Ep 298 | Cardi, Candace & Critical Race Theory
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Summary
Today we talk about Candace Owens and Cardi B, President Trump and critical race theory, and why I think the church is failing to push back against Critical Race Theory. I also talk about how social media has allowed me to be more creative and creative.
Transcript
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Wednesday. I hope everyone had a wonderful Labor Day
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weekend. Today we are going to talk about a variety of things. To be perfectly honest,
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I still don't know exactly what has gone down news-wise over the past few days. I decided
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starting about last Wednesday or Thursday that I was going to kind of just check out because Twitter
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was just becoming too much for me. So the first order of business for me, because I was getting
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so bogged down in all the craziness and the chaos that's going on, was to take Twitter off my phone,
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which I just didn't even realize before how much time I was spending on Twitter until I actually
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just took the app off my phone. It requires so much work to log on to Twitter on your computer.
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Twitter. So I really just got off of Twitter for like a week or so, which meant that I had no idea
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what was going on in the news, which was actually kind of nice. A little weird because I like to be
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in the know. But I think it was good for the soul. I think it was good for the mind. And I'm still not
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going to put Twitter on my phone. I think it's good for me to have that barrier of entry, having to
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actually get out my computer, log on to Twitter to be able to scroll through. And then that means that I
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only spend about like 30 minutes on Twitter a day rather than mindlessly scrolling like several hours
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a day. My little screen time report. If you have an iPhone, you might get one of these. It's very
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disheartening some weeks how much time I spend on my phone. But it was down like 70 percent this past week
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just because I deleted Twitter off my phone. And so I think I'm going to probably keep that up.
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All that to say, I came into this episode not knowing what the heck I was going to talk about.
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I asked a lot of you guys on Instagram to give me some subjects. And so I'm going to talk about
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a few of the things that you guys suggested. The number one thing you guys asked me to talk about
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was Candace Owens and Cardi B, which honestly, I was surprised that so many of you brought that up
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for me to break down and talk about because I kind of thought, OK, it's out there in the open.
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Everyone sees what's going on. Can I really add any insightful or beneficial commentary to this?
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Any analysis that you guys would actually think is important? I'm not sure. But in case you didn't
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know what happened, I am going to break it down and I will give you a little bit of what I think.
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And a lot of you guys have been asking me to talk about WAP and I have been avoiding it because
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there's really not that much for me to say. I think you guys can probably anticipate my thoughts
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about the song. But sure, I will indulge you. I will give you a little bit of my take on what I
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think about it. And then we are going to talk about some really good news that I actually did hear about
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when I was unplugged from Twitter. President Trump basically defunding critical race theory in the
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federal government and why I think that is such a wonderful thing. And then we are going to talk
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a little bit about what that is and why I think the church is failing in regards to pushing back
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against critical race theory and some thoughts that I had over the weekend. You know what happens when
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you're unplugged from social media? Your mind, it seems like, has more room to be creative and
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imaginative and to think thoughts that are outside of what's going on right in front of you,
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which I think is very healthy and good. I just think about this as an aside, but I think about
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in high school how I didn't have all of this social media. We have Facebook, but I'm not even sure we had
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the Facebook app on our phones. And when I was in high school, I graduated from high school in 2010.
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So I don't even remember when the iPhone came out and when I got one or like when all of these apps
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were on our phone. But I know that we didn't have Snapchat. I know that we didn't have Instagram and
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we didn't have Twitter and we just weren't political. I mean, I remember Barack Obama becoming
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president when I was in high school, but we just didn't really talk about a lot of these controversial
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issues and we just weren't plugged in and in the know, which maybe was not great in high school.
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Maybe we should have been more plugged in and more knowledgeable, but it did allow us and it allowed
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our minds to have space to think about other things. And so I spent my nights when I was in high
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school reading. Now I was talking to my mom about this the other day. The things I was reading were
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trashy teen fiction novels. They were like Twilight and what else was it? Avalon High, things like that
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in high school that probably had no intellectual benefit, but I was reading some other things too.
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I was reading some C.S. Lewis. But anyway, I still think that reading those trashy novels was better
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for my brain than it would have been, you know, scrolling on Instagram or using Snapchat or whatever
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it is. I just fear for young people today that one, they're overly politicized because they're so
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plugged into social media 24-7, but also that their minds are not given the same challenge that
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generations before them were when we were in high school and we were younger. We had
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no option but to read and to do things that were actually a little bit, at least intellectually
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stimulating. And I think that's part of the reason why we see so often young people today,
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one, they can't write. A lot of young people just cannot write. They have terrible grammar and they
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have just an inability to articulate any kind of critical argument. Not all of them, but a lot of
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them. And I'm afraid it is because they are so plugged into social media. So anyway, this is my
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encouragement to you, whether you are a teenager, my age, older, to unplug from social media, even if
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it's just a few days, give your mind a little room to breathe, maybe do some journaling. That always
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really helps me kind of get my thoughts flowing. And so I will read to you or I will talk to you
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about some of the thoughts that I was having over the weekend as I was unplugged from the news.
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Okay, first, let's talk about Candace Owens and Cardi B. I don't have to tell you guys who these
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people are, right? Well, maybe some of you don't know who Cardi B is. She is a female rapper. You
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know exactly who Candace Owens is. I've had her on my podcast. I was on her podcast for the second time,
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her PragerU podcast this past Sunday. So if you haven't watched that on PragerU's YouTube channel
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or listen to it on the PragerU Candace Owens podcast, then you can go do that. We had a
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wonderful conversation about motherhood. You probably saw she announced that she is expecting
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and just how to prepare the future generations for all the craziness that's to come. So make sure
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you go listen to or watch that. But Candace Owens was also on a podcast, the Ben Shapiro show.
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And she basically said on that show that look, Cardi B is not a great representation for women.
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And she specifically talked about not being a great representation for black women. And she agreed
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with Ben Shapiro's viral take on WAP that it is not empowering, that it is inappropriate,
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that it's embarrassing, that this is not like a trophy of feminism, but that it's actually something
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that self-respecting women should reject and should be embarrassed by. Basically, I'm summarizing some
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of her thoughts. That's not exactly what she said, but she agreed with Ben Shapiro and she posted about
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this on Twitter and she tagged Cardi B while Cardi B could not resist responding. And let me just read.
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Well, it'll be interesting me trying to read and decipher some of the things that were said here
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by Cardi B. But Candace Owens says this on Twitter first, since most black people didn't have the
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spine to admit that Ben Shapiro was 100% correct about I am Cardi B and how her music and platform
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contributes to the disintegration of black culture and values. Here you go. And then she posts the video
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as well. Cardi B responds. You want to know why Joe got to talk to me, Candace? Because I have
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the number one song and yet my sister can't go to the beach in the Hamptons without Trump supporters
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harassing because they were by themselves in Santa Claus was harassing my sis GF all because they are
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Afro Hispanic gay couple. And then she posts this video of these two white men, I guess, talking to her
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sister. If I can interpret this, her sister, she is saying is a lesbian with the woman that she was
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with on this beach at the Hamptons and these Trump supporters apparently came up to her and were
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harassing her. I'm not totally sure what this had to do with the conversation. And I don't think Candace
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did either. Candace replies like this. To clarify, Joe Biden, quote, got to talk to you because you have
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the number one song and Santa Claus was harassing your sister. OK, thanks for clearing that one up. I am Cardi B.
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Well, that's her handle. That's why I'm saying that. This is how she responds to Candace. Yes,
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you are right. I have the number one song and I have a huge platform and I can make millions go vote
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and to get to get the man that used you. I don't want to argue with you, Candace. I really don't
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have the time. I honestly just feel sorry for you. Candace then responds. Lastly, asking racist Joe
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Biden to lower your taxes in the same breath that you asked for free universal health care
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is about as thick as it gets. When you stick to music, you can get left alone. When you dabble in
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politics, you will get called out for platforming ignorance. Cardi says, well, paying taxes is
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something that as much as I hate, it's a reality I will always have to pay. OK, I don't think that's
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something that Candace was contradicting in her tweet. But I rather my tax money go to free
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education than police funding. Use my money on something useful. Your president use our tax money
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to fund his empty campaign runs. OK, so there's a lot of mistruths in that. I don't know if it's
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even important to fact check Cardi B, but our education funding has gone up exponentially since
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1960. Our spending per student has gone up exponentially since 1960. And yet school performance
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or student performance has not gone up. Teacher salaries have not gone up, as we talked about
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in the episode on school choice with Corey DeAngelis. That is in large part because of the corruption of
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the teachers unions, how they are managing the funds. They are not actually ensuring that teachers are
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getting paid more and they're not actually looking out for the well-being of the students,
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unfortunately. And so we don't actually need more education funding. We need better use of the
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education funds that we have. And to say that our funding going towards the police isn't going
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towards a good use. I mean, it's really, really hard to imagine that you have spent any time,
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which I know Cardi B has, but this is still such a naive statement that you've spent any time in
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crime-ridden areas where women and children are very vulnerable to the criminals there. And the only
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line of defense that they have between the criminals in their area and themselves is the police force.
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Police presence is the most important in these high crime, high poverty areas. Rich people like
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Cardi B are always going to have her personal security, her private security, but the people
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who can't afford that, they need the police. And if you are a compassionate person who cares about the
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least of these, which Cardi B claims to, then you should be glad that your tax dollars are going
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Okay, so that's what Cardi B said. And then Candace replies, you are encouraging millions to go vote for
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the man that locked up entire generations of black men. Maybe go Google Joe Biden in 1994 crime bill.
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Joe Biden used you. Bernie Sanders used you. Neither of them like or know your music. That is,
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I would say, guaranteed true that they do not know any song that Cardi B has ever done. They think
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you're dumb. Hashtag Trump 2020. Ouch. Cardi B, this is kind of long, but you wanted me to go
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through this. You wanted me to break down what's happening, and I just want to make sure that you're
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following all of it. Cardi B says, and you are encouraging millions to vote for a man who laugh
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every time a black man gets killed by a cop. Really? Do people laugh and tell millions of
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Americans to drink bleach? Okay, that obviously never happened. Trump didn't even have you talking
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at the Republican convention. He thinks you're dumb. Massa, did you dirty, but you mad at me?
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Question mark. Oh, man, you guys. Candace responds. Produce the clip of Trump laughing at black men
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getting killed. You lying fraud. Number two, I turned down filming a spot for the RNC convention.
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Number three, you encourage millions of young girls to spread their... Whoa. Okay, this is... Hang on.
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We're getting into some explicit territory. If you're listening with kids, you might want to fast
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forward. Number three, you encourage millions of young girls to spread their legs, and you admitted
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to date raping men, so don't even start on the bleach lie. That is true about Cardi B admitting to
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date raping men and stealing their money. That is something that she did, according to her, when she
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was young. And it's just crazy that the Me Too movement doesn't extend to admitted sexual assaults
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by women toward men, and that Joe Biden would do an interview with her, someone who has admitted
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to date raping men and then stealing their money. Like, is this someone that we are upholding as a
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hero? This is a serious person that you want to be interviewed by when you were the candidate for the
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president of the United States? I mean, just put aside all of her terrible music. I mean, this is the
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kind of behavior that she admitted to. We don't even know the things that she didn't admit to.
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Why are we engaging with that? Why are we legitimizing that? And why are we glorifying that?
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She's got another response, Candace does. Number one, your tax dollars already go to free education,
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genius. Number two, no campaign uses tax dollars for funding. That is illegal. Number three,
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defunding police initiatives have led to 200% increases in Black men getting shot in inner cities.
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Stop supporting Black people dying. Candace, again, I'm almost six months pregnant and had
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to rip. I am Cardi B a new WAP. Watch here. Good night, fam. Hashtag Trump 2020 all day,
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every day. I am Cardi B, your baby singing WAP, WAP, WAP. This, um, well, I just can't. I,
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you can read it if you are watching on YouTube, but I cannot repeat the next few words for this
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podcast. Wow. This keeps going guys. I did not know that this, okay. Am I going to be okay? We're
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almost done. We're almost done. Candace says attacking an unborn child. How very Democrat of
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you. While I have you, did you know your party has supported the slaughter of over 18 million Black
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babies since 1973? Fact check. True. Did you know the most unsafe place for a Black child is
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in the mother's womb because of your party, says Candace? Um, and then Chuck Ross says this,
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this genius of talking to Cardi B is one of the only people allowed to interview Joe Biden so far
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this year. And that is, that is true. And so they also went back and forth on Instagram.
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They did some stories and then Cardi B got into some like really strange territory. If you didn't
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think that it was strange enough, what was she was saying on Twitter about Santa Claus didn't even
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follow that. But then on Instagram, she posted some, she posted some weird pictures and some
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videos of like a doll or like a troll doll. I don't even know what it was like speaking. Like she was
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speaking for the troll doll and she was, or she was holding the doll in the picture while she was
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speaking in the background. And it was very strange. I think Candace Owens broke Cardi B.
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This obviously really bothered Cardi B. And she kept on saying over and over again, I don't have
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time for this. I'm done with this. I'm done with this. I don't have time for this. And she kept on
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going over and over again. And look, I'm not denigrating Cardi B. I know that she is very popular.
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She has the number one song, I think internationally now. And so, you know, she has, she went from nothing.
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She went from being poor. I don't really know her story, but according to her, she went from being
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poor, being a stripper to now being a millionaire rapper. And so she obviously has a lot of
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entrepreneurial spirit, whether you love her or hate her. So I am not trying to denigrate her for
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the sake of just putting her down. Obviously, when it comes to politics and when it comes to being a
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moral example, Cardi B is not the person that I would go to, which is why I think it's so ridiculous
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that Joe Biden went to her for an interview when he keeps on turning down people like Chris Wallace
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on Fox News, whom we know is a fair journalist and who pushes back against Trump and Republicans a lot.
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That probably would be a really good interview. And yet Joe Biden is turning that down. He's turning
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down all kinds of hard hitting interviews because he knows that he can't handle it. His campaign knows
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that he can't handle it. His campaign has a lot of discernment in that regard. Some of that
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discernment, I actually wish that Donald Trump's campaign sometimes in the past would have with
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particular interviews. But they understand that he doesn't get any benefit, Joe Biden, from
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being in front of the camera because he is not well spoken. He can't remember the last thing he
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said. He can't remember the thing that he's going to say. He campaigns much better when he is not seen
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nor heard. And so they are hiding him. But they realize that with someone like Cardi B, she's not going
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to ask some hard hitting question that he doesn't know how to answer, that he's just going to be able
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to kind of sit there and nod along as she says things that don't make sense. And because she's
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popular and she has a lot of followers, people are going to watch it. I don't think it's going
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to move the needle at all for Joe Biden. But I understand why marketing wise they chose Cardi B.
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But from the stance of, OK, substantive dialogue and being able to see what this candidate is made of,
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which I don't think we've been able to see with Joe Biden. Yes, he's been in politics for 47 years
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without much positive to show for it. But who is he going to be as president? We don't really know
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because he's not taking interviews. Cardi B is not going to ask him any hard hitting questions
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when he does do rarely when he does do these press conferences or when he's asked questions by
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the press. They ask him questions about Donald Trump like they don't ask him, OK, what are your
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ties to China? What are your son's ties to China? Can you kind of clarify your position on X, Y, Z?
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Hey, hey, you blamed the violence a couple of weeks ago on right wing militias. Do you have any
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evidence of that? We do not have a media besides some in conservative media who will fact check
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Joe Biden. That's just the fact of the matter. Doesn't matter if he lies. Doesn't matter if he
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exaggerates. It doesn't matter if he forgets what he was going to say and misspeaks. They continually
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give him the benefit of the doubt. They're not going to hold his feet to the fire because they so
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badly want Trump to win. And so that, of course, is Trump to lose. That is why, of course, they
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chose his campaign, chose Cardi B to be his interviewer. Now, what I think about that whole
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exchange, I mean, obviously, Candace is going to dominate Cardi B in these kinds of conversations,
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probably in any conversation, any kind of conversation or discussion about anything
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substantive. Honestly, it was hard for me to read. It was a little bit hard for me to watch. I just,
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it was like a train wreck. I just kind of wanted to look away because you almost start to feel
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sympathetic. You start to feel bad towards Cardi B because she has stepped into a realm that she
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just knows nothing about. And Candace knows a lot about. And whenever you do that, you are getting
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into very dangerous territory for yourself, at least PR wise. I'm sure Cardi B's publicist would
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really, would really hope for her not to have these conversations. And yet here she is doing just
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that. Now, my thoughts on the song WAP. As I said, I don't have, I don't have a whole lot of thoughts.
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Like it's just another crazy, sexual, explicit rap song. She has sung similar songs before other
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female rappers have sung similar songs before. This is not the first one. I've heard a little bit of it.
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I haven't even heard the whole song. I've read the lyrics, but the tune, of course, the beat is
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catchy. And that is why so many people are singing it. And so many people are saying that this is their
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like female empowering feminist anthem right now. And a lot of people are saying, okay, well, this is
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just so empowering because for so long, men have said this about us. Men have objectified us. And now
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we get to objectify ourselves. Isn't that awesome? Like, isn't that awesome that we get to embrace
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our sexuality and our sensuality and guys don't have to sing about those things for us. So that's
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the argument that I'm hearing that WAP is so empowering. But here's the question that you have
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to ask is, is objectification good? Like, is it good for women to be objectified? Is it good for women
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to be seen as sexual objects? If yes, then you shouldn't have any problem with men objectifying
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women in their songs. And I guess you wouldn't have any problem with women objectifying themselves
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in their and their songs. But if objectification is wrong, like if you think it's wrong when men
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objectify women, then you would logically think it's wrong when women objectify women as well,
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or when women objectify men. Is objectification wrong? Of course, as a Christian, I believe so,
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because people are not sexual objects. Like we are more than that. We are people with souls. We are
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made in the image of God. We have value and sexuality and sexual acts actually have an impact
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on our soul. It's not just a performance. It's not just something you do. It's not just a physical
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action. It has an effect. It has an impact on your soul. The Bible says that as Christians,
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our bodies are dwelling places for the Holy Spirit. So they matter. Of course, if you're not a
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Christian, that reality isn't there, but you are still a human being made in the image of God
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with great and immense value. You have a soul that is going to live forever. And I believe that there
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is something better for men and women than objectification. That doesn't mean that sexual
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desire is wrong. That doesn't mean that sex is wrong and bad. Of course, God has placed sex within the good
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and beneficial and productive and beautiful confines of covenant marriage. And that is where
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I believe in Christians believe sex and sexuality thrives and is meant to remain. And when it goes
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outside of that, you see something like WAP. You see the objectification of men and women in the name
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of empowerment. But again, is objectification good? Is objectifying yourself as a sexual object or someone
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else's sexual object good? Is it productive? Is it empowering? Does it lead to people being happy and
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healthy or does it lead to people being hurt? And so this argument that men have been objectifying us
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for so long, now we get to objectify ourselves. That just doesn't make a whole lot of sense. That's
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like saying, okay, well, this man has abused me for so long. Now I'm going to take this matter into my
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own hands and abuse myself. No, abuse is wrong. Wouldn't it be better to not be abused altogether?
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Like if you think that objectification is wrong, then you should push back against the objectification
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that has existed in rap music for decades and has existed in other kinds of music. It's not just rap
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music that has talked about women as sexual objects to just be kind of used and abused. But I don't see
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how it's empowering or advancing women for us to talk about ourselves as objects to be used and
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abused. If objectification is wrong, then it's wrong, no matter who is saying it. If someone is
00:24:52.060
saying mean things about you, is it empowering for you to say mean things about yourself? Or is it better
00:24:56.800
for no one to be saying mean things about people? I think the answer is obvious. But of course, we see
00:25:02.220
the faulty logic, if you can even call it logic, the illogic of the world when it comes to empowerment.
00:25:07.520
You might have listened to my replay episode on Monday, Why Feminism Will Fail You. There are,
00:25:13.800
if you haven't, go back and listen to it. There are constant contradictions when it comes to feminism.
00:25:18.240
It is the best the world can do to uplift women. But as Christians, we don't need that. Like we have
00:25:24.140
the most empowering, the most inspiring, the most confidence-inducing material in the Word of God that
00:25:30.700
says women are made with equal dignity to men. We are made equally in the image of God. Yes,
00:25:36.720
we have different proclivities. We have different inherent strengths and weaknesses. Our strengths
00:25:43.060
and weaknesses complement men's strengths and weaknesses. We have different roles. We have
00:25:48.700
different responsibilities within the church and within the family. But God values women. We see
00:25:53.460
that throughout Jesus' life, that He values the women that He created, that He extends attention,
00:25:59.540
He extends nurturing, He extends forgiveness and grace to women throughout His life and throughout
00:26:06.740
His ministry. And so we don't need feminism and the contradictions of feminism and the glorification
00:26:13.700
of objectification of feminism in order to, as Christian women, feel empowered. We have everything
00:26:21.460
that we need for confidence, for confidence, for godliness, for peace about ourselves and who we
00:26:27.940
are in Christ in the Word of God. Does that make the Word of God a feminist document? No, that makes it the
00:26:34.260
Word of God. Like we don't need to adopt worldly ideologies or worldly philosophies or worldly trains of
00:26:42.080
thought in order to feel empowered and cared for as women. We just need God, who He is and who He says that
00:26:49.220
we are according to His Word. That's all we need. Now, this is the verse that I think specifically speaks to
00:26:56.940
this song, WAP, and why I didn't want to say anything about it, because this verse, I think, speaks enough. It
00:27:02.860
speaks everything that I think about it and everything that I think Christians should think about it. And I think that
00:27:07.740
should be the end of the story. Philippians 4, 8. Most of you who grew up in church know this verse. Finally, brothers,
00:27:15.160
whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever
00:27:21.720
is commendable. If there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these
00:27:28.000
things. Obviously, this doesn't just apply to that song. It applies to all things. And of course, we pray
00:27:34.940
for discernment and for wisdom in knowing what that is. But those are my final thoughts on it. I think
00:27:40.560
there's been a lot of analysis on it. And you guys probably already knew what I was going to say.
00:27:46.960
Okay, moving on to this next story that I'm just so excited about. So President Trump, he has decided
00:27:55.420
that he is going to defund, he is going to make sure that taxpayer funds are not going towards the
00:28:03.040
teaching of critical race theory in federal agency. So there was a segment on Tucker Carlson last week
00:28:09.380
that I am assuming that President Trump saw. I watched it with a man named Christopher Ruffo,
00:28:14.620
who I will actually have on this podcast in a couple weeks, who reported that in the FBI and
00:28:20.940
other federal agencies, they are teaching critical race theory. Now, if you have listened to my podcast
00:28:25.520
for any amount of time, if you listen to or watched the episode with Neil Shenvey from a few weeks ago,
00:28:32.540
if you listen to or watch the episode with Votie Bauckham or listen to or watch the episode
00:28:37.540
with Monique Dusan, I highly recommend you doing that, you can just type in on your podcast app,
00:28:44.800
relatable Monique Dusan or relatable Votie Bauckham or relatable Neil Shenvey, and it will come up and
00:28:50.640
you can listen to that. And they're also on YouTube as well. Then you know what critical theory is critical
00:28:55.740
theory is the study of power structures. And it views everything, everything, every situation in the
00:29:02.180
world, every bit of data, every bit of history from the lens of the oppressed versus the oppressor.
00:29:09.400
And it uses your group identity. So it uses your skin color, your sexual orientation,
00:29:14.980
your gender to categorize you and particular group identity categories and assigns oppression points
00:29:23.940
based on your group identity. The least oppressed being the straight white cisgender male,
00:29:30.700
the most oppressed being the opposite of that. So if you are black, you get oppression points. If you're
00:29:35.520
a woman, you get oppression points. If you are gay, you get oppression points and so on and so on.
00:29:41.260
And this is how critical theory looks at the world. So it's not really interested in looking at
00:29:46.660
objective truth or objective data. It is interested in looking at the standpoint of the oppressed.
00:29:54.300
That is how their world is interpreted. And we've talked about the problems with that. For example,
00:30:00.240
the 1619 Project presents itself as real history of America. And the lead essayist in that project,
00:30:08.980
Nicole Hannah-Jones, has since come out and said, no, it's not supposed to be real history. It's not
00:30:13.800
supposed to be objective truth. This is a narrative. We're challenging a narrative, of course, using this
00:30:18.860
idea of critical theory. Critical race theory is looking at everything primarily through the lens of
00:30:25.420
black versus white or white versus non-white, all white people being oppressors, all non-white people
00:30:31.860
being oppressed, and white people, all white people owing non-white people, no matter the experiences
00:30:37.840
of individuals in each group, owing them capital, owing them power, owing them deference, and all of
00:30:45.780
these things. And so you can see the problems with this. Critical theory and critical race theory
00:30:51.060
do not view people as individuals. It doesn't care about your experience as a white person,
00:30:55.960
whether you've been poor, whether you've been abused, whether you've been oppressed in your life.
00:31:00.000
It cares about the experiences or even the perceived or inherited experiences of non-white people.
00:31:09.180
And so in this way, they believe all white people are racist. All structures built by white people are
00:31:14.540
white supremacist structures. Therefore, America is a white supremacist structure. Therefore,
00:31:19.240
it needs to be taken down to the ground and destroyed and rebuilt in this intersectional
00:31:24.200
critical race theory way, which we don't even know what that is. But this is a form of Marxism.
00:31:31.020
Marxism is a communist philosophy that says it is the proletariat versus the bourgeois, the working
00:31:39.400
class versus the rich. And in the same way that he wrote in the Communist Manifesto that the
00:31:45.220
proletariat need to have an uprising to take over the rich and to take their capital and to take
00:31:50.300
their property and to take their stuff. Critical race theorists say that non-white people need to do
00:31:56.140
the same for white people who have been their oppressors for hundreds of years. So that's how
00:32:01.080
the theory goes. It has to really warp some history and warp a lot of data and warp a lot of inconvenient
00:32:09.240
facts in order to fit this narrative. And yet that it does.
00:32:12.700
And so President Trump made an announcement that he is going to make sure that this is not allowed,
00:32:18.620
that our taxpayer dollars are not paying for this when it comes to federal agencies. So here is
00:32:28.540
It has come to the president's attention that executive branch agencies have spent millions
00:32:32.620
of taxpayer dollars to date training government workers to believe divisive anti-American propaganda.
00:32:38.420
It is true. It is divisive anti-American propaganda. And let me just say something that Neil Shenvey
00:32:44.020
and Monique Dusan have both said. Critical theory is not unifying. So it's not going to be the thing
00:32:51.200
that brings us to, quote, racial reconciliation. It is not going to be the thing that brings us
00:32:57.460
together because it says that white people are always guilty. You'll always be racist, no matter what.
00:33:02.420
And that non-white people don't have moral agency, that nothing is actually their fault.
00:33:07.380
That's never going to bring two people together. That's always continually going to divide. And yet
00:33:12.500
that is what is being taught, not just in these federal agencies, but it's being taught in all
00:33:16.720
diversity and include inclusivity trainings in corporate America right now and in schools by
00:33:23.440
teachers unions. By the way, the letter goes on to say, for example, according to press reports,
00:33:28.540
employees across the executive branch have been required to attend trainings where they are told
00:33:32.440
that virtually all white people contribute to racism or where they are required to say that
00:33:36.700
they benefit from racism. In some cases, these trainings have further claimed that there is
00:33:41.600
racism embedded in the belief that America is the land of opportunity or the belief that the most
00:33:46.420
qualified person should receive a job. So their critical race theory says that that is bad.
00:33:52.720
Goes on to talk about where this training is coming from and where it's going on.
00:33:57.980
One, in the meantime, all agencies are directed to begin to identify all contracts or other
00:34:05.720
agencies spending related to any training on, quote, critical race theory, white privilege,
00:34:11.200
or any other training or propaganda effort that teaches or suggests either one, that the United
00:34:16.360
States is an inherently racist or evil country, or two, that any race or ethnicity is inherently racist
00:34:21.820
or evil. Duh, because that's racist. So it's good that President Trump is against this.
00:34:26.820
In addition, all agencies should begin to identify all available avenues within the law to cancel
00:34:31.800
any such contract and or to divert federal dollars away from these un-American propaganda training
00:34:37.360
sessions. Yes and amen. This is so good by President Trump. I am so thankful for this.
00:34:44.160
This is an instance in which being a cultural warrior, being a cultural warrior is good. And him
00:34:50.880
watching Fox News is good. This should not be going on in our FBI and in our federal agencies. Our
00:34:57.420
taxpayer dollars should not be contributing to this divisive, anti-American, anti-white,
00:35:04.600
anti-capitalist propaganda. I mean, this stuff is cancerous. It really is. And the wider it spreads,
00:35:12.040
the more it infects people's minds. This stuff is going on in elementary schools, as young as kindergarten,
00:35:16.480
even preschool. I mean, this stuff is insidious. This stuff is bad. This stuff has to be pushed
00:35:22.320
against. And I commend President Trump for for making this effort. You can guarantee that under
00:35:28.060
Biden and Kamala, this stuff will be spread everywhere and they will make sure that our
00:35:33.700
taxpayer dollars are funding it even more than they already are. And let me give you an example
00:35:38.580
of this diversity and includes inclusivity training. So this is a video that has been going around.
00:35:45.320
I don't know where it is, where it's actually from. I don't know what corporation brought this person
00:35:54.360
in, this person named Ashley to come in and have this training, but someone filmed it and they posted
00:35:59.360
it on social media. Here is a clip of what was going on there. All white people are racist. So I put this
00:36:09.300
up because I really want any white person in the room to know upfront that this is what we're dealing
00:36:14.660
with, that it's not going to be this coddling of white tears and what that looks like. We're not
00:36:19.820
going to discuss, oh, maybe some of us have worked it out. No, you're always going to be racist,
00:36:24.320
actually. So even when you're on your path to trying to figure out how to be a better human being,
00:36:29.880
because I believe that white people are born into not being human, like that actually, instead of
00:36:36.060
people of color and black folks being dehumanized, that actually everyone is dehumanized off
00:36:41.420
within white supremacy, that y'all are born into a life to not be human. And that's what y'all are
00:36:46.740
taught to do, to be demons. Okay, so all white people, she says, are demons. They are subhuman
00:36:53.920
white people. She said we are born subhuman, which is actually an argument that I heard the leader of
00:37:00.280
BLM in Toronto, Canada. She made the same argument. And unfortunately, this is an idea that is going
00:37:06.760
around. And she is saying it to white people's faces. She is saying that all white people are
00:37:12.340
racist. Not only that, but you're subhuman and you're demons. And if you're not watching, she also
00:37:17.080
has on the on the paper that she has this written down that all white people are racist. She has her
00:37:23.740
PayPal. So she wants white people to pay her, I guess, because they're white and she's black and she
00:37:30.420
is pretending that she is oppressed, even though she has this job that's probably making plenty of money
00:37:35.260
telling white people that they're racist. Like in what how many other countries like are you free
00:37:41.480
to make money from that? Capitalism is crazy, man. And so she is telling these white people that
00:37:48.560
they're demons, but they also need to pay her like this is what's going on in these diversity and
00:37:53.760
inclusion trainings. And it's not only racist, but it's destructive and it's divisive. And it's just
00:38:00.080
going to create resentment and bitterness between people of all types. This is not creating the
00:38:04.820
reconciliation that we want, which is exactly why I think that it is so unfortunate and so sad when
00:38:10.880
you see Christian leaders kind of latching on to this thing, saying all white people are guilty.
00:38:15.560
All black people are alleviated from any responsibility or any moral agency for what
00:38:19.980
they do, because they're just products of oppression and everything they do is a product
00:38:23.980
of oppression. And all white people are at least complicit, if not actively racist, even if you don't know
00:38:29.120
their heart. And so they preach to white people about their white privilege and they preach to black
00:38:33.620
people about their oppression when really what both groups need is the gospel. As we've talked
00:38:38.160
about before, Ephesians says that Jesus brought the two groups, the Jews and the Gentiles together by
00:38:44.100
tearing down the dividing wall of hostility. How? Through critical race theory or critical religion
00:38:49.640
theory? No, through himself, by offering himself as the reconciling sacrifice, the reconciling
00:38:56.840
sacrifice of a sinful people to a holy God. And in that way, by reconciling the sinful people to a holy
00:39:06.300
God, he also reconciled two disparate groups, two far apart groups, the Gentiles and the Jews. If he can
00:39:13.540
do that just by being our savior and being our redeemer, then he can reconcile any two groups. And I do
00:39:21.800
believe in racial unity. I believe in the unity of the church, unity under truth, unity under love,
00:39:28.620
unity under the gospel. And I know that critical theory in any form is not going to get us there.
00:39:34.200
It is not biblical to say that one group is inherently more guilty or complicit because of
00:39:38.400
their skin color. And one group is less responsible for their sins and in less need of repentance because
00:39:44.160
of their skin color. You are doing an eternal disservice to your congregations if that is what you're
00:39:49.060
preaching. Because one group is going to feel like they carry a responsibility for the actions of other
00:39:55.560
people that they don't actually carry. And that is actually going to inhibit them from the repentance
00:40:00.040
that they really need in their own individual lives. And it is going to convince another group that they
00:40:07.560
are not as responsible for their own sins, that they are going to be given some kind of a pass for
00:40:12.980
their sins because it's just the product of oppression. That ain't going to fly before the judgment
00:40:17.680
throne of God. It's not. So if you care about your congregant souls, white, black, brown, whatever
00:40:23.420
it is, then you need to be preaching the gospel. And again, does that mean, as I've said so many times,
00:40:28.960
does that mean that we don't care about justice? Does that mean that we shouldn't say racism is a sin?
00:40:34.740
No, I don't believe that at all. Of course, racism is a sin. You can't love God and hate your brother,
00:40:40.960
1 John says. And any kind of ism, sexism, ageism, ableism, that hates or demeans someone because of some
00:40:49.380
kind of immutable characteristic is, of course, hate. And it should be rejected by a Christian. And if you talk
00:40:55.260
about that, of course, I think that is okay. But pretending that racism can only happen in one group of
00:41:04.040
people or only does happen among one group of people with a lower melanin count or pretending
00:41:09.660
that injustice only happens from one group of people with a lower melanin count or the opposite,
00:41:15.480
by the way, I don't think there's anyone preaching the opposite. But if you are preaching complicity or
00:41:21.820
guilt based on your skin color and alleviation or abdication of responsibility because of your skin
00:41:30.300
color, then you are not preaching the gospel and you are not preaching truth. You are preaching
00:41:33.880
critical race theory. And that means you are going to divide your congregation. You are going to lead
00:41:39.300
them down a divisive and a bitter and a malicious path that will hurt their theology. It will wreck their
00:41:46.420
entire theology. Unfortunately, Pastor Eric Mason, from the things that I have seen of him recently, he has
00:41:52.020
gone down this path of saying that the reason he said this multiple times recently, that the reason why, in his
00:41:59.180
words, some black people have gone down the path of African spiritualism or bad theology is because of
00:42:08.160
whiteness and is because of white churches. And so again, no responsibility for the false teachers within
00:42:15.260
communities. But it's actually the fault of another group. And he makes it seem in some of the sermons that
00:42:22.740
he has posted on Twitter recently that it is the black church that has been systemically wronged.
00:42:32.220
And because of that, they are going to be rewarded in a particular way, and they are not going to be
00:42:37.120
held responsible for certain things in a particular way. And maybe I hope I'm not misinterpreting that.
00:42:42.420
I hope that I'm wrong on that. I hope that maybe the clips that have been posted are wrong on that.
00:42:48.400
But he is certainly an example of someone whose theology has just been absolutely wrecked by
00:42:52.980
critical race theory, along with Carl Lentz from Hillsong. Now, he's not someone that I would say
00:43:00.420
had this solid theology and that I would have gone to as a teacher and now has been led astray. I think
00:43:07.360
it seems that his theology has always been on shaky ground. Whenever you have someone unable to
00:43:14.340
say publicly, yeah, abortion is wrong, abortion is a sin, this is what I think about that. I think
00:43:20.120
that it's always a good question just to take a second look at what their theology and what their
00:43:24.680
worldview is. I say that as someone who has been in those situations many times and has had to say
00:43:29.660
very uncomfortable biblical things in front of people that I disagree with. I'm much more
00:43:34.860
disappointed by people in the church and their lack of discernment than I am the world's lack of
00:43:40.300
goodness. The world, according to the Bible, is supposed to be foolish. The world is supposed to
00:43:45.700
embrace stupidity like critical race theory. They're supposed to be confused. They're supposed
00:43:51.340
to not know what truth is. They're supposed to be deceived. Jesus himself says their father is the
00:43:57.420
devil, whom he calls the father of lies. They're supposed to be blind. They're supposed to be joining in
00:44:03.060
with movements like Black Lives Matter and buying into false narratives and linking arms with destructive
00:44:07.480
movements that present a facade of righteousness, but underneath are just death and decay. They're
00:44:12.100
supposed to be doing that. That is in their nature. As Ephesians 2 said, they says they are dead in their
00:44:17.800
sin. They follow the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of
00:44:22.780
disobedience. They are supposed to be confused. But the church isn't. The church is not supposed to be
00:44:29.000
confused. The church is supposed to be truthful. Our God is the source of truth. He is truth. Jesus says,
00:44:35.940
I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the father except through me. Jesus says,
00:44:42.220
the truth will set you free. Jesus says, sanctify them, father, in truth. Your word is truth. We
00:44:48.720
have the truth. We shouldn't be confused about all of this. We shouldn't be confused by critical theory
00:44:54.520
and critical race theory. We shouldn't be confused about whether or not it is biblical and going to lead
00:44:58.620
to reconciliation. We know what leads to reconciliation. God is the giver of wisdom. If we ask for it,
00:45:05.940
he will give it to us without reproach, as the book of James says. And if we seek it according to
00:45:10.940
the book of Proverbs, we will find it. We are not supposed to take our cues on justice, on race,
00:45:17.480
on unity, on reconciliation from the world. If the world is raising their fist in solidarity,
00:45:23.220
that is the first sign for us to wonder if whether or not our hand should be down. If the rest of the
00:45:30.100
world, whether they believe in God or not, is doing something, we should probably ask ourselves if we
00:45:35.540
need to be doing that thing too. We shouldn't be falling in with the mainstream just because it's
00:45:41.120
popular. And if something is popular and mainstream, that's a really good time for us to take a step back
00:45:46.640
and say, what does God's word say about this? If the world, for example, is justifying rioting and
00:45:51.940
looting, then we shouldn't be. If the world is adding anger to anger and resentment to resentment and
00:45:57.820
injustice to injustice and division to division, then we should not be.
00:46:02.440
I was reading Proverbs 1 over the weekend, and I thought it was just so appropriate with what
00:46:07.280
we are talking about right now. I'm going to read you some of it.
00:46:12.020
To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise
00:46:17.200
dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity, to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and
00:46:22.660
discretion to the youth. Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands
00:46:27.680
obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles.
00:46:33.260
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge. Fools despise wisdom and instruction.
00:46:39.900
And then it goes on to a father is talking to his son about resisting sin and sinners.
00:46:47.400
My son, if sinners entice you, verse 10 says, do not consent. If they say, come with us,
00:46:53.300
let us lie in wait for blood. Let us ambush the innocent without reason. Like Sheol, let us swallow
00:46:59.720
them alive and whole. Like those who go down to the pit, we shall find all precious goods. We shall
00:47:05.420
fill our houses with plunder. Throw in your lot among us. We will have one purse. My son, do not
00:47:12.020
walk in the way with them. Hold back your foot from their paths, for their feet run to evil, and they
00:47:17.820
make haste to shed blood. For in vain, a net is spread in the sight of any bird. But these men lie
00:47:23.740
in wait for their own blood. They set an ambush for their own lives. Such are the ways of everyone
00:47:28.400
who is greedy for unjust gain. It takes away the life of its possessors. So he is talking about
00:47:34.920
sinners and how they are looting. They are killing. They are murdering. Their feet are swift to shed
00:47:43.140
blood. They are looking for trouble. They are looking for death. They are looking for destruction.
00:47:48.240
They are looking to satisfy their own desires in a way that is destructive toward other people and
00:47:57.800
destructive toward society. And this father to his son is saying, resist that and remember what your
00:48:04.420
mother and I have taught you. Remember wisdom, love instruction, love discipline, love discernment,
00:48:12.680
and all of these things start with a fear of the Lord. And so we are seeing right now the difference
00:48:19.500
between wisdom, what wisdom looks like, and a lack of wisdom looks like. Literally, in the streets,
00:48:25.120
we are seeing a lack of wisdom, a lack of a love of discipline, a lack of a love of instruction.
00:48:30.460
And unfortunately, a lot of these kids, a lot of these young adults that are out here doing the
00:48:34.920
things that they are doing, destroying entire cities in the name of so-called justice, which their
00:48:39.600
definition of justice, of course, is not God's definition of justice. They probably lacked what
00:48:49.240
Hear, my son, your father's instruction and forsake not your mother's teaching. A lot of these people
00:48:54.120
either didn't love their mother and father's teaching or they didn't have a mother and father
00:48:58.820
that taught them the good wisdom and the fear of the Lord that parents are supposed to teach their
00:49:03.360
kids so they can resist the path, the destructive path of sinners whose feet are swift to shed blood.
00:49:11.000
And so we see in Proverbs 1 exactly how we are supposed to be, exactly the kind of life that
00:49:16.700
we are supposed to lead, exactly the kind of behavior that we are supposed to resist. And that
00:49:21.260
comes from, one, the fear of the Lord, and two, the wisdom and the direction and the discipline
00:49:25.560
of parents. And we are seeing a dereliction of duty right now in the streets of one pastors and two
00:49:32.520
fathers. And no, it's not all the responsibility on these two groups because people do make their
00:49:39.100
own decisions. People who have great pastors and great dads can still go out and be derelicts.
00:49:44.380
They can still go out and be bad people. But I think so many of the problems that we are seeing
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right now, so much of the chaos is because of a lack of strong male leadership, both in the pulpit
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and at home. And we see from Proverbs 1 how important that is. So we as Christians, that's what we need to
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be emphasizing. The importance of, one, fearing the Lord, knowing that that is the beginning of
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knowledge, as Proverbs 1 says, the discipline, the direction, the instruction, the love, the care
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of parents in guiding their children and helping them resist sin. And we also see the stark contrast
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between what the world looks like, which is a very clear description of some of the things that are
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going on in our streets, and what we are to look like. We are to resist that. We are to seek
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justice, love, mercy, and walk humbly with our God, as Micah 6.8 says. We have to know what justice is
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according to God's word, which is we have talked about on this podcast many times. Justice doesn't
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mean retribution, doesn't mean revenge. It doesn't mean rioting and looting. God is very clear about
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the protection of personal property, as we have also talked about. The Ten Commandments says,
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do not steal, but it also says, do not covet. So you can't even want your neighbor's stuff. That is how
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important. Private property is according to God's word. So that author who says, in defense of looting,
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that's just a Western prescribed personal property is just a Western prescribed white supremacist idea.
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No, that's actually God's idea that dates back a lot longer than America has. We know that justice,
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according to God's word, is four things. It is truthful, it is proportional, it is direct, and it is
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impartial. And we have talked about the verses that point to that. So you can go back and you can listen
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to some of the episodes that we've done on justice. I think last Monday, we did an episode on justice.
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So you can go back and listen to that. So yes, we do justice according to Micah 6-8, but we know what
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justice looks like. And it is not. It is not what the world says it looks like. The world's definition
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of justice is what Proverbs 1 looks like. The description of the sinners going out into the streets
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and killing people and looting and plundering and causing chaos. That is not what justice looks like
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according to God's word. And it makes me sad that there are people within the church who are weak
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on this and who are teaching the theories, like critical race theory, that is actually just
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exacerbating this and justifying this instead of preaching the gospel, which is the only thing
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that unifies and is not even preaching. Every pastor, by the way, needs to preach a sermon on
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justice. What is justice according to God's word? What is the role of the government? What is the role
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of the family? What is the role of the church? What is the role of the individual? Every pastor needs to
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be preaching that, that God's justice has a definition, that God's role of the government
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is defined, that God's role of the family, that God's role of the church, that God's role of the
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individual is defined. What does it mean for these entities to seek God's justice? And unfortunately,
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a lot of the people that are quoting Micah 6, 8 to do justice and love mercy, they are not walking
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humbly with their God. And so they take this word justice and they misconstrue it and they define it how
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they want to define it. But we know that understanding what justice looks like, according to Proverbs 1,
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it starts with a fear of the Lord. So that was a little bit rambly. I know we kind of went down
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several different avenues, but those are the thoughts that I was having over the weekend as I am just
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continually saddened by the lack of discernment that a lot of professing Christians have in this area,
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buying into a false narrative and using worldly prescriptions for spiritual problems. And it's just
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not what we are called to do. As I've said several times, Christian, you are bound to the truth.
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