On this episode of Thick & Thin, the guys discuss a recent Antifa attack at an Illinois college, a self-help group run by racist white people, and why it's hard to get along with other people of color.
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00:01:10.000Brooklyn College has said that if police officers have to use a bathroom, they can use this disgusting one at the other end of the campus where no students go because cops, a lot of students don't feel comfortable around cops.
00:01:25.000It makes safe spaces feel not so safe.
00:01:28.000Well, there was a recent attack at Illinois college where an Antifa faculty member attacked two Trump kids, two college Republicans.
00:01:42.000So we'll have that video on the show, as well as those two college Republicans.
00:01:47.000We also have my buddy Steve, who hates everywhere but America.
00:01:52.000Every time I bring up another country, he says, I don't care.
00:02:09.000We're also going to talk about this group that has a self-help group for racists where black, white, Jewish, old people get together and talk about how racist they are, which is obviously not racist.
00:02:33.000I was at Restoration Weekend, and I'm going to talk about that for a long ass time because I was with Steve Benn and Mark Stein, Katie Hopkins, James O'Keefe, Ann Coulter, Mickey Kaus, Dave Rubin, Red Pill Black, Joy Villa.
00:02:46.000I mean, I was with every Sebastian Gorka, every relevant conservative in the world.
00:02:51.000Ezra Levant was there, and we partied.
00:03:39.000I also, to talk a little more about myself, I'm not a leisure guy.
00:03:44.000So yes, there's these incredibly interesting talks and stimulating conversations, but a lot of it is just wandering around the Breakers and West Palm Beach.
00:03:52.000And if I was retired, I would love that.
00:03:54.000I'd go for a swim, but I don't enjoy leisure.
00:03:57.000I always feel like I should be with my kids.
00:04:00.000You know, every time I'm at a bar and I'm having a dumb conversation with someone and my kids are awake, like it's in the day, I go, I should be at home with my children.
00:04:08.000I should be, you know, helping to enrich their lives rather than talking to a stranger.
00:04:12.000Now, of course, you need a life at some point, but if I'm going to take a vacation, I'd rather do it with my wife or something.
00:04:19.000Anyway, I hung out with Joy Villa a lot.
00:04:23.000I don't know why we get along so well.
00:04:25.000It's tough for me as a racist to get along with black people so well, but it seems like every party I go to, even my kids, were genetically drawn to people of color.
00:04:38.000She actually showed me, her manager showed me an email she received warning her that I have secret Nazi tattoos and she shouldn't be seen with me.
00:04:48.000And then I started talking to other black people I know and they go, yeah, I got that email too.
00:06:27.000At one point, this guy just sits down and starts staring at us, listening to our interesting conversation.
00:06:34.000And, you know, I don't want things taken out of context, or someone's playing devil's advocate, and he goes and runs and tells the media that and gets it all backwards, which happens all of the time.
00:11:10.000If Lauren Southern, Ben Shapiro, Steven Crowder, they want to do a talk, we will be there, and we will physically fight our way in and out.
00:12:54.000He got out of jail for selling diabetic strips without a license.
00:12:59.000You know, there's So many people in prison for victimless crimes.
00:13:03.000The strips he was selling were real diabetic strips, not like they were counterfeit, and he has sued journalists who have said otherwise, but because his license wasn't permitted to sell them online, they followed him for years until he had sold like $6 million worth and then threw him in prison for unlicensed diabetic strip testing.
00:13:31.000He said the dude above him in the prison, which was minimum security, is looking at like five to ten years because he was taking investors' money, telling them he was investing in Facebook, but Facebook was no longer available or something.
00:13:44.000So he was investing in other stuff and making them money.
00:13:47.000And anytime anyone cash out, they cashed out.
00:16:46.000Annie Edson Taylor is this chick who, back in the, I don't know, 1800s or something, she went over Niagara Falls in a barrel to pay off her debts, which, by the way, she did not enjoy.
00:16:56.000And she said, lest we never have a soul where one must do such a thing again, or however they talked.
00:17:02.000Like, she's wearing a corset and a gown when she got into the barrel.
00:17:17.000But James DeMoir was the guy at Google who got fired for sending out a memo that clearly stated, look, I love women.
00:17:23.000They're great in the workforce, but maybe they don't need to be exactly 50% of everything.
00:17:27.000Is it possible that something that's really concentratey, like data, whatever, programming, is it possible there's going to be more men there and that's fine?
00:17:47.000I met Sebastian Gorka too, who is nine feet tall, incredibly imposing figure, very charming.
00:17:54.000Sometimes, you know, this is going to sound terrible.
00:17:57.000Sometimes when you meet these people, your idols, like Mark Stein was there too, John Cardillo, John Cardillo, and you meet all these people, you just start to think, some people are just better.
00:18:10.000Is it possible that there are better people?
00:18:13.000Is Sebastian Gorka just better than us?
00:18:15.000Like Jimmy Kimmel, try doing his job for a night.
00:18:36.000And I got to say, overall, you know, meeting all these people, James O'Keefe was there, you just get this overall vibe that something exciting is happening.
00:18:47.000You know, this didn't feel like a fuddy-duddy conference, even though most of the attendees are old rich people.
00:18:53.000The James O'Keefe Fenan and Joy Villa and even Gorka, but Milo and all these people, James Damore and Dave Rubin, Red Pill Black, you really felt like this is a new movement.
00:19:08.000And all these people were really brave and charming and they were enjoying their lives and they were enjoying the fight.
00:19:14.000They enjoyed getting in brawls with people.
00:21:00.000So my contention is racists don't really exist.
00:21:05.000And when you find someone who's like that, they usually hate Germans and Spaniards and British and Northern Americans and people from Canada.
00:21:15.000And say you do find someone that seems to be racist, they're just a thin veneer away from going, yeah, I'm over it.
00:21:21.000Like they'll probably hate flip-flops more.
00:21:24.000If there's a black guy with boots on and a white racist with boots on and then a white guy with flip-flops, the racist is going to go, I'll hang out with you and talk about the match in 70s punk.
00:21:35.000I don't want to be around Captain flip-flops over here.
00:21:38.000But racism is a big industry, and it's not just part of our economy, it's part of our culture.
00:21:46.000So instead of being rational and saying, admitting that, look, it's 2017, it's basically like smoking.
00:21:53.000Let's stop talking about it all the time.
00:21:55.000We're all pretty normal now, especially young people.
00:21:58.000Young people are the most colorblind generation ever.
00:22:02.000No, we can't do that because there's too much at stake.
00:22:04.000There's pamphlets been made, there's t-shirts, there's entire identities based on saying something is racist and I don't like racism.
00:22:12.000So we're going to dilute the equation and take the word down to meaning, I don't know, you notice something.
00:22:20.000And now we have this pastor who has started a group where people who aren't racist say they're racist so we can get the racist numbers up and justify this stupid culture slash economy of self-deprecation and ethnomasochism.
00:27:55.000It's a lot of easier in meeting people from very different backgrounds and each time feeling how deeply similar and fundamentally related I am.
00:28:19.000It's called being involved in your community and knowing the local bartender and knowing your pastor and talking to people outside the church after church.
00:28:27.000You guys are just synthesizing the wonderful communities we've had for decades upon decades.
00:28:33.000And now, after destroying it, you're wondering how to bring back all the good.
00:28:37.000You want the crunchy without the smooth.
00:28:39.000Well, the crunchy and the smooth were both delicious.
00:28:41.000Why did you wreck society when you don't have anything half decent to replace it?
00:28:49.000Instructor arrested for attacking conservative students.
00:28:53.000A University of Illinois graduate instructor was arrested for assaulting two students during an anti-Trump protest Thursday, stealing the phone of one student and throwing it on the sidewalk.
00:29:03.000Tariq Khan, very sort of a Sikh sounding name, charged the students in a rage after one of them mocked the 39-year-old by asking, don't you have anything better to do?
00:29:13.000After accusing the students of threatening his children, Khan chased after one of them, stealing his phone and hurling it to the sidewalk, which is, I believe, criminal damage of property.
00:31:57.000I mean, on this show, I must have had a dozen college Republicans who have been spat on, punched, screamed at when they walk down the halls.
00:32:13.000It's actually been getting worse and worse and worse here at the University of Illinois.
00:32:18.000So just recently, what happened yesterday.
00:32:22.000Thursday was this guy Tariq Khan we were at this anti-Trump protest which was hosted by these student socialists yeah we just watched the video okay so what what had happened was because Turning Point USA were all about civil discourse on campus, we wanted to go and hear what they actually had to say.
00:32:43.000And at one point, Tariq, who was speaking at the statue, he started yelling at us, he was pointing at us, he was getting pretty violent to the point where he was saying, f you, to these 15 protesters, calling us white supremacists.
00:32:57.000And so I told him back, I was like, don't you have anything better to do?
00:33:00.000I was like, don't you have kids to take care of?
00:33:04.000He's a 50-year-old looking guy with two kids at an anti-Trump protest with not that many people there.
00:33:57.000You're from the south side of Chicago, where there's something like two murders a day.
00:34:01.000You've got more murders than New York, and you're, I don't know, a third of the size.
00:34:06.000Yeah, well, at Turning Point USA, we believe in civil and reasonable discourse.
00:34:10.000So time and time again, we are seeing that far-left professors, employees, and students don't want to engage in the discourse.
00:34:16.000But again, what do you think the response would have been if I fought back?
00:34:19.000The leftists on campus and liberal media would have spun it entirely against me in Turning Point USA.
00:34:24.000It would have given them another excuse to smear conservatives nationwide, push their left-wing indoctrination in the campuses, on the classrooms, where hardworking taxpayers and donors are putting their money.
00:34:52.000Tree Khan has actually had a long and well-documented history of working with anarchists and communist groups like Antifa, Black Rose, Students for Justice in Palestine, and the Student Socialists.
00:35:04.000So we're calling for the University of Illinois to launch an investigation into the actions and history of TreeCon.
00:35:10.000It's amazing, Blair, how mainstream Antifa has become in academia.
00:35:16.000I mean, I think that these academics, these professors, and we've had them on Tucker Carlson, that guy with the Pez neck, forget his name, Michael something.
00:35:27.000And Yvette Falarka, you know, all these people are teachers and they're well positioned in education.
00:35:34.000And I think it's so they can spread their Marxist propaganda.
00:36:17.000So not only is it getting bad for conservatives to be on campus, but it's also getting bad for the actual colleges because it's bad business.
00:38:18.000They told me to go back to where I came from.
00:38:20.000I was like, I thought you guys were all about diversity and inclusivity.
00:38:25.000I believe it is absolutely hypocritical of these groups to claim that the foundation of their organizations are based on inclusivity.
00:38:32.000Where's the inclusivity for conservative voices?
00:38:34.000Inclusivity for those that only you agree with isn't inclusivity at all.
00:38:40.000No, and you hear this, you hear this the way they talk about Michelle Malk and they say things that I can't repeat on this show or Ann Coulter.
00:39:24.000Different story about why people know my name.
00:39:28.000Blair is notorious for posting some very offensive memes that the left would not like.
00:39:36.000So he's been, there's this part of the University of Illinois called the Bias and Assessment Response Team that looks into offensive memes.
00:39:47.000Anything offensive to students that would get their feelings hurt, they report them and they have them come to the office.
00:41:18.000I just don't like it because when you come to America where their coffee tastes and then you go to Ireland and you take two sips and you're drunk, it's, you know...
00:42:49.000So I talked to a lot of people today, and I think the thing that I learned is that Americans tend to be cooler, other countries aren't so good.
00:42:59.000And learning about other cultures is for other cultures.