Relatable with Allie Beth Stuckey - September 16, 2020


Ep 301 ｜ When Lies Spread Like Wildfire


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On today's episode of Relatable, we discuss the latest in the Black Lives Matter protests and the riots that are still going on in America's major cities. God is sovereign over all of it. He is in control of the mess and is not limited by time or space.

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00:00:00.000 Hey guys, welcome to Relatable.
00:00:11.400 Happy Wednesday.
00:00:12.560 I hope everyone has had a wonderful week so far.
00:00:16.200 On Monday, we continued our election series.
00:00:19.600 We talked about immigration.
00:00:21.400 That's a hot button issue for a lot of you and a lot of your friends, especially for
00:00:25.940 Christians, knowing what is going on at the border and how we are treating migrants.
00:00:31.520 So go back and listen to that episode.
00:00:33.280 It's a very complicated subject.
00:00:35.400 We just didn't have time to go into all the facets of it.
00:00:38.260 If you want more detail on our immigration system and some of the problems with it, you
00:00:43.320 can go back and listen to an episode that I did last summer called Immigration.
00:00:48.480 Just type in Relatable Immigration wherever you get your podcasts and you will be able
00:00:53.840 to listen to that and learn a little bit more about our very complex and bogged down immigration
00:01:00.800 system in the United States.
00:01:02.720 Today, we are going to talk about the latest in police shootings and the riots that are
00:01:09.140 still going on in the country.
00:01:11.580 There's still chaos that's waging.
00:01:13.380 Maybe you've noticed that I've posted about this less on Instagram, and that is because
00:01:20.220 as I said last week, I am trying to be on Twitter left.
00:01:25.020 That is where I am seeing a lot of the depictions of the violence that's going on.
00:01:30.140 And I think it's really important to stay in the know.
00:01:32.480 I think it's important for me to keep you all in the know and to know the things that
00:01:36.380 are going on in America's major cities.
00:01:39.460 But at the same time, sometimes it's just too much.
00:01:43.600 It's not that I want to put my head in the sand and pretend like nothing bad is going
00:01:49.140 on, but it's just easy to get overwhelmed.
00:01:52.460 And sometimes we have to take a step back and realize that the realist reality, as we've
00:01:57.960 talked about on this show, is God's eternal plan of redemption that has not faltered, that
00:02:02.960 has not been hindered, that has not been paused, that has not been messed up or thwarted in
00:02:08.140 any way, as Job 42.2 says, I know that you can do all things and no plan of yours can
00:02:13.840 be thwarted.
00:02:14.720 No plan of God's can be hindered or stopped in any way.
00:02:18.720 And that is ultimately the plan, the track that we are on.
00:02:23.740 God is above all the mess.
00:02:25.340 He's above all the chaos.
00:02:27.120 He is not limited by time and space.
00:02:29.380 So that means that he is not going along this path of life in the same way that we are.
00:02:35.140 He is sovereign over all of it.
00:02:36.720 He is suspended in the eternal now.
00:02:39.340 So he is not looking at what's going on and wondering what's going to happen next, how
00:02:43.040 he is going to have to come in later and clean up the mess.
00:02:46.140 He is completely in control.
00:02:48.660 He is immovably on his throne.
00:02:51.320 And sometimes I have to take a step back from social media and the news to remind myself
00:02:56.440 of that.
00:02:58.000 Again, that doesn't mean that you have to deny the craziness that's going on or that you
00:03:02.000 can't simultaneously remember God's sovereignty and be in the know because you can.
00:03:07.380 And I try my best to do that.
00:03:09.860 But sometimes, sometimes you just need a break.
00:03:13.720 Nevertheless, today, I need to get back into it and just remind you of the things that are
00:03:19.320 going on in America's major cities.
00:03:21.480 There has been a report that has been circulating for the past week or so that 93% of the Black
00:03:28.160 Lives Matter protests are peaceful.
00:03:30.320 And a lot of you guys have sent me that and have said, my friend sent me this.
00:03:34.100 Can you please respond to it?
00:03:36.400 Well, I don't have that much to say about that.
00:03:38.880 That doesn't surprise me at all, actually.
00:03:42.260 I don't think that that makes a difference to me.
00:03:45.880 That doesn't make a difference in the argument that riots and looting are bad.
00:03:49.880 I have always said from the beginning after the George Floyd incident, I have said we should
00:03:55.720 not conflate the violent looters and the protesters and the arsonists with the peaceful protesters
00:04:03.800 that these are different demonstrations.
00:04:05.820 Sometimes there is crossover in the people and there is a crossover of mission and purpose
00:04:11.260 a lot of times, but they're not the same groups of people.
00:04:14.780 Sometimes they don't have the same aims and sometimes they do not even share the same
00:04:20.940 values or anything like that.
00:04:22.980 And so we should not conflate the peaceful protests.
00:04:25.780 Whether or not we agree with the reason for the peaceful protests, we cannot conflate that
00:04:30.720 with the rioters and looters.
00:04:32.380 I have said that from the beginning.
00:04:33.840 They are distinct.
00:04:35.740 The media have actually been the ones doing the conflating much more than the people on the
00:04:43.040 right have.
00:04:43.720 Uh, they claim every time someone criticizes the looters or criticizes the rioters that
00:04:49.200 we are criticizing racial justice, so-called racial justice, or we are criticizing peaceful
00:04:55.100 demonstrators and protesters when that's just not the case.
00:04:57.940 Like I said, I don't agree with most of the protesters and their aims.
00:05:02.440 And I think the media hypocrisy covering the protests versus covering church gatherings in
00:05:08.200 regard to COVID, uh, uh, uh, the COVID, uh, and the threat that those gatherings pose.
00:05:14.680 I think that that is appalling.
00:05:16.580 I think that the hypocrisy is laughable, but I do believe in these protesters, right?
00:05:21.820 To protest peacefully, COVID or not, without government interference, not without argumentation and
00:05:27.680 not without criticism, but without government interference.
00:05:31.120 Um, are all BLM protesters or activists rioting and looting and burning and killing people?
00:05:37.980 No, of course not.
00:05:39.000 But is BLM and their supporters, are they, uh, their supporters on the laps?
00:05:44.960 Are they denouncing the rioting and the looting and the killing of cops?
00:05:48.760 No, they're not.
00:05:50.060 No, they're not.
00:05:51.140 Um, at least not Black Lives Matter, the organization.
00:05:54.120 There might be people that support Black Lives Matter that are denouncing the shooting of police
00:05:59.560 officers, but as an organization, the core of the movement.
00:06:03.000 No, they're not denouncing these things.
00:06:05.220 Remember, Ayanna Pressley, as we talked about a couple of weeks ago, she said on MSNBC,
00:06:09.940 there must be unrest in the streets as long as there is, quote, unrest in our lives.
00:06:15.700 AOC said that people are going to loot and riot and commit crimes as long as, uh, we do not meet
00:06:22.980 their economic demands.
00:06:25.220 Uh, we have heard that riots are the voice of the unheard.
00:06:28.660 That's that decontextualized quote from Martin Luther King in an attempt to defend, destroying
00:06:34.620 people's property who committed no crime.
00:06:37.920 Nicole Hannah-Jones, who is the lead essayist of the 1619 Project, she said, burning down
00:06:43.660 property is not violence.
00:06:46.100 We have heard that property can be replaced, um, that businesses have insurance.
00:06:50.420 And so it's really not that big of a deal and that we shouldn't have anger about those
00:06:54.680 things.
00:06:55.000 CNN stood in front of Kenosha, Wisconsin, when it was burning down to the ground and
00:07:01.420 said the demonstrations were mostly peaceful.
00:07:03.380 So the left, the media have been carrying water for these violent protests, whether or
00:07:08.500 not they were the majority of these protests.
00:07:12.760 Uh, the ones that were violent, that are violent, the minority of these protests that were violent
00:07:19.340 have been defended by the left and by the leftist media.
00:07:22.580 So that 7% means that even though it's not fair to characterize every supporter of BLM as
00:07:29.040 violent by any means, it does mean that the movement as a whole and the organization itself
00:07:34.100 is supportive of it.
00:07:35.880 It certainly will not come out and say, hey, this is bad.
00:07:39.460 This is not what we're about.
00:07:40.740 This is not what we're fighting for.
00:07:42.180 It is what they're fighting for.
00:07:43.840 There's a reason why you will not hear the leaders of BLM talk about Sequoia Williams,
00:07:48.880 the eight-year-old black girl that was murdered by a BLM writer in Atlanta after Rayshard Brooks,
00:07:54.720 an armed suspect, was shot and killed.
00:07:57.200 Or Antonio Mays, the 16-year-old black boy killed by a BLM and Antifa activist in Seattle
00:08:02.580 a couple months ago.
00:08:03.580 Or David Dorn, the black former police chief murdered by a Black Lives Matter looters who 0.98
00:08:09.180 not only murdered him, but also live streamed his murder on Facebook.
00:08:14.580 They're not going to criticize the rioters.
00:08:17.260 And so you're not going to hear them say these people's names.
00:08:20.340 They are on the side of the rioters.
00:08:22.400 They believe that this is just a part of the justified uprising.
00:08:28.300 You will not hear BLM or any of their supporters or Democratic politicians talk about the black
00:08:33.560 lives lost to the rioters because most, if not all of them, believe the violence is a necessary
00:08:39.860 pushback to oppression and that all the anger and the reactions are justified.
00:08:47.520 Now, that doesn't mean that you won't have some Democratic politicians coming out and saying,
00:08:51.520 hey, guys, looting and violence is bad because we finally got them to say that a couple weeks
00:08:56.680 ago when the polls came out saying that Americans actually care about this stuff and that they're
00:09:01.200 feeling unsafe in cities that are run by Democrats.
00:09:04.300 So you did get some Democratic politicians saying, hey, maybe this isn't the best tactic.
00:09:08.900 But overall, they, of course, support the movement and they support the resentment that is behind
00:09:14.520 the movement.
00:09:15.340 There is also a more sinister aspect to this movement and the violence that's going on across
00:09:21.980 the country.
00:09:22.500 As Andy Ngo wrote for The Spectator a couple months ago, this is also about purposely inhibiting
00:09:27.800 economic recovery in an effort to help Democrats and subvert capitalism.
00:09:33.020 Ngo has been following closely and studying these movements for years.
00:09:37.680 He writes this for The Spectator.
00:09:39.160 At its core, BLM is a revolutionary Marxist ideology.
00:09:44.640 Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi and Patrice Kohler's, BLM's founders, are self-identified Marxists who
00:09:50.700 make no secret of their worship of communist terrorists and fugitives like Assata Shakur.
00:09:55.860 They want the abolishment of law enforcement and capitalism.
00:09:59.620 They want regime change and the end of the rule of law.
00:10:02.820 Antifa has partnered with Black Lives Matter for now to help accelerate the breakdown of society. 1.00
00:10:08.080 This is absolutely true.
00:10:10.220 Go back and listen to episode 272 of Relatable called Which Black Lives Matter?
00:10:16.040 We talk about the history of the organization and the violent communist regimes the leaders
00:10:21.160 have openly supported.
00:10:22.640 We talk about what Marxism actually is.
00:10:25.440 You might hear that word a lot.
00:10:26.840 You might even hear evangelical leaders say, oh, talking about biblical justice isn't Marxism.
00:10:31.340 No, talking about biblical justice isn't Marxism.
00:10:33.680 Talking about Marxism is Marxism, though.
00:10:35.940 And you have to make sure that your definition of biblical justice is biblical and not Marxist
00:10:40.660 because Marxism isn't biblical.
00:10:42.420 So go back and listen to episode 272, where we really go in depth into who these people
00:10:48.700 are and what this organization is.
00:10:50.700 By the way, Carl Lentz, pastor at Hillsong NYC, has elevated Alicia Garza proudly as a member
00:11:07.320 of his church.
00:11:08.420 This is the same person, this pastor, who wore a no justice, no peace shirt in an interview
00:11:13.820 with Emmanuel Akko.
00:11:15.260 You know Emmanuel Akko from Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black man. 0.85
00:11:20.340 A lot of people have asked me what I think about that.
00:11:22.260 He seems to have a very compassionate and good heart with, I think, pure motives and a
00:11:27.960 good aim.
00:11:28.820 I think the conversations do the same thing as a lot of left-wing conversations do.
00:11:33.840 They point to disparities and they say that this is without a doubt due to discrimination.
00:11:39.540 And as those of you who are reading Discrimination Disparities with me by Thomas Sowell in our
00:11:46.240 Facebook book club right now, you know that that is a faulty argument, that that's just
00:11:50.460 not true.
00:11:51.180 And I think that it takes one particular story and it extrapolates it into a larger narrative.
00:11:58.140 And I don't think that that is helpful.
00:12:00.520 Doesn't mean all the conversations that he holds are bad by any means.
00:12:03.920 Doesn't think that it doesn't mean that I think that he is a bad person.
00:12:06.620 But I do think that many of the conversations start with a faulty premise that is not being
00:12:11.320 challenged.
00:12:12.620 And in that way, some of the parts of the conversations are not helpful and they're not moving the
00:12:17.680 ball forward.
00:12:18.180 And I would include the conversation with Carl Lentz as that, as unhelpful is what I mean.
00:12:25.700 And he wore the shirt, no justice, no peace, in this conversation.
00:12:31.580 And as Thomas Sowell says, no justice, no peace is a phrase that sounds good if you don't think 0.86
00:12:36.040 about it.
00:12:36.540 And it's horrifying if you do.
00:12:38.320 Everyone thinks that their cause is just.
00:12:40.380 So does that mean that everyone can create anarchy and disturb the peace until they get
00:12:45.320 their way?
00:12:46.120 And by the way, I would ask this pastor, what do you mean by justice?
00:12:51.400 What do you mean by no peace?
00:12:53.020 Is it biblical to destroy property and livelihoods until your group's demands are met? 0.89
00:12:58.240 Always, always, whenever you're talking to people that make these very catchy phrases
00:13:03.040 and they repeat them, always ask them what they mean.
00:13:07.600 Always require them to define their terms exactly.
00:13:11.160 Keep pressing them.
00:13:12.220 What do you mean by justice?
00:13:13.860 What do you mean by no peace?
00:13:15.700 Do you have an example of how this has worked?
00:13:17.760 Do you think this is moral?
00:13:18.980 Is this backed up biblically?
00:13:21.480 Can you show me the facts to back up this particular assertion?
00:13:25.240 What do you think about looking at this particular phrase from a different angle?
00:13:28.980 Well, what about this logical conclusion that this seems to be pointing to?
00:13:33.580 I think asking clarifying questions to people who use these social justice phrases that sound
00:13:40.200 really good and sound very catchy, I think that's probably the best way to engage with these people.
00:13:47.680 This movement would not have legs if it weren't for the theologically and politically confused
00:13:53.340 evangelical leaders that are running cover for it.
00:13:55.520 And yet here we are, as I have said, we are seeing not only the depravity of man and the deceit of Satan and all of this,
00:14:02.360 we are also largely seeing the failures of pastors, of professors and parents on full display.
00:14:09.700 People are very confused and people are engaging in chaos.
00:14:13.840 That is not justice, not according to God's word.
00:14:16.540 And God is the creator of justice.
00:14:18.420 He's the definer of justice.
00:14:20.500 Andy Ngo's article goes on to say this, quote,
00:14:22.620 The U.S. is getting a small preview of the anarchy Antifa has been agitating, training and preparing for.
00:14:29.440 Indeed, law enforcement is a precondition for Antifa and BLM's success in monopolizing violence. 0.58
00:14:35.400 Those who are harmed first are the weak and vulnerable, the people who cannot protect themselves.
00:14:40.760 Small business owners in Minnesota pleaded for mercy,
00:14:43.540 even putting up signs and messages in support of the writers, but to no avail.
00:14:47.160 The destruction of businesses we're witnessing across the U.S. is not mere opportunism by looters.
00:14:53.260 It plays a critical role in Antifa and BLM ideology.
00:14:56.740 Their stated goal is to abolish capitalism.
00:14:59.240 To do that, they have to make economic recovery impossible.
00:15:02.820 Antifa sees a once in a lifetime opportunity to exploit an economically weakened America during the coronavirus pandemic.
00:15:09.800 Remember, we talked about a couple of weeks ago, I think it was exactly two Wednesdays ago, September 2nd,
00:15:17.740 about the article in NPR interviewing the author of the book In Defense of Looting.
00:15:23.080 The author declared looting as a tool against capitalism.
00:15:28.160 It is the opposition against the idea of private property.
00:15:33.320 Private property is something that Marxists, a.k.a. communists, do not believe in.
00:15:38.040 That is why BLM, as a Marxist, communist supporting organization, is for that.
00:15:43.820 It is why Antifa is for the looting.
00:15:46.520 That is why this whole movement, that is what this whole movement is essentially about.
00:15:51.020 Not about defeating racism, but about destroying capitalism, the Western rule of law, individualism, the church.
00:15:58.360 Anything that has existed as a pillar in American society has made America both good and great.
00:16:05.560 But they want to destroy.
00:16:07.340 The author of the book also finished this book in April and claimed, quote,
00:16:12.040 a new energy of resistance is building across the country.
00:16:15.380 Now, I'll remind you, April is before the George Floyd incident, when all of these riots started happening.
00:16:22.920 The reaction to all of these incidents that are happening with police brutality are planned.
00:16:28.820 They have been planned for a long time.
00:16:30.820 It is orchestrated. It is organized. It is well-funded.
00:16:35.340 It has been in the making for years.
00:16:38.740 COVID and specifically the lockdowns and the economic distress that they cause were the perfect setup for the chaos that we are seeing right now from these left-wing groups.
00:16:47.940 That's not a conspiracy theory.
00:16:49.660 I'm not saying that all of these Democratic politicians are in cahoots necessarily, knowingly, with BLM and Antifa or that COVID was manufactured for this reason or that these incidents are manufactured for these reasons.
00:17:02.360 I'm not saying that.
00:17:03.500 I'm saying that they are using the opportunities that they have, this perfect storm that has been created to accomplish their goals.
00:17:09.780 And they accomplish their goals through violence and chaos.
00:17:11.940 These radical leftist groups used these crises and the unnecessary draconian measures Democrats used to combat the crisis as a springboard for a movement that they have been planning for a very long time.
00:17:25.580 And the George Floyd incident served as the perfect flashpoint for it. 0.88
00:17:29.240 And I think that most people do not realize this.
00:17:33.000 Most people who posted a black square or are using the hashtag or who are talking about systemic racism, I think they believe that they are doing good.
00:17:42.140 But it is a false narrative.
00:17:44.180 America in 2020 is not systemically racist.
00:17:47.300 There is no evidence that police officers are targeting black people with fatal force or that the police force is systemically racist.
00:17:55.460 We have gone through these points so thoroughly and so often.
00:17:59.240 On this podcast and several episodes.
00:18:01.480 So you can go back and listen to several of those episodes if you're interested in the facts on that.
00:18:07.400 That doesn't mean for the one millionth jillionth time that I am denying the existence of racism or that I don't think that racism is a problem.
00:18:15.840 It doesn't mean that I don't think that there are problems that disproportionately affect black Americans.
00:18:21.580 I do.
00:18:22.600 And I would love to talk about those and to present solutions to those.
00:18:26.200 And I actually have in the past.
00:18:28.160 I think school choice is a solution.
00:18:30.800 I think that making sure that Planned Parenthood isn't targeting predominantly minority communities is a good solution.
00:18:40.200 I think that a lot of the communities that are majority minority are run by Democrats that have been in power for decades and decades and have used their power against their constituents.
00:18:54.580 Not to actually help their constituents, but just to maintain power themselves.
00:18:59.440 I think that the Democratic Party and some of these major cities that they are so corrupt and that they have such a monopoly on the political power in these largely black communities that people have not been able to escape. 0.97
00:19:18.360 Their constituents have not been able to escape their iron thumb.
00:19:22.080 So I think that there are big problems in these communities.
00:19:25.000 And so I am not saying that there are no issues here.
00:19:28.960 I'm not saying that there's no discrimination, that we have no prejudice.
00:19:32.300 I'm not even saying that there are no racist police officers or that injustice doesn't exist in our justice system or that I'm denying that we have had deep problems, deep racism problems in our nation's past.
00:19:46.080 But I do reject the premise of BLM and Antifa that say that says that America is evil and racist to its core and that in 2020 we live in a white supremacist anti-black society, that capitalism is bad, that the existence of the police force is racist or even that a significant portion of the police force is racist.
00:20:08.120 I reject that.
00:20:09.420 That doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
00:20:11.140 That doesn't mean that we shouldn't talk about it where it does exist.
00:20:13.760 Of course we should.
00:20:14.600 Racism is evil.
00:20:16.180 It is a sin.
00:20:17.380 It's wrong.
00:20:18.340 But when we assume that racism exists where it doesn't or hyperbolize its place in America today, all we do is divide and shame and slander and perpetuate false narratives.
00:20:30.360 And that is also wrong.
00:20:31.400 The fact that most people do not know the names of any unarmed white people shot by the police last year, of whom there are more than black unarmed people, the fact that most people don't know the names of police officers murdered or the names of black children murdered in the streets of Chicago
00:20:48.980 and New York every weekend tells us that this is not a movement based on justice, but on a particular narrative they believe will usher in the kind of left-wing, collectivist, intersectional future that they want.
00:21:01.700 But remember, Christian, as we talked about either last week or a couple weeks ago, I don't remember.
00:21:07.660 God does not care any less about David Dorn than George Floyd.
00:21:11.540 He is not angrier when a black person dies by the hands of a white police officer than he is when a white person dies by the hands of a black person or a baby is dismembered in the womb. 0.85
00:21:22.340 God's anger toward injustice and murder does not increase or decrease based on the skin colors of the people involved, which means neither should ours. 0.53
00:21:31.700 As we have also talked about so many times on this podcast, God is an impartial God who demands that we show partiality to neither the rich nor the poor, to no one.
00:21:43.300 But in righteousness, God says we are to judge our neighbor.
00:21:46.900 We are to judge each and every situation.
00:21:49.500 You would think based on the outrage, the selective outrage and the social media posts of many social justice Christians that God only cares about injustice when certain races are involved.
00:22:00.440 You would think, according to the things that they say in post, that God is actually very partial, that somehow he is less angered when a white image bearer is murdered or when a black image bearer is murdered by another black person.
00:22:13.400 Newsflash, he is not.
00:22:14.860 He's not.
00:22:15.400 And thank God for that.
00:22:16.840 But this, of course, is how the worldview of critical race theory wrecks people's theology, even and especially when they don't know that they have been influenced by critical race theory.
00:22:27.000 Go back and listen to my conversation with Monique Dussain.
00:22:31.340 Go back and listen to my conversation with Vodhi Bauckham and Neil Shenvey if you want to know more about critical theory and critical race theory and why it is incongruent with the Bible, incongruent with the gospel.
00:22:43.160 The God of critical race theory is very biased, very selective in his outrage.
00:22:47.800 It's extremely graceless, offers no path to redemption for people with less melanin. 1.00
00:22:52.840 And this is all why, even though I support the NFL, for example, I support the players' right to kneel if their employers allow them to do so, I do not agree with the premise of their protest.
00:23:05.200 Same with the NBA or anyone else.
00:23:07.400 Their outrage is selective and it is based on a false premise.
00:23:11.760 And with the NBA especially, there is so much undermining hypocrisy.
00:23:15.540 Remember, the NBA actively profits off the slave labor in China because of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.81
00:23:23.940 They set up a training camp in a prison state in China and they refuse to criticize them.
00:23:29.640 A racist, bigoted and even anti-African regime who is currently colonizing Africa and South America.
00:23:36.160 And they do this while they are claiming, the NBA does this while they are claiming that Black Lives Matter here, a place that has created a sports organization comprised of Black American millionaires with more privilege than the vast majority of white people will ever have.
00:23:51.640 But we allow for this kind of hypocrisy.
00:23:54.760 We celebrate this kind of hypocrisy.
00:23:56.980 So many people either support it wholeheartedly or they tacitly support it or they just don't talk about it.
00:24:02.180 So it's a movement, a mostly destructive movement that is taking over politics, taking over corporate America, sports, Hollywood, every segment of our society, even parts of the church.
00:24:14.440 And anyone of note who speaks out about it is immediately lambasted as a hateful racist.
00:24:19.700 As if you can't have a problem with anti-capitalist extremist groups and still love non-white people. 0.81
00:24:26.340 But that is what they do.
00:24:27.800 That's what white fragility does.
00:24:29.440 That's what the, quote, work of anti-racism does.
00:24:33.840 If you stand against their movement, no matter what all the movement is for, that makes you a racist.
00:24:38.240 Not because of anything you've ever thought that are done, but simply because of who you are, your skin color and your assumed privilege and your politics.
00:24:48.900 But that is that's the whole point.
00:24:51.100 That's the point of a phrase like Black Lives Matter.
00:24:54.460 It is effective propaganda.
00:24:56.200 No one disagrees with that phrase, which they shouldn't disagree with that phrase.
00:24:59.820 And no one does disagree with that phrase.
00:25:01.780 And that makes it very hard to disagree with the organization or the movement without being accused of disagreeing with the phrase.
00:25:08.320 And that is strategic.
00:25:09.600 That is purposeful.
00:25:10.680 That's what Noam Chomsky calls perfect propaganda.
00:25:14.060 That's the whole point of good propaganda.
00:25:15.900 You come up with a phrase that no one can disagree with because it doesn't mean anything.
00:25:19.540 And in the case of BLM, the phrase means a lot of things that have nothing to do with black lives.
00:25:24.560 And when we support the movement, which says ACAB, which I'm about to say a bad word.
00:25:30.840 So parents, if you're listening with your kids, ACAB, which means all cops are bastards, which is their slogan, and that there are no good cops in a racist system.
00:25:38.560 When you have someone like Kaepernick wearing socks that depict cops as pigs, when you have BLM rioters in Ferguson several years ago chanting that cops are pigs and they should fry like bacon, then you get the dehumanization of an entire group, police officers, which will inevitably, which does, which is leading to violence against the group.
00:25:59.980 It always has.
00:26:00.860 Dehumanization has always done this, and it always will.
00:26:03.620 When our country dehumanized black people, we saw violence against black people and slavery of black people.
00:26:09.480 As our country dehumanizes unborn babies, we slaughter thousands of them every day.
00:26:14.020 When Germany dehumanized Jews, they threw them in concentration camps and tortured and killed them.
00:26:19.800 And now you have a movement dehumanizing police officers that corporate America, that sports organizations, that Hollywood, that the entire Democratic Party supports and part of the church supports.
00:26:32.020 And they are dehumanizing police officers, not based on personal responsibility of each police officer, but based on a collective identity of cops as racist oppressors.
00:26:43.080 You get what we saw in July of 2016 in Dallas, where five police officers were shot and killed.
00:26:48.760 And what you get is police officers in L.A., in Compton, which happened a few days ago, getting ambushed in their car.
00:26:55.740 One of them, a mother, shot in the face.
00:26:58.380 And then this is the maybe not the worst part of it, but just another level of cruel.
00:27:05.000 According to the L.A. Sheriff's Department, protesters stood in front of the entrance of the hospital, blocking the entrance, yelling, I hope they die.
00:27:12.540 There's actually video footage of this.
00:27:15.020 You think that God doesn't care about this kind of wickedness?
00:27:18.820 Honestly, do you think that God looks at the people who are blocking the entrance to the hospital, saying that I hope these police officers die?
00:27:25.040 Do you think God honestly sees them as oppressed, no matter what their skin color is?
00:27:29.520 Do you think that he sees the gunman who shot these two police officers in their car as oppressed?
00:27:34.980 Critical race theory would say that they are oppressed if they're black.
00:27:38.920 I promise you, God does not see it that way.
00:27:41.420 Thank the Lord that God is a God of impartial justice.
00:27:46.360 According to FBI data, 48 police officers were murdered by suspects last year.
00:27:50.840 I guarantee that most of us do not know their names.
00:27:53.040 I know that I don't.
00:27:54.360 The number of unarmed black men killed by the police last year, 15, compared to 25 white people killed by the police,
00:28:00.340 the vast majority of whom, whether white or black, were violently resisting arrest.
00:28:04.820 Situations do happen where the cop was completely unjustified in using fatal force.
00:28:08.960 But thankfully, that is very rare.
00:28:10.860 It's tragic and wrong every time it happens.
00:28:13.040 It should always be investigated.
00:28:14.600 But it is very rare.
00:28:16.080 The fact that, you know, all 15 names of unarmed black men killed by the police last year and none of the names of the 25 white people,
00:28:26.100 except for the fact that I've read them on this podcast before, but none of the names of the 48 police officers,
00:28:32.420 when God cares just as much about the police officers as he does about the black people killed by the police,
00:28:39.280 that tells you that our outrage is being churned out by a machine that is purposely dictating what we care about for their political purposes,
00:28:47.020 not for the sake of justice, for the sake of a cultural and political reshaping of our country that they know is best accomplished through destruction and chaos.
00:28:55.440 Their revolution is hindered by the police, so they've got to go down.
00:28:58.980 Their revolution is hindered by opposition, so you've got to be silenced.
00:29:02.600 It's hindered by facts and reason and history, so that's got to be delegitimized through critical race theory.
00:29:09.200 Speaking of facts, a BLM activist ignored those while rioting in Lancaster, Pennsylvania a couple days ago.
00:29:16.580 Police shot and killed a black man there who was charging at them with a knife in his hand.
00:29:21.740 So if that is not justified, when is it justified for police to use fatal force?
00:29:26.900 You would be justified in shooting a person who charged at you with a knife.
00:29:31.140 So why is an officer?
00:29:33.440 And this is not just about the officer's safety.
00:29:37.260 This is also about the safety of everyone around them as well.
00:29:40.580 The same thing with Jacob Blake.
00:29:42.240 We've talked about that.
00:29:43.260 I know that's controversial.
00:29:44.980 But there is a lot that goes into a police officer's decision to use fatal force.
00:29:50.320 I guarantee you that that's not something that they want to do.
00:29:53.680 The same thing happened in Denver a few weeks ago.
00:29:57.000 The activists distorting facts to cause chaos.
00:30:00.520 A murder suspect shot and killed himself.
00:30:03.580 And yet activists spread the lie that the police killed him and people rioted.
00:30:08.060 Facts matter.
00:30:09.540 The truth matters.
00:30:10.480 False narratives have deadly consequences.
00:30:12.640 I have said that from the beginning.
00:30:13.660 Unfortunately, I have had friends who, in the beginning, insisted that, you know, we shouldn't
00:30:22.240 talk about facts.
00:30:23.360 We shouldn't talk about statistics.
00:30:25.580 That's lacking compassion.
00:30:27.380 That's lacking love.
00:30:28.400 We should just add legitimacy to this movement and legitimacy to the rioters and the looters
00:30:34.180 because this really is a racialized epidemic that's going on.
00:30:38.300 And that's not loving because it's not true.
00:30:41.040 I do think that we should be compassionate.
00:30:42.540 I do think that we should listen to people.
00:30:44.540 I do think that we should talk about real problems and solutions.
00:30:46.900 But I am never going to purposely, at least, be the person to perpetuate a false narrative
00:30:52.600 in the name of being, quote, compassionate, because that's not compassionate at all.
00:30:57.320 It has deadly consequences.
00:30:58.760 Some of these people are people that you follow who are angry at me for the George Floyd episode
00:31:04.640 that I did right after it happened, that I put a lot of effort into actually making as
00:31:09.860 gentle as possible while trying to present us with clarifying facts.
00:31:14.600 And thankfully, there were a lot of you who, there were tens of thousands of you, thank
00:31:18.840 God, who listened to that and appreciated that.
00:31:23.280 But unfortunately, those kinds of conversations make some people, even people on the conservative
00:31:28.100 side, mad.
00:31:29.000 But there are deadly consequences.
00:31:30.860 Like I said, two false narratives.
00:31:32.700 And it is loving and compassionate to correct the record.
00:31:36.560 I don't, I just don't see it as beneficial.
00:31:38.780 I don't see it as kind.
00:31:40.020 I don't see it as right to lie to you about, about anything.
00:31:44.700 And I certainly haven't been perfect, but I have never purposely said something that is
00:31:50.440 false to you in the name of perpetuating a narrative.
00:31:53.540 That doesn't mean that I haven't had to correct the record because I have when people have pointed
00:31:58.440 out, hey, that's wrong.
00:31:59.440 I actually have a clarification to give at the end of this episode, but it is not loving.
00:32:04.620 It is not compassionate.
00:32:05.580 It is not right to perpetuate false narratives in the name of being compassionate.
00:32:10.860 Now, there is a really interesting study that I want to look at in regards to all of this
00:32:18.040 by Pew Research.
00:32:19.580 It's titled, Voters' Attitudes About Race and Gender Are More Divided Than in 2016.
00:32:25.780 And so I asked the recipients of this poll to answer a series of questions about race
00:32:35.040 and gender.
00:32:35.880 And it's so interesting and sad how far apart the two sides are, Trump voters versus Biden
00:32:43.460 voters when it comes to things like race.
00:32:45.160 So I'm going to show you the disparities between the two sides.
00:32:48.680 So they were asked, the registered voters who were asked this question or they were given
00:32:56.060 the statement to agree with or disagree with, it is a lot more difficult to be a black person
00:33:02.100 in this country than it is to be a white person.
00:33:04.560 Seventy four percent of Biden voters said yes.
00:33:07.720 Only nine percent of Trump voters said yes.
00:33:11.120 The growing number of newcomers strengthens American, strengthens American society.
00:33:15.260 Thirty-two percent of Trump voters say yes.
00:33:17.300 Eighty-four percent of Biden voters say yes.
00:33:20.280 Islam does not encourage violence more than other religions.
00:33:23.720 Only 23 percent of Trump voters said yes.
00:33:26.380 Seventy-four percent of Biden voters said yes.
00:33:29.380 Women today still face significant obstacles that make it harder for them to get ahead than 1.00
00:33:34.200 Mitt.
00:33:34.860 Twenty-six percent of Trump voters say yes.
00:33:37.360 Seventy-nine percent of Biden voters say yes.
00:33:40.720 And also what's interesting is the difference between 2016 and 2020.
00:33:46.300 Here is a statement that Trump voters had to had to respond to and Clinton voters in 2016
00:33:53.900 had to respond to and then Biden voters had to respond to.
00:33:58.540 White people benefit a great deal from advantage in society that black people do not have. 1.00
00:34:04.180 So basically white privilege.
00:34:05.700 Only four percent of Trump voters in 2016 agreed with that statement.
00:34:10.900 Forty percent of Clinton voters in 2016 agreed with that statement.
00:34:15.420 In 2020, that only went up to five percent for Trump voters who agreed with that statement.
00:34:20.220 But it went up to 59 percent of Biden voters.
00:34:24.100 So that's a huge change.
00:34:25.820 Only 40 percent of people who said that they were going to vote for Hillary Clinton said that
00:34:30.700 white people basically have more privilege than black people. 0.79
00:34:33.540 A lot of privilege, more privilege than black people in 2016. 0.99
00:34:37.540 But 59 percent of Biden voters say that white people have a lot of advantages that black people
00:34:43.780 don't.
00:34:44.540 And then this question, it is a lot more difficult to be a black person in this country than it
00:34:48.500 is to be a white person.
00:34:50.020 Eleven percent of Trump voters in 2016 agreed with that.
00:34:54.840 Only nine percent in 2020 agree with that.
00:34:57.900 But 57 percent of Clinton voters in 2016 agreed with that and 74 percent of Biden voters in
00:35:05.280 2020 agreed with that.
00:35:06.480 So, again, you see a huge change here, not among Republicans.
00:35:11.180 Republicans have stayed basically the same on this issue over the past four years.
00:35:15.640 But if you look at the Democratic Party, that they have moved to the left on the issue of
00:35:19.800 race over the past four years is obvious by this poll.
00:35:23.060 Biden backers are more likely than Clinton supporters, according to the study in 2016,
00:35:28.920 to say the obstacles still hinder women's advancement. 0.99
00:35:32.780 Once again, Republicans have changed hardly at all when it comes to our view on this.
00:35:39.340 And yet more and more Democrats believe that women have it harder than men do in getting
00:35:45.720 ahead.
00:35:46.500 The same thing goes with Islam, that Democrats believe that it is not any more likely than 0.98
00:35:55.200 other religions to cause violence. 1.00
00:35:57.620 And so what we see is a huge change among the Democratic Party and also a huge change across
00:36:03.920 well, really just in the youngest generation.
00:36:06.960 So all generations believe that it is more difficult to be a black person than a white
00:36:13.360 person in this country to some extent.
00:36:16.020 So 55 percent of millennials believe that in 2020, 44 percent of Gen X, 37 percent of boomers
00:36:23.440 and 39 percent of the silent generation.
00:36:26.540 But only four years ago, all of these numbers were very close.
00:36:30.000 So only 40 percent of millennials four years ago believed that it was a lot harder to be a
00:36:34.020 black person, only 36 Gen X, 32 boomer and 33, the silent generation. 0.93
00:36:41.240 So that's increased for all generations.
00:36:43.680 But for millennials, it is increased the most.
00:36:46.760 And so what's interesting about all of this is that the perception of racism has changed.
00:36:51.980 And this is not just over the past four years.
00:36:54.080 If you look at another study by Pew Research, Polarization and Politics from 2017, you will see
00:37:00.700 that Democrats view on race and discrimination against black people greatly shifted in the
00:37:08.740 eight years while Barack Obama was president.
00:37:11.140 And so if you look at this poll, it says racial discrimination is the main reason why many
00:37:17.720 black people can't get ahead these days. 1.00
00:37:20.040 In 2010, only 28 percent of Democrats agreed with that statement, black, white, whatever.
00:37:25.340 Only 28 percent of Democrats, 9 percent of Republicans believed that.
00:37:29.700 From 2010 to 2017, that number among Democrats went from 28 percent to 64 percent believing that.
00:37:38.200 And so that number is even higher than when the poll started in 1994.
00:37:43.940 Only 39 percent of Democrats believed that.
00:37:47.200 But in 2017, 64 percent of Democrats said they believe that discrimination is the main reason
00:37:53.940 why black people can't get ahead. 1.00
00:37:55.340 Now, in 2017, Republicans, only 14 percent of them actually believed that.
00:38:02.380 And so that is a huge disparity between the two parties, how we actually view race.
00:38:07.580 And what we see is that it is the Democratic Party that has changed their views on that.
00:38:12.540 It is the Democratic Party that has embraced racial extremism, that has embraced critical race 0.66
00:38:17.780 theory, that has embraced intersectionality.
00:38:20.200 If you look to see there's a tool that you can use on Google that shows you when words started
00:38:26.500 to be used in the media, started to be used by Washington Post and New York Times and these
00:38:30.380 left-wing outlets, words like racism and white supremacy and intersectionality all started
00:38:37.180 being used in the past 10 years.
00:38:39.220 And it has divided us.
00:38:40.960 And I want you to ask yourself, has racism, did racism actually increase from 2010 to 2017?
00:38:47.620 Has racism in the United States after we had two terms of a black president and have had
00:38:53.780 black people increase, thankfully, in Congress and in the executive branch in various positions 0.99
00:39:01.760 as we have had more opportunities presented to people of all backgrounds in America, has
00:39:08.160 racism actually gotten worse from 1994 to 2017?
00:39:12.580 Of course not.
00:39:13.300 There is no there is no measure, no data that shows that the disparities are worse, that
00:39:20.080 racism has gotten worse, that racial animus has gotten worse, that discrimination has
00:39:24.660 gotten worse, that implicit or explicit bias has gotten worse against black people.
00:39:28.900 And yet the numbers show in the Democratic Party from 1994 to 2017 that the vast majority
00:39:35.660 of Democrats believe that the main reason why black people can't get ahead is because of
00:39:39.760 discrimination when very few, a minority, believed that in 2010 towards the beginning of Barack
00:39:44.580 Obama's presidency.
00:39:45.780 But after eight years of our black president, all of a sudden the Democratic Party believes
00:39:50.020 that discrimination is maybe worse than ever, that discrimination is now the main reason
00:39:55.700 why black people can't get ahead. 1.00
00:39:56.860 But it wasn't the main reason eight years ago.
00:39:58.820 And according to the other study that we looked at, the brand new study that says that black people
00:40:05.820 have it much harder than white people in America, a minority or at least a much lower number
00:40:12.660 of Democrats used to believe that that number has jumped dramatically over the past four years.
00:40:17.080 So, again, it is the left.
00:40:18.920 It is the Democratic Party's view on race and racism that has changed dramatically.
00:40:23.720 Republicans view hasn't changed very much at all.
00:40:26.060 And so when the Democrats point fingers to the right and say, you've changed, you've become
00:40:30.160 radical, you've become white supremacists, you've become white nationalists, you've become
00:40:34.780 these racists.
00:40:35.800 This didn't used to be the Republican Party.
00:40:37.640 The Republican views on race and racism have not changed over the past 30 years.
00:40:42.280 And actually, they have corresponded with the progress that we have made, whereas Democrats
00:40:48.360 have gone the opposite direction.
00:40:49.660 As there has been more opportunity and representation for black people in the United States, the perception
00:40:55.540 of racism has dramatically shifted to the left, has dramatically shifted to the extreme
00:41:00.240 in the Democratic Party.
00:41:01.360 And it's not because racism has actually increased.
00:41:04.020 It is because the perception of racism has become more popular.
00:41:10.140 And talking about race and racism and intersectionality and critical race theory has become more lucrative.
00:41:16.480 Just ask Robin DiAngelo, who makes six figures more than, I mean, she makes hundreds of thousands
00:41:24.420 of dollars probably every year in these sessions about white fragility.
00:41:29.500 Critical theory and intersectionality, grievance studies has all become more popular.
00:41:34.020 And so that is why the perception of racism and race has changed.
00:41:38.300 And that is why Black Lives Matter has found fertile soil in the United States and in all 0.64
00:41:44.240 the different segments of society.
00:41:46.200 And so narratives matter.
00:41:48.480 The things that media talks about matters.
00:41:51.520 The things that we talk about matters.
00:41:53.300 The movements we latch on to matters.
00:41:54.920 It changes people's perception and it encourages a particular action that sometimes, sometimes
00:42:02.220 ends in a way like we saw in Compton with the two police officers.
00:42:07.020 So we have to be factual.
00:42:09.020 We have to make sure we know what we're talking about.
00:42:10.980 We have to be truthful.
00:42:12.200 We have to look at the facts.
00:42:13.900 Join my book club where we're talking about discrimination and disparities written by Thomas
00:42:19.480 Soul, who talks a lot about these different issues from a factual and data-based perspective.
00:42:28.160 It's really important that we have a truthful handle on all of this.
00:42:33.340 OK, let's talk about the wildfires really fast.
00:42:36.580 I just want to correct the record on some of this stuff.
00:42:40.000 So what you are hearing from Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, is that this is
00:42:47.440 happening because of climate change.
00:42:49.540 That's what you're going to hear from Democrats.
00:42:50.980 They're trying to link every single crisis to Donald Trump.
00:42:55.280 It's a good political strategy.
00:42:56.760 It makes sense why they're doing it.
00:42:58.520 But the fact of the matter is this has nothing to do with climate change whatsoever.
00:43:01.800 It has to do with the natural climate of California.
00:43:05.420 It also has to do a lot with bad environmental policy.
00:43:11.020 So it also has to do with the corruption of the public unions, which we'll talk about.
00:43:15.360 The California wildfires are happening for the same reason that they are having rolling
00:43:20.020 blackouts because of these left-wing environmental policies that are meant to help the environment
00:43:26.140 of California, which is actually not helping.
00:43:28.040 It's actually doing the opposite.
00:43:29.520 California's national parks are protected from timber harvesting, and they created that protection
00:43:34.840 to ensure that there are more trees to suck up the CO2.
00:43:37.940 But when you don't have enough harvesting, you have too many trees and you increase the
00:43:41.780 chance of fires.
00:43:42.440 And fires are a huge contributor to CO2.
00:43:44.620 So it's actually doing the opposite of what they intended.
00:43:47.440 This is poor forest management in the name of environmental protection.
00:43:50.600 That's why these wildfires are happening at an increasing rate because of decades and decades
00:43:55.040 of bad liberal environmental policy.
00:43:57.880 The very powerful environmental lobby in California trying to stymie any legislative efforts to
00:44:06.640 fix the problem.
00:44:07.620 This is according to the California Policy Center's website, quote, Senator Feinstein blames
00:44:13.880 Sierra Club for blocking wildfire bill, reads the provocative headline in a 2002 story in
00:44:19.580 California's Napa Valley Register.
00:44:21.080 Feinstein had brokered a congressional consensus on legislation to thin overstocked forests close
00:44:28.220 to homes and communities, but could not overcome the environmental lobby's disagreement over
00:44:32.900 expediting the permit process to thin forests everywhere else.
00:44:37.380 Year after year, environmentalists litigated and lobbied to stop efforts to clear the forest
00:44:42.300 through timber harvesting under brush removal and controlled burns.
00:44:46.120 Meanwhile, natural fires were suppressed and the forest became more and more overgrown.
00:44:50.740 The excessive biomass competed for the same water, soil and light a healthier forest would 0.94
00:44:57.400 have used, rendering all of the trees and underbrush unhealthy.
00:45:01.500 It wasn't just excess biomass that accumulated, but dried out in dead biomass.
00:45:07.340 In 2009, after huge blazes wiped out homes and forced thousands to evacuate, Los Angeles
00:45:12.860 County Supervisor Mike Antonovich observed the environmentalists have gone to the extreme to prevent
00:45:19.460 controlled burns. And as a result, we have this catastrophe today. In 2014, Republican members
00:45:25.500 of Congress tried again to reduce the bureaucracy associated with hazardous fuel projects that thin
00:45:30.940 out overgrown forests. True to form, the bill got nowhere thanks to environmental lobbyists who worried
00:45:36.140 it would undermine the 1969 National Environmental Policy Act, the law that requires thorough impact
00:45:42.300 assessments ahead of government decisions on public lands. Representative Tom McClintock, a Republican who
00:45:48.260 represents communities in and around the Sierra Nevada mountains of Northern California.
00:45:54.020 McClintock has worked for years to reform NEPA and other barriers to responsible forest management.
00:46:01.120 The U.S. Forest Service used to be a profitable federal agency. Up until the mid-1970s, we managed our
00:46:08.200 national forests according to well-established and time-tested forest management practices.
00:46:13.280 But 40 years ago, we replaced these sound management practices with what can only be described as a
00:46:18.800 doctrine of benign neglect. Ponderous Byzantine laws and regulations administered by a growing caterer of
00:46:25.020 ideological zealots in our land management agencies promised to save the environment, McClintock said.
00:46:31.440 The advocates of this doctrine have dominated our law, our policies, our courts, and our federal agencies
00:46:36.700 ever since. The article in the National Policy Center of California says this.
00:46:43.820 Few people, including the experts, bothered to point out how overgrown forests reduce the water supply.
00:46:49.380 But when watersheds are choked with dense underbrush competing for moisture, precipitation and runoff
00:46:53.960 cannot replenish groundwater aquifers or fill up reservoirs. Instead, it's immediately soaked up by the
00:47:01.100 trees and brush. Without clearing and controlled burns, the overgrown foliage dies away. The economics of
00:47:07.800 responsible forest management, given the immensity of America's western forests, requires profitable timber
00:47:13.820 harvesting to play a role. But California has no commercial timber operations on state-owned land. And since 1990,
00:47:21.380 when the environmentalist assault on California's timber industry began in earnest, its timber industry has
00:47:27.280 shrunk, has shrunk to half its former size. Reviving California's timber industry so the collective rate
00:47:33.340 of harvest equals the collective rate of growth would go a long way towards solving the problem of
00:47:38.260 catastrophic fires. Now, so that's all that. That is the liberal environmental policy that is
00:47:45.900 legislated in the name of saving the planet, but has actually done the opposite. Gavin Newsom wants to
00:47:52.180 say that it's climate change, that that's the problem, because that allows the Democratic Party
00:47:56.420 to have more power, to have leverage over Trump, who they claim is a climate denier and they claim
00:48:01.140 is a science denier. So they are trying to blame the forest fires in California on Donald Trump's policy
00:48:06.920 in Washington, D.C. Of course, that is ludicrous. And like we have just observed, it has nothing to do
00:48:12.840 with climate change. It has to do with the California climate, has to do with the counterproductive
00:48:17.240 policies that they have put forth in the name of protecting the environment. But it's not only that,
00:48:22.560 it also has to do partly with the firefighters union, who is very powerful in California. So
00:48:29.520 the policy center goes on to say this, expect California's politically driven firefighters union
00:48:35.220 to do little or nothing to support the timber industry or rural inhabitants who don't want to move
00:48:40.180 into urban condos. As Steve Greenhut explained in a recent column in the Orange County Register,
00:48:45.540 frankly, union power drives state and local firefighting policies. The median compensation
00:48:49.700 package for firefighters has topped $240,000 a year in some locales. California Department of Forestry
00:48:56.500 and Fire Protection firefighters earn less, but still around $150,000 a year. The number of California
00:49:02.160 firefighters who receive compensation packages above $500,000 a year is mind blowing. So what that means is
00:49:10.060 that California cannot afford to hire more firefighters to fight these fires because
00:49:15.540 they're getting paid so much thanks to the union. That's what the union has lobbied for.
00:49:20.760 Public unions are very powerful. This is why I have talked about the dangers of public unions,
00:49:27.880 because your tax dollars are going towards these public unions. They are turning around and fighting
00:49:32.920 for legislation that so often works against you. And they are supporting the Democratic politicians that
00:49:39.040 support them. That's why I'm against teachers unions who do the exact same thing, by the way,
00:49:43.540 the firefighters union and yes, even the police union. I know the police union is for Donald Trump now,
00:49:49.400 because obviously the Democratic Party has completely stabbed police officers in the back
00:49:56.040 and their rhetoric towards police officers, unfortunately, is fueling this very dangerous
00:50:00.880 narrative. And so I understand their support for President Trump, but I don't believe in public
00:50:04.500 unions at all. They're completely unethical. And so often they're working against the people that they
00:50:09.180 represent. They are working against the clientele, the people that they are supposed to be serving,
00:50:13.660 and they're working against the state in general. But it is it goes hand in hand. The power usually of the
00:50:20.080 Democratic Party, 99% of the time, these public unions are supporting the Democratic Party and they support the
00:50:27.380 power of the union. And it just keeps going back and forth. And it is very corrupt. And that is what's
00:50:32.400 happening with the firefighters union in California. The article goes on to say, and when these
00:50:38.900 firefighter unions could have been pushing for legislation to clear the forest back in 2019,
00:50:43.880 where instead did their leftist leadership direct their activist efforts, they marched in solidarity
00:50:49.080 with the striking United Teachers of Los Angeles. The teachers unions have done to California's public
00:50:55.920 schools when environmentalists have done to California's forests, which is absolutely true. This teachers
00:51:01.120 union is also the teachers union who who protested a couple months ago that said, we're not going to
00:51:07.100 reopen the schools until you defund the police and unless you ensure Medicare for all teachers unions,
00:51:13.340 for the most part, do not care about teachers. They do not care about schools. And they do not care
00:51:18.600 about the students. Least of all, they don't care about the students. They care about power. That's what
00:51:22.720 these public unions are about. And so public unions, once again, are at least in part to blame for
00:51:27.540 the lack of ability to manage these fires. The state cannot control or the state cannot afford to hire
00:51:35.660 more firefighters and they desperately need it. So I just wanted to bust some myths on that. Now,
00:51:40.680 let me just talk briefly. A lot of you guys asked me to talk about Cuties. I think that we talked
00:51:45.520 about it a little bit. So Cuties is this French movie that won an award at Sundance and apparently has a
00:51:52.960 lot of has had a lot of positive reviews, but the artwork was circulating on Twitter and it was a
00:51:59.260 group of 11 year old girls, very scantily clad and very compromising and obviously sexual positions. 0.92
00:52:05.820 And it was or they were representing some kind of dance move, I guess. And it is about this young
00:52:13.480 immigrant girl, 11 years old, who joins this twerking group. And it is supposed to be, it is 1.00
00:52:21.080 supposedly a critique of the sexualization of girls. That is the people that is what the people who are
00:52:27.920 defending it are saying. And so, of course, they're saying that everyone who's freaking out about it is
00:52:33.800 missing the point that it's art, that it's actually critiquing pedophilia and it's critiquing
00:52:39.120 pressuring girls to grow up too soon or whatever. But here's the problem with it. Here's why
00:52:45.400 conservatives have a problem with it. It's not because of the artwork. Netflix said, oh, we
00:52:50.180 shouldn't have chosen this artwork for it. Well, we're not mad about the artwork. The question is,
00:52:56.420 were they really posing for the artwork? Like, were those really dance moves that they were doing on
00:53:01.260 camera? I've only seen a couple of clips. So I've seen a couple scenes from the movie and the scenes
00:53:06.660 that I saw were awful. There's a way I think that you can tell this story and critique the
00:53:11.600 sexualization of children, which I am all on board with critiquing and condemning. There's a way that
00:53:17.300 you can do that without actually sexualizing the children. I mean, the scenes that I saw of these
00:53:22.120 girls dancing, totally unnecessary. The camera angles on this, totally unnecessary. And whether you
00:53:27.640 like it or not, what you are doing is creating fodder for pedophilia. I mean, there was this podcaster
00:53:32.540 that was going around. I don't even know his name, but the video of his podcast was going around. He
00:53:36.900 was, I don't know, probably a 40 something year old guy talking about how it was hot that these girls
00:53:42.080 were doing that and how it's not his fault that he thinks it's hot because he didn't make them do
00:53:46.500 that. But that's what it is. And that's the point of this art. It's supposed to make you
00:53:50.120 uncomfortable. You're supposed to hold these two thoughts in your mind at the same time. Gross,
00:53:54.620 gross. Like that is why we are against this. Whether or not you are making some kind of
00:53:58.900 sophisticated academic statement about child sexualization, the fact of the matter is,
00:54:03.120 is that you are sexualizing children in the process. These are actual human beings who were
00:54:08.300 sexualized, who are dressed this way in front of a camera, who have no idea what they're doing.
00:54:12.360 They're 11 years old, who have no idea the kinds of sickos that are going to watch this
00:54:16.960 and who are going to love this and enjoy this and adore this movie from now on because you've got
00:54:21.940 11 year olds, 11 year old prepubescent girls twerking, doing sexual movements, touching themselves in 0.88
00:54:28.400 sexual ways, dressed in a sexual way for the camera in close up shots. And so of course you
00:54:34.740 are going to attract pedophiles and you are going to normalize the sexualization of children. Doesn't
00:54:39.680 matter what political statement you think you're trying to make with that. If you want to make it
00:54:43.780 art, if you want to make it symbolic, then make it artistic and symbolic. You can tell the story,
00:54:48.800 you can render the story in a particular way that doesn't actually sexualize the kids.
00:54:52.180 I am for obviously freedom of expression. I am for art. I believe that art can make important
00:55:00.860 points and important political points even, but not when it comes to sexualizing actual human being
00:55:07.400 children. Like you're not just talking about it. You're not implying it. It's actually happening
00:55:12.800 on camera. And it does contribute to this idea that young people should have sexual autonomy.
00:55:21.500 There was this article that said, oh, this is scary for an age that is terrified of child
00:55:34.260 sexuality. There's no such thing as child sexuality. Okay? Like let's just get that straight. There's no
00:55:40.400 such thing as child sexuality. If you think that there is such a thing as child sexuality, then you
00:55:45.500 are a creepo. You're a creepo. And the big problem with all of this is that you've got left-wing
00:55:50.560 outlets, every left-wing outlet saying that this is a QAnon conspiracy theory. That's a big problem.
00:55:57.200 If you are conflating actual pedophilia, actual sexualization of children, actual sex trafficking,
00:56:03.860 that's not in relation to this movie, but that is a problem that they have tried to conflate with
00:56:11.700 QAnon, an actual problem, something that's actually going on. Well, then you're just aiding and
00:56:17.720 abetting pedophiles and traffickers and people who want to sexualize kids. You are conflating it with
00:56:23.680 conspiracy theorists. I've talked about QAnon on this podcast before that they, and I think it's a
00:56:30.500 form of Gnosticism that Christians need to avoid. But the fact that the left is conflating real issues,
00:56:40.280 real things that are going on with conspiracy theories, they make it seem like they are
00:56:45.940 defending pedophilia. I'm not saying that they explicitly are, but it certainly makes it seem
00:56:51.880 that way. And then it also, ironically, tends to give credit to the conspiracy theorists who think
00:56:58.260 that everyone on the left is basically employing this powerful cabal to sexualize children and to
00:57:07.660 traffic children and to legitimize pedophilia. Like, if you don't want to give credence to that
00:57:13.780 theory, then you should probably not play into it by denying that these are real problems that are
00:57:19.520 happening. But they're trying to say that everyone who cares about the sexualization of children
00:57:23.840 is an alt-right QAnon troll. And that shows more about you and what you think about children than it
00:57:32.160 does about the people who are concerned with it. Like, if you can watch some of those dance scenes
00:57:36.540 with cuties and not be like, you know what? This is uncomfortable. Like, this isn't right that these
00:57:41.860 children are being exploited in this way. Then that says something about you, not the people who
00:57:46.320 are concerned with it. It's just so ironic to me that these people that are perpetually offended by
00:57:52.140 everything, that everything is a microaggression. Every hand gesture is racist. Every facial expression
00:57:59.780 is something that is offensive. Every innocuous phrase or implication or subliminal message is
00:58:09.580 bigoted and offensive and wrong. Baby, It's Cold Outside is the most offensive song out there that
00:58:16.760 should be taken off the radio. Those same people that are offended by everything have no problem with
00:58:22.160 a movie that blatantly sexualizes children. So it just seems that our society, I would say,
00:58:29.200 particularly, particularly, particularly, not completely, but particularly on the left is
00:58:33.560 outraged continually by the wrong things. They're outraged by imaginary things and not outraged by
00:58:39.360 real things. And they try to say that the things that we are outraged by are imaginary when in fact
00:58:46.460 they're not. So we just operate on two totally, totally different planes. And so that's, that's what I
00:58:54.620 think about that. Should you cancel Netflix? Um, I think that's a, that's a choice that you have to make.
00:59:00.440 There has been probably a lot of inappropriate content on Netflix before this. There's been a lot of
00:59:06.520 inappropriate content on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Should you boycott Disney Plus? Because they work with the
00:59:13.740 Chinese Communist Party. And they worked with them to create Mulan. The Chinese Communist Party is a, is a regime 0.90
00:59:21.360 that has and condones and, uh, and perpetuates, uh, slaves and slavery. So should you boycott Disney Plus
00:59:29.960 for that? Maybe. I mean, there's a lot of things that you could boycott in the name of not supporting
00:59:35.320 an organization or a business or a platform that seems to either implicitly or explicitly, uh, support
00:59:43.700 things and ideas that you don't agree with. And so you just kind of have to decide. You have to
00:59:49.660 decide if you are going to, if you're going to support them financially or not. Eventually conservatives
00:59:57.720 and Christians run out of, run out of entertainment platforms. And maybe that's a good thing. Maybe 1.00
01:00:02.780 that's how it should be. Maybe we are distracted by the wrong things and we should be focused on things
01:00:10.100 that are better, that are not making our minds atrophy, like watching hours of Netflix and scrolling
01:00:14.620 through our phones incessantly. Um, so, okay. I think that's all I have on that. And I will be back
01:00:21.160 here on Friday with an interview with Candace Owens. You might've heard of her. Okay. I will see you guys
01:00:29.560 then.