This week, we're in a pub in Ireland, and we're celebrating Cultural Appropriation Month with a live show from a local pub in the town of Ennis, where we meet Jared, who is not gay. We also hear about a police officer who thinks his car is fit for public transport, and a woman who thinks her car should be used as a prop in a movie.
00:06:52.000But Ireland was one of the few places we've talked about that we said, okay, it's pretty safe.
00:06:56.000Ireland, obviously, wasn't for a long time a hotbed for any kind of terrorism.
00:07:00.000We'll be talking with some of the locals here about the recent events that have occurred and the radicalization that's happening in Ireland.
00:07:53.000And there have been some real cultural changes, and there are some people here at the pub who right away came up where we were from and wanted to blame the atrocities of Donald Trump on us, as well as the Vietnam War.
00:08:04.000Some people have perceptions of Americans that aren't necessarily accurate.
00:08:08.000And I think maybe we have some perceptions of some people from Ireland that aren't accurate, people from the U.K.
00:08:11.000So it'll be interesting to kind of get down to it and see what it is that they believe and see what it is that most people here think about freedom of speech and sort of the political correctness run amok.
00:08:21.000There was an interesting poll, actually, recently in Ireland.
00:08:23.00065% of Irish people, when asked, said they don't think any speech should be banned, even if it's offensive.
00:14:39.000Can you see, because a lot of people talk about it stateside, you know, sort of Donald Trump and the wall, this idea.
00:14:43.000But because we've had this issue in the United States, and we effectively have open borders where there's no way to monitor people who are coming in, do you think understanding, now experiencing this in Ireland, maybe the Irish people might have more sympathy for Americans saying, you know what, we need to put a lockdown on this and know who's coming in and going out?
00:15:01.000I think that America has so many different ethnic minorities in it.
00:15:07.000That have settled, have added to everything that is...
00:16:37.000Because this conversation can reach more people than will be seen in traditional news or media, and it can be organic and unedited and raw.
00:16:44.000And then on the flip side, people can be more disconnected than ever and just lie, and then it catches on like wildfire or radicalized terrorists.
00:16:52.000I mean, your friend is dressed up as a potato.
00:18:44.000We need to know who's coming in and out.
00:18:46.000It seems like, I don't know if it's because the left-right shift hasn't occurred here in Ireland, but there's a disconnect between what people want, which is freedom of speech.
00:18:55.000If you look at the polls, actually Ireland is a more free market economy than the United States in a lot of ways.
00:19:00.000And now people are saying, well, we need to crack down on radicalism, but then saying, you know, Hillary.
00:19:06.000Yeah, I think that's all due to the media here in particular because...
00:19:11.000You won't hear any right-wing sort of media here.
00:19:14.000So everything like RTE, if you're on the radio, so RTE, Today FM, Spin Southwest, everything that they report on is all...
00:19:22.000There's no mention of Trump in a positive sense in any way, even if he did something right.
00:19:50.000Almost a disconnect where generationally younger people are starting to lean more that way because they've been raised in such sort of a bastion of liberalism.
00:19:59.000Because from our generation, we're a little older.
00:20:00.000When we were raised, it was just like the era of George Bush.
00:20:40.000Like, for example, if you ask them about, okay, do you support freedom of speech here?
00:20:43.000Or what do you think about, you know, obviously the recent terrorists spending a lot of time in Ireland with these mosques going up, people being more radical?
00:20:51.000Do you think they would actually answer left on those questions?
00:20:54.000Because we just saw there even someone who said vote Hillary was far more right on a lot of individual questions.
00:20:59.000And I've experienced that a lot in my time here in Europe.
00:21:02.000I think the majority of people, if you ask them here, would say that, and it's because they're getting it from the media, that the attacks have nothing to do with the religion.
00:21:24.000And even just yesterday, it was hashtag, it was trending, it was hashtag feminists are everywhere.
00:21:29.000So, and everyone I spoke to was Irish, so I said, you know, I just asked questions like, why, give me one reason why we need feminism in this country.
00:21:38.000And the hostility I was met with was...
00:21:42.000Do they say you have a fat ass and make fun of you sitting on a stool?
00:21:44.000No, I didn't say that, but they would call me, you know, before I even said anything about women whatsoever, it was just, you know, you're a misogynist.
00:21:51.000I think that's kind of just the way it's picked up in Ireland.
00:22:08.000So that's the way it's viewed upon in Ireland, where a lot of people you speak to probably don't care, but they would take, because that's the way it is in the media, they would take feminism, Islamophobia, all these things as fact, without even looking it up, because that's what's talked about in RT2 FM. It's just...
00:22:24.000If they report on these attacks like the Manchester attack, there's no mention.
00:22:28.000They won't tell you that it was a religion.
00:22:30.000They'll just say that it was an incident that happened in Manchester.
00:22:36.000They'll cleverly edit all the stories and the interviews of people where they don't mention the fact that the boys were saying...
00:22:42.000This is for Allah, or, you know, there's none of that, or Allah Akbar.
00:22:45.000Do you think, how much of that do you think has to do with, you know, we were talking about this, there's a blasphemy law here in Ireland that was put into effect.
00:22:50.000Do you think most people even know about that, that you can actually be arrested, you can be charged for blaspheming?
00:22:56.000And of course, you know, anything, if you claim, if you say, well, a lot of people don't understand this.
00:23:00.000If you say, I don't believe Muhammad is a man who he claims he was, which is the messenger of God, is to blaspheme against Islam.
00:25:11.000They're kind of a comedy thing, but...
00:25:14.000I saw them tweet that men should go out and support the women for repeal, the strike for repeal, and take the day off work as well, and I said...
00:25:23.000They sound hilarious, by the way, for a comedy deal.
00:29:27.000I think it's more, I think people feel a little bit of ownership of the US. People here feel as though when something they don't like is happening, they feel kind of disenfranchised.
00:29:36.000They've contributed a lot to the American culture.
00:29:39.000Yeah, I mean, you have, you know, Irish, the Italians, or some of the first waves of immigrants who came in and became Americans, and are actually some of the proudest Americans, you know, to be there in that country.
00:29:47.000Well, let me ask you, one thing that we notice, even talking with people here, even though we talk about the EU, Brexit, probably won't happen with Ireland, there seems to be a strong streak of, you know, national pride.
00:29:57.000Some people call it nationalism in Ireland, but national pride, pride in your country.
00:31:04.000That is one issue, I think, in America that a lot of people don't understand is if Americans have pride in their country, national pride, often abroad it's seen as...
00:31:54.000Yeah, I mean, you're taking these things relatively, right?
00:31:57.000For example, when we say Generation Z is a generation below millennials, the most conservative generation ever, what that means is if you look at baby boomers who are now conservative...
00:32:48.000Yeah, Ireland did pretty well too, yeah.
00:32:50.000So I think that my impression is that younger people in the UK would have more awareness of what it used to be to be the British Empire.
00:32:57.000Brexit seems to be almost like a grasp at the olden days or the days that never even existed before.
00:33:03.000The golden years of their imagination, people would kind of think they had this great empire where everyone liked them and they got along with everyone and they were all very rich, but they weren't.
00:33:13.000How much of it is imperialist versus people who just don't want to be, like you said, we were talking about Germany with the EU, don't want to be footing the bill for other people and, again, don't want to be guilted and don't want to have their own policies and laws dictated to them?
00:33:25.000I think you see with Donald Trump as a symptom when people talk about that.
00:33:28.000People were made ashamed to be American.
00:33:30.000People were made ashamed to be male for a long time.
00:33:34.000Check your privilege, check your white privilege, your male privilege, and they actually have courses to deconstruct and deprogram being a male in college.
00:33:41.000These are actual courses now, and I think that maybe the political spectrum they've reached so far right now on the left.
00:33:47.000That's where you're seeing a lot of people like this, a rejection of it.
00:33:49.000Like I said, if you have 30% of young people who are leaning right, it doesn't sound like a lot, but compared to previous generations where it might have been 15%, That's a shocking amount.
00:34:00.000Typically, anyone before the age of 30 tended to be very, very left, and we're not seeing that anymore.
00:34:05.000And we're just sort of, as people who study sociology, as people who study kind of the human condition with the show, obviously with comedy, it's something that everyone has a different answer for.
00:34:13.000And it's surprising to hear different points of view in Europe.
00:34:22.000I don't have the exact number on them, but generation, they call them Z, are becoming more and more right-leaning, and a lot of them, not right-leaning necessarily politically, but culturally as freedom of speech.
00:34:30.000It could simply be a symptom of generations getting more right-wing, and then moving on to next generations.
00:38:25.000We're here at Lucas Bar in Ennis, Ireland.
00:38:27.000They've been incredibly welcoming, incredibly kind.
00:38:28.000I still don't know that we have a ton of answers.
00:38:31.000I'm kind of surprised by people answering on individual questions, lining up more right, you seem to see, but then thinking overall, no, we're more left.
00:38:40.000And I think that might be the issue with Europe.
00:38:43.000I think there might be some cognitive dis...
00:39:46.000Listen, Lotto with Crowder, live from Ireland.
00:39:48.000We never know when we do these shows on locations, but we'll see where we end up next, and we're going to be going to the Santorum wedding tomorrow.