Ep 327 ｜ The Truth About Critical Race Theory
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In this episode, we are breaking down Critical Race Theory in a way that we haven't done it before. I talk about why I believe that critical race theory is a religion, a worldview, and a school of thought that has infiltrated our society and is being funded by our tax dollars.
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Hey guys, welcome to Relatable. Happy Monday. Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend. Hope
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you guys enjoyed my interview with Dave Rubin on Friday. He really is one of the easiest
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people to talk to. I've had him on the show before. I've been on his show as well. Back
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when I was big pregnant a couple years ago and that was really fun. You guys probably
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don't realize, but not everyone on the show is easy to interview and easy to talk to.
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But Dave Rubin is just one of those people that you could talk to forever. So if you
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haven't listened to that, go back and listen to Friday's episode. Today we are doing something
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that I love to do. Today's kind of episode is one of my favorite kinds of episodes, if
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not my very favorite kind of episode. And that is we're breaking down a complicated
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topic, which means that this will be one of those episodes I'm just foreseeing that people
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will go back to that you will probably share with your friends just because it is breaking
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down as simply as I can to the nitty gritty as I can, something that is very complex and
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very pervasive. And if you have listened to my podcast for any amount of time, you have
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heard me talk about this a lot and I'm sorry that I'm wearing you out with this. But even
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if you have listened to all of my episodes, I promise that this will be an important and
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edifying and informative episode for you. And we are talking about critical race theory.
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I'm going to break it down in a way that we haven't broken it down before. I'm going to
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apply it in a way that we haven't applied it before. And I'm going to link past episodes
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that we've done on it because I've had a lot of conversations with experts about it. And
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I feel like I have learned so much about this school of thought and what I'll argue is really
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a worldview and almost a religion over the past few months. My most listened to episode
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is my conversation with Dr. Neil Shenvey, who really has become the foremost Christian expert
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and critic of critical race theory. He's just a very knowledgeable, insightful, and
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very compassionate person who has made it his job to read all of these books that are
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perpetuating critical race theory and break them down using logic and also using a biblical
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perspective. And he has a website, shinveapologetics.com. I'll link it in the description to this that
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I really recommend. He does a lot of book reviews. So many of you guys have asked me,
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can you talk about Be the Bridge, for example, or can you talk about White Fragility? Can you talk
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about the, I forget what it's called, Jamar Tisby's book? And he has actually done a lot of
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work on this and very fairly, and I think kindly and honestly, reviewing these books and drawing out
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where critical race theory has infiltrated a lot of them. A lot of people don't like him because of
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this because he pushes back on this, but he's been a very good resource for me. My second most
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listened to episode, I believe, is my conversation with Votie Bauckham, where we also talk about this.
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We talk about social justice ideology. That's my most watched episode on YouTube. And so if you
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haven't listened to those or watched those, I highly recommend that you do that. I had an interview
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with Christopher Ruffo, who has uncovered how critical race theory has infiltrated our
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government agencies and is being funded by our tax dollars. He kind of helped the executive order
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that was signed by President Trump to ensure that we are not funding with our tax dollars,
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critical race theory. Of course, if Joe Biden is officially the president, he will overturn that
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and I'll be back to regularly scheduled funding of divisive ideologies. But it was it was good while
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it lasted. And I will talk about why I believe this is it is good to resist this. I'm going to break
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it down, hopefully in a way that makes it really simple and allows you to allows you to be able to
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see it in real life. So when you're scrolling through Instagram, when you see one of your friends
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share something, a lot of people buy into critical race theory without even realizing what it is or
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what they've done. Also had a conversation with Monique Dusan. She runs Center for Biblical Unity.
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Highly recommend following her and listening to that interview as well. So critical race theory,
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if you don't know, and a lot of you don't, and this is why I'm doing this episode, by the way,
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because I get so many questions on this. Still, even though we've talked about it so much,
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but people are new to my podcast or they start following me on Instagram, they see me talking about
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this and they have no idea what I'm talking about. And why would you? I mean, it doesn't seem to
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affect our everyday life. It's not something it's not a phrase that we would necessarily teach our
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children. It's not a phrase that you even hear if you're in corporate America and you're going
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through diversity and inclusivity training. They're not going to use this particular word.
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But it's important to know that critical race theory is the ideology that is behind most of these
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diversity and inclusivity trainings and why they're actually counterproductive, why they're leading
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to actually more implicit bias and a fear. Unfortunately, this is a tragic consequence of
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all of this, a fear of by employers of just a fear of running their company because they are afraid that
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they are not going to be able to meet the new standards of so-called anti-racism that is prescribed
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by critical race theorists. So let's talk about, let's talk about what it is because it really is
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so pervasive. It is a lens through which to see the world. It is, in other words, a worldview. We talk
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about worldview a lot on this podcast. It shapes how its adherents view politics, theology, personal
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interactions, education. It's described as a learning tool by people who use it, but in reality, it is much
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bigger than that. It is more central than that. It is the hub of your wheel into which all of the
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spokes of life must fit into. All worldviews are. And the worldview of critical theory views the world
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through the lens. I'm going to use a lot of vocab words today, and I italicized them in my notes
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because I might put them in the description because it's important for us to know the vocab words.
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And so we hear it, we can think critical race theory. It is viewing the world through the lens
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of hegemonic power structures. So hegemony means the dominance of one group over another group. So
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critical race theory or critical theory, you can just say critical theory, sees everything as the
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oppressed versus the oppressor. You might've heard of critical reading or critical math or critical
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describing different fields of study in education and academia. What they mean by that is very
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different than something like critical thinking. It is deconstructing those concepts until you get
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down to how they fit into this worldview of the oppressed versus the oppressor. So critical math,
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for example, in the realm of critical theory would advocate for teaching what they would call
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marginalized kids differently than you would teach white kids and you wouldn't hold them by the same
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standards because it is viewing the world, everything, every interaction, every field of study through
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hegemony, through the lens of power structures of the oppressed versus the oppressor. And in critical
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theory in general, these categories are determined by which groups have had more privilege or at least
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perceived privilege. So white rich people, Christians, straight people, so-called cisgender people,
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they are on the side of the privileged. And even in some cases, in most cases in the world of critical
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theory on the side of the oppressor, whereas black and brown people, poor people, non-Christians,
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gay people, transgender people are on the side of the marginalized or the oppressed. Now that's critical
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theory, something also known as intersectionality, where you are looking at the intersections of
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group membership that a certain person belongs to, and you are assigning oppression points based on that
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membership. So for example, I am white. That's one point against me in the camp of the oppressor,
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but I am a woman. And so I am oppressed by the patriarchy. And so I have some privilege,
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some marginalization, and those points translate into, in this world of critical theory and
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intersectionality, into social capital, into credibility. And so in the world of critical
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theory, because I have at least one marginalization oppression point, I can speak to certain things with
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a certain kind of authority, but I cannot speak to racial issues. For example, I could talk about how I've
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been oppressed by the patriarchy, but I wouldn't be able to talk about, you know, systemic racism from
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any place of authority. And so that is what intersectionality is. That is what critical theory
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is in general. And as I'll get into, although it does emphasize these superficial identity points,
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and it does say, you know, you're assigning oppression and oppressor according to your group membership
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and your identity, like skin color and sexual orientation and things like that, what it really
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prizes more than any of those things is ideology. So even though it gives me authority according to
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intersectionality as a female because of my oppression, if I were to say, for example, well, I don't believe
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that I'm oppressed by the patriarchy, they would say that I am just internalizing misogyny and that I am
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still wrong. And so even though it does try to assign authority based on your gender or based on your skin
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color, if a black person, for example, says, you know what, I don't believe that systemic racism exists
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in 2020 in America and I'm actually not oppressed and I have had equal opportunity, intersectionalist,
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critical theorist would say you're internalizing white supremacy. So even though on its face,
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it does elevate these identity points like race and gender, if you go against the leftist dogma that
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critical theory is a facade for, covers for, is a part of, then you're not actually a part of those
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groups. Does it make sense? It shouldn't make sense if you are a sane person. But I have waded into
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these waters of craziness for you so we can understand it and recognize it. So that's kind of critical
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theory, intersectionality. Let's talk about critical race theory. So critical race theory, it's a part of
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critical theory and of course intersectionality, but it categorizes people as the oppressed versus the
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oppressor, not based on all our other identity points, but primarily, if not exclusively by race. So white
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people, according to critical race theory, are the oppressors and non-white people are the oppressed,
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specifically as we've, um, as we've seen most prominently, uh, black people are part of the
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oppressed in critical race theory. White people have had privileges, according to critical race
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theory, that non-white people don't. And we're just talking about, uh, we're, we're brushing people
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with a broad brush right now because that's what critical race theory does. It's a collectivist
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worldview rather than an individualistic one. White people, according to this theory, have culpability
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and responsibility, corporate culpability and responsibility and debt that non-white people,
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uh, do not have, uh, no matter what, no matter what you've actually done in your life, no matter
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what you've actually said in your life, no matter what you have actually been actively a part of,
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it doesn't matter because your identity as a white person has given you privilege, according to this
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theory and your identity as a non-white person, as a black or brown person has, uh, given you,
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has marginalized you and has made you a part of the oppressed. White supremacy and critical race theory
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is a hegemonic power structure under which all systems and individuals are negatively affected,
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hence the term systemic racism. This is a fairly new term. So if you look on LexisNexis,
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for example, that's a really great tool to see like when words became popular and when we started
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using them, although it's been around in some form or another for a while, it just recently became
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mainstream used by politicians, used by places like the New York times and the Washington post
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used in academia, uh, academia becoming part of our social lexicon. This is a very, uh, not a necessarily
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new idea, but it is a newly popular idea in 2020. And so under critical race theory, systemic racism
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must be obliterated, uh, in order to gain liberation and equality and justice for non-white people,
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because it is an indication of a hegemonic power structure under which, like I said, all systems
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and individuals are negatively affected according to critical race theory. Um, okay. I'm going to get into
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more of what that means and a further definition of that, but we got to take a quick ad break.
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Okay. So in critical theory, in critical race theory, the way to this liberation from a systemic
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hegemonic power structures is to change the power dynamics so that non-white people are brought to
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the same place as white people. There must be a transfer of power and privilege. So that means
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according to critical race theory, that, uh, black people in particular should receive monetary
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reparations from white people. That's one example. White people should quote, listen and learn from
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non-white people. You've probably heard that phrase a lot recently and that we need more, even in some
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cases, disproportionately more non-white representation in all fears of society, that there should be
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different treatment or even academic, uh, or employment standards for non-white people. There
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was a measure in California to ensure, um, that tried to pass. Thankfully the majority of Californians
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voted against it, but to actually, uh, to allow discrimination in the employment process, uh, allow
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racial discrimination so that companies would be able to legally discriminate against white people in
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an effort, again, to change these power structures to ensure equal outcomes. And so you can see how a
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changing these power structures, according to critical race theory, actually, um, encourages and
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necessitates bias. It necessitates some form of discrimination in order to try to get everyone
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even. Um, it is also advocating, for example, for the justice system to make judgments in light of
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privilege that, uh, the accused has rather than on sheer culpability. I mean, this is part of why the
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Black Lives Matter movement started. Even though George Zimmerman, uh, he went through the proper trial and
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he had due process. And even though the Obama DOJ said, look, the, the verdict of this case is
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actually correct. There's nothing more than that we can do. Black Lives Matter still said, no, that's
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not that that's not right. And that's why we're going to start this movement. That's why there are
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going to be riots and unrest. They say no justice, no peace. What they actually mean by that is this
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justice as defined by critical race theory, where you're actually supposed to account for
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these hegemonic power structures and, um, and racial history and racial privilege. When you are
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making cases in court, um, uh, when you are deciding upon the verdict of a case in court, critical race
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theory views all disparities as proof of discrimination. So if white people, for example, make more money on
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average than Black people, that is because of racial discrimination. According to this theory,
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if the crime rate is higher among Black people, that is actually because of racism as well. If the
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graduation rate is lower among Black people, that is because of racism. If the employment rate is lower
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among Black people, that is because of racism. According to this theory, um, there is no further
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evidence that is needed of systemic racism than the disparities that exist. That is what, uh, that is
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the theory that they perpetuate because again, they don't see racism necessarily as direct discrimination,
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but as an entire power structure, you'll hear words like the legacy of slavery. So it's a power
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structure that has always existed, that is keeping certain groups down, that is lifting other groups
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up. And we have to have a complete and radical revolutionary shift of power in order to change those
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things. There is never any other explanation for any kind of racial disparity and outcome. It is
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always because of white supremacy and its hegemonic power structure, according to CRT, critical race
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theory. Um, and that is because again, just to go back, according to CRT, Black and Brown people are in
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the category of the oppressed. Therefore, any disparity will always be a signifier of oppression,
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which according to CRT is caused by white supremacy. So now you can maybe see, maybe you've
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already deduced this, where we get the idea that it's not possible, according to people like Ibra
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Max Kendi, to be non-racist because CRT asserts that racism is not just something that you do or say
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or think, but it's an entire system. And as long as you play a role in it, whether you mean to or not,
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you are complicit. Uh, if you're not outright guilty, you are guilty of perpetuating a racist
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system, according to this thinking. So you have to be actively anti-racist as Kendi argues, which
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doesn't just mean not being racist yourself or calling out people for saying something racist or
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saying a racist joke, but you have to actively work towards opposing systemic racism. So closing the
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gaps between white people and black people, which means again, shifting the power dynamic, which requires
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a few things, according to CRT. And these have a lot of vocab words in it that I know you guys have
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heard, and I hope it's making connections for you now. So in order to shift these power dynamics,
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which is the only way, according to this theory, that you can be truly anti-racist, which is what
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you have to be in order to gain any sort of righteousness within this worldview, you have to
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number one, recognize, call out, and then repent of your own place in the white supremacist system as
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an oppressor. Again, this doesn't mean that you've actually done or said anything that is racist,
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but by your mere existence as a white person in CRT and your lack of action in dismantling the
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hegemonic power structure of white supremacy, you are perpetuating oppression. So step one in
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dismantling the so-called system is recognizing the racism within yourself. You have to read things like
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white fragility, which of course is written by a white person, which is ironic. That goes back to what
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we said at the beginning, even though they elevate these identifiers like skin color and gender,
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what is really most important in CRT is ideology. And because Robin DiAngelo, who wrote a white
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fragility, even though she's white, she is saying the right things. And so that qualifies as a book
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that you can read in the realm of CRT that is going to help you in step one of tearing down these power
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structures, which is recognizing the racism within yourself and repenting of it. Racism, according to
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CRT, taints everything that a white person does. They're basically born that way and they can't get
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rid of it until they realize that it is part of everything they do. This work is also known as
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decolonizing yourself. You've probably heard of that term, maybe. Decolonizing yourself, your work,
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in your life, according to CRT, to decolonize is to remove the domination from a particular place. So
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by recognizing your role in oppression as a white person in colonialism or asserting white domination,
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you are beginning the work of decolonizing yourself in the spaces in which you occupy. This is not so
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different than what we see in what is described by these proponents as Christianity, deconstructionism.
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You have to deconstruct all of these parts of your theology in order to get to the truth. Well,
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this is a similar concept. You have to decolonize yourself and dig down and find the white supremacy
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and how it is actually tainting everything you think, say, and do in order to be anti-racist and fight
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against the hegemonic power structure that is white supremacy and CRT, which leads to the second
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thing that you must do, which I know you guys have heard this for the past few months. You must listen
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to, learn from, and then teach to others the idea of people of color who teach CRT. This is a way of
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setting aside your, quote, privilege and learning from the oppressed. So under this point, it's important
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to realize that according to CRT, you do not have a right as the so-called oppressor to argue,
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to bring up statistics, to disagree, or to at all question the assertions, the word choice,
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the tone, the behavior, or the narrative of an oppressed person, which would be in this worldview,
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a black or brown activist or educator who is teaching you about how to be anti-racist. This is
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what they would call policing, and you're not allowed to do that in CRT as a white person or
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an oppressor. You don't have the right to police black or brown people in any way. This idea is
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called another vocab term, standpoint epistemology, which we've talked about on this podcast before.
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge. Standpoint epistemology asserts that knowledge comes from your
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standpoint as part of an oppressed group. And like all of these ideas and terms, this is
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a new academic term that is now making its way into the mainstream. So it means that people who
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have privilege, especially white privilege, cannot arrive, according to standpoint epistemology,
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which is a part of CRT, or you could say a CRT is a part of standpoint epistemology,
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cannot arrive at true knowledge because their privilege has blinded them. And therefore,
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they need to learn from the standpoint of an oppressed person, and in this case, a black or
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brown person, to gain that special knowledge. So this is why a white person is not allowed to question
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the logic or the morality of a so-called oppressed person, because according to CRT, being in a group
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that is categorized as oppressed gives you access to special knowledge that so-called oppressors do not
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have and is therefore inarguable. So this is why you see a lot of shutdown of debate when it comes to this
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stuff, because they actually see debate as a sign, as the language of the oppressor. That's another phrase
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that you will hear a lot if you have any pushback whatsoever. It is the language of the oppressor.
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Another word for standpoint epistemology, what I just described, is Gnosticism. So Gnosticism means
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special knowledge. So Vodibacham, which we've talked about, or who I've talked to on this podcast,
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I've also talked about him a lot, calls this line of thought ethnic Gnosticism, the idea that your
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ethnicity gives you a special knowledge that white people cannot have without a non-white person
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teaching them. Gnosticism is a form of paganism. It's a form of a religion seeking special knowledge.
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It's a new age idea, which is actually very connected to all of this. We've talked about
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the new age a lot on this podcast. It is very intertwined. You often hear this Gnosticism
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described through the phrase, there's another vocab term, lived experience. So lived experience
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becomes the pinnacle of knowledge and of truth in the world of CRT, in that worldview. This means
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you cannot argue with it. Statistics are irrelevant and even offensive, no matter what. Refutations
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of a portrayal of history, like the 1619 Project, which has been debunked over and over again by
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non-partisan, even left-leaning historians, or questioning any assertion of systemic racism,
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or the quote legacy of slavery, it all shows your racism. If you push back against this in any way,
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it shows your lack of empathy, your embodiment of oppression. So again, push back using any kind of
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form of argumentation, no matter how accurate, will be deemed unempathetic. Empathy, another term
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that has been more popularized than ever in these conversations, is the most important and really
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the only characteristic that you as an oppressor must have. And really, what it means in these
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contexts is agreement with the assertions being made by the CRT adherent. So it's not the definition
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of sympathy and empathy that we know and that I believe is very good to listen to someone, to hear
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their experience, and to say, wow, you know, I've never gone through that. That is really hard. I'm so
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sorry that you went through that. That's not the form of empathy that we are seeing encouraged through
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CRT. It is agreement to and submission to whatever the CRT adherent is saying. So as you've probably
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heard, disagreement or defensiveness when it comes to these conversations is not just unempathetic,
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we hear, but it's also a sign of white fragility. So you are fragile. You are actually proving your
00:26:58.260
racism if you at all try to refute what, for example, a Black Lives Matter activist asserts or
00:27:04.580
suggests or the conclusions that they come to based on their, quote, lived experiences. So really,
00:27:09.920
your only option as a white person is a so-called oppressor, as someone who CRT deems as privileged,
00:27:17.200
no matter what your life has looked like, is to listen, to learn, and not just be sympathetic,
00:27:23.720
but to agree and to submit and to jump on the train. That is the only way, according to this
00:27:29.560
worldview, that you can truly be anti-racist. Otherwise, you're a racist, no matter what you
00:27:34.220
think, do, or say, which means that you must also, number three, this is what you are to do to
00:27:41.260
decolonize and to deconstruct the hegemonic power structure that CRT says is white supremacy. You must
00:27:47.260
also, number three, advocate for the policies that activists tell you you must advocate for. So that's
00:27:54.600
defunding the police, reparations, the redistribution of wealth and capital, a powerful centralized
00:28:00.480
government that eliminates all disparities of outcome by any means necessary. Non-coincidentally,
00:28:06.840
they are always left-wing policy proposals. The solutions to these disparities or to real
00:28:14.880
discrimination is never, hey, you know, we need school choice or we need a stronger family unit.
00:28:21.040
We need free markets and economic opportunity. We need to get Planned Parenthood out of minority
00:28:25.960
neighborhoods where they prey upon these poor teen moms. Those are never the solutions. The answer is
00:28:31.820
always more governments because the government is the only institution with the power to redistribute
00:28:37.840
wealth, demand reparations, requiring things like, quote, anti-racist curriculum in public school,
00:28:43.940
take funding away from the police and reconfigure the justice system. All the things critical race
00:28:49.340
theorists say will close all the racial gaps. But it's important to realize that critical race
00:28:54.400
theorists don't care about the racial gaps in abortion, for example. They're not interested in the racial
00:28:59.380
gaps, for example, in fatherlessness. They're not interested in those gaps. They're not interested
00:29:05.300
in the homicide rate gap. They are only interested in the gaps that allow them to present solutions that
00:29:14.460
are always left-wing solutions. Their stated goal is to close those racial gaps. Really what it is,
00:29:21.800
is just to perpetuate and promote any left-wing policy. They believe the government is the only
00:29:31.080
institution that can accomplish the retribution and reparation that CRT adherents say the oppressed
00:29:39.240
deserve. And that's the only way to liberation and to happiness and equality in the future. This is what
00:29:45.300
liberal activists in this vein would call social justice, another term I know you guys have heard.
00:29:53.240
And social justice sounds innocuous. It sounds really good. It sounds godly even. But it is defined
00:29:59.280
in this way as an effort toward closing those gaps. Social justice is very different than what I'll at
00:30:06.780
least for now call traditional justice, the traditional definition of justice. It is not treating everyone
00:30:14.260
equally as we understand justice. It's not blind or making sure that everyone is treated fairly. It is
00:30:21.100
ensuring equal outcomes by whatever means necessary. That means in social justice, partiality, as we've
00:30:28.640
already noted, or even bias is required. You have to hold back those who are categorized as oppressors.
00:30:34.920
You have to push forward those that are categorized as the oppressed. Again, regardless in CRT of what your
00:30:43.680
life has actually been like and what obstacles or opportunities you have been given, regardless of
00:30:50.300
the choices that you've made, this is done by the policies that we've already listed, the redistribution
00:30:55.980
of power until everyone has the same outcomes in life. And I'll show you exactly what that looks like
00:31:02.680
in just one second. But we've got to take one more ad break.
00:31:14.480
Okay, so social justice. Social justice is collectivist in nature. It is not individual.
00:31:21.300
It views every group by their membership, not by who they are or what they've done individually. So you
00:31:27.620
see the connection between social justice and CRT. We see examples of this. Affirmative action is one.
00:31:34.440
We're seeing things like what's happening in California schools and some California schools
00:31:39.000
where they're getting rid of academic standards. This was also happening in New York so that some
00:31:44.960
groups will pass and graduate despite their effort and despite their actual performance. And social
00:31:51.900
justice, especially in CRT, would say that is something that you have to do to guarantee equal outcomes.
00:31:57.000
If you have to have a different hiring standards for different groups or discriminate against one
00:32:01.980
group in favor of another, like affirmative action does, like what California just tried to make
00:32:06.560
legal, then that's something that you have to do according to social justice ideology. If you have
00:32:11.040
to issue different sentences for people based on their skin color, you do it. If you have to take money
00:32:16.220
from one group and give it to another group, you do it. All in an effort for equal outcomes as Kamala
00:32:22.760
Harris, the assumed vice president elect, I'll say that, said in a video she put out a couple days
00:32:30.740
before the election that equity, that's another term that is used a lot right now, equity means
00:32:36.840
everyone ends up in the same place. In the world of CRT, equity does not mean everyone is treated equally
00:32:43.800
and fairly as we would think of equity, but that everyone has the same outcomes in life. If this
00:32:51.120
at all sounds familiar to you, so we started in the details and now we're kind of getting to
00:32:56.780
where this actually comes from and the foundation of this idea. If this at all sounds familiar to you,
00:33:07.000
that's because this is an old ideology that is being repackaged in a new racialized way. This
00:33:15.360
is Marxism now. People on the left are so tired of people on the right talking about Marxism.
00:33:20.820
Everyone says this is just a buzzword. Well, a buzzword is simply used without actually defining
00:33:27.040
what it is in order to shut down conversation. That is never, ever my intention. I actually think it
00:33:32.980
is my obligation. It is very important for me to be exact in the terms that I use and to define my
00:33:38.880
terms because actually CRT and social justice ideology, they're constantly using buzzwords
00:33:44.400
without defining the terms at all and they confuse people into agreeing with them. That's not my goal
00:33:49.260
at all. I want you to understand this completely. So when I say Marxism, I mean Marxism. I'm not just
00:33:55.540
using this as a buzzword. Karl Marx was the 19th century German philosopher who wrote the
00:34:00.240
Communist Manifesto. The Black Lives Matter leaders have openly called themselves Marxist. So I'm not
00:34:06.680
just assigning that description to them. They said that they are trained Marxists. And I really do
00:34:12.120
appreciate that honesty. For the most part, I think Black Lives Matter is pretty honest. I mean,
00:34:16.720
they had on their website that they want to disrupt the Western prescribed nuclear family,
00:34:21.360
as we've talked about on this podcast. A mom and a dad and a child is now Western prescribed.
00:34:26.920
That has been the family unit for the history of the world and most parts of the world. The Bible is
00:34:32.580
not a Western book. It is an Eastern book. And we see the creation of the nuclear family in the very
00:34:39.020
beginning. Whether or not you believe in the authority of the Bible, the Bible was written
00:34:43.000
thousands and thousands of years ago in the East. So this is not a modern concept of the nuclear family,
00:34:49.760
but they're very honest. Black Lives Matter and saying that they want to disrupt and dismantle it.
00:34:54.900
Of course, they took it off their website after several months of getting so much pushback and
00:34:59.200
it becoming this point of contention for a lot of people who wanted to support Black Lives Matter,
00:35:04.020
but couldn't because of that. Well, they took that down. They also, if you, and there's evidence of
00:35:10.140
this, we've got the receipts of them saying parents and mothers, but never referring to fathers. That is
00:35:15.480
because, again, they see the patriarchy and the nuclear family as a hegemonic power structure that must be
00:35:22.420
taken down. That's all part of Westernism and white supremacy. And this all goes back to Marxism. It
00:35:28.780
goes back to communism. Their entire movement and organization is built on critical race theory,
00:35:34.320
which is rooted in Marxism, which inspired communism, which is the ideology and way of
00:35:39.280
governance that forces people into equality of outcome. So again, Kamala was being very honest in
00:35:45.760
her video, which is frightening, but I appreciate. So communism, in case you don't understand,
00:35:51.820
and it's socialism too, as I'll argue. The state owns all industries. It owns housing. It owns
00:35:56.740
property. The means of production are nationalized. So they belong and are run by the government.
00:36:03.080
The state becomes your family. It becomes your moral arbiter, your caretaker, and it ensures that no
00:36:08.340
one has more than another person. And the communists, what they would call utopian vision,
00:36:13.120
there is no nuclear family. Everyone belongs to themselves. They belong to each other in communes
00:36:19.080
because there can't be any hierarchy or power structure that is outside of the state because
00:36:23.920
any hierarchy or power structure or self-reliance or reliance on one another that is outside of the
00:36:29.540
state threatens the power of the state. The power of the state is central and it's vital to the existence
00:36:35.860
of communism. So you see what is behind breaking all of these power structures down. And here's where we
00:36:42.920
start breaking down critical race theory and explaining why it is a fallacious, a destructive
00:36:47.880
and unbiblical worldview where we are seeing it's a scene at rear its ugly head most recently and how
00:36:56.460
we as parents, as Christians, as students, as educators, as employees, as employers can resist it
00:37:03.780
with everything that we have. So Marxism also categorizes people as the oppressed versus the
00:37:08.680
oppressor, except unlike in critical race theory, they do so along socioeconomic lines. And so
00:37:14.160
Karl Marx, he said the oppressed were the poor or the proletariat, the oppressors are the capitalists,
00:37:20.500
the rich people and the bourgeoisie. And what had to happen in order for the poor people to no longer
00:37:25.780
be poor and for there not to be this gap between the rich and the poor, the proletariat must have an
00:37:31.260
uprising and they must take over. It will be a violent uprising. They will forcefully redistribute the
00:37:36.760
property, the power, the capital, the money from the bourgeoisie to the poor. So everything has
00:37:42.020
everyone equally. And for a while, the proletariat class, according to Karl Marx in the Communist
00:37:46.280
Manifesto, must rule by force to ensure that everyone has everything the same. But then after a
00:37:52.260
while, he thought everyone would be so happy with having equally everything and sharing everything and
00:37:57.960
everything will be so good that you won't any longer have to have a government that everyone
00:38:01.920
will rule themselves. Obviously, this hasn't worked. And if you're thinking, well, that's
00:38:08.260
different than socialism. Well, communism, as Vladimir Lenin said, the leader of Soviet Russia
00:38:13.780
said, is the goal of socialism. So communism is the goal of socialism. So whether you're talking
00:38:18.500
about socialism or communism, you're talking about essentially the same kind of governance where
00:38:23.200
the state must own everything to ensure equal outcomes. Ayn Rand, author of Atlas Shrugged and
00:38:29.280
the Fountainhead, a critic of communism and socialism, said this, there is no difference
00:38:33.840
between communism and socialism except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end.
00:38:38.260
Communism proposes to enslavement by force, socialism by vote. It is merely the difference
00:38:42.760
between murder and suicide. The reason it doesn't work is because it goes against human nature. As I've
00:38:48.220
argued, leftism always does. Human beings were created to create, to be productive, to earn,
00:38:54.040
but not just for the state, to steal it and then to redistribute it as the state sees fit,
00:38:58.400
but to provide for yourself and to provide for your family from a biblical perspective.
00:39:03.540
We see that work existed and was created before the fall of man. It's not a product of sin. It's
00:39:09.260
not a necessary evil. It's something good and right that men and women were created to do. We have every
00:39:14.940
reason to think that we will work in heaven, that we will be working and productive in the new heaven
00:39:19.200
and the new earth. Genesis 2.15 says that the man was put in the garden to work and to keep it before
00:39:24.580
the fall. Ephesians 4.28 says, let the thief no longer steal, but rather let him labor doing honest
00:39:30.960
work with his own hands so that he may have something to share with anyone in need. So right
00:39:36.220
there in Ephesians 4, we see two indictments of socialism and communism, which again is the
00:39:41.220
ideology under CRT, Black Lives Matter, social justice, so much of what we're seeing right now.
00:39:47.000
Two indictments. Do not steal. Do not steal. And that is essentially what the government is doing
00:39:54.100
in a socialist and communist country and a commandment to do labor so that you will be
00:39:59.820
able to directly share with anyone in need. You work, you earn, you give to others directly and
00:40:06.120
voluntarily. Two of the 10 commandments speak against communism and socialism. Do not steal and do
00:40:13.140
not covet. God cares about private property so much that he issues two of 10 commandments protecting
00:40:20.460
it, not just from theft, but also from someone even wanting your stuff. So that shows you that
00:40:25.440
God honors personal property. He honors private property, that what I have is not yours and vice
00:40:30.520
versa, and that it's even a sin for me to want what is yours. If you have more property and more capital
00:40:36.760
than I do, I am not entitled to it according to God. So God does not say that you have a right to
00:40:45.260
other people's stuff or that it is the state's job to confiscate those things and to redistribute it to
00:40:50.520
other people. That is theft, that is covetousness, which God is very clear is a sin in his sight. God
00:40:57.180
does call us to care for the poor. He does call us to care for the least of these. The early church
00:41:01.520
gave everything they had to one another. The key descriptor there is that it was voluntary. It was
00:41:07.500
out of the power of the Holy Spirit and the goodness of their heart. God is very clear that
00:41:11.780
giving under compulsion and under force, which is what socialism and communism does, is not godly.
00:41:17.780
It doesn't count when it comes to God honoring generosity. Second Corinthians 9 7, each one must give
00:41:23.880
as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.
00:41:30.480
So giving your money to the government because you are required to or else you'll go to jail
00:41:35.200
is compulsion. That is not cheerful, voluntary giving. That is not God's definition of compassion
00:41:41.220
or generosity. As I often say, you know, we hear from the Democratic Party, from liberals that
00:41:46.760
we care for people after they're born because of all of these liberal policies. Look, you are not
00:41:52.580
more compassionate for voting for the politician who promises to take money from people richer than you
00:41:59.200
and give it to people poorer than you than the person who votes for small government, low taxes,
00:42:05.800
and takes it upon themselves to cheerfully and voluntarily give what they have to other people
00:42:10.620
because that is following God's commands. Now, the Bible does say that we are to pay taxes and that
00:42:16.640
the government has the authority to demand those taxes. Romans 13 7, pay to all what is owed to them,
00:42:22.800
taxes to whom taxes are owed, revenue to whom revenue is owed, respect to whom respect is owed,
00:42:28.280
honor to whom honor is owed. So it is not wrong for the government to use taxes and to use it as
00:42:33.880
they see fit. Jesus says, render to Caesar what is Caesar's. And that is what Christians are called to
00:42:43.200
do. But we also see Jesus condemning over taxation and the exploitation of people by tax collectors
00:42:49.740
collecting too much in taxes. But in socialism and communism, where the state controls your money,
00:42:55.940
your property and promises to distribute these things in the name of compassion, that is not allowing
00:43:06.100
that is not allowing the God honoring generosity that we are called to. Communism and socialism,
00:43:13.520
collectivism also misunderstands power. When you give more power and you give more money to the
00:43:19.060
government, they are not benevolent. It's never happened in the history of the world. Power corrupts,
00:43:23.800
absolute power corrupts, absolutely. Absolutely. That is how all of these socialist regimes in places
00:43:28.820
like Cuba, in Cambodia, in China, in Soviet Russia, in Eastern Germany, that's how they took power.
00:43:36.100
By baiting you with social justice and saying, you need to redistribute your privilege and your power
00:43:42.120
to us so we can redistribute it to the poor. That is compassionate. That is right. In the name of
00:43:46.760
liberation and justice and equality and education and prosperity, we, your benevolent government,
00:43:52.720
just need more of your money. We need more of your power. We'll redistribute it and then everyone
00:43:57.380
will finally be happy and equal. And if you don't do that, it's because you're rich and you're greedy
00:44:01.680
and you're privileged and you're racist. That's how this has always gone. This is how left-wing
00:44:06.280
revolutions more or less have always gone. Different terminology for different times and
00:44:10.400
countries. But that is how people are always baited into it. But you only vote for socialism and
00:44:17.340
communism once. And so people don't understand that CRT and so much of the terminology that we just use
00:44:23.820
is the gateway into socialism and communism. Because again, it's not a coincidence that all of the
00:44:29.480
solutions that critical race theorists give for closing those racial gaps and obliterating the
00:44:34.940
hegemonic power structures are left-wing solutions. They're never, hey, personal responsibility. Let's
00:44:41.520
teach people about finances. Let's do school choice. Let's be pro-life. It's never that. It is
00:44:47.380
always more government, more centralized power, less freedom. This is why it never works. Because
00:44:53.960
collectivism, socialism, and communism go against human nature. It misunderstands how power works.
00:44:58.940
And what happens because of that is always violence. One, because left-wing revolutions play
00:45:05.720
upon people's real desperation. So it uses a crisis, a political crisis, a socioeconomic crisis,
00:45:12.900
or an economic crisis, or a public health crisis. And it uses the desperation in that crisis to create
00:45:19.220
resentment in the masses to then revolutionize the system to create the world that they want to
00:45:25.560
create. That requires destruction. That requires violence. That requires looting. It requires arson.
00:45:32.660
It requires creating chaos and creating a place of desperation for people. And so they will say,
00:45:38.420
please, someone, government, take over. Make things fair and right and normal again. And you can see the
00:45:44.380
reflections of that going on right now in our streets. And unfortunately, a lot of people are playing
00:45:50.440
along, not because they want to openly advocate for violence, but because they have bought into social
00:45:54.900
justice and CRT, and they don't know what it's connected to or where it leads to. They are doing
00:46:02.360
so by, for example, while they're perpetuating the ideology of critical race theory, they are ascribing
00:46:07.940
to value people, to people based on race. They are ascribing collective guilt to people who are white,
00:46:13.180
for example, assigning oppression to people who are not, again, not as individuals,
00:46:17.280
but as members of groups, elevating lived experience above objective truth, adding empathy
00:46:22.620
onto the list of the fruits of the spirit, using phrases like white privilege, going along with the
00:46:28.100
rewriting of history, like in the 1619 project, going along with the redefining of the word justice,
00:46:33.740
going along with the corporate culpability based on ancestry and skin color by the reapplication of Bible
00:46:40.260
verses like Micah 6, 8 to mean something that they do not mean. We're seeing this in the church.
00:46:47.280
We're seeing this in corporate America. We're seeing this in the Democratic Party and even
00:46:50.960
some Republicans. We're seeing this in Hollywood. We're seeing this on social media. We're seeing
00:46:55.120
this in the mainstream media. And in all of that, Christians who are latching onto this, not only
00:47:02.060
are we refusing to critically think and to ask the simple question, what is actually true?
00:47:07.560
What is actually right and good according to God's word? Remember, critical thinking is the antidote
00:47:13.760
to critical theory. But we're also missing the gospel as Christians. We are missing the gospel,
00:47:19.060
which means all of this doesn't just have very real political consequences and therefore consequences
00:47:24.000
for people's lives that end in suffering and destruction for the very people that these
00:47:28.240
revolutions start out wanting to save and help. It has eternal implications, spiritual implications.
00:47:34.120
We are missing the one thing that actually reconciles and brings peace. We're almost done. Let me read
00:47:39.760
this passage and then tell us some steps that we need to take in resisting all of this.
00:47:45.640
Ephesians 2, 13 through 19, this is talking about Jews and Gentiles. But if Jews and Gentiles can be
00:47:50.760
reconciled through Christ, then any two groups can. Talking about abolishing the law of commandments
00:47:56.760
expressed in ordinances that Jesus might create in himself one new man in place of the two,
00:48:02.140
so making peace between Jews and Gentiles and might reconcile us both to God in one body through the
00:48:07.920
cross, thereby killing the hostility. And Jesus came and preached peace to those of you who are far
00:48:13.160
off and peace to those who are near. For through him, we both have access in one spirit to the Father.
00:48:18.920
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members
00:48:23.660
of the household of God. That's the only hope of reconciliation that we've got. And if we are
00:48:29.540
preaching anything else from our pulpits, we are preaching destruction and division.
00:48:32.980
We are aiding and abetting a godless ideology that also and always leads to violence. It leads to
00:48:41.580
suffering. Do we right wrongs? Yes. Do we correct oppression? Yes. Do we push for justice? Yes.
00:48:47.940
But these things have to be rooted in fact. They have to be rooted in truth. They have to be rooted
00:48:52.380
in God's definition of justice, which, as you guys know who have listened to this podcast so many times,
00:48:58.440
God's justice is what? It's direct. It's truthful. It's proportionate and impartial. Whether we are
00:49:06.320
talking about punishment for the wrongdoer or restitution for the victim, those are the four
00:49:10.600
qualifications, according to God's word, which we have cited so many times throughout scripture on
00:49:14.620
this podcast, that's what justice is. Social justice is the opposite in the world of CRT. It's indirect.
00:49:21.360
It's collectivist. It's untruthful. It's based on perception rather than evidence and lived experience.
00:49:27.000
It's disproportionate. And so it's punishing people for something that they did not individually do.
00:49:32.000
And it is partial. It shows bias towards people despite their culpability. We have to refuse those
00:49:39.140
things. That means we have to refuse to resist all of this craziness. We have to refuse the redefinition
00:49:44.000
of words. We have to refuse the redefinition of justice. We have to refuse the redefinition of right
00:49:51.240
and wrong that is being attempted. We have to refuse the rewriting of history. We have to question
00:49:56.360
phrases like the legacy of slavery, which Thomas Sowell breaks down so well in all of his books,
00:50:01.080
like Quest for Cosmic Justice. We have to refuse the rewriting of history through narratives like
00:50:07.080
the 1619 Project, which again, I'll just link some of the fact checks on that. Refuse to believe
00:50:12.860
everything that you see and hear. Refuse to follow people that sound good, but something in you is
00:50:17.500
telling you that this is not biblical. Refuse to allow the world, those who do not know God,
00:50:22.600
who do not follow Christ to tell you what justice looks like, what the dignity of life and the
00:50:27.380
sanctity of life looks like. God tells you what those things are and you are his friend and you
00:50:32.280
have access to his wisdom. Refuse to take blame for that which you did not do. Refuse immediate
00:50:37.520
emotional reactions to news stories, even though the world is telling you that you must react in a
00:50:42.600
certain way and repeat certain phrases in order to be virtuous. Refuse to judge people, for better or for
00:50:47.700
worse, by their skin color. We're hearing a lot about how terrible white women are because 57% of
00:50:53.480
them voted for Donald Trump even more than last time. And Kamala Harris said black women are the
00:50:58.000
backbone of democracy. That sounds all well and good coming from Kamala Harris, but what we're actually
00:51:04.100
seeing is a pitting against black women and white women. Black women as the backbone of democracy,
00:51:09.920
simply because they tend to vote for Democrats. And as if that is what democracy means,
00:51:17.280
just voting liberally and white women are apparently enemies of the state because the majority of us
00:51:23.220
voted for Donald Trump. This kind of identity politics, this kind of critical race theory
00:51:28.680
is what divides. It sounds innocent enough. It sounds positive enough, but really it is describing guilt
00:51:35.020
and innocence, virtue and immorality, according to people's skin color and essentially, more importantly,
00:51:41.660
again, their ideology. We have to refuse to hold different standards or rules for different people based on
00:51:47.080
their skin color before you repeat any new mantra, any phrase, any words you hear being used by the
00:51:52.800
mainstream. We have to refuse to latch onto it. Stop, think, break it down. Go to God's word. Ask the
00:51:58.940
question, is this true? Is this what God says is good and right? Write your state representative and go to
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your local school board. Talk to school administrators if you are seeing this stuff being taught in your
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schools. Take your kids if there's any possibly way you can. Take your kids at a public school or any
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private school or charter school that's teaching this stuff. I've been talking a lot about this on my
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podcast and I'll talk more about it soon. I've talked a lot about it on Instagram of a highlight
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bubble about public education and the importance of being in control and in charge of your child's
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education for their well-being, not just academically, but also morally and biblically as well. So those are the
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things that we have to do. We have to resist and refuse. We have to resist and refuse that which is
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not true, that which God says is not good, that which always inevitably leads to destruction.
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I could go on and on about this and I kind of had to rush towards the end because I got to get out of
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here, but I hope that at least gives you a foundation. If you have questions, I want to clarify for you.
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So send me your questions on Instagram, email, whatever, and I will try to answer them in a future
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episode. But I hope this has given you an understanding of what this ideology is, what it leads to, and
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where you can find it in the real world and how you can resist it. Okay, that is all for today. I will see