On this week's episode of Get Off My Lawn with Gavin McInnes, we have a special guest on the show, Owen Benjamin. He's a stand-up comedian, writer, and all-around hater of the liberal establishment.
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00:04:18.000It's actually insulting that I haven't been banned.
00:04:20.000They hated Milo because he's charming.
00:04:22.000And as Ted Cruz pointed out with Mark, why did they ban Diamond and Silk to funny, vivacious black ladies who were totally uncontroversial and happened to love Donald Trump?
00:04:37.000The far, far right, the Andrew Raglans, Richard Spencer, David Dukes, the Fred Phelps of the world, the ultra-homophobes, the super anti-Semites, they have no mass appeal.
00:04:49.000We have mass appeal because we're right.
00:04:50.000Paul Joseph Watson is the enemy, as far as they're concerned.
00:04:56.000That's why we had Ezra Levant on the show yesterday getting demonetized.
00:05:00.000But it's a funny convalescence here of libertarianism and hating the government and also seeing that social media outlets like Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook and Google have become utilities like water and electricity.
00:05:16.000So we're anti-regulation, but we also see that we're being ripped off by someone purporting to be a utility.
00:06:32.000But TJ Miller, instead of fighting back physically, he called the cops on her, called the police, told the FBI that she had a bomb in her purse, which is called a bomb threat hoax, and it's a fairly big deal.
00:06:45.000So sorry, TJ, I don't care about you because you use our children for your progressive values, but you screwed up one too many times.
00:07:40.000So he does this movie, The Problem with the Pooh, and The Simpsons recently fought back.
00:07:45.000I actually did an interview with Washington Times, it should be out today, about it, where I just said, I'm not impressed with The Simpsons fighting back, you know, a year after the movie came out.
00:07:55.000But do you have a brief clip of Lisa Simpson fighting back against this movie?
00:08:02.000It's a new version of The Princess in the Garden.
00:08:35.000Maya Angelou writes seven books about herself being black.
00:08:38.000Obama writes two books about himself being black.
00:08:41.000Michelle Obama, every speech she gives is how hard it is to be black.
00:08:44.000It's just, it's like a free game token to move ahead.
00:08:48.000So Krypton Camus Bell said, I think the fact that they put this quote-unquote argument in the mouth of Lisa's character, who's supposed to be the most thoughtful, is what makes this the most ridiculous and toothless response.
00:09:01.000And then Hari, who's kind of freaking out here, because he goes, hey, all I did was throw the Simpsons under the bus.
00:10:40.000It's not even like a real African word that means victory, unlike Uhuru.
00:10:46.000Okay, last point before we talk to Owen about the war on the appealing middle right, the normal right wing, normal non-liberals who used to be liberal.
00:10:56.000They also hate, by the way, the Cassandra Fairbanks who betrayed them.
00:11:00.000This dummy, this mannequin staring at me is very disturbing.
00:11:06.000Interesting angle on this, on Donald Trump, Donald Trump's tweet that everyone's talking about, where he threatened Russia with a bomb.
00:11:14.000Our relationship with Russia is worse now than it's ever been.
00:11:19.000I'm going to send smart bombs over there, he said earlier.
00:11:22.000Anyway, it is strange that he's, on the one hand, saying nice stuff to Russia, on the other hand, saying, I'm going to send smart bombs to blow up Syria, which none of us want.
00:11:31.000Sure, neocons and lunatic liberals want it, and radical Israeli left-wing nutbars want it, but those of us here in the normal world, the normal right, the well-informed new right, the well-informed paleoconservatives, the nationalists, the Trumpers, we don't want a war with Syria.
00:11:51.000And then someone says this, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Khrushchev sent two messages to Kennedy, one conciliatory seeking peace and one Hawkish seeking war.
00:12:01.000Thompson and McNamara convinced Kennedy to only respond to one, the offer of peace.
00:12:06.000So this could be again another case of 40 chess, and I doubted him with the 1.3 trillion, and it looks like he's using it to build the wall, so maybe I shouldn't doubt this seemingly reckless suggestion that we attack Syria.
00:12:20.000Let's talk to Owen Benjamin about the war on free speech, especially when it comes to the right, and especially when it comes to those who are moderately right.
00:13:07.000Now, what I find interesting in your predicament is: you know, you don't see Richard Spencer getting banned, you don't see David Duke getting banned, but you see these moderate.
00:13:17.000I would just call you maybe libertarian.
00:13:20.000You don't really come across to me as a political dude.
00:13:23.000But because you dared to say a few things last year, like you shouldn't give children hormones to stop them becoming their gender, you're now this ominous figure.
00:13:56.000And the actual libertarian-ish, conservative-ish, normal American doesn't provide any fodder for the left extremism that they're trying to do.
00:14:07.000You know, the whole like, leave me alone, let me have a family.
00:17:28.000Because I said that David Hogg, I said, if someone doesn't have hair on the balls, they can't tell me and some of my friends who are veterans what guns they can and cannot operate.
00:17:38.000And the disturbing left saw that as sexual because, of course, they're riddled with pedophiles.
00:17:46.000So they were like, why would you talk about a teen's pubes?
00:17:49.000I'm like, that's how men talk forever.
00:17:56.000Yeah, if your balls haven't dropped, you can't buy beer.
00:17:59.000You know, it's obviously not as it's to the point where it's almost like the closet gay guys are always the one who thinks everyone else is gay, where it's like, because I play classical piano, so everyone that was a closet gay guy would be like, that's gay, you're a homo.
00:18:13.000And I'm like, you sure it's not your dick that's gay?
00:18:44.000That's why it's very conspiratorial because, and I usually don't attribute, I don't think that something's a conspiracy that can be attributed to just being bad at your job, which normally is what the government is.
00:18:56.000But the fact that they could accomplish that, I had no community strikes.
00:19:01.000And my stuff is pretty just educational and funny and normal.
00:19:06.000You know, like if you look on my stand-up clips, they're still up there.
00:19:10.000It'll be like 2,000 thumbs ups, 10 down.
00:19:14.000And usually my edgiest jokes, I'll do in Portland or Burlington or West Hollywood because I don't want to make it appear that I'm preaching to some choir.
00:19:21.000And yeah, the fact that they eliminated my live streaming, I was making like 10 grand a month live streaming.
00:19:28.000So that just getting a lot of viewers.
00:19:32.000And I think I was calling out pedophiles like, you know, how Salon and all these places are trying to normalize non-offending, attracted to minor peoples and all this bullshit.
00:19:45.000So I think that they really got together and swarmed me hard.
00:19:49.000And I think this whole anti-gun thing and this anti-free speech thing all just culminated on me on that night.
00:19:59.000And I've been live streaming from Vimeo and my website, which is hugepeonist.com and patreon.com slash WDTL, because I found that it's way harder to ban things that people pay for.
00:20:10.000Like even if it's a dollar, just like $1 will eliminate 95% of trolls because they're just these spineless, broke, disgusting animals that won't even pay a dollar to say the same insult that they would for free.
00:20:30.000No, they're outside strangling people almost to death, and that's not getting reported, but they're still reporting against about some schizophrenic who hit a chick with his car like a year later.
00:20:44.000All right, so those are the last places we can find you for now.
00:20:47.000It's just fascinating that they go so much harder on a somewhat moderate, slightly right-at-center guy who grew up in a liberal family, by the way, than they would someone on the far right.
00:21:00.000It gives them away as people who are just concerned about popularity.
00:21:42.000You know, because once I start seeing this irrational behavior from the left, I started reading, you know, basic economics and black, redneck, white liberal.
00:21:50.000And, you know, I got into Tom Woods and all these other guys.
00:21:53.000And I'm like, oh, so the left is completely wrong on everything.
00:21:57.000And I think that's happening to a lot of people because the left is just becoming authoritarian, which is the exact opposite of why people originally liked them, was the freedom aspect that was never even true.
00:22:08.000Well, if I was living in a house of cards, the last thing I would want is a charming young person who is talented and interesting and funny to point out that I have no clothes.
00:23:43.000And the first thing she does to this man who is just asking questions, the first thing she does is call him a Nazi, despite this being on his head.
00:24:13.000By the way, I also have beef with this whole notion that South Africa was this beautiful land of tribes working together and then whites, and I don't even like the word white altogether like that, especially with South Africa, came in and murdered them all.
00:24:27.000The Boers, who didn't like the English and fought a huge war with them, Churchill was on the side of the English, right?
00:24:36.000They worked with tribes against tribes.
00:24:38.000Peter Bota's grandfather, the Botas were the sort of predominant family throughout South African history.
00:25:47.000By the way, that's the history of history.
00:25:49.000You know, Cornwallis, that statue in Halifax that we tried to defend, that is now, I think, removed and in storage somewhere, the argument for that was Halifax was founded on genocide, and Cornwallis had scalps.
00:26:03.000He had a bounty out for Indian scalps.
00:28:55.000You can see these guys live in their own little world where the only people that can be victims of anything have to have some sort of skin color.
00:29:07.000You can't be white and be a victim of something.
00:29:29.000And Antifa's holding a rally, a counter-protest to me handing in that petition to the government, calling me a white supremacist neo-Nazi, a brown Jew.
00:29:43.000But this is disturbing because it's considered white supremacy to oppose not just like they call it land reformation and all this reclaiming land crap.
00:29:55.000The carnage, when we actually look it up and talk to people who were there, is so disturbing that I have trouble describing it on my show because it becomes too gory.
00:30:08.000Yeah, like I've spoken to a few victims.
00:30:10.000In fact, just before I got on with you, I was speaking to a widow that her husband was shot in the head in front of her and her child.
00:30:21.000And her daughter's been diagnosed with PTSD.
00:30:25.000And I said to her, I asked her, what would you say to the Australians that I'll go to a pro-refugee rally and they will deny that this is happening in South Africa?
00:30:36.000She just says to me, tell them to come.
00:30:50.000Lauren Southern was just there and she's sitting with a journalist who's telling her a hit list of journalists that they feel are racist, which down there means criticizes the ANC for advocating this slaughter.
00:31:03.000It's a really, really dangerous place for anyone to be, especially foreigners.
00:31:08.000Well, the only other places that I can think of that talked about expropriation without compensation was as a Jew, what comes to mind for me is Nazi Germany.
00:31:22.000So it is a worry, and that ended in a genocide as well.
00:31:26.000So the idea that it's not happening there is garbage.
00:31:29.000You just need to, if you care and you speak to a few people that live there, you'll find out that it is happening and it is for real.
00:31:36.000And, you know, I live in a community here where there are lots of South African Jews that tell me that it's happening for real.
00:31:43.000And they say, look, everybody in South Africa, anyone who's white, is a target.
00:31:47.000But the farmers, and you just have to look at the statistics, they are on a hit list.
00:31:54.000And the government kind of makes it okay.
00:31:57.000Yeah, it's definitely advocated by the government.
00:31:59.000But the thing that disturbs me too is we hear about genocides all over the world.
00:34:22.000I know in the Jewish community where I come from here in Melbourne, Australia, they have guilt.
00:34:26.000And they live in this world where they believe that we should accept multiculturalism for the sake of multiculturalism.
00:34:33.000And if you're against bringing in immigrant, you're a disgrace to their grandparents who came here after the Holocaust.
00:34:41.000So we somehow owe it to the rest of the world to be able to come into Australia because a lot of this community was built on the back of Holocaust survivors and they made something of themselves.
00:34:55.000I just find it astounding, but they're comparing the Holocaust survivors to either tribal African immigrants or Islamists or different sects of Islam that just are coming here and they're coming with absolutely conflicting cultures as opposed to what the Jews after the Holocaust.
00:35:17.000They came, they wanted to work hard, they were thriving before the Holocaust.
00:35:21.000They came back here and they worked their asses off and built themselves empires.
00:35:26.000You're not seeing that from the immigrants today, but somehow I'm the bigot or I'm the racist because I dare say that, no, we shouldn't hold that guilt.
00:35:35.000You know, my grandparents from my father's side also escaped the Holocaust.
00:35:48.000But I don't look the Russian Polish part.
00:35:51.000But the thing is, you've got to look at things with your head instead of your bleeding heart.
00:35:56.000And in my community, in the Jewish community here, well, at least the establishment here, they like to push these agendas where I believe it comes from a guilt, you know, that we owe something because we come from a history of Holocaust survivor and a persecution background.
00:36:15.000And I just think that keep importing these same people, we're going to end up in the same place we were before.
00:36:22.000Well, you say the post-World War II Jews, the Holocaust fleeing Jews, assimilated into Australia because they had the same mentality, and that's the exact same with these farmers.
00:36:34.000The South African farmers would adapt beautifully.
00:36:37.000I remember Pat Buchanan got in trouble for saying who would adapt better into British society, a thousand Englishmen or a thousand Zulus.
00:36:47.000But you brought up something that I think is kind of the crux of the argument here.
00:36:51.000The notion of a sad group of a family in rags and their little baby or their colicky baby coming over on a boat and toiling away, it's a beautiful concept.
00:37:05.000But if you're, say, not an uninformed mom, then you go, wait a minute, what if that group is wildly intolerant of other groups?
00:37:16.000And we see this with Jews in Paris, where you wear a yarmulke around northern Paris and you get nothing but jwif go home and they get spat on, they get called dog.
00:37:26.000Dan, just look, there was, what was it, one week ago, two weeks ago, an 85-year-old Holocaust survivor who survived the horrors of the Holocaust, but she fell to the Islamization of France.
00:37:39.000She died at the hands of an Islamist after everything she'd been through.
00:37:43.000And in Australia, you see it as well now.
00:37:46.000We imported, right now we have 200,000 South Africans here currently.
00:37:52.000They're not represented in our crime stats and they're not represented in our welfare stats.
00:37:58.000We've got about 27,000, I think, South Sudanese here.
00:38:04.000They represent, so they're 0.1% of Melbourne, my city.
00:38:09.000They represent 8.6% of our violent crime.
00:38:14.000They represent 40 or 50% of them are on welfare.
00:38:20.000And that's above, that's past the five year part, you know, before five years, there's 80% on welfare.
00:38:28.000They basically come here and they leech off our system and we owe them everything and then they rob us and they rape us.
00:38:33.000So it just seems that the petition that I brought up was to ask the government that let's look at the next year, the 18 to 19 year, and let's allocate 80% of our humanitarian immigration intake, which would be about 16,000.
00:38:51.000Let's allocate that to white South African farmers that we know will integrate.
00:39:04.000These are people that will fit in and help build our nation instead of rob and rape it.
00:39:09.000But no, you're a bigot because you think with your head.
00:39:13.000Yeah, well, your immigration policy used to be the best thing about that island, and it seems to be slowly being chipped away by political directions.
00:39:23.000Unfortunately, our conservative government has turned leftist.
00:39:33.000I'm watching this video, and I'm particularly disturbed by the number of women who are laughing at you, calling you a Nazi, and laughing at the horrific torture and murder of farmers in South Africa.
00:39:49.000I mean, I think it starts out where women go with feelings first and then facts and all that second.
00:39:54.000But it's gone so far with that that we have women scoffing at genocide and laughing at babies that are raped today.
00:41:33.000And on the Palestinian, marching with Islamists, marching with Hezbollah flags, Hamas flags, with terrorist groups, you have the alt-left, the Antifa guys that don't realize, you know, these are pro-gay, you know, probably half a mud gay or they're transgender.
00:41:50.000These are the first people to be thrown off the buildings when these guys take charge.
00:41:54.000And I'm sitting there saying to them, do you realize?
00:41:57.000Like, why don't you do us a favor and just jump now?