Now, by the way,
00:21:23.880 that headline
00:21:25.040 implies another lie
00:21:27.640 that we've been told.
00:21:28.260 We've been told
00:21:28.640 that when President Trump
00:21:29.320 walked from the Rose Garden,
00:21:30.920 you know,
00:21:31.160 through the White House,
00:21:32.060 through Lafayette Park,
00:21:33.420 and to that church
00:21:34.620 the other day,
00:21:35.160 St. John's Church
00:21:35.740 to hold up the Bible,
00:21:36.900 the church that
00:21:37.520 the peaceful protesters
00:21:38.800 tried to burn down
00:21:39.560 the night before,
00:21:40.920 we were told
00:21:41.880 that the police
00:21:42.680 used tear gas
00:21:43.820 to break up the protesters.
00:21:45.380 That's not true.
00:21:46.480 The U.S. Park Police
00:21:47.300 confirmed they did not
00:21:48.380 use tear gas.
00:21:49.640 They did use smoke canisters.
00:21:50.920 They did use pepper bowls.
00:21:52.220 But no actual tear gas
00:21:54.240 was used
00:21:54.780 in the Lafayette Square incident.
00:21:56.400 So,
00:21:56.660 since the public health officials
00:21:57.600 are so concerned
00:21:58.200 about tear gas,
00:21:59.140 then don't worry.
00:21:59.800 It's not going to spread
00:22:00.540 the pandemic.
00:22:01.260 Even Nancy Pelosi
00:22:02.060 admitted that.
00:22:03.040 My daughter,
00:22:03.800 Alexandra,
00:22:04.440 a filmmaker,
00:22:05.420 journalist,
00:22:06.120 was there that night
00:22:07.700 and she called me
00:22:08.420 and she said,
00:22:08.820 Mom,
00:22:09.040 you wouldn't even believe it.
00:22:10.260 These people
00:22:10.700 were demonstrating peacefully.
00:22:12.700 And all of a sudden,
00:22:13.560 this barrage
00:22:15.720 of security
00:22:16.980 came through
00:22:17.780 using clubs
00:22:19.100 to beat people
00:22:19.900 and these explosive
00:22:21.320 scat
00:22:22.400 little bullets
00:22:24.260 that explode
00:22:25.100 into
00:22:26.360 stuff that burns
00:22:28.000 your eyes.
00:22:28.560 Maybe they didn't
00:22:29.220 have tear gas.
00:22:29.940 I don't know.
00:22:30.420 But they had
00:22:31.220 the elements of it.
00:22:33.040 Well,
00:22:33.400 there you go.
00:22:33.840 There's the admission.
00:22:34.540 Okay,
00:22:34.780 maybe they didn't have
00:22:35.620 tear gas.
00:22:36.300 I don't know.
00:22:36.660 But they had stuff.
00:22:38.340 You know,
00:22:38.660 they had stuff.
00:22:39.900 And so,
00:22:40.340 I'm going to call it
00:22:40.800 tear gas.
00:22:41.200 And then the public
00:22:43.240 health officials
00:22:43.820 are going to say
00:22:44.320 that tear gas
00:22:44.980 spreads coronavirus.
00:22:46.440 So,
00:22:46.600 they're going to let
00:22:47.040 the rioters continue.
00:22:49.320 I also love here
00:22:50.580 that Nancy Pelosi
00:22:51.220 is admitting
00:22:51.700 that her daughter
00:22:52.640 was at one of these riots.
00:22:53.940 I guess it's part and parcel.
00:22:55.320 You know,
00:22:55.640 Waltz,
00:22:56.440 the governor of Minnesota,
00:22:58.120 his daughter
00:22:58.680 was giving
00:22:59.360 these rioters
00:23:00.520 tips on where
00:23:01.280 the National Guard
00:23:01.920 was going to be.
00:23:02.940 Chiara de Blasio,
00:23:04.240 Bill de Blasio's
00:23:04.900 25-year-old daughter,
00:23:06.120 she was arrested
00:23:06.800 in a group of people.
00:23:08.280 The group of people
00:23:08.820 was throwing objects
00:23:09.620 at the police
00:23:10.360 during one of these
00:23:11.400 peaceful protests.
00:23:12.760 My conclusion,
00:23:14.960 the rioters are immune.
00:23:17.120 Only,
00:23:17.760 only churchgoers,
00:23:20.200 people with jobs,
00:23:22.300 civil libertarians,
00:23:24.360 voters,
00:23:25.260 remember you can't
00:23:25.840 go out and vote,
00:23:26.320 that's why we have
00:23:26.700 to have national
00:23:27.200 mail-in votes,
00:23:28.380 students,
00:23:29.680 diners,
00:23:30.580 and shoppers.
00:23:31.740 Those are the people,
00:23:32.860 those are the seven
00:23:33.420 groups of people
00:23:34.120 that can catch
00:23:35.760 coronavirus.
00:23:36.700 but looters
00:23:39.280 and rioters
00:23:40.640 and anarchists
00:23:42.340 and communists,
00:23:43.060 they're just immune.
00:23:44.640 They're not going
00:23:45.000 to catch it,
00:23:45.560 so it's okay
00:23:46.120 if they go out
00:23:47.620 and protest.
00:23:49.640 The science tells us
00:23:50.960 that if you,
00:23:52.700 basically,
00:23:53.160 this is the rule of thumb,
00:23:53.760 if you go out
00:23:54.400 and build
00:23:55.040 or buy anything,
00:23:56.740 you're seriously
00:23:57.400 at risk.
00:23:57.940 You need to go back home.
00:23:59.100 But if you go out
00:24:00.200 to destroy
00:24:01.520 or steal something,
00:24:03.240 you're safe.
00:24:04.640 That's the science.
00:24:06.300 That's our public
00:24:06.820 health experts.
00:24:07.940 Real collateral damage here.
00:24:09.900 Real collateral damage.
00:24:12.220 They shut us down
00:24:13.100 for two months.
00:24:14.540 People couldn't go
00:24:15.440 to funerals.
00:24:17.000 A teacher of mine
00:24:18.480 died during that time.
00:24:20.240 I certainly would have
00:24:21.320 gone to the funeral
00:24:22.340 if I could have,
00:24:23.460 if he had died
00:24:24.080 during a normal time.
00:24:25.000 I couldn't go
00:24:25.600 to the funeral.
00:24:26.440 And look,
00:24:26.920 he was just a teacher
00:24:27.720 of mine.
00:24:29.040 Think about people
00:24:29.800 who lost their mothers
00:24:30.800 and their fathers
00:24:31.320 who couldn't be with them
00:24:32.080 at the very end,
00:24:32.760 whose close family members
00:24:34.900 had to die alone
00:24:36.060 and then
00:24:37.540 who couldn't receive
00:24:38.780 a proper funeral
00:24:39.480 because the public health experts
00:24:42.200 told us not to.
00:24:43.120 All those people
00:24:43.920 now are looking out
00:24:45.200 and seeing hundreds
00:24:46.080 of thousands
00:24:46.620 of looters
00:24:47.320 and rioters
00:24:48.180 pouring out everywhere
00:24:49.460 and the public health experts
00:24:51.260 are cheering it on.
00:24:53.120 If you thought
00:24:54.040 that our faith
00:24:55.360 and our institutions
00:24:56.160 was fraying
00:24:56.860 before this whole thing,
00:24:58.540 oh boy,
00:24:59.440 oh buddy,
00:25:00.580 it's gone.
00:25:01.500 It's gone.
00:25:02.020 And yet people
00:25:02.700 I think are starting
00:25:04.540 to miss it.
00:25:05.400 I think the very people
00:25:06.120 who were tearing it down
00:25:06.840 are starting to miss it
00:25:07.680 now that it's gone.
00:25:08.560 There was a scene,
00:25:09.120 this is my favorite,
00:25:09.940 this is my favorite video
00:25:10.860 that was going around
00:25:11.740 the internet yesterday.
00:25:12.940 A group of young idiots,
00:25:15.440 the protesters,
00:25:16.340 very peaceful,
00:25:17.480 were throwing objects
00:25:19.500 at a car
00:25:20.120 as it was driving by
00:25:21.200 because most people
00:25:22.620 just keep driving, right?
00:25:24.200 Not this guy.
00:25:25.360 This guy,
00:25:26.460 he was not going
00:25:27.940 to take a ding
00:25:28.800 on his car
00:25:29.400 lying down.
00:25:30.560 So he's driving,
00:25:31.060 and they hit his car.
00:25:31.740 He stops.
00:25:32.840 Then he starts
00:25:34.000 to back up.
00:25:35.120 And then you hear
00:25:36.260 the peaceful protesters
00:25:37.120 say my,
00:25:38.980 my three favorite words
00:25:40.200 of this,
00:25:40.640 of this whole incident.
00:25:42.980 Call the police.
00:25:45.580 Do you see me stops?
00:25:47.520 He's backing up.
00:25:48.460 Uh-oh.
00:25:52.000 Yo, call the police.
00:25:53.040 Oh, call the police.
00:25:54.060 Somebody call the police.
00:25:55.360 No, call them.
00:25:56.100 Multiple people.
00:25:56.960 Please, no.
00:25:58.100 You know those brutal people
00:26:00.220 who are slaughtering
00:26:01.480 innocent men and women
00:26:02.500 all over this country?
00:26:04.200 Yeah, call them.
00:26:04.840 Call them now
00:26:05.500 because this guy
00:26:06.340 is going to be upset
00:26:07.800 that I...
00:26:08.740 Oh, and the guy
00:26:09.380 runs out of his car
00:26:10.100 with some...
00:26:11.700 I don't even know
00:26:12.260 what this guy is holding.
00:26:13.040 He chases the one idiot away.
00:26:18.060 The guy goes running.
00:26:19.880 And then he turns
00:26:20.700 on the rest of the crowd.
00:26:21.480 By the way,
00:26:21.760 this is one man,
00:26:23.160 one older man
00:26:23.980 facing down like,
00:26:25.280 I don't know,
00:26:25.680 probably eight or nine people.
00:26:27.200 And they all scatter and run
00:26:28.580 the minute
00:26:29.100 that anybody
00:26:29.980 pushes back whatsoever.
00:26:33.400 They're going to hurl objects.
00:26:34.620 They're going to break windows.
00:26:35.460 They're going to steal stuff.
00:26:36.260 They're going to burn down cities
00:26:37.100 until they get
00:26:38.080 any pushback whatsoever.
00:26:39.360 But we haven't gotten
00:26:40.020 any pushback yet
00:26:40.860 other than this wild looking guy.
00:26:42.840 And so the chaos rages on.
00:26:46.120 And the response
00:26:46.720 from our elected leaders
00:26:47.520 is to defund the cops.
00:26:48.880 And our response
00:26:49.440 from our media establishment
00:26:51.240 is to encourage the protests.
00:26:55.140 If these people
00:26:56.420 in that video
00:26:57.000 had one ounce
00:26:57.980 of self-awareness,
00:26:59.800 they would hang it all up
00:27:01.280 the moment that they said,
00:27:02.640 call the police.
00:27:04.120 And they would say,
00:27:04.620 they'd throw the object,
00:27:05.440 the guy would turn around.
00:27:06.740 They'd say,
00:27:07.180 oh no,
00:27:07.960 call the police.
00:27:08.820 Oh, oh right.
00:27:09.760 Okay, now I understand.
00:27:10.580 Never mind.
00:27:11.200 Go home, everybody.
00:27:12.360 Go home.
00:27:13.660 Civil order is a good thing.
00:27:14.880 But they're so full of anger.
00:27:16.140 They're so full of fury
00:27:17.080 that they can't even realize that.
00:27:20.280 The anger and hatred
00:27:21.700 from these riots
00:27:22.680 is not even confined
00:27:24.460 to people
00:27:25.080 who are currently alive.
00:27:27.700 The anger and hatred
00:27:29.380 from these riots
00:27:30.140 is now being directed
00:27:31.560 at people who died
00:27:32.720 a hundred years ago,
00:27:34.540 more than a hundred years ago.
00:27:36.200 Ralph Northam.
00:27:37.800 You remember Ralph Northam.
00:27:39.220 Ralph Northam in Virginia,
00:27:40.740 governor of Virginia,
00:27:41.600 just announced the removal
00:27:42.580 of the very famous statue
00:27:45.360 in Richmond
00:27:45.840 of General Robert E. Lee.
00:27:49.380 Now it is not clear
00:27:50.700 as of yet
00:27:51.480 whether Governor Northam
00:27:53.100 will attend
00:27:53.700 the removal ceremony
00:27:54.780 wearing blackface
00:27:56.140 or whether he'll just be
00:27:57.640 wearing his usual hood.
00:27:59.160 It's,
00:27:59.500 we actually never found out
00:28:00.880 from that photo.
00:28:01.660 Was he the one
00:28:02.280 in the blackface
00:28:03.000 or was he the one
00:28:03.880 in the hood?
00:28:04.240 Everyone got upset
00:28:04.860 that he was wearing blackface.
00:28:05.880 Seems to me the hood
00:28:06.540 is actually a little bit
00:28:07.420 more offensive.
00:28:08.420 So we don't know
00:28:08.940 which one he's going to wear,
00:28:11.940 but we do know
00:28:12.560 that he's a very good person.
00:28:14.420 You see,
00:28:14.660 he's very anti-racist.
00:28:15.940 He's very just
00:28:16.580 because he's going to
00:28:17.980 take down a historical statue
00:28:19.360 and try to erase
00:28:20.840 American history
00:28:21.620 and talk about
00:28:23.700 how much better he is
00:28:24.640 than a dead guy.
00:28:26.320 So it's okay.
00:28:26.860 No big deal.
00:28:28.940 Keith Boykin, CNN.
00:28:31.000 He's some guy.
00:28:31.860 I don't know.
00:28:32.320 These guys,
00:28:33.060 who knows?
00:28:33.640 I've never heard of this guy
00:28:34.600 in my life,
00:28:35.040 but I don't watch CNN.
00:28:35.740 But he is a CNN correspondent.
00:28:37.700 He tweeted out,
00:28:38.360 quote,
00:28:39.120 Robert E. Lee
00:28:39.700 was a racist traitor
00:28:40.800 who fought against the union.
00:28:41.980 He should never be celebrated
00:28:42.960 on public property
00:28:43.800 anywhere in America.
00:28:46.940 That's one take.
00:28:48.040 I think that's the take
00:28:49.020 that just about
00:28:50.000 everybody has today.
00:28:52.500 That's not
00:28:53.240 Abraham Lincoln's take.
00:28:54.880 That's not the take
00:28:56.200 in the best traditions
00:28:57.760 of the United States.
00:28:58.940 That's not the take
00:29:00.240 that is going to allow us
00:29:01.420 to continue as a nation.
00:29:04.480 Abraham Lincoln said,
00:29:05.740 famously in the second inaugural,
00:29:07.700 with malice toward none,
00:29:09.780 with charity for all,
00:29:11.400 with firmness in the right,
00:29:12.800 as God gives us
00:29:13.760 to see the right,
00:29:14.860 let us strive on
00:29:15.840 to finish the work
00:29:16.680 we are in,
00:29:17.720 to bind up the nation's wounds,
00:29:19.760 to care for him
00:29:20.660 who shall have borne the battle
00:29:22.220 and for his widow
00:29:23.480 and his orphan,
00:29:24.660 to do all which may achieve
00:29:26.320 and cherish
00:29:27.000 a just and lasting peace
00:29:29.160 among ourselves
00:29:30.020 and with all nations.
00:29:31.320 Those are some of the most
00:29:33.600 famous words
00:29:34.560 ever uttered
00:29:35.420 by an American statesman.
00:29:37.580 And
00:29:38.060 the left in America today
00:29:40.480 has completely reversed it.
00:29:42.660 They are promising us
00:29:43.780 malice toward all
00:29:45.420 and charity for none.
00:29:47.500 They're doing that
00:29:48.280 in the academy,
00:29:49.860 in the humanities,
00:29:50.920 they're doing that
00:29:51.480 in the sciences.
00:29:52.560 They're doing that
00:29:53.320 in the activist level,
00:29:55.260 peaceful protests,
00:29:56.300 also known as riots.
00:29:57.140 They're doing that
00:29:58.280 at the attorney general's office
00:29:59.720 in Minnesota,
00:30:00.900 the legal channel.
00:30:01.900 They're doing that
00:30:02.840 through the media.
00:30:04.220 They're doing it
00:30:04.740 every single place
00:30:07.260 that they have any influence.
00:30:09.600 The reason Abraham Lincoln
00:30:10.900 uttered those words
00:30:11.760 is because he knew
00:30:12.840 that if we did not follow
00:30:14.100 that course of action,
00:30:15.240 the nation would be
00:30:16.500 ripped apart forever.
00:30:18.100 It would never come back together.
00:30:19.460 That would be the end of it.
00:30:22.240 There's no,
00:30:22.620 you can't hate your fellow citizens
00:30:24.140 and have a country
00:30:25.000 or you can't have a country
00:30:27.120 for very long.
00:30:28.840 You can't have malice
00:30:30.060 for all of your fellow citizens
00:30:31.160 and charity for none of them
00:30:32.140 and have a country
00:30:32.640 for very long.
00:30:33.820 That's the choice that we have.
00:30:35.920 Is,
00:30:36.400 is anybody going to,
00:30:37.660 to take the Lincoln approach?
00:30:40.480 I don't know.
00:30:41.000 Are we still
00:30:41.520 a mature enough country
00:30:42.880 to take that Lincoln approach?
00:30:45.720 The jury's still out.
00:30:46.880 Let's see how long
00:30:47.460 the riots burn.
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00:32:07.080 All right.
00:32:07.720 First question from Chris.
00:32:08.660 Hello, Michael.
00:32:09.760 I'm seeing a lot of my friends
00:32:11.180 get caught up
00:32:11.840 in the slacktivism
00:32:12.640 and virtue signaling
00:32:13.400 as a result of George Floyd,
00:32:15.620 of the George Floyd tragedy.
00:32:17.060 These friends generally
00:32:18.100 don't get caught up
00:32:19.000 in these hysterias this much.
00:32:20.720 They're participating
00:32:21.520 in Blackout Tuesday
00:32:22.520 on Instagram
00:32:23.200 and posting a lot of BLM hashtags
00:32:24.740 and whatnot.
00:32:25.820 Is it worth telling them
00:32:26.780 that they are just falling
00:32:28.000 for the racism narrative
00:32:29.160 that the left wants them to believe
00:32:30.520 or is it just a waste of time?
00:32:32.600 Thanks.
00:32:32.940 Love the show.
00:32:34.520 It's not even just
00:32:35.840 the racism narrative.
00:32:37.620 If it were,
00:32:38.400 it'd be easy to tell them
00:32:39.200 that they're crazy.
00:32:41.360 It's a religious narrative.
00:32:43.580 This is a religious worldview.
00:32:45.580 It has liturgies.
00:32:46.720 We've seen all these
00:32:47.600 kind of weird secular
00:32:49.260 religious rituals
00:32:50.240 over the past few days
00:32:51.180 of people like white people
00:32:52.360 kneeling down,
00:32:53.480 bowing before black people
00:32:54.860 who are standing up
00:32:55.740 or the white people
00:32:56.880 reciting this mantra
00:32:58.420 of I will not be racist.
00:32:59.920 I will not be racist.
00:33:01.060 You saw all those videos
00:33:01.960 we showed yesterday.
00:33:04.320 So as you might know,
00:33:06.540 if you've ever known anyone
00:33:07.360 who's been involved
00:33:08.080 in a cult
00:33:08.660 or like a really kooky religion,
00:33:11.320 it's very tough
00:33:12.920 to shake them out of it.
00:33:13.880 You know,
00:33:14.100 you got to proceed
00:33:14.980 a little bit with caution
00:33:15.840 and that's how
00:33:16.280 I would proceed here.
00:33:17.040 I wouldn't shame people
00:33:18.000 for what they're doing.
00:33:19.740 Many, many, many of my friends
00:33:21.280 posted that stupid black square
00:33:23.000 on Instagram
00:33:23.920 because they just,
00:33:24.840 they just thought,
00:33:25.500 okay, whatever,
00:33:26.060 it's a thing.
00:33:26.780 Maybe they felt pressured to do it.
00:33:28.260 Maybe they just thought
00:33:28.860 it didn't mean that much.
00:33:30.220 That's fine.
00:33:30.900 I don't care.
00:33:31.780 It's no big deal.
00:33:32.780 But maybe you can show
00:33:34.540 through your lead
00:33:35.680 that actually the premises here
00:33:38.020 are not true.
00:33:39.260 The effect of this message
00:33:41.300 is very bad
00:33:42.260 and it's leading to cities
00:33:43.080 burning down
00:33:43.560 and people dying
00:33:44.240 and it's just
00:33:45.940 a false vision
00:33:47.040 of the world.
00:33:48.380 That's how I would do it.
00:33:49.920 I wouldn't go out
00:33:50.680 and just say
00:33:50.960 you're completely wrong
00:33:51.860 because especially
00:33:52.980 on a matter
00:33:53.440 that is actually religious
00:33:55.240 like this is,
00:33:56.360 they're not going
00:33:56.760 to respond well.
00:33:57.380 From Molly,
00:33:58.300 all week I've been subjected
00:33:59.660 to posts
00:34:00.240 and personal messages
00:34:01.220 about educating my children
00:34:02.640 about racism
00:34:03.320 and their white privilege.
00:34:04.600 Not because of any action
00:34:05.380 I've taken,
00:34:05.860 it seems completely inspired
00:34:06.780 by the assumed
00:34:07.340 inevitable racist beliefs
00:34:08.640 me or my children
00:34:09.600 will fall into
00:34:10.240 since I'm white
00:34:11.160 as are my children.
00:34:12.240 My question is,
00:34:12.940 how is that different
00:34:14.560 than me sending out
00:34:15.540 messages to liberal
00:34:16.380 or African American friends
00:34:17.500 saying,
00:34:18.220 may I suggest a few books
00:34:19.280 that help teach your kid
00:34:20.160 how not to break
00:34:21.340 a store window
00:34:21.940 and steal Gucci bags?
00:34:23.340 Thanks.
00:34:25.560 That is,
00:34:26.680 that is a very good comparison
00:34:28.700 because both of those things
00:34:30.200 are equally offensive,
00:34:31.260 right?
00:34:31.460 If you sent
00:34:33.820 to your leftist friends
00:34:36.540 and your black friends
00:34:37.900 by virtue of their ideology
00:34:39.340 and their skin color
00:34:40.540 a note that said,
00:34:41.980 hey, here's a way
00:34:42.400 to educate yourself
00:34:43.160 on how not to steal Nikes,
00:34:45.280 that would be very offensive.
00:34:46.340 They would be rightly
00:34:46.960 offended by that.
00:34:49.140 Likewise,
00:34:50.240 if they're,
00:34:50.960 if they're sending you books
00:34:52.280 and saying,
00:34:52.680 hey,
00:34:53.840 look,
00:34:54.300 I know we're friends
00:34:54.940 and everything,
00:34:55.640 but because of your skin color,
00:34:57.020 you're evil.
00:34:57.640 So here's a book
00:34:58.240 on how not to be evil
00:34:59.140 like me
00:34:59.480 because I'm a good person
00:35:00.160 and you're an evil person.
00:35:01.440 So here's,
00:35:02.100 here's how not to be evil.
00:35:03.500 Say,
00:35:03.760 oh,
00:35:04.000 okay,
00:35:04.280 thanks.
00:35:04.620 That's great.
00:35:05.060 Just throw in the trash.
00:35:08.280 This is,
00:35:09.560 I mean,
00:35:09.860 it ties in a little bit
00:35:10.520 with the religious answer.
00:35:12.360 White privilege
00:35:12.920 is a stand-in
00:35:14.080 for original sin.
00:35:15.360 It's a stand-in
00:35:15.920 for our natural
00:35:16.580 religious understanding
00:35:17.600 that we're broken,
00:35:18.620 that we're fallen,
00:35:19.120 something's not right,
00:35:19.840 there's injustice
00:35:20.340 in the world.
00:35:21.540 The trouble
00:35:22.100 with white privilege though
00:35:23.000 is it allows people,
00:35:25.060 it allows some people
00:35:25.940 to feel the goodness
00:35:27.020 of like whipping yourself
00:35:28.340 and feel the goodness
00:35:29.280 of atoning for yourself.
00:35:30.160 your sins
00:35:30.460 and it allows other people
00:35:32.100 just to hate you,
00:35:33.320 right?
00:35:33.520 Just to be like,
00:35:34.140 yeah,
00:35:34.260 you're the problem,
00:35:34.960 not me.
00:35:35.480 I have no problems.
00:35:36.720 So it actually is,
00:35:37.980 kind of exacerbates
00:35:38.880 the worst parts
00:35:40.020 of both of this
00:35:40.580 because it makes
00:35:41.840 some people aware
00:35:42.660 of their imperfection
00:35:43.540 but with nothing
00:35:44.200 to do about it
00:35:45.120 and it makes,
00:35:46.060 it actually leaves
00:35:47.400 other people ignorant
00:35:48.340 of their own imperfections
00:35:49.700 and breeds hatred
00:35:51.220 and division
00:35:51.700 in the country.
00:35:52.680 It's just a dumb idea,
00:35:54.140 it's a terrible idea
00:35:54.960 and we shouldn't give
00:35:55.900 any quarter to it.
00:35:57.040 You know,
00:35:57.520 there is a squishy response
00:36:00.960 to this whole BLM,
00:36:02.880 peaceful rioters
00:36:03.640 kind of thing
00:36:04.180 which is,
00:36:05.560 you saw it from Jim Mattis
00:36:06.880 actually,
00:36:07.640 the former defense secretary,
00:36:08.720 you saw it from
00:36:09.260 George W. Bush
00:36:10.260 a little bit
00:36:10.760 which is to say,
00:36:11.900 hey,
00:36:12.200 look,
00:36:12.420 these guys,
00:36:12.900 they have a point.
00:36:14.760 BLM has a point.
00:36:16.560 The rioters,
00:36:17.460 they have a point.
00:36:18.220 You know,
00:36:18.360 it's real,
00:36:18.720 they're expressing pain
00:36:19.780 and the way
00:36:20.540 they express pain
00:36:21.440 is by stealing
00:36:22.080 Nikes and Gucci bags.
00:36:23.760 No,
00:36:24.140 they don't have a point.
00:36:25.120 They don't,
00:36:25.520 it's a lie.
00:36:26.260 It is based on a lie.
00:36:27.620 We went through
00:36:28.000 the numbers yesterday,
00:36:29.600 went through them
00:36:30.000 a little bit again today.
00:36:31.000 It is not true.
00:36:32.120 They have no point whatsoever.
00:36:33.720 The things that they're doing
00:36:34.740 based on their lie
00:36:35.700 are terrible.
00:36:36.900 They're indefensible.
00:36:38.140 They're sins.
00:36:39.180 They are crimes.
00:36:40.340 The people who are
00:36:40.960 committing those crimes
00:36:41.700 should be arrested
00:36:42.440 and thrown in prison
00:36:43.160 for a very long time.
00:36:45.280 Some people insist
00:36:46.280 that we have to pretend
00:36:47.420 like they have a point
00:36:48.380 in the spirit
00:36:49.180 of national unity.
00:36:50.640 Wrong.
00:36:51.280 Sorry,
00:36:51.680 buster.
00:36:52.640 Actually,
00:36:53.120 if you pretend
00:36:53.520 they have a point,
00:36:54.340 you are,
00:36:54.740 you are achieving
00:36:55.280 precisely the opposite
00:36:56.360 of national unity.
00:36:57.600 You are encouraging discord.
00:36:59.080 You are encouraging strife.
00:37:00.180 You're encouraging violence
00:37:01.120 for nothing,
00:37:02.940 for a lie,
00:37:03.860 for a,
00:37:04.520 a rank lie.
00:37:06.980 Don't do it.
00:37:07.760 Much,
00:37:08.180 much better
00:37:08.820 to take a clean
00:37:10.460 and truthful approach
00:37:12.020 from Sarah.
00:37:12.760 My name is Sarah.
00:37:13.680 I know that Sarah
00:37:14.300 because I saw your name is Sarah.
00:37:15.560 And I live in Madison,
00:37:16.760 Wisconsin.
00:37:17.740 We have had riots
00:37:19.020 the last few nights
00:37:19.800 like much of the country has.
00:37:21.560 There was a press conference today
00:37:22.820 that some of the protest organizers
00:37:24.260 held where they had a list
00:37:25.940 of demands that needed
00:37:26.800 to be met
00:37:27.320 in order to stop the violence.
00:37:28.860 These demands included
00:37:29.720 defunding the police department,
00:37:31.320 freeing all the inmates
00:37:32.220 in the county jail,
00:37:33.160 and abolishing police powers.
00:37:34.720 Oh,
00:37:34.880 is that all?
00:37:35.660 My question is,
00:37:36.540 how are we supposed
00:37:37.020 to respond to people like this
00:37:38.540 as citizens
00:37:39.180 and what should our government
00:37:40.720 do in response?
00:37:42.440 You should ignore those people.
00:37:44.120 You should ignore
00:37:44.660 those very unserious ideas.
00:37:46.680 Those are unserious ideas,
00:37:48.600 presumably put forward
00:37:49.740 by unserious people.
00:37:51.840 Nobody should take them seriously.
00:37:53.620 And for the people
00:37:54.200 who are committing the crimes
00:37:55.160 associated with this thing,
00:37:56.380 we should put them in jail
00:37:57.500 for a long time.
00:37:59.680 You know,
00:38:00.280 there's been a big debate
00:38:01.020 over prison reform.
00:38:02.080 I'm actually supportive
00:38:02.860 of prison reform.
00:38:03.940 I think we need to
00:38:04.780 toughen up our sentences
00:38:06.060 and put more people in prison.
00:38:08.220 And here's my evidence for it.
00:38:10.020 The country is burning
00:38:11.040 to the ground.
00:38:12.400 So that would seem to me
00:38:14.160 indisputable evidence
00:38:15.880 that we don't have
00:38:16.680 enough people in prison.
00:38:18.160 Because, you know,
00:38:18.820 if we had those criminals
00:38:19.860 in prison,
00:38:20.600 then the country
00:38:21.680 wouldn't be burning
00:38:22.180 to the ground.
00:38:23.000 Innocent people
00:38:23.460 wouldn't be dying
00:38:24.680 at these peaceful protests.
00:38:27.100 Peaceful protests.
00:38:28.520 So you shouldn't
00:38:29.580 take it seriously.
00:38:30.240 Unfortunately,
00:38:30.860 mayors will.
00:38:32.340 Garcetti is doing it in LA.
00:38:33.660 He's defunding the police.
00:38:36.280 Defunding the police
00:38:37.060 is going to make
00:38:37.980 this situation a lot worse.
00:38:39.540 Actually,
00:38:40.220 just not defending the police,
00:38:43.840 which so many left-wing
00:38:45.080 politicians are doing
00:38:46.160 is making the situation worse.
00:38:47.520 You're looking at these riots
00:38:48.320 and in a lot of places,
00:38:49.520 the cops are just standing down.
00:38:51.080 Why are they standing down?
00:38:52.160 Because they know
00:38:52.720 if they use any force at all,
00:38:54.420 which is the definition
00:38:55.520 of their job,
00:38:56.340 is to use force, right,
00:38:57.340 to maintain the order.
00:38:58.220 But if they use force
00:38:59.080 to maintain order,
00:39:00.020 they're going to be maligned
00:39:00.980 as awful, terrible bigots
00:39:02.320 and they're going to go
00:39:03.200 to jail probably.
00:39:04.220 So why would they do it?
00:39:05.640 If they're not going
00:39:06.160 to get any backup
00:39:06.800 from the elected officials
00:39:08.080 from the civil authority,
00:39:09.180 why on earth would they do it?
00:39:10.340 And so the fires rage,
00:39:11.320 whether they have the money
00:39:12.000 or not,
00:39:12.800 it's a terrible proposal
00:39:14.740 and an unserious one,
00:39:15.780 but in a way,
00:39:17.100 in many places,
00:39:17.720 it's probably inevitable
00:39:18.400 from Nick.
00:39:20.240 Can we make Trump the Pope
00:39:21.360 after his fourth term
00:39:22.320 as president?
00:39:22.920 I'm just thinking out loud here.
00:39:24.480 Just saying it would be awesome.
00:39:26.180 Yes,
00:39:27.380 Donaldus Maximus,
00:39:29.940 Donaldus I.
00:39:31.340 I like the sound of that.
00:39:32.760 And President Trump's wife,
00:39:34.680 I believe,
00:39:35.400 is Catholic,
00:39:36.660 which is,
00:39:37.360 that would be a mark
00:39:38.020 in his favor.
00:39:38.560 The mark against him
00:39:40.060 would be that he has a wife.
00:39:41.500 That does complicate things
00:39:42.800 if you're a Pope.
00:39:43.440 Though,
00:39:43.720 you know,
00:39:43.920 some Popes in the past,
00:39:45.480 they've had wives
00:39:46.600 a little less publicly,
00:39:48.060 you know,
00:39:48.400 than President Trump.
00:39:50.240 So,
00:39:50.760 you know,
00:39:51.240 look,
00:39:51.740 I'm eager to see
00:39:53.140 how the conclave deals with it
00:39:54.260 because I think he'd be
00:39:55.000 a great candidate.
00:39:56.060 From Elizabeth.
00:39:57.780 Dear Michael,
00:39:58.520 I,
00:39:58.860 like the rest of the country,
00:39:59.840 watched with sorrow,
00:40:01.220 anger,
00:40:01.540 amazement,
00:40:01.960 and awe
00:40:02.360 the destruction caused
00:40:03.320 around the country
00:40:03.800 this weekend.
00:40:04.640 Many disavow this behavior,
00:40:05.900 but one way I've seen
00:40:06.700 people defending this online
00:40:07.920 is through memes
00:40:08.940 and posts depicting
00:40:10.100 Jesus overturning
00:40:11.240 the tables in the temple.
00:40:12.620 I believe this is
00:40:13.380 a misrepresentation
00:40:14.280 of the gospel,
00:40:15.220 and I would wager
00:40:15.780 that many invoking
00:40:16.640 this scene
00:40:16.960 are not devout followers.
00:40:18.240 Yeah,
00:40:18.660 you think?
00:40:19.240 But are looking
00:40:20.120 for a way
00:40:20.600 to discredit
00:40:21.240 Christians online
00:40:22.080 who may say
00:40:23.040 that these actions
00:40:23.680 are unacceptable.
00:40:24.580 I'm a devout Catholic.
00:40:25.320 I've always seen
00:40:25.740 this particular story
00:40:26.580 as an example
00:40:27.340 of Jesus' personhood.
00:40:28.760 I can't accept
00:40:29.540 that this interpretation
00:40:30.660 is correct
00:40:31.820 and it's being used
00:40:32.440 to justify
00:40:32.980 this current behavior.
00:40:33.980 Would love to hear
00:40:34.300 your thoughts.
00:40:35.000 This stupid meme.
00:40:36.880 I've seen this meme too.
00:40:37.920 It's so dumb.
00:40:39.280 It's this meme.
00:40:40.440 It's a picture of Jesus
00:40:41.340 overturning the temples
00:40:42.440 and casting out
00:40:43.160 the money changers
00:40:43.860 and it says,
00:40:46.780 conservatives hate
00:40:48.060 political violence.
00:40:49.660 Jesus says,
00:40:50.640 right,
00:40:50.860 and then it's this image.
00:40:52.340 They're missing
00:40:53.120 a few parts
00:40:53.700 of the story.
00:40:55.060 First one,
00:40:56.320 you are not Jesus.
00:40:58.360 It should be
00:40:59.060 the most obvious,
00:40:59.880 but fairly it's not.
00:41:01.400 The second one,
00:41:03.080 the money changers
00:41:04.260 belong to Jesus
00:41:05.860 because Jesus
00:41:07.240 is their creator
00:41:09.220 because Jesus
00:41:10.620 is God.
00:41:12.440 And then the third one,
00:41:14.540 Jesus is not going
00:41:15.680 into somebody else's house,
00:41:18.280 to these money changers' house
00:41:19.860 and throwing them out,
00:41:20.800 right,
00:41:20.940 and stealing their property
00:41:21.900 and going,
00:41:22.880 he is throwing them out
00:41:24.440 of his own father's house.
00:41:27.500 Actually,
00:41:28.360 in the,
00:41:28.760 in the verse
00:41:29.920 it says,
00:41:30.620 right,
00:41:30.780 they are in my father's house.
00:41:32.340 So,
00:41:33.840 nothing about the meme
00:41:34.960 is correct whatsoever,
00:41:36.700 but this is,
00:41:37.260 this is,
00:41:37.640 you know,
00:41:37.900 the typical online
00:41:39.560 leftist atheist
00:41:40.700 kind of thing.
00:41:41.720 They'll say like,
00:41:42.420 hey,
00:41:43.420 you Christian idiot,
00:41:45.140 if God is real,
00:41:47.420 then why do bad things
00:41:49.480 happen to good people?
00:41:50.640 Mic drop.
00:41:51.800 Checkmate.
00:41:52.740 Christian,
00:41:53.720 showed you,
00:41:55.220 there goes your religion,
00:41:56.260 like,
00:41:56.560 you know,
00:41:57.580 there's some books
00:41:58.000 about this.
00:41:59.400 Some people have thought
00:42:00.440 about this before
00:42:01.100 and this is,
00:42:02.100 this falls squarely
00:42:02.980 in that category.
00:42:03.820 From David.
00:42:04.700 Two knolls,
00:42:05.280 knower of much,
00:42:06.160 smoker of quality cigars.
00:42:08.100 I'm a Catholic
00:42:08.760 and as the Pope
00:42:09.640 is supposed to be
00:42:10.240 the person I follow
00:42:10.980 in my religious life,
00:42:12.560 I do find myself
00:42:13.460 at odds
00:42:13.960 with his political views.
00:42:15.560 Yeah.
00:42:16.340 His criticism of Trump
00:42:17.500 standing in front
00:42:18.400 of St. John's
00:42:19.280 with the Bible
00:42:20.040 being the most recent time
00:42:21.180 he has spoken up
00:42:21.820 against our president.
00:42:22.640 Any thoughts?
00:42:24.300 Yeah,
00:42:24.620 it's,
00:42:24.840 it's funny that
00:42:25.680 you bring this up
00:42:26.720 because,
00:42:27.400 you know,
00:42:27.740 I'm obedient
00:42:28.780 to my bishops
00:42:30.060 and of course
00:42:30.800 to the Bishop of Rome
00:42:31.620 who is the Pope
00:42:32.280 because I'm a Catholic too.
00:42:35.440 I don't even know
00:42:36.520 what he said
00:42:37.100 about Trump
00:42:37.660 in the Bible.
00:42:38.400 I don't,
00:42:38.680 I didn't even read it.
00:42:39.500 Like,
00:42:39.680 I heard there was a thing
00:42:40.740 that he said
00:42:41.380 but,
00:42:43.120 okay,
00:42:45.560 Popes say a lot of things.
00:42:46.980 There is a big
00:42:47.780 misunderstanding here.
00:42:50.020 Many people,
00:42:50.940 especially non-Catholics,
00:42:51.780 but even many Catholics
00:42:52.460 believe that,
00:42:53.500 that papal infallibility
00:42:55.020 is this idea
00:42:56.820 that the Pope
00:42:57.640 is always correct
00:42:58.640 whatever he says
00:42:59.260 and we have to believe
00:42:59.780 every single thing
00:43:00.320 the Pope says.
00:43:02.200 Not true.
00:43:03.280 That is certainly
00:43:03.980 not the case.
00:43:05.620 When the Pope
00:43:06.360 is talking about
00:43:07.040 political matters
00:43:07.900 or economic matters,
00:43:09.660 he might be wrong
00:43:10.560 99% of the time.
00:43:13.060 He might,
00:43:13.400 frankly,
00:43:13.680 he could be wrong
00:43:14.100 100% of the time even.
00:43:16.280 As long as he is not speaking
00:43:18.160 from the chair,
00:43:20.300 from his official office,
00:43:22.600 he can be perfectly fallible.
00:43:24.580 You know,
00:43:24.840 the,
00:43:24.960 the idea of,
00:43:25.840 sometimes we've had Popes
00:43:27.440 who have just gotten
00:43:28.120 political questions wrong.
00:43:30.140 That might be
00:43:30.960 a way for the good Lord
00:43:32.560 to tell us
00:43:33.080 that the Pope
00:43:33.640 is fallible
00:43:34.600 except when he is infallible.
00:43:36.220 Which,
00:43:36.460 by the way,
00:43:37.200 the Pope has spoken
00:43:37.880 infallibly,
00:43:39.380 I think twice
00:43:40.140 in all of history.
00:43:41.580 The rest of the time
00:43:42.380 can be fallible.
00:43:43.560 You know,
00:43:43.780 move on.
00:43:44.220 Somebody says something
00:43:44.760 you don't like,
00:43:45.420 just move on.
00:43:46.340 From Shannon,
00:43:47.440 dear host with the most ease,
00:43:49.480 am I the host?
00:43:50.780 I am the host
00:43:51.660 with the most ease
00:43:52.800 at the Daily Wire.
00:43:53.860 Wow,
00:43:54.080 learn something new every day.
00:43:54.980 Now,
00:43:55.400 Jeremy Boring,
00:43:56.760 Michael,
00:43:57.180 no,
00:43:57.360 it's Jeremy Boring,
00:43:58.040 sorry.
00:43:58.940 Is perpetuating
00:43:59.680 the white savior
00:44:00.280 industrial complex
00:44:01.220 the answer?
00:44:02.300 That's a good way
00:44:03.060 to put it.
00:44:03.820 If not,
00:44:04.360 what color should
00:44:05.220 I post on Instagram
00:44:07.440 to show my support?
00:44:08.920 Saw this with Lincoln.
00:44:10.400 It's a quirk
00:44:11.000 of liberalism
00:44:12.000 and paganism
00:44:12.960 is actually
00:44:13.460 the real answer here.
00:44:15.160 This idea
00:44:16.200 of the white savior
00:44:17.280 being a bad thing.
00:44:18.000 So,
00:44:18.180 Lincoln frees the slaves,
00:44:19.040 right?
00:44:19.200 When the movie
00:44:21.960 Lincoln came out,
00:44:23.940 the Lincoln movie
00:44:26.100 showed the story.
00:44:27.940 It was a beautiful movie.
00:44:29.020 Daniel Day-Lewis
00:44:29.600 played Lincoln.
00:44:31.900 There was a pushback
00:44:33.020 on the left
00:44:33.520 because they said,
00:44:34.620 hold on,
00:44:34.940 you're suggesting
00:44:35.420 Lincoln freed the slaves,
00:44:36.560 but uh-uh,
00:44:37.280 we're not relying
00:44:37.860 on some white guy
00:44:38.540 to free the slaves.
00:44:39.320 The slaves freed themselves,
00:44:40.880 but that isn't true.
00:44:42.000 Lincoln freed the slaves.
00:44:43.420 The Union Army
00:44:44.220 freed the slaves.
00:44:45.040 700,000 Americans
00:44:47.440 died to free the slaves.
00:44:49.300 But this doesn't
00:44:50.200 jive with
00:44:51.160 liberalism.
00:44:53.020 This doesn't jive
00:44:53.760 with some forms
00:44:54.400 of paganism
00:44:55.000 because we want
00:44:56.320 to do everything
00:44:57.200 ourselves.
00:44:58.140 Liberalism is like,
00:44:58.760 I'm just all about,
00:44:59.560 liberalism on the left
00:45:00.360 and the right.
00:45:00.980 It's me.
00:45:01.540 I have to do it.
00:45:02.280 I have to have agency.
00:45:03.280 Everything in life
00:45:03.760 is about my will
00:45:04.640 and the things
00:45:05.280 that I achieve.
00:45:06.200 Same thing with paganism.
00:45:07.180 When you read
00:45:07.600 the ancient pagan epics,
00:45:09.040 it's all about
00:45:09.600 my heroic actions,
00:45:11.620 my own heroic nobility.
00:45:13.200 This is different
00:45:13.780 than Christianity.
00:45:15.380 Christianity
00:45:15.900 accepts grace.
00:45:18.560 We say,
00:45:19.200 I actually don't need
00:45:20.240 to earn my own salvation.
00:45:21.420 I can't earn
00:45:22.040 my own salvation.
00:45:23.160 My salvation is given
00:45:24.040 to me as a gift
00:45:24.980 by someone else.
00:45:26.800 That's a wonderful thing
00:45:27.620 and I'm happy about that.
00:45:29.000 That civilization
00:45:29.860 of grace
00:45:30.800 is what defined
00:45:32.440 our own,
00:45:33.240 the West,
00:45:34.760 until about five minutes ago.
00:45:36.240 Until now,
00:45:36.760 we're in this kind of
00:45:37.480 post-Christian
00:45:39.000 political moment
00:45:39.860 or secular
00:45:40.380 political moment.
00:45:41.560 But that's a much
00:45:42.300 better situation.
00:45:43.840 And when it comes
00:45:44.940 to these historical questions
00:45:46.780 and most notably
00:45:47.500 on slavery,
00:45:48.760 then it's obviously
00:45:50.020 the correct one as well.
00:45:51.140 All right,
00:45:51.340 that's our show.
00:45:51.820 We've got more to get to,
00:45:52.440 but you know,
00:45:52.820 I've got to wait until Monday.
00:45:53.780 In the meantime,
00:45:54.260 I'm Michael Knowles.
00:45:54.780 This is the Michael Knowles Show.
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