Ep. 576 - Dismantling The Whole System
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In her own words, Rep. Ilhan Omar has admitted that the recent protests and riots are not just about reforming the criminal justice system, it s about overturning the entire system. And believe it or not, that s not even the most radical thing one of these lefties said yesterday.
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Freshman representative Ilhan Omar has admitted that the recent protests and riots and rebellion
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and revolution, it's not just about police brutality. It's not just about reforming the
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criminal justice system. Actually, what it is about, in her own words, got to give her points
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for honesty, is overturning, dismantling the entire system. As long as our economy
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and political systems prioritize profit, without considering who is profiting, who is being
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shut out, we will perpetuate this inequality. So we cannot stop at criminal justice system.
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We must begin the work of dismantling the whole system of oppression wherever we find it.
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So she wants to dismantle the entire system of oppression wherever we find it. That's what
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gives her the out to pretend she's just talking about some narrow thing. But she's already said
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she's talking about the U.S. economy and political systems. It's not just some little tweak here,
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some little problem with the system. She wants to overturn the whole damn thing. And believe it or
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not, that's not even the most radical thing one of these lefties said yesterday. We'll get into
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give you advice on which stogies to pick. At least Ilhan Omar is honest. You got to give her
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points for honesty. I bet there are a lot of Democrats right now in the House and who are
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running for office who are not admitting that their real goal is to dismantle the entire system.
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And yet that has been the goal of left-wingers, at least on the hard left, since at least the 1960s,
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maybe even earlier than that. The issue here is not even that conservatives should be so
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shocked and outraged that Ilhan Omar wants to dismantle our system. We already know she wants
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to do that. We already know the left has embraced Black Lives Matter, which is an openly avowedly
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Marxist institution that, that doesn't just want to destroy the police station or the fire department.
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They want to destroy the quote Western prescribed nuclear family. So we shouldn't be surprised.
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The reality that we've got to face is that one of two systems will be dismantled.
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Okay. And part of the reason that this is getting so heated up right now is because of Trump.
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Because Trump is actually presenting a threat to the system. The one system that could be dismantled,
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if Ilhan Omar has her way, is the American national system. Our system, not just of criminal justice,
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but our economy, they're trying to totally upend that with legislation like the Green New Deal,
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for instance, $93 trillion, creates jobs guarantee programs, creates massive redistribution of wealth,
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creates reparations for slavery, creates, I mean, totally upends the system. But, but also a cultural
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revolution too, which dismantles all of our heroes, all of our traditions, tears down statues, even
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of our founding fathers. That system could be dismantled or the globalized liberal world order
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system could be dismantled, right? You call it whatever, globalism, globalization, neoliberalism,
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whatever, whatever you want to call it. That's what Trump is threatening. He ran on that. He said,
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we've got to end globalism. Those two systems are on a collision course. And so now it's getting
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hotter and hotter. People want to tear those down. Trump's been very honest about wanting to tear
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down globalization. And Ilhan Omar is being honest about wanting to tear down the American national
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system. And the left is lining up basically behind Omar. They might talk a little softer than her,
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but that's who they're backing. And the right had better line up behind Donald Trump. We should be
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honest about that. When we talk about justice, when we talk about compromise, when we talk about
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cancel culture, okay? Because we are not on an even playing field here. I'll give you an example.
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Ilhan Omar, an elected US representative has said she wants to dismantle the system. I don't know why
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we still allow her in Congress. I don't know why we still allow her in the United States.
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It's an outrageous statement to make, and we should kick her out. If you don't like this country and you
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want to completely overturn it, then go and get out. We don't want you here. Go away.
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We want you if you like America and you want to help build America up. If you want to tear America
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down, go away. Bye-bye. See ya. But her comment was not even the craziest comment
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made yesterday on the internet. That comment, I guess it was made a couple of days ago,
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comes from the football player Deshaun Jackson, who quoted Hitler. He didn't really quote Hitler
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because it was a fake Hitler quote, which is even worse, I think, than a real Hitler quote,
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because it's, it's, it's like a dishonest Hitler quote. But what he's, what he said,
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Hitler said is, because the white Jews knows that the Negroes are the real children of Israel
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and to keep America's secret, the Jews will blackmail America.
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Now, the, this idea that this fake Hitler quote is espousing, that Deshaun Jackson is espousing,
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is one that has become popular in certain black nationalist circles, which is this idea that
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black people are the real Jews and the Jews are the fake Jews. And it's a sort of odd theory.
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I've, I've spoken to people who preach about this sort of thing on the street and it's always an
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entertaining time, but not very convincing. An incendiary quote for a public figure to make.
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Finally, he got enough, a little bit of pressure that he apologized, even his apology kind of weak
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sauce. I just want to, you know, first off, extend an apology on the behalf of me and what I stand for,
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because, you know, I'm one that's fair and I never want to put any race down or any people down.
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And, you know, my post was definitely not intended for any, anybody of any race to feel any type of way,
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especially the Jewish community. When I posted what I posted, I definitely didn't mean it to the extent
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that you guys take it. And I just want to let you guys know that I'm, you know, very apologetic.
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And I just want you guys to understand that it never was intended to be, you know, to put any race down
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or any religion down. You know, I post things on my story all the time. And, you know, I just
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probably shouldn't have never posted anything that Hitler did because Hitler was a bad person. And I
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know that. And, you know, I was just trying to uplift, you know, African-Americans and slavery and,
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So he did say one true thing in the apology, which is that Hitler was a bad person.
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That's so, so big of you to concede that, Deshaun, that Hitler was a bad person. But of course,
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nothing else he said makes any sense. What do you, what do you mean? You posted a quote that you
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thought was from Hitler talking about how the evil white Jews are blackmailing America and they're not
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even the real Jews. But you didn't mean that to be offensive toward any group of people or put down
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any race of people, right? I mean, that, that's hard to believe that. And then even when he says,
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I didn't mean it in the way that you're taking it. Well, how do you, it's like our fault. It's
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people's, the people's fault that we objected to this guy posting a Hitler quote. And then he
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posted this video apology, which doesn't make any sense and he'll get away with it. It won't matter at
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all. He will face absolutely no consequences. Do you remember when the Oklahoma state football coach
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just a few weeks ago had the audacity to be seen in a photograph wearing an OAN shirt,
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a shirt of his favorite cable news station. And he almost lost his job for that. And the Oklahoma
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state football team almost fell apart because of that, because that was so outrageous and
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politically incorrect to watch a cable news channel. That's how he was treated. It was an,
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it was an international incident practically. And yet Deshaun Jackson talking about how much he
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admires Hitler with a fake Hitler quote, there, there will be no problem. He'll be fine. He'll
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face no consequences. There's a double standard here. Okay. The double standard is political. Now
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the political question here is a racial one because the Democrats obviously exploit race all the time.
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So it ties in with that as well, but it is ideological. Don't forget Black Lives Matter is a
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Marxist organization that uses race, but primarily what they're talking about is not even racial issues.
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Primarily what they're talking about is old school ideological Marxism. And Terry Cruz actually called
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this out and the left doesn't want to cover it. We'll get to that in, in one second and we'll get to the,
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Deshaun Jackson quotes fake Hitler about how terrible the Jews are. It's all good. The Oklahoma State football
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coach wears his cable news shirt. Very, very bad. Terrible, almost loses his job. Another example of
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this in Contra Costa County, California, the city government permitted a giant Black Lives Matter
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mural to be painted on the sidewalk. Think about how offensive this is. I'm not saying that the
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government doesn't have the right to do this. I'm not saying that Ilhan Omar doesn't have the right
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to go out and say she hates America and she wants to dismantle the entire system.
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Specifically, the political and economic systems of America. I'm not saying they don't have the
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right to do that, but they shouldn't do that. And we should not tolerate that because Black Lives
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Matter is Marxism and we should not permit Marxism to take any sort of hold in our society. But the
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government does that. And so a couple of citizens decided to take this into their own hands,
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Nicole Anderson and David Nelson. And they went out and they just painted over the Black Lives Matter
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sign. If someone, if someone came out onto my sidewalk and painted Marxism is really good,
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yay communism, I would be very tempted to paint over that sign as well. And that is exactly what is
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conveyed by the phrase Black Lives Matter, which as we've talked about, almost ad nauseum,
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does not mean Black Lives Matter. So they go do this. Maybe they shouldn't have done it. You know,
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the city government has the right to commission a mural, even if it's a, a politically insane mural.
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And what do you think happened to them? They are now being charged with three misdemeanors,
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including, including a violation of civil rights. Now you might say, okay, they should get some charge
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for defacing a government thing, or they should get a charge for defacing a mural or violating civil
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rights because you won't let a Marxist slogan be written on your city streets.
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Deshaun Jackson gets to go out and quote fake Hitler, no problem, because that is absolutely fine
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according to the dictates of the left. Because of who he is and the type of candidates that he supports
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and the type of ideology he supports, he gets away even with quoting Hitler. No violation of civil
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rights there. But if you go out and paint over that mural, you are charged with that. This raises
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questions about cancel culture. Yesterday when I came out and I said that Ilhan Omar has no place in
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Congress and frankly, no place in America if she wants to overturn our entire system. A lot of people
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came to me and said, Michael, this is an example of cancel culture. You're just a, you're just a
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cancel culturer, a canceller on the conservative side. How do I put it? How do I put this bluntly?
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It is not cancel culture to cancel people who cancel culture. I understand that sounds like
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kind of confusing. There's this Chesterton phrase. He goes, there's a thought that stops thought and
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it's the only thought that ought to be stopped. It's, it's part of the reason why I think it's a good
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idea to have an amendment to permit laws against desecrating the American flag because there is a
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thought that stops thought. When you use the first amendment to burn the symbol of the country that
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gives you the first amendment, to burn the symbol of the country that gives you the first amendment,
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that is incoherent. You are symbolically threatening the very rights that you are invoking.
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The same thing here with Ilhan Omar in Congress. I'm sure she got elected democratically. I'm sure
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that she has the right to make her abhorrent and disgusting speech, but it doesn't mean we should
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tolerate that. Okay. Politics has to have form and substance. So there's the form. Yes, we have the
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right to say things, but then there's the substance. You ought to say good things. You ought to say correct
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things. And when you say things that are abhorrent, we have the right to object to those things.
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That is not what cancel culture is. It's a, it's a subtle distinction, but that's not what cancel
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culture is. It's not cancel culture to object to things that people sincerely say and do. That is
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just called culture and politics. Okay. And conservatives for too long have been neutral
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about many things. We've, we've only talked about the form, not the substance because we're so cowardly.
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You know, the left doesn't play by those rules, but the right does. I'm, I think back to Dante.
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Dante puts the people who remain neutral in the war in heaven. He puts them in hell.
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They weren't rebels in heaven. They weren't, they weren't fighting on the side of the angels,
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but they were neutral. Where do they go? They go to hell. What cancel culture is, is more specific.
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Cancel culture is when you twist what someone says beyond recognition. So you take what someone
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says and you disingenuously, you cynically pervert what they've said to, to sound like something that
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mean and that people would not have heard in an ordinary time. And you use that to try to ruin
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their career. Cancel culture is not accepting a sincere apology. All of us makes mistakes. All
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of us are sinners and we fall short of the glory of God. So if you make a mistake and you sincerely
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apologize and you change your behavior, but you, but someone still doesn't accept that apology,
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that would be cancel culture. Cancel culture is digging up years old, sometimes decades old jokes,
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just because you don't like some guy. Kevin Hart is going to host the Oscars.
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And then you dig up some joke from 15 years ago that no one even remembers in a totally different
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context and a totally different comedy culture. And you just use that to snipe him because you
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don't like the guy. That's cancel culture. Smashing statues because you get on your high horse and you
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feel so sanctimonious and so much better than all of your ancestors. Judging them totally outside the
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context of their own times, that would be cancel culture. And most importantly, and I think this is
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the key here, letting some people off the hook for the same offense that you would cancel someone else
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for if they have the right political views or the right skin color or the right sex, that is cancel
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culture. Cancel culture is a strictly left-wing phenomenon because only the left has the institutional
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power to cancel people. It's funny. This is sort of like a version of the left's racism argument.
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The left says only white people can be racist because only white people have the power because
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there's white supremacy. Well, that's obviously not true. I think we've seen a lot of that this
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week. There's no such thing as white supremacy. There's no such thing as white privilege or
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institutional whatever in the way that they're talking about it. However, the left does control
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the major institutions of America, the mainstream media, Hollywood, big tech, higher education,
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lower education, administrative government. They control all of it. Okay. And so cancel culture
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is a left-wing phenomenon because only the left really has the power to cancel. I'll show you this
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example. Take a listen to this. This was on CNN. Terry Crews has, has become very unpopular on the
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left because he's a black guy who is opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement because he sees it
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for what it is. His problems with the Black Lives Matter movement are not that black people shouldn't
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be treated well. His problems are that it is radical Marxist leftist. So he's invited on Don
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Lemon's show on CNN to talk about this. Don Lemon will barely let this guy get a word out.
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The Black Lives Matter movement was started because it was talking about police brutality.
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If you want an all Black Lives Matter movement that talks about gun violence in communities,
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including, you know, black communities, then start that movement with that name. But that's not
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what Black Lives Matter is about. It's not an all encompassing. So if you're talking about,
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if someone started a movement that said cancer matters, and then someone comes in and said,
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why aren't you talking about HIV? It's not the same thing. We're talking about cancer.
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That's not a very good analogy. I don't know if you caught that. What Don Lemon is saying is that
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Black Lives Matter refers explicitly to police brutality. You know, that totally widespread systemic
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scourge. That's totally real. Not, not overhyped by people in the media like Don Lemon. He says it
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refers to police brutality, not other killings of black people. So you can't talk about how
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very, very few unarmed black men per year are killed by police. And many, many more black people
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are killed by criminals in their own neighborhoods. And BLM's mum on that. You can't say that because
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we're talking, we're only talking about police brutality. It would be as if
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you were, you had a cancer, cancer matters. And then you started talking about some other disease.
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But the thing is Black Lives Matter claims to talk about black lives. It's not called police
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brutality matters. It's not called reform the cops. It's called Black Lives Matter. So it's completely
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legitimate to say, wait, you only care about this very small number of black lives, but you don't care
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about the vast majority of black lives. They're lost to crime in their own neighborhoods. Don Lemon,
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I don't think he's so thick headed as to not understand that. So I, I don't actually want
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to give him the benefit of the doubt because that will make him seem dumber than I think he is.
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And the rest of his interview, I think shows how cynical the guy is being is finally, he runs his
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mouth. He runs his mouth. He runs his mouth. Terry Crews finally starts to get a word in that smacks
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down Don Lemon's point. What does Don Lemon do? He jumps right back in and shuts him up.
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So the Black Lives Matter movement is about police brutality and injustice in that manner,
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not about what's happening in black neighborhoods. If you, there are people who are working on that
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issue. And if you want to start that issue, why don't you start it? Do you understand what I'm
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saying? But when you look at the organization, police brutality is not the only thing they're
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talking about. I know that. I agree, but that's not what the Black Lives Matter movement is about,
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Terry. Black Lives Matter is about police brutality and about and about criminal justice. It's not
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about what happens in communities when it comes to crime, black on black crime. People who live
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near each other, black people kill each other. Same as whites. Eighty some percent of white people
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are killed by white people because of proximity. It's the same thing with black people that happens
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in every single neighborhood. But that doesn't, again, I'm not saying that's not important that
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those, those, those kids die, but it's a different movement. Wow. That is one cynical liar right there,
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isn't it? You see, he, he starts out that segment. Well, first of all, he starts out with a nonsense,
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which is he says, look, there are already people working on crime in black neighborhoods. So if you
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want to do that, start that. Well, why would you start it if it's already, if people are already
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working on it? Because no one's actually working on it. But beyond that, he, he says, Terry Cruz
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comes out and says, I, I'm talking about the organization, which talks about things that are
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very different from police brutality, like dismantling the nuclear family, like upending
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our, our social order. And as he's saying that, Don Lemon says, I know that Terry, but that's not
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what police brutality, that's not what black lives matter is about. Beep, boop, beep, boop. He actually
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says, I know that the organization is not about police brutality, but the organization is about
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police brutality. He immediately contradicts himself. And then he just filibusters. Then he just
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says words to talk over Terry Cruz because heaven forfend, Terry Cruz gets the truth out about this
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radical organization. He won't, they won't let it happen in a way. That's sort of like a mild version
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of cancel culture because he invites the guy on the show and then he won't let him get a single word in
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the, the most egregious example of this kind of institutional acceptance of lies permeating the whole
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This headline will show you the kind of dishonesty we're dealing with if Don Lemon didn't do it
00:25:05.840
already. Headline, Phoenix protesters demand body cam footage after police kill man in parked
00:25:12.840
car. It's another one of these examples of police brutality. Cops come up. I'm sure the
00:25:19.120
man was black because that's what, that's what would make it newsworthy, right? The police come
00:25:24.560
up, there's a man in the car and they probably woke him up and they just started shooting, right?
00:25:30.060
Is that what happened? Not quite. So you got to skip one, two, three, four, five, six, seven paragraphs
00:25:37.480
don't tell you anything about what actually happened. They bury the lead by the eighth paragraph. We say
00:25:43.540
the Phoenix police department said in a statement Sunday that an officer involved shooting occurred
00:25:47.120
after a 911 caller said that a man who tried to kill him last week had returned with a knife and
00:25:52.480
was threatening to harm him. The department said that the caller pointed out the alleged suspect's
00:25:58.020
location after they arrived on the scene. Officers requested additional backup before locating a man
00:26:02.640
sitting in a parked car in the driveway of a house, the department said. Officers are said to have told
00:26:07.280
the man that they were investigating an aggravated assault. As the conversation continued, officers
00:26:11.440
instructed the man to get out of the vehicle. At this point, he refused instead rolling up his window
00:26:15.100
and armed himself with a handgun. And then the man began to lift his weapon. Then one officer broke
00:26:23.740
a passenger window to attempt to distract the man after seeing him point his weapon at a fellow officer.
00:26:29.420
As that happened, two other officers fired into the vehicle, the department said. And the man was
00:26:35.680
pronounced dead. We actually don't, we don't have any info on who this man was or, or what happened before.
00:26:42.020
But this, you got to wait eight paragraphs to find out that this guy was, had already tried to kill
00:26:47.720
somebody, was armed with a gun, pointed the gun at the cops. Absolute dishonesty.
00:26:56.680
Meanwhile, it's not just the media. The city of Seattle is now hosting a conference for its city
00:27:01.860
employees on how to undo whiteness. That's a, that's the system that they're trying to undo in Seattle.
00:27:09.240
Undo whiteness. How do you undo? Could you imagine if there were a conference called undoing blackness?
00:27:15.580
Probably, probably wouldn't go over very well, but undoing whiteness. City of Seattle had this
00:27:19.640
training session for white employees aimed at teaching them how to quote, practice self-talk
00:27:25.080
that quote, affirms their complicity in racism and about undoing their own whiteness.
00:27:32.980
There are lots of overlapping systems here. Okay. The, the left uses all of our institutions
00:27:43.340
to push their system. And then every so often you get some weirdo candidate like Donald Trump
00:27:48.520
or I don't know. I mean, Trump is kind of the unique candidates, at least in presidential politics
00:27:53.660
of late. And he poses a threat to that system. We can't have it all. We can't have a system in America
00:28:00.940
where you punish, where you punish people for criticizing black lives matter by destroying
00:28:06.800
their lives, but you don't punish people at all who post Hitler quotes to the internet and talk about
00:28:13.660
how terrible the Jews are. We can't have a system where you punish people for wearing OAN cable news
00:28:20.260
t-shirts, but you don't punish people for racial bigotry in the other direction. We can't have a system
00:28:29.700
where a city government tries to get you to undo your own whiteness, shames you for the color of
00:28:37.620
your skin, but only if you've got a certain skin, not if you've got another kind of color skin and
00:28:42.820
at the same time have a system of color blindness and moving past race and having racial harmony.
00:28:49.000
You can't have them both. You've got to pick. Do you want racial harmony and assimilation or do you
00:28:54.440
want a racially bigoted country where you have to undo your whiteness? You've got to pick. Do you want
00:29:02.320
a system of globalization and neoliberalism where we have essentially a one world government system
00:29:09.060
that comes out of a one world economic system? Or do you want a system of nation states? Do you want
00:29:16.220
the UN and the IMF and the EU and the WHO to control the world or do you want your own elected officials
00:29:21.780
to control the world? Those are the choices. The reason that this is getting so ginned up right now,
00:29:28.780
four months before a presidential election, is those are actually the stakes. These little incidents here,
00:29:33.300
the little Black Lives Matter protest or riot or whatever, the little Antifa thing, these little incidents
00:29:39.460
are indicative of a huge fight over which system we're going to have. We got some good news on part of that
00:29:45.140
system with President Trump's announcement on the World Health Organization, but that's going to be
00:29:51.600
the debate. That debate is only going to get hotter and you've got to pick a side. There's a group of
00:29:55.600
call them, I guess, liberals to classical liberals to slight progressives. They're trying to stand in
00:30:02.540
the middle. They're trying to be neutral. Well, if you stand in the middle of the road, you are going
00:30:06.200
to get hit by a truck. We'll get to all of that in one second. First though, I've got to thank you.
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We'll be right back with a lot more. A little bit of a win on this system fight between
00:31:13.060
neoliberalism, globalism, and the nation state. The United States is withdrawing from the World
00:31:19.200
Health Organization. The World Health Organization is a prop. It is a puppet of the Chinese government,
00:31:24.500
which hand-selected their own puppet leader of the WHO. The WHO is the reason that the coronavirus
00:31:30.480
epidemic spread so broadly. They covered up for China. China covered up the epidemic. They've
00:31:36.580
continued to lie about it. Democrats are very upset about this. Eric Swalwell, who is me and is you,
00:31:41.780
and we are all Eric Swalwell, the erstwhile democratic presidential candidate. He tweeted out
00:31:46.160
at this news. He said, my car just broke down. I'm calling and canceling my AAA membership.
00:31:51.320
That's his analogy for the WHO. But I don't know. These Democrats are not making very good
00:31:56.560
analogies these days. Him, Don Lemon, because the only way Eric Swalwell's analogy makes sense
00:32:01.780
is if AAA conspired with the man who broke your car and then covered up for the man who broke your car
00:32:10.340
for three months straight and continues to work with the man who broke your car right now. In that case,
00:32:15.980
if that's what AAA is doing, I would cancel your AAA membership. I would, I would get some other
00:32:22.440
organization to help you or I would help yourself. That's good news. The left is very upset about this.
00:32:29.120
They push back. Even this battle over the coronavirus and the lockdowns is ultimately a battle over these
00:32:36.060
systems. Who is going to govern you? What system are you going to live under?
00:32:40.640
This fight over the system has really irritated Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks is very angry with you.
00:32:49.760
You know, Tom Hanks, the Hollywood actor. He is very upset that you are not doing exactly what he
00:32:55.720
tells you to do and what the WHO tells you to do by wearing the mask. And he's not afraid to tell you
00:33:02.000
what he thinks. I don't get it. I simply do not get it. It is literally the least you can do.
00:33:11.080
And if you want to, if anybody wants to build up an argument about doing the least they can do,
00:33:16.440
I wouldn't trust them with a driver's license. I mean, when you drive a car, you got to obey speed,
00:33:21.440
speed, speed limits. You got to use your turn signal. You got to avoid hitting pedestrians.
00:33:25.840
If you can't do those three things, then I get it. You shouldn't be driving a car. If you can't
00:33:31.840
wear a mask and wash your hands in social distance, I don't understand. I got no respect for you, man.
00:33:38.360
I don't buy your argument. Finally, finally, a Hollywood celebrity is mouthing off on a political
00:33:45.180
issue about which he knows absolutely nothing. It's about time, frankly. I've just been waiting for
00:33:50.580
this my whole life. And now, I got to tell you, I'm a little upset because it means Tom Hanks
00:33:55.760
has no respect for us. I put so much of my self-esteem in the respect that Tom Hanks has for
00:34:03.640
me. But this is it. Why are they so, why are they so focused on the masks? Where are the damn masks?
00:34:08.940
That's what they keep saying. And they tell you it's just about science. Very little evidence that
00:34:13.260
the masks do much at all. You can read some of it on the CDC website. This is the reason that the,
00:34:18.360
the surgeon general came out early and said, don't wear the masks. The reason Eric Swalwell came out
00:34:22.140
early. Eric freaking Swalwell came out and said, don't wear the masks. Don't buy the masks.
00:34:26.480
Because they just don't, especially the masks that we're using, these cloth masks or bandanas,
00:34:31.320
there, there's very little evidence that they're having much effect. It is a psychological tool to
00:34:36.920
convince people that we're doing something and we're helping out and we're really in it together.
00:34:40.280
And it's a political symbol to show that you're willing to do what the left tells you to do.
00:34:45.840
And you're on the right side of this social question. Even something as apparently trivial
00:34:51.960
as wearing a mask is intended to tip this political battle that we're having one way
00:34:58.240
or the other. And there is no way to look at the, the current debate over the lockdown as anything
00:35:04.440
but political. Ever since the so-called health experts came out and said that if you protest for
00:35:10.200
conservative causes, you're killing people with the virus. And if you protest for leftist causes,
00:35:14.820
you're actually stopping the spread of the virus, which they actually said a few weeks ago,
00:35:18.900
ever since then, the public health establishment has no credibility. And so we need to have an
00:35:25.640
authentic politics and actually have these debates ourselves, but no one's willing to,
00:35:30.200
the minute you get a little close to that debate, what happens? They shut you up. They change the
00:35:34.680
subject. Don Lemon jumps in, doesn't let you get that kind of news up. The other bit of absolutely
00:35:39.700
stupid, irrelevant news that they're distracting with right now, but it does tell you something about
00:35:44.300
their system is this new book by Mary Trump. Mary Trump is some niece of Donald Trump, I guess.
00:35:49.800
And she's publishing a tell-all book about how Donald is awful and she hates her uncle.
00:35:53.520
By the way, a note to any of my nieces or nephews walking, watching right now. If you ever think
00:36:00.240
about doing this to me, you better lawyer up kids because I ain't going to tell her. Trump's been very
00:36:04.740
nice to, to his niece, Mary Trump, but she publishes this absolutely awful book. I don't even know if
00:36:09.480
they, these two know each other that well. You know, I mean, I can, can you imagine how many
00:36:12.720
nieces and nephews and cousins Donald Trump has? So she cashes in, she wants to make money on this
00:36:16.760
book. And one of the big accusations in it is that Donald Trump, you ready for it? Bum, bum, bum.
00:36:24.900
He cheated on his SATs. Did he do that? I don't know. I don't see any reason to believe that.
00:36:31.940
I don't see any reason to believe anything that I read in the news anymore because they lie to me
00:36:35.440
or in these tell all books from people who hate Donald Trump. But even if he did, let's say that
00:36:41.520
40, no, 50 years ago now, Donald Trump paid some guy to take his SATs for him, which apparently all
00:36:47.740
of the wealthy liberals have been doing for years now. You remember that scandal a few years ago?
00:36:52.460
But even if he did that, does anybody care about that? Does anybody care? Does that change any
00:36:59.620
single person's mind about who Donald Trump is or why they're voting for him? No, it's, it's actually
00:37:05.560
almost charming. It's sort of pitiful that the left believes they still have such faith in their
00:37:12.540
institutions, the SAT, the credentialing institution of the college board to get into the credentialing
00:37:18.440
institutions of the American universities, which now don't really offer education. We talked yesterday
00:37:24.600
about how Harvard's charging the same price for correspondence courses because it's not about the
00:37:29.080
education. It's about the credential. It's about the system. It's about the network.
00:37:33.440
They think that really matters still. They don't realize how far past that we are. They don't
00:37:39.540
realize that even the modern liberal politicized university itself is part of the debate that we're
00:37:47.880
having right now about dismantling the systems. I think a lot of conservatives wouldn't mind dismantling
00:37:54.200
the current university system, which is a grotesque, hollowed out farce of what a proper university is.
00:38:06.060
That's up for debate right now. We can believe very little on face value. We can take very little
00:38:12.220
on face value. I'll give you an example. There's this Oregon politician, Jonathan Lopez, who has been
00:38:18.580
talking about how he's the victim of a hate crime, of, of hate threats because of his race. I take it by the
00:38:25.380
name Lopez that he's Hispanic. So he apparently received this letter that said, don't waste your time
00:38:30.960
trying to become anything in this county. We will make sure you never win and your family suffers along with
00:38:35.780
all the other effing Mexicans in the area. Sincerely, America. Now, I think most conservatives, if they saw
00:38:43.540
that, they would say, yeah, that's a fake letter. Just like how most conservatives, when they heard there was a
00:38:50.020
noose in the NASCAR race, they said, no, there isn't. Well, turns out, surprise, surprise, it was fake. It was a
00:38:56.880
fake letter. Meanwhile, Lopez responded to it and he goes, I hold no resentment for whomever wrote this. Yeah, probably not
00:39:02.200
because it was you who wrote it, Buster. I'm just simply heartbroken for the lack of knowledge, education, and
00:39:06.660
respect missing. I pray for you and wish you prosperity in your life. God bless us all. Yeah, he wrote it. Cops figured it out.
00:39:12.500
Lopez finally admitted to it. Of course it was fake. Only leftists think that people say this kind of
00:39:18.920
stuff or that, you know, I suppose any people have wickedness lurking in all of our hearts, but that on
00:39:25.800
any large scale, this kind of thing happens. It doesn't. The left thinks that. This is why the
00:39:30.420
nooses are almost always fake. The nooses as the hate crimes is because only the left views the noose
00:39:36.780
as this universally racist symbol. Most people look at nooses and they think of suicide or they
00:39:42.480
think of the wild west or they think of a symbol of death that goes back to the Bible and Homer that
00:39:47.780
goes back through all of our civilization. Only the left, which is living in this very particular
00:39:52.560
racial fantasy land, views the noose as this racial symbol. And so when it comes up as a, as a racial
00:39:59.940
incident, we all know that nine times out of 10, 99 times out of a hundred, that's going to be fake.
00:40:05.860
And usually it is. This is where the left is pushing us. They want us to live in this system that they have
00:40:16.040
created. Conservatives don't. We want to tear down that system and return to proper institutions that are not
00:40:22.660
based on fantasies. Then there are the liberals, the squishes, the classical liberals, the, even the moderate
00:40:32.280
progressives, the, they're the people in the middle who think that there is a middle ground between all of this.
00:40:38.360
And they published a letter in Harper's magazine just yesterday, a letter on justice and open debate.
00:40:45.280
Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social
00:40:52.540
justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform. Yada, yada, yada. The forces of illiberalism
00:40:59.620
are gaining strength throughout the world and have a powerful ally in Donald Trump who represents a real
00:41:05.100
threat to democracy. The free exchange of information ideas, the liberal, the lifeblood of a liberal society
00:41:11.920
is daily becoming more constricted. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. We all need to have free thought and
00:41:15.900
free ideas and, and, and we all need to be liberals in the best sense of that word. And it's signed by
00:41:22.080
lots and lots of people. I think about 150 people signed to this. Some well-known leftists like Noam
00:41:28.620
Chomsky and many other people. 150 liberals signed it. Now the hard left is trying to cancel people for
00:41:37.200
signing that letter. It's not the conservatives trying to cancel them. It's the hard left trying to get
00:41:41.500
people fired for signing even that milquetoast letter. Already two people who signed it have
00:41:45.640
backed out. So much for standing up for free exchange of ideas. So much for defending our
00:41:49.780
liberal institutions. Already two people have backed out. Uh, Carrie Greenridge, who's an historian.
00:41:56.720
She said, I do not endorse this letter. I'm in contact with Harper's about a retraction. And the
00:42:00.680
author and transgender activist, Jennifer Finney Boyle, who says, I did not know who else had signed that
00:42:06.120
letter. I thought I was endorsing a well-meaning, if vague message against internet shaming.
00:42:10.100
I did know Chomsky, Steinem and Atwood were in, and I thought good company.
00:42:13.960
The consequences are mine to bear. I'm sorry. So she's saying, yeah, I agree with everything in
00:42:16.860
the letter, but I don't want to be associated with some of the people who are slightly, like
00:42:21.800
slightly to the right, almost center right. This shows you the, there is no middle ground.
00:42:30.580
And I, I know there are a lot of conservatives who say, I'm a conservative because I'm a liberal.
00:42:33.820
I just want to return to the free exchange of ideas. This is why people are upset
00:42:36.920
when we criticize Ilhan Omar and say she has no place in Congress, no place in the United States,
00:42:43.500
if she wants to tear the whole country down. They say, what about the free exchange of ideas?
00:42:47.900
What about, yes, of course we defend the free exchange of ideas, but not at the expense of
00:42:52.440
the free exchange of ideas. We defend our, and because we're speaking too abstractly,
00:42:56.860
let me put it in more concrete terms. We defend our American political traditions of free speech
00:43:03.180
and open debate in so much as they don't undermine the whole country. We actually have something to
00:43:09.880
say. We do as a conservative, I don't merely stand for the free exchange of ideas. I also stand for
00:43:17.600
some of the ideas that we're exchanging. And too many conservatives have bought into this kind of
00:43:24.840
pathetic letter, this lie that there is this liberal middle neutral ground that we can stand on where
00:43:30.860
really all we care about is the process, the form of talking about things. No, we stand for things
00:43:36.260
as well. We stand for some of the content of the speech. And for the last several decades, the left
00:43:41.540
has offered not only a form of debate, but substance to the debate. And the right has been too squishy
00:43:46.820
and too cowardly to do that. We can't do that any longer. It's coming to a head, guys. They're ripping
00:43:52.260
down statues of George Washington and torching cities. Okay. They're, they're instituting blatantly
00:43:58.060
discriminatory racist policies. They wouldn't call them racist because the racism goes against Asian
00:44:03.380
people and against white people, but they're doing it. I mean, there is, uh, even consider this kind
00:44:08.300
of racism, which I would find to be an anti-black racism. Princeton just wrote a letter, uh, and a
00:44:14.620
number of faculty members and people at Princeton wrote it to the university. And they said that, uh,
00:44:20.740
they must educate the Princeton university community about the legacy of slavery and white supremacy,
00:44:24.800
actively confront Princeton's ties to, and culpability and slavery and white supremacy.
00:44:30.020
You're gonna hear a lot about white supremacy. Form an internal committee of faculty and students
00:44:34.700
of color to hold the university accountable. So you're going to give people special power based
00:44:38.780
on the color of their skin. And then this is my favorite part on racial equality. They say,
00:44:42.120
remove questions about misdemeanors and felony convictions from admissions applications.
00:44:46.680
They are actually conflating being black with being a felon. By the way, how many felons apply
00:44:51.880
to Princeton? I guess some, but probably not that many. My guess, not that many. And how bigoted,
00:44:57.480
how outrageous to say that, that it's synonymous to call someone black or a felon.
00:45:05.180
That, that is the kind of insane racialized system though, that they are pushing.
00:45:12.060
There's no middle ground. Take a stand here. This is the moment to do it. I, I fear that if we lose
00:45:19.980
this battle right now, this election actually does seem to matter. I know every election is the most
00:45:23.880
important election of your lifetime, but they're burning down the country. So, you know, I think
00:45:27.060
this one matters a little bit more than say Bush v. Gore. Okay. I fear that conservatives are going
00:45:35.000
to sit in the middle, sit on the sidelines, say, well, I don't, I don't want to say anything. I don't
00:45:39.380
want to offend anybody. I'll post the black square and go along with Marxists because they're bullying
00:45:43.940
me. I'll, I'll vote for Biden because, you know, Trump colluded with a porn star in Russia and didn't
00:45:49.660
pay his taxes or whatever other lie the New York Times is going to write. And then we're going to
00:45:53.800
look back and say, gosh, we should have stood up. Where were the conservatives then? Well, here's your
00:45:57.500
chance, guys. Here's the call. Stand up for something. A system will be dismantled. It's up to us
00:46:03.760
which system that is. A lot more to say. We'll have to do it tomorrow. In the meantime, I'm Michael
00:46:07.780
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Hey everyone, I'm Andrew Klavan, host of The Andrew Klavan Show. 150 mostly liberal writers are
00:47:11.600
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00:47:16.640
They're on the wrong side in the war against reality. We'll talk about it on The Andrew Klavan Show.