Juno News - July 26, 2022


Leslyn Lewis goes off on identity politics


Episode Stats

Length

1 minute

Words per Minute

181.04764

Word Count

356

Sentence Count

19

Hate Speech Sentences

2


Summary


Transcript

00:00:00.000 I want to go back to the identity politics comment you made at the beginning of that response
00:00:04.400 because you were, it sounded like, talking about the way the left assumes that all minorities think
00:00:09.480 and act the same. You've also taken aim very recently at that attitude within conservative
00:00:14.600 circles. I mean, Patrick Brown's campaign, for example, talked about really courting the so-called
00:00:19.220 ethnic vote as though anyone who is under that banner of ethnic thinks the same way about politics
00:00:24.500 and leadership candidates. Do you feel that conservatives get too hung up in identity
00:00:29.220 politics? Because I've heard supporters of yours, for example, that say, well, you know,
00:00:32.980 it would be great if conservatives fielded a minority because then it would deflect against
00:00:36.380 the racism allegation or a woman because it would deflect against the misogyny. Do you feel
00:00:40.840 conservatives get too consumed by this as well? No, it's a real issue. Race is a real issue.
00:00:46.700 The problem that we have is when we attribute everything to it. Now, if we know that the
00:00:52.720 liberals are playing identity politics, yes, of course, my candidacy is going to deflect against
00:00:57.960 that because the ridiculous things that they accuse conservatives of are false. Many of them are
00:01:04.860 false. And so that's a part of the problem that the media has with me is that they can no longer
00:01:11.340 perpetuate that false narrative. So race is real. Racism is real. But the problem is, is that we cannot
00:01:18.680 reduce individuals just to a race. And for a leadership candidate to say, I somehow have proprietary rights
00:01:27.540 over this group of people. And I'm going to pass them on to this group of people as if these
00:01:32.240 individuals are not human beings with identities, with values. I believe that I can reach different
00:01:40.480 segments of people based on on different values. You reach farmers based on one set of values. You
00:01:47.000 reach you may reach another group based on a different set of values. But you can't assume that
00:01:51.740 every farmer thinks alike or every white person thinks alike or every person of color thinks alike.