Rebel News Podcast - ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ Sean Fitzgerald on being an Actual Justice Warrior

00:00:00.000 I've done stories about Drag Queen Story Hour in public schools right here in the United States 0.62

00:00:05.260 of America. That's a program that started in San Francisco and it made its way from public libraries

00:00:10.620 to public school classrooms. So your tax dollars are paying for these people in a lot of places

00:00:16.560 in this country to come and read to your kids in outrageous outfits. Maybe not that outrageous,

00:00:21.040 not yet. Five years from now, conservatives will be in favor of those monkey dildo outfits in our 0.91

00:00:25.320 public schools, but it's happening across the country. I have documented cases of it and people

00:00:31.240 are like, oh no, it's fine. It's fine. I remember I was part of an organization that wanted to not have

00:00:36.980 Drag Queen Story Hour and I would get feedback from conservatives because they come up with a list

00:00:42.040 of things of what we don't want in the classroom. They're like, that's a little extreme. You're

00:00:46.020 really trying to ideologically police the classroom. It's like, do you not see what's happening here?

00:00:51.300 Like, this is, they're so far beyond, it's to your point earlier, they've accepted such high

00:00:57.720 levels of extremism in our everyday lives that you can't even say, don't have drag queens read 0.98

00:01:04.100 stories about transitioning genders to our five-year-olds?

00:01:13.940 Sean Fitzgerald is a YouTuber and political commentator who focuses on social issues, media

00:01:19.100 analysis, and current events. He's been featured on Blaze TV and Tim Pool's Timcast. We even started

00:01:24.900 our YouTube channels a mere two months apart from each other. Sean, thanks for joining me. How are

00:01:30.640 you doing today? Good, sir.

00:01:32.160 I'm doing good and I'm glad to be here. I didn't know that about the two months apart thing.

00:01:36.620 Yeah, I checked that when I was going through some of your videos and I was like, I know I started

00:01:41.800 watching him way back in the day and yeah, it was two months apart in 2016 that we started our

00:01:48.580 YouTube channels. Sean, I wanted to give people an idea of where you are, where you started,

00:01:54.720 why did you start your whole channel and how did you get to this point?

00:01:58.920 Well, the way I started the channel was basically due to bad criminal justice coverage since that's

00:02:04.720 what I studied when I was in school. Those are issues that I'm concerned about. So a huge portion

00:02:09.360 of my channel is dedicated to law-based videos or like the case of the day, like a Michael Brown or

00:02:15.720 George Floyd or any of these familiar cases. So I like to break those down and determine what's

00:02:21.020 actually true versus what's being put forward by the media. And in terms of where I am on the

00:02:27.920 political spectrum, I would be considered like a right-leaning libertarian.

00:02:32.460 Now, a lot of the commentary on your channel is culture topics. Like you said, there's the stuff

00:02:38.860 about the cases of the day, but a lot of it is culture stuff. And that's, I think that's what

00:02:43.140 drew me in the most way back in the day. I want to show this video you had, which shows a vice piece

00:02:50.080 about a race camp. And I want to get you to explain it. So let's go ahead and play that.

00:02:55.340 Ridiculous, absurd, insane. And this is just the first 15 seconds of the video. 0.96

00:03:00.020 So this is what they call a privilege line. And they ask a series of questions about how you may

00:03:06.600 be privileged in life. And if you can see towards the front, it's mostly white male. In the back,

00:03:13.600 it's mostly black women. The vice guy explains the premise. The point of the questions is not 0.83

00:03:18.680 to determine anything objective. It's not actually to determine privilege. It's an exercise in

00:03:23.560 ignorance. But the whole goal is to get white males to the front and black women to the back, 1.00

00:03:28.900 which by the way, you could skip all these stupid steps and say, white males go to the front, 1.00

00:03:33.100 black women go to the back. Look at all this oppression that we've created artificially 1.00

00:03:36.960 with our stupid ass questions. If you do not have to think about race and racism every day, 1.00

00:03:42.800 take a step forward. So what exactly is the purpose of this camp? Do you think it's really weird?

00:03:50.140 It is. It is really strange. Like I think the purpose of the camp, if we're going to cut through

00:03:54.600 all the nonsense, is for the guy who's running the camp to make $500 per student for five days

00:04:00.780 worth of courses. But it's really an indoctrination camp. Like these kids are being taught about white 0.89

00:04:07.020 privilege. They're being taught to like hate their ancestry. If they're not white, they're being taught 0.94

00:04:11.900 to love their ancestry and that they're being oppressed by white people. It's like the same 0.97

00:04:16.760 shtick that we heard about being taught in our schools. And this camp is actually being run

00:04:21.340 by a school teacher in the state of Arizona. So this guy in his off time is working in the public

00:04:27.240 schools. But it's basically an indoctrination camp. And one of the most interesting things about it

00:04:32.400 is before they had this camp and they would teach like a colorblind approach. And the guy is critical

00:04:39.140 of that. So they've totally revamped it. And now they're teaching racism of the gaps and all these

00:04:44.720 other things that we've come to associate with the modern left. Why would somebody really go to this

00:04:50.580 camp? Or if it's for children, why would they send their children there? What do you think

00:04:54.720 causes a person to be in this mindset, whereas they feel that they should be going to a camp where

00:05:00.480 basically, I'd imagine they use the term deconstruct their whiteness?

00:05:05.960 I can't speak to what parents are thinking when they're doing that. All I can hope for is that these

00:05:12.660 aren't parents being tricked into sending their kids there. One of the things that I found very

00:05:16.540 troubling about the camp is you actually get community service credit, which is needed to

00:05:21.340 graduate high school from attending this thing. And this is not community service.

00:05:26.440 This isn't anything of educational value, in my opinion. But I would hope that it's just crummy

00:05:32.040 parents that are going to teach their kids this crap anyway, that are sending their students to 1.00

00:05:36.700 this camp. But overall, like it's a mixture of that, a mixture of we got to send our kids somewhere 0.96

00:05:41.900 because we don't want them around during the summer, and a mixture of the school is actually

00:05:45.680 giving them credit for attending this thing, which is ridiculous.

00:05:49.520 So why do you think Vice has come a long way? Why do you think they want to perpetuate something

00:05:53.860 like this? I don't see a lot of, you know, actual interaction with Vice as much as I used to,

00:06:00.980 because I think everybody knows what they're doing. But why do you think Vice puts,

00:06:05.860 puts, what's the word I'm looking for, puts fuel to this fire? Why do you think they present

00:06:10.020 these types of topics? I mean, it's, it's interesting, because Vice is known for going

00:06:15.080 where people wouldn't normally go, like North Korea is the big one. Yeah, you remember that

00:06:19.700 segment, they go into war zones and all this. If you see the intro for their old HBO show, you're

00:06:24.260 like, Oh, this is like a serious on the ground young guys doing news organization. And but these

00:06:30.700 segments, they just, they're just all about promoting an ideology. And we know where journalists

00:06:37.000 tend to lead on the political spectrum in the United States of America. I think this dates back

00:06:41.700 to the university where journalists are taught not about finding truth, but they're taught about

00:06:46.300 like being agents of social change, which is incompatible with being an objective reporter

00:06:51.460 if you're literally promoting your agenda for social change. So I think that there's a belief

00:06:56.680 among the people at Vice that this is an objective good for the world. And that's why they're sending

00:07:02.800 their reporters out to these camps. And interestingly enough, if you, if you watch the segment carefully,

00:07:08.660 they actually say that they're not allowed to film certain exercises at the camp. So they're going

00:07:14.600 there, they're doing this propaganda piece for this camp, but they're not allowed to film the actual

00:07:20.400 exercises. So they're being constrained by the camp, they can only film what they're told to film,

00:07:25.400 which is like the antithesis of what you expect from Vice, which again, is known for going to places

00:07:30.000 like North Korea. Yeah. It used to be that you're not supposed to inject your, your feeling of this

00:07:37.780 is what's right. And I must get it across because who are you to decide what people should or should

00:07:42.260 not believe. But now it's more of a, I have to do this. It's for the greater good to show, you know,

00:07:47.340 white people are advantaged in some way and not to say that they can't be. It's just that teaching 0.51

00:07:52.940 children that they're inherently, you know, privileged or inherently disprivileged is a thing that I think

00:07:58.880 everyone can agree hasn't worked out so far, or at least anyone that I would respect and listen to.

00:08:04.360 Another wonderful publication called Vox, you did a video on, and they talked about meritocracy

00:08:10.280 basically being one of the worst things in the world. You covered this on your channel.

00:08:14.140 And I felt like it was mainly having to do with meritocracy and academics was not the best way

00:08:20.460 to progress. And it is not a good thing for it to, to, to get into good schools or to advance in

00:08:26.900 your social life through academics. Um, let's just show a clip of what I'm talking about.

00:08:31.700 Did you think that there was meritocracy in the United States of America? Well,

00:08:35.080 let, let, let me just tell you, Vox is going to prove you wrong because it's not a meritocracy.

00:08:39.940 It's racist, sexist, and all these things combined together. Let's get into the video.

00:08:44.380 This is my high school. Murray Bertram High School for Business Careers. As you can see,

00:08:48.880 we're directly next to, yeah, surrounded by one police plaza. So Bertram is viewed as one of the

00:08:55.500 worst schools in the city. Like I had to kind of join an elite group within this high school to

00:09:00.640 stay afloat. So we are less than 30 seconds into the video and the host of glad you asked this lady

00:09:06.840 right here has already completely undercut the premise. She talked about how she went to one of

00:09:11.820 the worst high schools in New York city, but because she stuck with a good crowd, she was able to power 1.00

00:09:18.180 through. And now she's a successful race grifter on Vox getting funded by YouTube, our corporate 1.00

00:09:24.580 overlords. What a great show. Totally appreciate it. Please corporate overlords. Be nice to me

00:09:29.420 because I'm responding to the thing that you paid for our meritocracy because it's based on competition

00:09:33.920 worship superiority rather than excellence. Again, this is a weird framing of the United States

00:09:39.180 of America that we worship superiority. If you can't figure out where this is going,

00:09:43.240 if you can't kind of gleam where this is heading, then you haven't been paying attention to this

00:09:48.180 channel. Maybe this is your first video. If so, definitely subscribe, support me on Patreon,

00:09:52.100 whatever, doesn't matter. Support the sponsor. I feel like for so much of my education and childhood,

00:09:57.100 it was just like studying hard for tests specifically to prove that I'm good enough through tests.

00:10:01.820 So we hear everything is white supremacy these days. What do you think? And I always try to do this. 0.52

00:10:07.120 I was doing this on a show yesterday. I want to try to find the best case scenario or give the

00:10:12.240 biggest benefit of the doubt to the counter argument so that we can tackle it honestly.

00:10:16.580 What do you think is the best possible characterization of the argument presented in

00:10:20.740 this meritocracy is a lie argument? Well, I think there is, I think there is like some

00:10:28.040 kernels of truth in this segment. It's a terrible segment. If you watch my video, you know, that's

00:10:32.260 how I feel about it. But the idea that we have equal opportunity is just not something that is real.

00:10:38.680 Like we don't and we shouldn't strive for it either, because in order to create a scenario

00:10:43.960 for us to have equal opportunity, we would essentially have to kidnap children through 0.72

00:10:48.600 the state when they're age four and put them through a government run institution in order

00:10:53.680 for them to all have the same exact shot. Like we understand that when you have certain levels

00:10:58.660 of freedom in a society that your parents are going to succeed. And it's human nature to want

00:11:03.900 to protect and leave something for your children. So obviously, current opportunities are skewed and

00:11:11.180 altered by meritocratic decisions of the past. And even the box segment recognizes this, that the

00:11:17.560 former meritocrats are doing everything in their power to make sure their kids have an advantage.

00:11:22.900 Now, the disagreement that I would have with an organization like box is they'll look at the

00:11:28.300 highest end private schools say that they spend 70 something thousand dollars on their kids in those

00:11:34.420 private schools. And the American population's public schools are only spending like twelve thousand

00:11:39.380 five hundred dollars. And they'll say, look, this is horrible. We have to do something about it.

00:11:43.720 But I point out in the video that the American government spends more on public education than any

00:11:50.160 other school across the across the world. So any other school system. So like we should try to

00:11:56.580 increase the number of opportunities rather than striving toward the this like fabled equal 0.99

00:12:03.060 opportunity. And one of the things that they do, that is a huge problem. And you can see it throughout

00:12:07.480 their segment is they'll measure outcomes and work their way back to assume that there is no equal

00:12:12.940 opportunity. And that's also just not true. You'll see certain kids performing in these failed schools

00:12:18.460 like the school featured with the host that she went to a failed school and they have the same set up,

00:12:24.940 the same opportunities as these other kids. They're just outperforming them. So they downplay the

00:12:30.100 individual choices. They obviously target like the super high end of private schools and they use

00:12:37.420 outcomes to measure lack of opportunity. And it's just to me, it's nonsensical. Again, equal opportunity

00:12:43.800 is a fable. We shouldn't strive for it. We should strive for increasing the overall number of opportunities.

00:12:49.180 And every time we've done that, marginalized people throughout history have done better in

00:12:54.220 our systems. That's like the point of the SATs. What would you say if I told you like as a socialist

00:13:00.640 argument and counter to that, that if we had all the schools being exactly the same, there was no

00:13:06.080 private, it was all only public schools, would it not then have still the best students outperforming

00:13:12.480 each other? And then at the very least, they're all coming from the level playing field. We'd still have

00:13:16.920 a sort of meritocracy where the best performers would come out on top.

00:13:21.260 I mean, there's, there's only so much you can do in the school system. So a lot of the decisions

00:13:25.640 for children are made by the parents before those children are born. So we've seen throughout our 0.98

00:13:31.440 history, Jewish kids, Italian kids, Asian kids outperform other kids and other demographics

00:13:38.960 sitting right next to them in the classroom. And that's because a lot of this comes from what's

00:13:44.480 going on at home. This is why like you can spend more money on the schools. We've been trying this

00:13:49.500 policy for decades in New Jersey. It's actually unconstitutional for schools to not have equal

00:13:56.380 funding in their public school system. And it hasn't solved the problem because a lot of these

00:14:01.020 problems stem from people's home lives. Like the government can't make your parents be together

00:14:06.580 before they're born. And Thomas Sowell refers to this as a cosmic injustice. Like, sure, you are

00:14:12.120 disadvantaged. If you come from a single parent household, that's a cosmic injustice. But what do

00:14:16.900 we do in response to that? Do we try to give you the most amount of opportunities in your life going

00:14:22.180 through the system and, you know, try to improve your chances of improving? Or do we restrict the

00:14:27.540 rights freedoms of other people who weren't born with that cosmic injustice, punish them for mistakes

00:14:33.820 made in the past? And I don't think we punish current students and current parents who made good

00:14:39.680 choices for the mistakes of other people in the name of some kind of equality. That doesn't make

00:14:45.380 sense. That's not something I value. I've spoken to a few guests, Sam Sorbo being one of them.

00:14:51.260 She's the wife of Kevin Sorbo, TV's Hercules in Canada. She's all for abolishing public schools 1.00

00:14:58.400 altogether, if I'm not misquoting her, would refer to it as an indoctrination center for the state.

00:15:03.700 How far would you be willing to go on that idea? I mean, I would be in favor of massively expanding

00:15:10.100 school choice because there are some people who can't afford to send their kids to school. This

00:15:14.340 is like the great bargain. And, you know, schools are running the local level, so there's a better

00:15:18.980 constitutional case since the states can do things that the federal government can't hear. But I would

00:15:23.780 be in favor of expanding charter schools so parents can send their kids to schools. Like, one of the

00:15:28.820 things that was featured in this video was the host talking about how she tried to apply into better 0.64

00:15:34.040 schools, didn't get into them, and then she had to choose in the second round. And they criticized the

00:15:39.400 idea that you would test into certain schools in the public school system, but the alternative is

00:15:45.300 you go to a zip code school. And what we find in a lot of these zip code schools is that they're

00:15:50.520 perpetual failures, and they never face the consequences of those failures because they always have a supply

00:15:56.180 of students. So I would be for greatly expanding school choice. We see people waiting online for

00:16:02.680 lotteries. Like, it's one of the most frustrating things as somebody who watches the Republican Party

00:16:07.500 fail in all these major cities to win over votes, that you have people lining up for Republican policy,

00:16:14.980 a charter school lottery, and they can't convert those people into voters. So it's good politics in my

00:16:20.820 mind. And it's good for the parents to be able to have a more active role in the schools that they

00:16:26.940 send their children to. Because unlike a public school, unlike a zip code school, which always has

00:16:32.240 a supply of students, if you feel like the charter school is failing your kids, you can take them out

00:16:37.700 of the charter school and go to another one. This little girl in this video, what do you think it says

00:16:44.060 that instead of, you know, maybe she could work, I don't know how old she is, but maybe she could work a 1.00

00:16:49.580 part-time job. Maybe she could work at a summer camp, hopefully not the one from the other video.

00:16:53.880 Maybe she could put more effort into her studies. But what do you think it says that instead she's

00:16:58.260 chosen to spend her time, you know, trying to prove that the meritocracy of the system she's in 0.97

00:17:03.320 doesn't work? Do you think there's a deeper lesson there? Yeah, I think a lot of it is guilt,

00:17:09.420 because in the video she points out, and this happens a lot, there's a lot of like rich kid

00:17:14.800 communists who feel like their parents took care of everything for them. Therefore, daddy government

00:17:20.200 should take care of everything for everybody else. But for her, this is somebody, and it's not just

00:17:24.900 her and her sister, who succeeded in the current public school system. Since they were high scoring

00:17:30.100 kids, they were able to get scholarships and recommended programs and SAT prep. And this is

00:17:35.680 all in the video. And she talks about how she feels bad for it, because of it. But like, those are

00:17:40.320 opportunities that she earned as a child, even going to the bad school that she referenced,

00:17:44.940 she talked about how she got through it, because she hung out with an elite class of students within

00:17:50.920 her school. So a lot of that is guilt. A lot of progressives have issues with cause and effect.

00:17:55.980 Like the reason she's successful is because she made choices to become successful. And I make the joke

00:18:03.040 in the video that she got all these opportunities. And now she's a race grifter at Vox. So it's proof

00:18:08.660 that meritocracy does work. But even if we don't like what you end up becoming at the end of it.

00:18:14.200 Yeah, I think a lot of it is guilt. And the words that were coming to my mind were the victimization

00:18:20.180 carries a lot of meritocracy in that environment, whereas you push a big victim narrative, and you're

00:18:27.160 going to get on Vox and have a good time. They're probably making 60 grand a year until they close.

00:18:33.940 One of their offices like Huffington Post or something did here.

00:18:37.400 Oh, and that's a series put together by YouTube. I feel like I have to emphasize this. And every

00:18:43.020 time I cover a part of it, it's a YouTube original. So not only is she getting funded by the huge

00:18:47.640 machine that is Vox, but also by YouTube to produce this content. And there's one thing in

00:18:53.020 that video that really bothered me. And that was when they talked about the specialized high schools

00:18:57.620 in New York City, which Bill de Blasio is actually pushing to get rid of. And they were really upset

00:19:03.080 because out of all the students that test into this school, and this is like a top of the line

00:19:07.460 science school, 4% are black, 4% are Hispanic, about 20% are white, and 70% are Asian. So they're

00:19:16.040 trying to actually restrict opportunities for Asian kids, who again, we put them in the same 1.00

00:19:21.420 classrooms as these black kids, as these Hispanic kids, as these white kids, and they continually 0.99

00:19:26.620 outperform them on the test. And we know that this is in part because they have a culture that

00:19:31.620 emphasizes education. They spend twice as much time on their homework as white kids, 0.86

00:19:36.120 four times as much time as black kids. And we're seeing the results of that meritocracy. But she 1.00

00:19:41.700 looks in the face of that and calls it discrimination, as if the system was set up for Asian and Indian

00:19:48.520 kids in this country. It makes no sense. Yes, I was going to mention Indian immigrants as well. You have

00:19:54.080 Koreans on the list. You have Bangladeshi, I believe, Indians, a lot of immigrant groups of people

00:20:02.140 outperforming, white people. And somehow that always gets overlooked.

00:20:07.040 Nigerians as well.

00:20:08.240 Nigerians, there you go. I wanted to transition into, I think, what your favorite topic is,

00:20:12.380 the Young Turks. I think, I'm pretty sure that's the first, you mentioned Hassan Piker

00:20:18.140 off air. I think that's the first video of yours that I saw now that I'm thinking about it.

00:20:22.800 Him at Politicon versus Charlie Kirk. I think that's how I got introduced to your channel.

00:20:27.840 Now, it's very entertaining to talk with the Young Turks. I used to do it a lot on my own channel too.

00:20:33.540 They have a lot of pull on YouTube. So I think it's worthy to deconstruct their ideas because

00:20:39.080 they're sort of propped up or were as the, here's the independent news that's just, you know,

00:20:44.500 bootstrapping it and they're getting by even though they're funded massively.

00:20:47.660 Hassan Piker, who I don't think he believes, or I don't think he works for them anymore. Is that

00:20:53.700 correct?

00:20:54.920 Yeah. He, he left the Young Turks.

00:20:56.560 He is Cenk Uygur, the founder's nephew, however, and he's a big champagne socialist streamer.

00:21:02.740 He gets a lot of donations from streaming on Twitch and he recently received backlash for a large

00:21:08.900 purchase of a $2.7 million home. Someone called him out on it, some commentator I'm not familiar

00:21:14.160 with. And I want to read you his quote of his reply. He says, quote, I live in LA. The housing

00:21:19.920 market here is F'd. Why is the argument that should keep, why is the argument that I should

00:21:25.520 keep renting or that I should go gentrify somewhere else? Will this solve the problems? No. A lot of

00:21:31.020 spelling mistakes in this, producer Efron. And I don't mean, I mean, they had to add all these

00:21:35.820 different letters to make it make sense. No, people are mad because lefty with a house. That's it.

00:21:41.300 End quote. Sorry for all my mid commentary there, but do you have any opinion on, on his defense

00:21:48.120 as to whether or not it's a, it's valid or is it more of a do as I say, not as I do a motif from

00:21:55.080 a socialist? How do you feel about that response? Well, like, first of all, I have no problem with

00:22:00.060 somebody becoming successful on Twitch and buying a home. And I'm sure you don't have a issue with

00:22:04.040 that either, but where it gets entertaining is this is a guy who thinks that, that we should

00:22:09.660 decommodify housing. As he said, in a debate with Larry Elder on somebody else's show, this is a guy

00:22:14.820 who makes videos and you can find them on his YouTube channel from his Twitch channel, where he

00:22:20.220 criticizes people showing off their homes, saying that they don't need that much of a home. There's

00:22:25.620 no social utility in that. So, and also these people all were, were bagging on Dave Rubin for

00:22:31.860 building his own house, which costs less than the house that Jenks nephew bought. And they were

00:22:36.800 attacking Jimmy Dore like two months ago for spending $2 million on a house. And Jimmy Dore

00:22:42.000 is a married guy. He, he has a family. So like, he's actually needs more space than somebody who's

00:22:48.160 like a single guy living in LA. So his point about like the, the, the arguments in defense of him or

00:22:54.400 the, that people are making is that he's just the victim of a capitalist system that he's just trying

00:22:59.420 to survive and all that. I would love to try to survive in a $3 million home with a nice swimming pool,

00:23:05.300 five bedrooms, five and a half bathrooms. I thought these people were concerned about

00:23:08.960 climate change. Just think about the power aspects of his house. Huh? Oh, it was all in the original

00:23:14.700 article. Okay. So that is what his house is then. Yeah. Five and a half bath. Yeah. Five and a half

00:23:21.040 bathrooms. So think about the power usage, think about the water usage in this kind of place. And

00:23:24.980 these people complain about the evil capitalists, uh, you know, starting up the climate change and all

00:23:30.380 that. So yeah, he has no defense for it. He is a hypocrite in this and it really is a do as I say,

00:23:37.500 not as I do situation. And this guy has a long history of that. He got into a whole scandal when he 0.99

00:23:42.220 was pulling in about $45,000 a month on Twitch where he wasn't paying his editor and his editor

00:23:48.680 only asked for a thousand dollars for doing the editing for all the videos on his YouTube channel.

00:23:54.040 And he was pleading poverty. He's like, I don't have that kind of money. Now, if I was taking

00:23:58.800 $45,000 a month, I would damn sure have a thousand dollars left over if I needed to spend it on hiring

00:24:05.460 somebody to do a job. But again, these people are the ultimate hypocrites. And it's another instance 0.99

00:24:10.520 of somebody who doesn't feel like they earned it, turning to socialism, promoting it on the internet,

00:24:15.640 because he has that feeling if he didn't earn it, then nobody else did. This guy got his start

00:24:21.360 from his uncle. He used that to parlay it. Congratulations to him into a Twitch career.

00:24:26.340 But it's always nagging at him that he didn't earn it. So that's why he's promoting all these

00:24:30.620 leftist values that he himself can't even live up to.

00:24:35.080 And his, I think the interpretation that I'm getting from that of he would go and gentrify

00:24:41.900 another area. I don't understand how going and buying a home, is he saying he should be going

00:24:47.260 and buying a large condo around some poor people? I don't understand that comparison where he's just

00:24:52.140 going to automatically gentrify a place if he goes and purchases a house in a nice neighborhood or

00:24:57.340 something. Should he be redistributing his wealth? Should he be living below the means that he's at

00:25:03.420 now? I mean, to be consistent, I think he should be doing that. But that's not something I would

00:25:08.100 ask of him, because like you said, he came from, he used to boast about making, I think, $50,000 a year

00:25:13.360 on the Young Turks. Now $4.55 million or $450,000 a year is a huge jump. And maybe you're right. Maybe

00:25:22.180 he just, he can't handle living in this upper echelon and he's got to, you know, justify it

00:25:28.660 somehow. How do you think he squares it to himself?

00:25:33.220 He just, he just rationalizes it. It's like Bernie Sanders when he used to say millionaires and

00:25:38.080 billionaires. And after his first presidential run, he, he wrote a book and it was a bestseller

00:25:45.280 and somebody asked him, they're like, well, now that you're a millionaire, do you think that you

00:25:50.580 were too critical of them? And he's like, oh, well, I'm a millionaire. But like, the thing is,

00:25:54.320 is I wrote a bestselling book and it's like, yeah, everybody who's becomes wealthy for the most part,

00:25:59.720 like it's only like 20% of people who inherit their wealth. Everybody who becomes wealthy for the most

00:26:04.540 part earned it through something. And so they feel like, oh wait, I earned it because I know the

00:26:09.680 work that I put in, but everybody else in all these different industries that I can't understand,

00:26:14.580 that I can't quantify, they didn't earn it somehow. It's, it's a really weird juxtaposition. And

00:26:19.860 Bernie's even worse because Bernie's wife inherited money and that's how he bought one of his vacation

00:26:24.840 homes. And Bernie's always pushing to basically get rid of the, get rid of inheritance, raise the tax so

00:26:31.360 high that nobody can inherit those sums of money. So like, yeah, they all do this. They, they're all,

00:26:36.720 they all think that they're exempt. They have their own rationalizations. And again, it would be fine

00:26:41.140 if he wasn't advocating for an authoritarian system that restricts people's rights to do what he's

00:26:47.040 doing. But yeah, it's, it's just, it's just ridiculous. It's the 0.01% of the 1%. That reminds me, 0.95

00:26:55.360 are the Young Turks still all about Bernie? Have they moved on to AOC or anything like that? Because the last

00:27:00.540 time I checked in with them a few months ago, it almost seemed like Cenk was the most sane one on 1.00

00:27:05.260 the channel now. I don't know where they're at now though. Yeah. I, I, I like that. It's,

00:27:10.680 it's like an old strategy of the Young Turks where Cenk will have a bunch of goofballs on 0.98

00:27:14.420 and then he'll say, actually, there's some nuance in there. And then he'll, he'll make like a moderate

00:27:19.960 version of that. And you're like, Oh, that sounds reasonable. Cenk is Mr. Reasonable. He literally

00:27:23.860 calls himself the most reasonable man in America. And it's because he surrounds himself with clowns that he 0.99

00:27:30.020 takes a little, he moves a little bit to the right on and then he, he lectures them, but, uh, 0.76

00:27:35.560 they're still big Bernie people, but obviously, uh, Bernie's age is going to prevent him from being

00:27:40.500 able to run. Biden has won the election. So like they've moved on to AOC who they helped get elect,

00:27:46.100 by the way, they founded justice Democrats or Cenk did with Kyle Kalinsky. So that's somebody that

00:27:50.900 they drafted to run for Congress. So they're still like pushing her. You can go on their channel and

00:27:55.680 you just search. They have like AOC destroyed this person, AOC owned this person. It's like,

00:28:01.360 she says the dumbest things and they'll cut it together and be like, she's like owning everybody 0.99

00:28:05.000 and destroying everyone. It's, it's pretty amusing. Have you ever debated Kyle Kalinsky or hadn't I've 0.99

00:28:10.900 not debated Kyle Kalinsky. I'd like to see that. I'm not a fan of that at all. Um, I want the last

00:28:16.360 thing I want to get to is you had a video where you were commenting on slightly offensive. You were on

00:28:21.740 their show. Of course, we love them here. Everybody on blaze. Uh, I try to, I try to speak to very good

00:28:28.060 people. You're commenting on what I think is described as a slippery, slippery slope about

00:28:33.980 drag queen story time. And this hit me close to home, not because I'm a drag queen on my off time,

00:28:39.480 but because it happens a lot here. The drag queen story times, they did a whole tour, um, a few months

00:28:45.720 ago of our local libraries from where I'm from. And I think this is what, what you're defining here

00:28:51.380 is the slippery slope. So let's watch that. I've done stories about drag queen story hour 1.00

00:28:56.060 in public schools right here in the United States of America. That's a program that started in San

00:29:01.360 Francisco and it made its way from public libraries to public school classrooms. So your tax dollars

00:29:07.780 are paying for these people in a lot of places in this country to come and read to your kids in

00:29:12.640 outrageous outfits. Maybe not that outrageous, not yet. Five years from now, conservatives will be in

00:29:16.720 favor of those monkey dildo outfits in our public schools, but it's happening across the country. 0.79

00:29:21.760 Like I have documented cases of it and people are like, Oh no, it's, it's fine. It's fine. I remember

00:29:27.000 I was part of an organization that wanted to not have drag queen story hour. And I would get feedback

00:29:33.240 from conservatives cause you know, they come up with a list of things of what we don't want in the

00:29:37.380 classroom. And they're like, that's a little extreme. You're really trying to ideologically police

00:29:41.580 the classroom. It's like, do you not see what's happening here? Like this is this they're so far

00:29:47.980 beyond it's to your point earlier. They've accepted such high levels of extremism in our,

00:29:53.240 in our everyday lives that you can't even say don't have drag queens read stories about transitioning 1.00

00:29:59.240 genders to our five-year-olds. So do you think this idea that conservatives slowly shift their

00:30:05.420 Overton window to the left? Why do you think that happens? Is it just party movement? Is it,

00:30:11.220 is it, I mean, I'm sure people would argue that it's just progression. How, what do you make of

00:30:15.980 that? Do you think it's a realistic thing? I think, I think there's like, there's like a fear,

00:30:21.140 especially on the social issues. Like, like everybody hears that left-wing propaganda of

00:30:25.680 wrong side of history, wrong side of history. And to say it doesn't affect conservatives is just absurd.

00:30:30.940 So like, that's why you'll see them abandon the gay marriage issue just, you know, like a year after

00:30:36.720 it was, it was a rule constitutional by the Supreme court and they don't talk about it anymore.

00:30:41.900 And like, it's, it's a bit of a meme because people do exaggerate like what conservatives will

00:30:47.060 accept next. But this is a perfect example of this. Like not very many people are talking about it.

00:30:53.480 And, and one of the points I was making on Slightly Offensive is that it's already in our public

00:30:58.020 schools. Like I've done videos. I did a series or I do a series in conjunction with the David Horowitz

00:31:03.240 Freedom Center where we talk about what's going on in the public schools. So they're already doing

00:31:07.740 drag queen story hour in our public schools and people don't want to fight. They don't want to 1.00

00:31:13.160 argue over these issues. Like we put up when, when I was doing those videos for that organization,

00:31:18.080 like they have a list of things that we could pass into law to prevent some of this stuff from

00:31:22.820 happening. And every time you bring it to conservative politicians, they're like, ah, I don't

00:31:27.320 want to, I don't want to battle over that. I don't want to put my ideology in the public schools.

00:31:32.240 And for some reason they've taken the position that removing obvious, a left wing bias ideology

00:31:38.980 from the public schools is inserting their own ideology. So yeah, there's like a lack of will

00:31:44.840 to fight. There's this idea that, well, the left already has that. So there's no need to battle over

00:31:50.360 that because they're entrenched in that position. And I find it ridiculous. Like this drag queen story 1.00

00:31:55.440 hour started at public libraries in San Francisco a few years ago. And now it's in our public schools.

00:32:01.840 And in the UK, they have them walking around. And I mean, if, I don't know if you could show the

00:32:06.700 images on YouTube, but we were looking at them on slightly offensive. They're walking around

00:32:11.620 like with sex toys attached to them. Like to read to our kids about gender transition. 0.98

00:32:18.580 Yeah. That was in the same episode. And I feel like in terms of the slippery slope

00:32:22.600 or the shifting window for conservatives, I feel like it's much closer here than it might even be.

00:32:27.880 You've got a lot of disappointing Republicans down there. Don't get me wrong. Some really good

00:32:31.860 ones. But up here, it's like, well, we don't necessarily, we're not for lockdowns, but we

00:32:38.900 won't say that we're against them. We're not for vaccine passports, but you know, it's up to the

00:32:43.340 provinces to decide. So I think there is just that, you know, half of a, to go metric on you,

00:32:48.920 half of a centimeter difference between the two major parties here. And it's only going to be a matter

00:32:54.340 of time before we like, you know, just, just let it go. We'll, we'll find, and we'll fight the next

00:32:59.400 battle. Um, do you want to just, uh, break down really simple for people who are viewing why you

00:33:04.940 think a drag queen speaking to young children is a harmful or bad idea? Well, it's, it's not just the 1.00

00:33:12.020 idea that you're exposing kids cause drag performers and people, if you talk to them, honestly, in the

00:33:17.340 LGBT community, there'll be like, they show up at, at like gay clubs and they perform and their

00:33:23.860 performances are sexual in nature. And a lot of these drag queens have had issues where they're 1.00

00:33:29.560 not supposed to be around children. They're on a very special list in the United States of America

00:33:33.560 due to previous crimes. And you can look up the different instances of where they caught them

00:33:38.440 on that. But like, these are adult oriented performers and our schools, which is our taxpayer

00:33:45.120 dollars are paying them to come to our schools and read to children, these like propaganda books

00:33:52.120 about how you could change your sex and how there's not really any difference between men and women.

00:33:57.180 And we know that there's an impact on younger kids for gender confusion. We've seen things like

00:34:01.940 these like transgender clusters where one kid in a friend group comes out as transgender. And all of a 0.84

00:34:08.240 sudden this weird, like one in 10,000 thing appears across the friend group. And you have

00:34:14.400 eight or nine out of 10 people saying that there's some kind of like non normal, like gender,

00:34:20.180 or they're there, they have a different gender identity. So it does have consequences. And the

00:34:25.280 whole point they state of reading these books and exposing children to this is to redefine and

00:34:31.660 deconstruct what we consider to be sex and gender. So they don't lie about what their intention is.

00:34:37.160 I'm just pointing out what they say that they're doing, that they're doing it. And that if you're a

00:34:42.900 conservative, you should probably be opposed to it.

00:34:46.820 Wow, Sean, you sound like a bigot to me. Actual justice warrior on YouTube. And I think let's

00:34:53.760 see if my memory serves me correct. It's on the bottom of the screen. I am Sean 90 on Twitter.

00:34:59.080 Yeah, yeah, I read that today. Steel trap up here, Sean. Anything else you want to add

00:35:02.880 to a Canadian audience? Last words to you.

00:35:06.080 Yeah, I just want to say thank you guys for having me on. I do appreciate it, Andrew.

00:35:12.140 But I will say these Canadians, I love the protests against the lockdowns. I think you guys need to

00:35:17.780 step it up a little bit. You have to demand your freedoms. Otherwise, you're not going to get them

00:35:22.660 back. We're already hearing about them extending the lockdowns potentially to 2022. You have to fight

00:35:28.680 back right now. One of the best things that happened in this country was DeSantis and Greg Abbott saying,

00:35:34.260 no, we're going to open up Texas now. And it basically limits even what other areas can do in terms of

00:35:41.120 these restrictions. So individual provinces, if you can fight there, do it there. But you have to get

00:35:46.940 out of this right now. Like you can't wait, afford to wait because they're just going to become more and

00:35:52.780 more entrenched.

00:35:54.760 Hey, thanks a lot, Sean. Actual Justice Warrior on YouTube. Go check it out. Subscribe today. Thanks again.

00:36:04.260 I'll see you next time.

Rebel News Podcast - August 27, 2021

ANDREW CHAPADOS ｜ Sean Fitzgerald on being an Actual Justice Warrior

Episode Stats

Summary

Transcript