Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - SPECIAL EVENT： Steve Sailer and Amy Wax with Jack Posobiec in Washington DC

00:00:00.000 This is what happens when the fourth turning meets fifth-generation warfare.

00:00:09.240 A commentator, international social media sensation, and former Navy intelligence veteran.

00:00:20.160 This is Human Events with your host, Jack Posobiec.

00:00:23.000 Christ is King!

00:00:25.000 We're all buying the book.

00:00:28.000 We're all sleeping on the pillow, right?

00:00:30.000 I want to make sure everyone's good.

00:00:33.000 Apparently, I've got to get Steve a new pillow because he's staying up all night working on his writings.

00:00:39.000 And it's certainly not arguing with anyone on Twitter, right, Steve?

00:00:44.000 Yeah, Will Stancil and I have a good fight.

00:00:50.000 Ladies and gentlemen, let's give it up for Will Stancil, shall we?

00:00:56.000 We love you, Will. We love you so much. You've got less than four months.

00:01:03.000 And also, I'd like to thank you to the earned media advertising from Jason Wilson of The Guardian.

00:01:12.000 Wow, what a guy.

00:01:17.000 Thinking about putting him on the cover of my next book.

00:01:20.000 But Amy, so, Lómez, Jonathan, whatever his real name is, had mentioned this debacle that you've been involved in at UPenn,

00:01:33.000 this sanctioning that's going on against you, which is very recent.

00:01:37.000 I mean, I was wondering if you could, for those in the room who aren't familiar with it,

00:01:41.000 could kind of give you a reaction to all of this that has erupted in your public,

00:01:47.000 and I assume in your private, personal life as well.

00:01:50.000 Or Paris.

00:01:51.000 Well, it's a long and sad and sordid story, and it's been going on for many years now.

00:02:02.000 It started a while back when I dared to, in an op-ed, very innocuous, kind of boring op-ed,

00:02:12.000 there to praise bourgeois virtues.

00:02:15.000 You know, stuff like thrift and confidence, which most of my students think has to do with urine.

00:02:25.000 And trustworthiness and obedience to law and, you know, taking responsibility, working hard.

00:02:34.000 That shouldn't be controversial, but somehow it was.

00:02:38.000 And then dared to say that not all cultures are alike.

00:02:42.000 Not all cultures are equal in preparing people to function in our modern, technological, Western, weird societies. 0.54

00:02:52.000 And that got people even angrier.

00:02:54.000 And then the coup de grace was, I dared to praise the 1950s when I was alive, although small at the time.

00:03:05.000 As in many ways, not all ways, of course, and we acknowledge that in our op-ed.

00:03:11.000 I had a co-author.

00:03:13.000 Was a better time for America. 1.00

00:03:17.000 Put it all together, and there was outrage in my school, outrage on campus.

00:03:24.000 People complaining bitterly about me.

00:03:27.000 The hatchet didn't fall at that point, but I started to be trolled.

00:03:33.000 There are a lot of people on campus who don't have enough to do.

00:03:38.000 And what they spend their time doing is digging dirt on individuals like me who dare to challenge the orthodoxy on campus.

00:03:48.000 And it didn't take long before some of my other offending statements were unearthed.

00:03:57.000 Things that I had said in my podcast with Glenn Lowry and the like.

00:04:01.000 What I had said at the National Conservatism Convention, my immigration restrictionist views, my observations about differences, not unexpected under affirmative action,

00:04:16.000 between black student performance and other groups' performance, my general observations, all of that added up to my dean, who was maybe the worst law dean in the entire country,

00:04:33.000 a guy named Ted Ruger, bringing charges against me, those charges were heard by a faculty committee.

00:04:42.000 I had lots and lots of due process, take my word for it, none of it meaningful at all.

00:04:48.000 Resulted in my being sanctioned a few months ago, finally, after many appeals.

00:04:57.000 A year-long suspension, they picked my pocket.

00:05:02.000 Other recommendations like, you need to move this woman out of the building because she makes students feel unsafe, stuff like that. 1.00

00:05:12.000 And what is it all about at the end of the day?

00:05:18.000 Well, it's all about the woke takeover of our elite college campuses.

00:05:25.000 The takeover of an ideology which brooks no dissent, the centerpiece of which is what I call the bias narrative.

00:05:36.000 And, you know, they accuse the right of being obsessed with race.

00:05:41.000 Well, the left is totally obsessed with race, which of course, according to them, doesn't exist.

00:05:49.000 So, they're obsessed with something that they themselves don't think exists, which really is a scrambler.

00:05:55.000 And the bias narrative is that all differences in outcomes, disadvantages between groups, racial groups, ethnic groups, other groups, they're all due to white supremacy, white racism, white bias and discrimination.

00:06:15.000 It's all the fault of white people and no other explanation is permitted. 0.97

00:06:22.000 Certainly, no explanation grounded in human freedom, human agency, behavior and choices that people make, which is what, of course, makes us human and gives us dignity. 0.66

00:06:37.000 And if you challenge that narrative, you sooner or later will get into trouble.

00:06:46.000 And this, you know, what happened to me is not about me primarily because if you look on the website of the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, so-called FIRE, a wonderful organization,

00:07:00.000 you will see that there are literally hundreds of academics and now non-academics, people working for corporations, nonprofits, journalists, other organizations,

00:07:15.000 who are being persecuted, penalized and punished for deviating from this very narrow, rigid world view.

00:07:28.000 And as Steve Saylor would say, noticing.

00:07:32.000 Noticing.

00:07:33.000 Noticing what is in front of their eyes.

00:07:36.000 Noticing things in the world around them.

00:07:39.000 And offering possible alternative explanations for it.

00:07:45.000 Explanations that have important public policy implications.

00:07:51.000 Implications that we, of course, can discuss and argue over and we should.

00:07:56.000 And it's sad and a shame that those thoughts, those ideas, can no longer be expressed in our great universities.

00:08:09.000 I guess I'll close this discourse and I know people will have comments and questions.

00:08:15.000 By saying that in my perception, and I have really looked into this and thought about it quite a bit because of my experience,

00:08:25.000 my experience, which as I say, isn't really about me, it's about other people and our institutions, our education system is a horrible mess.

00:08:40.000 It needs serious reform.

00:08:44.000 So I guess I would say, let's focus on that.

00:08:49.000 Let's get our politicians to focus on it. 1.00

00:08:52.000 Because nothing could be more important.

00:08:54.000 What's at stake is young minds who are the future of our nation.

00:09:00.000 And now I'm going to say something very partisan.

00:09:03.000 So be forewarned.

00:09:05.000 The Democrats will never, ever reform or improve our education system.

00:09:15.000 They will only make it worse.

00:09:18.000 That is their project.

00:09:22.000 I'm sorry to have to report and they've dropped the ball and, you know, I'd like to see them do better.

00:09:33.000 The Republicans are our only hope.

00:09:36.000 So there it is.

00:09:58.000 Okay, well, we'll discuss this.

00:10:00.000 so so that didn't realize we got to the q a yet but here we are and that's all right that's all

00:10:12.800 right we don't mind we don't mind he's noticing something we're noticing things as well and and

00:10:18.080 so the question i'll repeat this for the stream um and and because uh lomas was saying that he

00:10:22.480 wanted to uh cut off the question so the question was um essentially you know if the republicans

00:10:28.400 well the statement what do we do because if the republicans are our only hope he was saying

00:10:33.680 that we are then doomed well first of all it's a vicious circle because the education system has

00:10:41.600 you know distorted people's minds and perceptions and that's across the political spectrum i readily

00:10:48.720 admit that all right so that's disabled them from reforming the education system so how do we break

00:10:56.240 into that uh i just think yeah people need to develop some spine be more courageous be less 0.90

00:11:05.120 selfish excuse my language strap on some balls and you know men need to speak up 1.00

00:11:15.520 because they're the ones who've let this happen you know they they've allowed these noble lies to take 0.95

00:11:22.320 over i will say there is one glimmer of hope i probably won't please this audience by saying this but

00:11:30.480 i will say that you know i was kind of partial during the early primaries to ronda santus because he at

00:11:39.360 least took this seriously he at least knows what time it is about education and he tried to you know

00:11:52.640 make some headway against the woke takeover the horrible distortions and lies

00:11:59.760 and you know misrepresentations that are poisoning our education system

00:12:06.320 uh obviously his success has been very mixed and there are legal limits to what you can do at least at

00:12:13.680 the higher ed level um it's a big challenge because our k-12 system which is where all the trouble starts

00:12:22.320 is decentralized it's localized and conservatives generally do favor that that's called devolution

00:12:31.120 but it means to quote oscar wilde that to reform the system takes too many evenings

00:12:38.080 because you have to go school district by school district so it's it's a battle for hearts and minds i i

00:12:44.320 don't have a magical solution well let me let me sort of go to steve then and and similar ask the

00:12:51.200 question but maybe in a non-partisan way that you know your book starts in with a i think the first

00:12:56.480 essay is 1973 um and which of course you wrote when you're in first grade and then you go on to through

00:13:05.440 you mentioned you started writing publicly in the 90s and you mentioned that you've won a lot of the

00:13:09.920 arguments since then you look around the room and i'll just say for the purposes of the stream we

00:13:15.520 have several thousand people that are here tonight and have you begun to see have you begun to notice

00:13:23.200 that these issues are gaining more traction and gaining more following and more purchase than they

00:13:28.800 did when you first started it yeah it's a tough question i mean in in part

00:13:36.640 when i started writing regularly in the seven in the 90s i wrote one one paragraph letter to the editor

00:13:47.040 in 1973 when i was 14 and they posted i i put that in my book to extend the span to 50 years because it

00:13:58.400 pretty much just summed up what i was going to say for the next 50 years i'm not that original um all right

00:14:05.840 so in the 90s you had an upsurge in political correctness the beginning of the decade and it

00:14:15.600 was pretty similar to woke periods but it was more restricted to campus what we're seeing now what

00:14:22.080 we've seen over the last dozen years of the great awokening is kind of the people who were students on

00:14:32.640 campus taking the dumbest courses in 1990 now becoming the professors on campus and there's just general

00:14:44.640 been a an overall dumbing down of american discourse now in some ways 2020 pushed it too far and

00:14:55.120 you know we've seen the biden administration it seemed like sometime in about mid-2022 they started

00:15:04.800 putting out the word to the media like oh you know this whole racial reckoning thing that we've been

00:15:11.040 talking about non-stop for two years that's not going to do us any good in the midterm election

00:15:17.440 and so you've seen a general backing off of that but on the other hand is this a a widespread permanent

00:15:29.280 change in the zeitgeist to some extent the fact that i'm now allowed out in public

00:15:36.880 um has more to do with a few brave individuals like my publisher lomez uh anna from the red scare

00:15:48.400 podcast quite a few of you all out here in the audience uh so it's it's a lot of it's just individuals

00:16:01.440 standing up for honesty and being interesting so i don't know where it's going to go next

00:16:12.880 we'll see well i'll throw that to amy then and and by the way i'm sure the the dumbing down and

00:16:17.680 the courses that you were just speaking of those weren't any of amy's students right yes there's been

00:16:23.520 there's been a lot i'm old enough to have noticed a great deal of dumbing down but amy this over many

00:16:29.760 decades there was something that steve mentioned going through 2020 that and i remember you

00:16:34.640 mentioned this i've heard you mention it publicly as well it's this then this notion that i think

00:16:38.480 he's speaking around uh of peak woke are we at peak woke are we starting to see peak woke is peak

00:16:45.280 woke real what's your sense of this i don't i think we are at peak woke but i don't see it declining

00:16:53.440 i actually think you know this is you know the pessimist in me of course that the fact that they're

00:16:58.800 letting steve sailor out in public is just a sign that we all love and are very glad of

00:17:07.120 is a sign that they you know realize that they've pretty much taken over the commanding heights of

00:17:13.440 the culture and they've you know got control of all the big institutions they've got a lock on them

00:17:20.400 and so they can afford to you know ease up a little bit i mean just recently the obama administration

00:17:27.520 with their obsession with equity throughout a firefighter's exam because too many black people 1.00

00:17:35.040 flunked it uh and too many white people passed it i mean they are continuing to do this sort of thing

00:17:43.520 full throttle and as long as they are in power they will push the equity agenda to the max now there is

00:17:54.400 one tiny little hopeful sign i think which is that harris in her campaigning has really soft peddled

00:18:04.000 a lot of these racial agenda transgender agenda equity issues tries to keep them out of the limelight

00:18:13.280 of course that's just gaslighting to the max because you know if and when she's elected they're all going to 1.00

00:18:20.640 come roaring back but the fact that it's being you know soft peddled pushed off stage i think represents

00:18:30.080 a fear anyway that people are kind of fed up with woke uh but once again they're just trying to get

00:18:40.080 these marginal voters who are clueless about what the democrats are doing and what they really intend to

00:18:47.920 do a lot of it is just sneakiness they're being sneaky uh about their their woke agenda which they're

00:18:55.120 working on you know across the board and across all of the institutions so we'll see and of course they're

00:19:02.880 using the uh the alpha male vitality and masculinity of tim walls to really cover up

00:19:09.360 the uh the uh the deficiencies what what's everyone laughing about actually speaking of tim walls that

00:19:15.680 that leads me to my next question for steve because there was a a question or sort of a comment that

00:19:22.640 tim walls made as an aside at his recent vice presidential debate with jd vance which jd vance won handily

00:19:30.320 where they were talking about the question of crime and they were talking about the question of

00:19:41.680 shootings specifically public shootings and he mentioned that his teenage son had witnessed a

00:19:48.240 shooting i think it was at a either ymca or a gym and then he also mentioned that tim walls apparently we

00:19:55.920 know about these 30 trips to china that he's taken but he's also spent a lot of time i didn't realize

00:20:00.640 this until then in finland and tim walls posed a question why don't we see these types of things in

00:20:07.920 finland and the the moderators didn't seem to have any answers so i was wondering well if we've got the

00:20:16.560 detective of demographics right here why don't i ask steve sailor the same question yeah i mean

00:20:26.640 i i put forward about five years ago the the sailor law of mass shootings because it turns it turns out

00:20:35.280 that there's two different kinds and they're both really bad and i'm against both of them and wish we

00:20:44.400 could like to see more done to lower the numbers of both but typically if there are

00:20:55.680 are if there are more dead than wounded in a mass shooting then the shooter is probably white or

00:21:07.840 increasingly latino asian transgender you know these are these are the columbine type mass shootings 0.84

00:21:18.320 and they're just horrible we we didn't have them a half century ago we had lots of political

00:21:25.760 assassinations then then for some reason the political assassinations went away and we got

00:21:32.320 the school shootings and so forth of course those are back now too yeah so now we got the

00:21:37.120 worst of both worlds uh if on the other hand if there are say there are four casualties in a mass

00:21:46.240 shooting and they're more wounded than dead then it's probably a black on black uh incident the new york times in 2016 looked at a year's worth of four or more casualty mass shootings and reported yeah it's about

00:22:04.960 almost 75 percent black on black and it's just a different thing it's uh it's basically whether the shooter

00:22:16.640 wants to get away are they going to stick around and finish off the wounded while they can hear the sirens 0.89

00:22:24.080 approaching or are they just going to shoot shoot in the general direction of some guy who dissed them

00:22:31.920 and then run for it uh so yeah there there's two different kinds like that and they're both really

00:22:40.480 bad and there's probably things we can do about both of them uh the issues i i'd also recommend the distinction

00:22:49.440 to be made in thinking about gun control uh between two types of gun control one is point of purchase gun control

00:22:59.440 and the democrats tend to focus on that because they're they're basically really concerned about

00:23:07.520 deplorable rednecks buying rifles at walmart and that's what they want to stomp on the other is point of use gun 1.00

00:23:17.920 control you know the the nypd uh did a great job starting in the 90s of driving down

00:23:27.680 the murder rate in new york city by enforcing laws against people carrying illegal handguns

00:23:39.360 on the street or in their cars and you know there's a lot we can all learn from what new york politicians

00:23:48.480 like rudy giuliani michael bloomberg uh bill braddon the police chief under both giuliani and de blasio

00:23:57.280 accomplished it's a great thing but it involves like drawing distinctions and really paying attention to

00:24:05.760 what's going on so thanks that's exactly right and i wish that uh for those of you who live in or work

00:24:14.320 in dc right now i think we can all agree that we would love to see some of those policies returned here

00:24:19.840 to the district

00:24:26.720 or or even amy as as you're working still in philadelphia

00:24:31.200 yes right well let me let me go back to the question of why you know people don't get

00:24:36.800 shot at high rates in finland it's because finnish people live there 1.00

00:24:41.440 and i mean by the way for the uh just for the record i i did actually look up i found the case

00:24:50.480 that tim walls was talking about and steve was correct it was a black-on-black shooting right so

00:24:57.040 ethnic what that teaches you is that ethno-cultural differences are real and they uh have relevance for

00:25:07.040 how people behave and this is a home truth that you know academics refuse to recognize this is a noble

00:25:16.560 lie that they tell people and i think they really start to believe it contrary to all the evidence in

00:25:24.160 front of their eyes it also proves that guns don't kill people switzerland has one of the highest gun

00:25:31.360 ownership rates in the world and uh they don't see a lot of gun-based homicides um the third point i want

00:25:40.640 to make is you know law and order has become a dirty phrase and it shouldn't be without law and order there

00:25:51.280 is no security there is no harmony uh there is no civilization and no decent society i've said on a

00:25:59.600 recent podcast the democrats are the shoplifting party they've decided to revoke the commandment thou shalt

00:26:09.200 not steal uh i mean that's that's crazy that's just nuts that tells you that they no longer respect

00:26:20.480 the integrity and security of property something that the founders were deeply concerned with

00:26:28.000 that the takers would take from the makers that the democratic mob would confiscate people's hard-earned

00:26:38.240 money hard-earned property and of course that is happening and we see the results we see the disorder

00:26:46.880 that results from that yeah i just to digress and kind of reminisce for a moment i first visited

00:26:55.600 union station here in dc in 1988 and it had just gone undergone a vast revamping and i can recall walking

00:27:06.080 around and going well like wow this this is pretty great here and it would be nice if american urban life

00:27:16.880 could have nice things downtown like it used to and you know before world war ii and then we let it all

00:27:28.000 kind of slip away and yeah actually did things in many ways did get better and you know urban life became

00:27:36.320 somewhat better in the u.s around the turn of the century and well into this century and that's great

00:27:43.120 and now you know starting a decade ago or so we decided oh well that was all a mistake to try to have

00:27:52.960 more law and order in the cities to enforce the law and we'll just let things get out of control again

00:28:02.640 like we had you know in the 60s and 70s and 80s and you know we did it and you know we're kind of on the

00:28:12.240 knife edge of throwing away all the gains over the course of my lifetime in terms of city living but

00:28:19.120 there's a lot to be said for the the kind of things we built in this country a long time ago and the kind

00:28:26.400 of life the kind of urban bourgeois lifestyle it's kind of exemplified by union station can i say one

00:28:35.520 more thing about this i i this goes to the theme of noticing it is so sad in cities like dc and philly

00:28:44.800 which is where i live that young people the 20 somethings and the 30 somethings go past the squalor

00:28:53.040 and the disorder and the menace in the city and just sort of willfully fail to notice it

00:29:01.840 or talk about it it's considered unfashionable and unhip to say this is disgusting this is dangerous

00:29:14.080 why do we have to live this way why can't we have nice things uh you just don't do that and i think

00:29:22.800 once again that goes back to the education system they teach you you're not supposed to talk about it

00:29:31.360 you know it's funny because uh i'm i'm also from philadelphia originally and and i've talked

00:29:36.080 about this at a recent event with uh with tucker and i've just talked about how my town was destroyed

00:29:41.920 by crime about how it was destroyed by policy how philadelphia was destroyed and then so my my wife

00:29:47.760 tanya tay is here in the in the row there and uh so she oh go ahead and uh so she is coming from eastern 0.88

00:29:56.560 europe and so she didn't have the education system that exists here where you're taught to 0.93

00:30:03.440 not notice and i find this very interesting and and also steve with your book that noticing as it

00:30:09.920 turns out is something that's just sort of normal for the rest of the world and in fact it's in the

00:30:14.720 west where we are actually taught to not notice and so she came to the u.s with none of these uh

00:30:20.400 preconceived notions about how things would be and other than you know watching movies and things

00:30:25.120 about how the united states would be and then has seen in that time that yes these things are

00:30:30.800 getting disgusting these conditions are getting deplorable and someone ought to do something about

00:30:35.040 it and i think that's kind of the reason that we're all actually here tonight and personally i'll just

00:30:40.000 say steve i think this is the reason that your writings have been picked up because people have

00:30:44.880 taken a look at this and say we don't know if if this is all the solutions right here but this seems like

00:30:51.520 the road map forward to putting together what you've written and amy what you've taught about

00:30:56.080 for all this time to be able to get out of the situation that we're in and hopefully somewhere

00:31:01.840 better can we give it up for steve and amy here

00:31:04.480 i'm i'm kind of thinking okay so where's so we promised q a and i'm not sure exactly the the

00:31:20.720 logistics for that yet we're gonna have a floating microphone at some point you could all try you could

00:31:26.320 also try single combat just fight it out amongst yourselves and then the winner would be able to ask

00:31:31.760 the question or maybe just katherine could do it i don't know let's do just two hands just two hands 1.00

00:31:40.000 professor if that's okay

00:31:46.400 i think it's on yeah yeah so i'm sam i'm from australia which is a bit unusual um my question

00:31:54.480 is actually for kind of all three of you because we've talked a lot about noticing that's the theme

00:31:59.600 of the evening uh if you wake up tomorrow and there's a magic wand on your pillow and you get

00:32:11.200 to make the entire mainstream media the entire country the entire world notice something

00:32:18.560 and i i i'd like to hear from all three of you what would that one thing be that you make them notice

00:32:28.080 because just to give a bit of context for the question sorry i'm not going to monologue for long

00:32:33.520 uh but you've talked about the the problem with not noticing is that these are people's lives that are

00:32:40.080 worse off these are the there are real consequences to not noticing so you get one thing what is it

00:32:49.920 well i'm i'm happy to start

00:32:53.520 noble lies are still lies right the truth shall set you free uh and you need to seek the truth as painful

00:33:06.480 as it is as inconvenient as it is and as unfortunate john darbyshire uh who's one of my uh favorite

00:33:15.520 people and a hero to me once said to me he was channeling a e houseman the poet a houseman said the

00:33:24.480 love of truth is the faintest of human passions and i think that's right i mean i have always from girlhood

00:33:33.840 been burned with the passion to know the truth and to face reality i realize we see through a glass

00:33:41.280 darkly we're in plato's cave but we do occasionally through great effort and fortitude glimpse the truth

00:33:49.680 perceive the truth and we have to value that we have to value it more as a culture than we do

00:33:58.880 and prioritize it more and i think we've lost that so we need to get it back yeah i i'd add uh

00:34:09.920 basically we have a prejudice against stereotypes uh there's a widespread assumption among the college

00:34:17.760 educated that anything that's become a stereotype can't possibly be true it's got to be the truth

00:34:27.120 uh has to be the opposite of what everybody in the world has noticed and that's just extraordinarily

00:34:35.600 self-destructive i think that's a fantastic answer um i i guess one thing that i would say just and we

00:34:44.080 were talking about the current state of cities right now and and major cities is we don't have to live

00:34:50.240 this way we can actually choose as amy was saying and and we discussed that we can choose policies

00:34:58.720 that bring us up of this we don't have to leave union station right now and be accosted by criminals

00:35:05.520 and have to look at 10 cities and have to worry if you know like i didn't bring my children here tonight

00:35:11.440 because i didn't know what was going to happen outside of union station also they'd probably be kind of

00:35:16.000 bored by watching me sit on stage um but at the same time when when i've been to places and amy

00:35:22.240 you and i were talking earlier about uh visiting eastern europe and visiting poland and they don't

00:35:27.040 live like this over there there are actually other ways to live and it's perfectly fine to live in

00:35:32.640 countries that are controlled by law and order and where your neighbors are people who speak the same

00:35:39.360 language as you and have the same culture as you and aren't strangers and that's perfectly fine and as

00:35:44.000 in a matter of fact it's actually one of the most common and ancient things on the planet

00:35:49.120 and to have high expectations and enforce those expectations

00:36:04.240 we're all familiar with uh with iq means um i'd ask i guess what are you

00:36:19.200 would you say it's better to have a would it be better to have a low iq now or 100 years ago and

00:36:24.640 if so why uh why is that yeah that's that's a really good question it's a tough one um in in general the

00:36:39.680 society was better at giving guidance for the left half of the bell curve in the past and tended to be

00:36:51.920 highly restrictive of the right half um you know for example

00:37:00.800 when i go back and read early 20th century social history a huge issue was should bertrand russell be

00:37:10.960 allowed to trade in his wife every decade or so for a new one and society the general view of society was

00:37:20.320 that well no of course not think think about what everybody else's life would be like and russell's

00:37:27.520 view was you know i'm i'm an aristocrat i have 180 iq i have a lot of money i can you know i can afford this

00:37:36.000 we can work it all out um so in a lot of ways the 1960s the cultural revolution of the west in the 1960s

00:37:46.800 was sort of smart liberation that smart people got to do more things that they wanted to do and it

00:37:55.360 tended to work out pretty well for the smart people worked out less well for the not so smart people

00:38:02.640 not too surprising was the trade-off a good idea or a bad idea it's it's a tough to say but let's just

00:38:11.040 keep this in mind um you know and how do we you know is there a way to have both i don't really know

00:38:22.480 yeah can i i just i agree with steven but i would add a perception which is i do think that with the

00:38:30.400 rise of the meritocracy and a very complex technological society there is a premium more of a premium now to

00:38:38.880 having a high iq and i think there was in the past for sure and that's you know an unfortunate fact

00:38:45.680 that we have to learn to live with but it doesn't follow from that that people of average ability or

00:38:53.760 even below average ability uh that those people can't live fulfilling dignified lives we have the the

00:39:02.880 elites have given up on the norms and the guide posts and you know the the sort of limits prescriptive

00:39:13.680 limits that help people of on high ability guide their lives and live good fulfilling lives the

00:39:23.120 expectations the rules and the norms which people at the bottom end of the spectrum need as steven said

00:39:31.680 much more than the people who are privileged with high intellect they've sort of figured it out for

00:39:39.920 themselves frankly uh they've remade up the rules of how to live a good life you know get married stay

00:39:48.160 married raise your kids get an education obey the law uh all of that they've recapitulated the norms the

00:39:57.280 bourgeois norms uh so we we absolutely have to not give up on people across the spectrum i tell my students

00:40:08.560 only 20 percent of people can be in the top 20 percent think about that and i think a lot of good policies

00:40:18.160 come from taking that seriously i'll just add that in in the uh having been a in the navy and in the

00:40:25.840 military so anyone who's been in any branch of the military you'll know that at the on the enlisted

00:40:31.440 end you have something called the armed services vocational battery so the the as vap and this

00:40:36.960 essentially is a sort of entrance exam i very similar to an iq exam where when you go in you you initially

00:40:44.160 take it everyone takes the same test and then there's a sorting so in the army you would call it an

00:40:49.360 mos in in my navy you'd call it a rate and you know if you want to be a nuclear engineer or an

00:40:56.320 intelligence analyst you're sort of at one end and then there's other jobs at the other end but

00:41:02.800 once you get on the ship you're still on the same ship and you're still in some cases making the same

00:41:07.840 money which is because the military is socialist but that's a different thing and you're and by the

00:41:12.960 way i'm talking about the the how the military should work and but but then everyone is still basically

00:41:17.920 taken care of after that point and there's still camaraderie and there's still a lot of unity

00:41:22.880 within the rank a lot of a spirit of core so it just because a person has a different by the way

00:41:27.760 for example if you're in the military you want it's a really good idea to make friends with the cooks

00:41:33.760 because if you are friends with the cooks you number one get to the front of the line and number two

00:41:38.400 they will make you food whenever you want so you don't have to go to the galley at normal time so

00:41:43.280 again it's it it's it's yeah the galley or the chow hall the defect for the my army buddies out there

00:41:49.600 there you go and so it's it's kind of like steve was saying earlier that just because we know the

00:41:55.600 truth it doesn't mean it's some catastrophe and it doesn't really mean it's honestly it's not even

00:42:00.560 something that i think about or ever thought about when i was in the military it was just you treat

00:42:04.640 people the same regardless of what their what their station was now of course the rank would be

00:42:09.040 different however comma we do have the dei military now which i don't know if anyone has seen the

00:42:15.360 story uh amy you'd probably appreciate this one i guess the new zealand navy has just lost their

00:42:21.040 first ship for the first time since world war ii because the first lesbian captain has crashed it into 1.00

00:42:28.080 an island off the coast of new zealand and the entire 100 million dollar ship has sunk so there you go

00:42:39.040 yeah well my name is alan uh thank you for your remarks so far i have a question about the

00:42:50.400 education system i think it's readily apparent to everybody that we're in a state of rot i think

00:42:54.960 the first question is how did we get here but i think a better question is is the education system

00:43:00.000 rescuable is there a path for redemption or is it broken beyond repair if it's broken beyond repair how do we

00:43:05.680 how do we rebuild and if it's not if there's a path to redemption what does that look like what is

00:43:10.880 a winning policy path to get our education system back

00:43:18.720 i don't know i don't have a definitive answer for that

00:43:23.680 i think there are a lot of workarounds that people are developing even you know normies even ordinary

00:43:31.200 people who are not terribly uh right or left parents are becoming disillusioned and they are

00:43:40.400 establishing their own private schools engaging in homeschooling pods various mechanisms to avoid

00:43:48.160 sending their children to government schools because they are beginning to see that they are rotten so

00:43:55.200 i think the first step is to publicize and impress upon the populace how bad these schools are and it's

00:44:05.760 not just the um you know the racial propaganda uh the woke propaganda that they're getting it's also the

00:44:14.240 sexualization of the curriculum in the schools which alarms a very broad spectrum of parents that needs

00:44:21.440 to be much better publicized i look to those of you who are on the internet to do that it's also simple

00:44:28.480 things like not teaching phonics when it is so very clear that that is the way that reading should be

00:44:34.880 taught not forcing students to memorize their timetables not you know doing the fundamentals that

00:44:43.120 children need to learn i have been going around giving talks about how we i call myself the radical reactionary

00:44:50.480 go back to my elementary school troy new york 1960 that would be a great model um and we need more

00:44:59.280 organizations like moms for liberty who are going into schools and saying you know we want our parental

00:45:07.520 rights back we we want a much sharper delineation between schools school responsibility and parental

00:45:16.800 responsibility so i think there's potentially broad appeal in a lot of these messages and it's it's a

00:45:25.280 propaganda war that's that's where it has to start

00:45:33.600 we're gonna do two more questions so

00:45:36.000 how about it all right steve sailor god bless him all right here's a quick quiz and steve you can

00:45:49.280 jump on whenever you want i'm sure you know all the answers long ago john derbyshire called steve the

00:45:56.640 smartest blank i know the smartest what i know does anyone know this the smartest what i know no one

00:46:04.320 knows this wow steve do you know very anglo it is very anglo uh git g-i-t yeah exactly git exactly

00:46:14.720 good job steve so steve's leading right now i have 24 more questions okay all right steve

00:46:23.360 coined the term regarding the rabble rousing done by autogynophiliacs what was the term he called it

00:46:32.800 world war

00:46:35.680 what t bang nandit gut all right so you're tied with steve right now for the lead all right

00:46:44.160 is steve a fan of lebron james why or why not is steve a fan of lebron james yes you

00:46:53.040 yes we'll give him full credit steve all right very good you do get full credit one more

00:47:04.640 question last one so what he was saying was lebron james god bless him didn't have a dad grew up

00:47:12.880 did the best he could best basketball player in the world and guess what with his wife from high

00:47:18.080 school god bless him all right last question all right what is sailor's first law of female journalism 1.00

00:47:25.040 come on come on sailor's first law of female journalists come on 1.00

00:47:35.120 right the laws come the revolution the laws will be written to yeah exactly you got it steve very good

00:47:42.240 thank you thank you amazing yeah the last question yeah my my first law of female journalism is that 1.00

00:47:50.960 come the new age society's values will be overturned to make this particular female journalist 0.99

00:47:59.920 be hotter

00:48:04.400 hey guys uh my name is james uh thank you for this and your comments on the education system

00:48:09.360 i'm a former teacher it's the reason i started reading steve um and my question is actually just

00:48:14.400 more general about um education for noticing in general i'm sure we have plenty of friends that

00:48:19.440 don't necessarily fall within the spectrum of observation and having these conversations can

00:48:26.000 sometimes be i guess a little difficult um in terms of spreading that kind of knowledge do you have

00:48:30.960 any recommendations for how to approach that i mean is it blunt do you uh kind of um lead into it

00:48:37.680 i just kind of curious about uh spreading this further um than it's already going yeah i'm probably the

00:48:44.880 last person to ask about how to get ideas across in a socially acceptable way because

00:48:56.640 i've been remarkably unsuccessful at people going oh that's a reasonable idea steve

00:49:05.200 uh for some reason the way i tend to put things tends to drive people crazy and uh so i i would

00:49:16.400 recommend that there are there must be somebody else out there who has a better approach than what i've

00:49:24.800 what i've displayed over the decades well steve let me let me perhaps just rephrase that a little bit

00:49:33.440 have you noticed that there are there any type of um you know gateway drugs any type of topics that

00:49:39.920 you found have found that people are more comfortable talking about in bringing some of this up maybe not

00:49:45.600 crime maybe not auto fatalities testing something like that is there anything out there well and

00:49:51.440 certainly sports you've used sports uh you know quite extensively yeah i i've used sports

00:49:58.880 you know enough to bore everybody silly who's not interested in sports um have i succeeded at that i

00:50:07.840 don't know uh i i always thought the sports angle would be just a slam dunk but no the world seems to get along

00:50:18.080 pretty well without without uh acknowledging like oh okay yeah we watch this on tv and yeah that is how it

00:50:26.800 works and yeah the you know 87 of the last 88 finalists the men's 100 meter dash have been at least

00:50:36.560 half uh sub-saharan african by ancestry oh that that seems to be a pattern uh so i i don't know at this

00:50:47.920 point i'm probably not going to come up with major breakthroughs in my old age if anything the

00:50:54.640 the rest of the world has to change i'm too old to change

00:51:04.080 all right

00:51:09.360 all right well i think we're gonna we're gonna it looks like we're just about time to close

00:51:13.520 up uh i didn't know if there's any any closing statements that you'd like to give amy or steve

00:51:19.360 no i just want to say that i've been a fan and a follower of steve sailor for a very long time

00:51:33.440 and i i will also say that i know a lot a lot of academics have told me behind closed doors

00:51:41.440 we read steve sailor just don't tell anybody

00:51:52.880 so you have quite a following steve sailor the mind the man who's the most widely read and yet

00:51:58.800 least cited ladies and gentlemen thank you so much for being a wonderful audience please make sure to

00:52:05.680 donate to amy's gofundme make sure you get the books make sure you check out lomez and let's give

00:52:11.840 it up for steve sailor and amy wax

Human Events Daily with Jack Posobiec - November 09, 2024

SPECIAL EVENT： Steve Sailer and Amy Wax with Jack Posobiec in Washington DC

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