Ep 752 ｜ YouTube Kids, Disney+ Go All In On Queer & Critical Theory ｜ Guest： Aldo Buttazzoni
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Summary
It's okay to be confident and steadfast in what you know to be true. That doesn't mean you have to pretend to know everything. It doesn t mean you need to apologize for it. You don't need to nuance it to the point where you're not even saying anything.
Transcript
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YouTube Kids is pushing gender and sexual confusion on young children.
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Disney Plus introduces radical racial ideology to their young audience.
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And the state of Florida is fighting back against both forms of indoctrination and taking
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But as I'll argue, the pushback is well worth it.
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This episode is brought to you by our friends at Good Ranchers.
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Wow, y'all are really loving, especially Monday and Tuesday's episodes.
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Also got a lot of feedback from something that I said yesterday on Instagram,
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I even talked about it a little bit earlier this week, I think on Monday's episode.
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But it just tells me that you guys are really in need of encouragement right now.
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So like before we get into all the stuff that we're talking about today that you heard about
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on the top of the show, let me just give quick encouragement to tell you that it is okay
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to be confident and to be steadfast in what you know to be true.
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That doesn't mean that you have to pretend to know everything.
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That doesn't mean that you have to be certain about everything.
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It doesn't mean that you never admit when you're wrong or you made a mistake or when
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But when you know something is true, when you can hold fast to a stance because you know
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it's based on factual truth, you know it's based on biblical truth, you do not need to
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You don't need to caveat it and you don't need to nuance it to the point where you're not
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I've noticed that a lot of women, especially Christian women, and after I said this, a
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And someone also told me this actually comes from counseling culture today that a lot of
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people are actually encouraged to speak like this.
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But this is what I hear a lot, that when someone says something that they know to be true, or
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they really believe, they will start by saying, I feel like, and then they'll end the sentence
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And that's the only real way they're comfortable in stating something, even if it's a fact.
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And I've noticed that a lot of people who are like that really are off put by people who
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People who are not like that, who are certain in the things that they are certain in, they
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They see as lacking empathy or lacking compassion or prideful or can never admit when they're
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No, those people are just certain about the things that they're certain about, and they're
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Like if you have a problem with the substance of what someone says, then just say that.
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But if it's really just kind of these peripheral issues that maybe you didn't love their tone,
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hey, I don't always love Jesus's tone when I'm reading it in the Gospels or Paul's tone,
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The question is not whether that makes me feel good.
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And so I just noticed with a lot of Christian women that they will call other women who are
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confident and who are certain and who are steadfast and things, they will say that they're mean
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or that they're unempathetic or that they're just prideful or arrogant or whatever it is.
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Those could be legitimate criticisms in some cases, but that more sounds like a you problem.
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Someone sent me a quote that their husband said to their kids is that uncertain people do
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So my encouragement to you is that if you feel like you're constantly getting blowback
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or just critiqued and nitpicked simply because you are confident in what you know is right,
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what you know is good and right and true, and like you feel intimidated by that sometimes,
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or you feel discouraged by that, or you start getting tempted to just be quiet or to just pretend
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like you're agnostic on things and like you don't really care, you don't really know,
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because like that is how most women feel about things.
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And you just kind of want to fit in and be friends with people and having strong opinions.
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People will label you too intense or whatever it is.
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Just know like there are a lot of us out there that are the same way as you.
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I understand like it is hard knowing the things that we know and caring about the things that
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we care about and having the beliefs that we do.
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And when you know, and when you care, they slap all kinds of condescending labels on
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you, but it's really to make themselves feel better.
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Yes, we speak the truth in love and we can speak it with gentleness, but we are not responsible
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for other people's feelings about the true things that we say.
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That's actually one way that Satan is describing him or is, is disguising himself rather as an angel
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Like he is using what I think is like a mallet of empathy to shut people up by convincing
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them that you are unempathetic or rude if you say that, which is true.
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It's like, it's a burden to know and believe and to care about the things that we do, but
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And again, you're not responsible for other people's insecurity because of their uncertainty.
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Don't pretend like you're not certain just because it makes other people feel comfortable.
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Like, girl, I have had, I have dealt with that like my whole life.
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There are very, there are few things that I'm certain on.
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I don't, there are a few things that I feel like I know a lot about and I care a lot about.
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There are a lot of things that I don't know anything about, but people are uncomfortable
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with any amount of confidence, with any amount of certainty.
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And you just have to stand strong knowing where your hope and where that truth and where that
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I know that I'm going to get messages from y'all being like that message was for me today.
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And I know that all of us at Relatable are carrying that same burden.
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And that's why, that's why we're here together.
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I just also want to say before we get into this, I'm going to read my first ad, then
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we'll get into that interview and the rest of it.
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But this weekend, Superbowl Sunday, there's going to be ads playing for the, he gets us
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And that is a campaign that I've talked about briefly talking about, you know, Jesus gets
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He had fights with his family and all of this stuff.
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And there are some things that I think that this campaign may be doing well.
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And I'm sure in some ways it has good motives, but there are a lot of ways that I think it
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gets it completely wrong when it comes to the gospel and who Jesus was and how we present
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So after the ads play on Sunday, I want to talk about them on Monday and some of the
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things that I'm glad about when it comes to people who love Jesus, trying to promote him
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And some of the things that I'm really concerned about when it comes to this particular campaign.
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So just a heads up, that's what we'll be analyzing as well as probably some other Superbowl
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Before we get started, can you tell everyone who you are and what you do?
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I am a personality at PragerU and I make conservative content.
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I do a lot of investigative journalism and reporting.
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Yeah, you had a tweet thread kind of go viral about how YouTube Kids is grooming children
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with LGBTQ plus propaganda and your thread just kind of chronicles everything that you
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But just tell us, how did you figure this out and what did you see?
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So, Ali, it's no secret anymore that our society is sexualizing our kids in almost every way
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And I've been documenting this a lot for the last couple of months, whether it's the
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You know, recently I did a thread on how Spotify is making pornography available to children,
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So I really knew that how pervasive this was and I wanted to see how deep it went.
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So I went into YouTube Kids and I made an account for nine to 12 year olds posing as a
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And I was immediately bombarded with video after video about sexuality, gender, this LGBTQ
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programming, and even videos teaching children how to give consent.
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And I just went down this rabbit hole to see not only what what YouTube was making available
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to these kids, but was actually curating specifically for them.
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Yeah, you show that if OK, so if you say that you're age nine to 12, it says content recommended
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So, again, you're not just talking about, OK, kids can look this up on YouTube Kids and
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they might stumble upon it if they're looking hard enough.
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No, this is actually what is primarily recommended to kids.
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And it's a video about being a gender nonconforming person.
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And then there are a couple of just like normal, I don't know, silly videos, math videos.
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But then more of the recommended stuff is about queer kids.
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And so this is a little kid, a little boy who is dressed as a girl with makeup that in
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of itself is weirdly perverted and sexualization of a child.
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Then they've got this Nickelodeon pride advertisement with this very scary drag looking monster
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person. And then all kinds of videos basically telling kids that it's OK to not just be confused
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about your gender, but to hate who you are and to change your body and to change your identity
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I mean, this is indoctrination for all the people that say that this is a trend that's
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No, this is actually being groomed and brought into children's minds via media, via school,
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You know, the the host of this queer kids stuff show, Lindsay Amor, she did a TED talk
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and in this TED talk, she says things like, you know, I get all these questions of if it's
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OK to talk to children at these ages, even three to four and up is what she says.
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And she says it's not confusing that they have the capacity to understand this.
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But in that first video that you brought up, the the kids meet a gender nonconforming person
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in that video, the kids say exactly that, that they're confused when this non-binary
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person is, you know, spouting off at them about what it means to be non-binary and blah,
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The kids literally say in the video, I am confused.
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And so there's something very predatory about taking the inquisitive, intuitive nature of
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a child and replacing it with this manufactured social justice based wisdom.
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And like you said, grooming in the most fundamental sense of the word.
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The difference between men and women, boys and girls, it really just comes naturally to
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And I realized this even more so when I had kids of my own and I have toddlers and they
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without us teaching them, they can tell the difference between men and women.
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And that's actually something that I've realized is very important to their development,
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because to kids, like as you said, they are naive.
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And so the world is very complex and confusing and big and chaotic to them.
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And so they are literally always trying to make categories of people and things in order
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to make their world make more sense and to make their world smaller.
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And one of the most important categories just for understanding themselves, understanding
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the world and even for their own safety are the categories of male and female.
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And there are some signifiers that kids naturally use in their own mind to say, OK, this is what
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And here are the differences between mommy and daddy, grandma and grandpa and all of
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When you rob kids of those categories, you are not just sending them into confusion in
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But I imagine that you're actually really hurting like their emotional development in
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a lot of ways and their understanding of their own bodies and all of life.
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I mean, I can't even I can't even imagine the mental health issues that this is going
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to cause long term and the kids in whom we are sowing so much confusion.
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You know, like you said, kids are like wet cement, right?
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What you what you put on them makes a very deep imprint.
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Every kid has a normal childhood because they have no frame of reference.
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And so when you put these things in front of them and you strip them of their intuition
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of what they they baseline, you know, feel and know is correct, you create a new normal.
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And that's why you're seeing I think it's Gen Z one in five of them identify as as part
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This is a function of this indoctrination of this grooming.
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And it's plain as day when you when you look at the numbers.
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And why would adults, especially like I'm looking at this queer kids YouTube channel where this
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woman is platforming this man who dresses up like a woman who I guess is, I don't know,
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And the title of the video is it's OK to be gay.
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Tell me why adults like this want an audience of children.
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Like, why are they purposely seeking after little kids to talk about subjects involving
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That in of itself is kind of a red flag to me as a parent.
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Well, they frame it as as as education or as entertainment.
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And it's the same thing that you see in in public schools when they want to show porn
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Or when you see the drag shows, it's it's entertaining.
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And again, this is all being done under the banner of LGBTQ or of of gay pride and of gay
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rights, because they know that anybody that fights out against it will be labeled as homophobic
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And it's it really goes deeper into this this whole wave in America of tolerance and acceptance
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and you're having groomers and predators co-opting this this total acceptance and this total
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tolerance movement to get away with grooming and to get away with with predatory behavior
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in plain sight, because we've gotten so numb and we've gotten so, like I said, accepting
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of everything that it's even including stuff like this.
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One thing that you see this group push so hard and it sounds so innocuous and it sounds
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even virtuous is consent, consent, consent, consent.
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And of course, we want people to understand that sex one day when you're adult needs to
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And of course, that is an aspect of understanding safety and understanding morality.
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But you ask the question, like, what exactly are they teaching nine year olds to consent
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Because no matter if a nine year old says yes to some kind of advance by a predator, that
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So I've always thought that this consent based morality is really flimsy, because if consent
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is a simple yes, then what is stopping these predators from saying, well, a child is technically
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Like, we've got to have other moral boundaries in addition to consent to decide what's right
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And so I do think that this is weird that this is such a big subject that they are pushing
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What exactly are you teaching them to consent to?
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Well, like I said before, they're doing this under the guise of education and they want to
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they want to teach kids that you can say yes or no to playing with someone's toy or trading
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your lunch. But this is deeper and it goes into the big P word. And it's it's it's predatory.
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But, you know, they're trying to run these two ideas concurrently. And you see this with
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the children transition surgeries. You're seeing this with the queer literature in school.
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One idea is that children have sexuality. And the other one is that they have agency
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And so what is the only logical conclusion that you can run when you're running those
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two ideas that kids have can can get consent and consent sexuality?
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Right. There's only one logical conclusion. And it's it's pretty easy to see where that
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leads when you put them up like that. But that's exactly what they're trying to to usher
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Yeah. And you pointed out Billboard Chris. He's a dad who goes around and he interviews people
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and just talks to them about like the danger of puberty blockers and maiming and
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mutilating children in the name of, quote unquote, gender confirmation. And one of the
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conversations that he had with someone who opposed him was someone who was like, sure,
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12 year olds can consent to sex. Why couldn't they? And of course, you and I know that that
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is immoral and wrong. But from their perspective, as you said, if they believe, OK, it's possible
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for kids to be these sexual beings and it's possible for get for kids to give consent to
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these kind of things. And by the way, they're pushing basically pornography in these schools
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again in the name of education and through media. That is the only logical conclusion.
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I mean, really, what is stopping them from just fully saying, sure, an adult can have
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a relationship with a child? How does this end up any other way?
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Totally. Yeah. And like I've said, you know, there's one thing if a child is of sexual age
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and they're 18 or above and they decide whatever sexuality they want, you know, there's nothing
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we can do about that. But what we're doing and what society is doing is they're taking
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these underdeveloped children and they're assigning them these sexualities before they even have
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time to process basic human functions and get through puberty and get through anything in
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their life. And what you're seeing with this whole YouTube kids things is they are aiding
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And it's it's really scary to see because YouTube is such a big entity and our public
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school systems. And it's just these children are being hit, Ali, from every single angle.
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And it is a constant barrage. And, you know, I really feel for these kids because they are
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being preyed upon. And when you see stuff like this in YouTube or in public spaces, the drag
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shows or this queer literature in schools, you know, it seems hopeless because they're being
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hit so hard from every angle. And it's just they're innocent and they deserve to be protected
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No one except a child's parent has the right to talk to kids about gender and sexuality.
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I know that there are some teachers and that there are some activists out there who think
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that they are creating some kind of safe space, that they are educating children in spite of
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their bigoted parents who just want to keep them sheltered.
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But no one has the right to talk to kids about sex, gender, sexuality, all of those things
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which involve intimate parts of your body except that child's parents.
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And it's very, very disgusting and off-putting, disturbing, worrying, worrisome for me that there
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are so many adults that are adamant about that and that are actually willing to fight for
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that and that they're not even maligned in the media.
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They're actually glorified, I think, in a lot of ways.
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And obviously, we're seeing this in a very overt way when it comes to the drag queen story
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hour and the drag queen performances that are happening in front of kids.
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And you went to drag night at the L.A. Zoo, right?
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I think we have a clip that we can play and then I'll get you to comment on it.
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And what were you doing out here tonight at the L.A. Zoo?
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So we just showed up and we just thought we'd give the children a little something,
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Obviously, for those just listening to this and not watching this, I mean, we saw the guy
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He said this is we're giving children something to snack on.
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Like, again, I will say there is no innocent reason for a man to want to wear skimpy clothing
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There is no non-predatory, non-pedophilic reason for that.
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But like you just saw, they are telling us what they're doing.
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And we can't we can't sit by anymore and say, well, we didn't know they're telling us and
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Like you said, this is predatory, plain and simple.
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And what you saw from the director of equity programming and the director of communications,
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And they were more offended by my asking the question, is this a family friendly event than
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they were with grown men stripping in front of children.
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Like you said, what what reason do grown men need to be dressed in women's clothing and
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And these were kids that were just six and seven.
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And that's how they advertise this at the L.A. Zoo.
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They sold tickets to two years old and younger.
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And if it doesn't get crazier than that, Ali, it was ridiculous.
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Yeah, so the woman that you spoke to, as you said, is L.A. Zoo's director of equity
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Well, I want to get your reaction to this, too, because it's not just sexuality that these
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media companies and entities, corporations are exposing kids to.
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It's also the craziness of racial division and racial hatred.
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And I saw that Disney Plus is rebooting the Proud family.
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I think the Proud family originally came out when I was when I was little and now they're
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This country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country till this land from
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Then Whitney did his thing and cotton became king.
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Fighting for America's freedoms, even though we remained America's slaves.
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The descendants of slaves continue to build it.
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And we, the descendants of slaves in America, have earned reparations for their suffering and
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continue to earn reparations every moment we spent submerged in the systemic prejudice,
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racism and white supremacy that America was founded with and still has not atoned for.
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As we celebrate Juneteenth for the umpteenth time, our account is still outstanding.
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Because this country was built on slavery, which means slaves built this country.
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Like, when I am thinking about some of the issues that are facing the black community,
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And I saw this stunning statistic or I heard it.
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And they said that 82% of black fourth graders in this country can barely read.
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And so we know some of the issues and some of the disparities that are facing black Americans
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today that have nothing to do with slavery that occurred 200 years ago and don't even
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have to do with some of the prejudices and some of the systemic discrimination that actually
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did exist about a century ago, have nothing to do with that.
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So tell me how this kind of propaganda is helping the people who are actually hurting in America
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Well, first of all, for a family called Proud, they seem more cynical than anything.
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Um, but yeah, like you said, I mean, there is a unlimited amount of things in our past
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that we can be shamed about or that we can be discouraged about, but there is equally as
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And despite the fact that what they're saying is just not true, the fact that we, you know,
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brought those slaves over for people that had that were in the slave trade in Africa.
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Anyway, like I said, there is unlimited amount of things in America in our past that we can
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be proud of and does a lot more for us going forward than it does for us to be sad about,
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But, um, you know, it's funny because Disney used to play pro America commercials.
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I remember I saw this commercial from 2005 Disney that they were saying, you know, I'm
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And I think, like you said, if you're, if you want to build a good future for yourself,
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it does a lot more for you to say that we are a United States and that, you know, we need
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to move forward and we need to be proud of our past to, to, to go, uh, you know, into
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And so for them to feed kids, this negativity and this hatred really only does bad things
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Um, and it's, it's just really, it's really gross.
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It just fosters anger and bitterness and resentment that really, it doesn't help black
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It doesn't help immigrant kids, any group of kids in this country.
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All it does is just make things worse and more divided.
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And by the way, that rendering of history is not, is, is not objective.
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Those things happened, but the argument is that those things that happened are, are, are what
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is driving some of the poor outcomes for minorities today.
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Obviously Thomas Sowell, Walter Williams, they've written many books about this, basically debunking
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this idea that this long legacy of slavery is what is still inhibiting black Americans today.
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There are a lot of different factors in that, but of course, when you elevate black voices,
00:27:11.320
you're not allowed to elevate Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams or Ben Carson or any of
00:27:16.480
It's only the anger and the vitriol from people like Nicole Hannah-Jones that apparently we're
00:27:22.360
Um, I'm worried about this next generation of kids, although, I mean, the things that they
00:27:27.160
are being fed, the things that is, that are being pushed on them, even as they are not
00:27:31.240
even really being taught how to read, how to write and how to do math.
00:27:35.840
I mean, tell me, what is it going to look like when these chickens come home to roost
00:27:41.520
It is a scary picture that's, uh, that we're seeing in front of us right now, but honestly,
00:27:45.860
genuinely, I feel like God, uh, God is good and he will, he will take care of this country
00:27:51.360
if we keep fighting for him and we keep proclaiming the name of Jesus Christ.
00:27:54.800
Um, and, and we just keep him in our hearts and keep fighting for him.
00:28:02.360
Um, but I'm, I am hopeful despite all this stuff, Allie.
00:28:07.580
We have to be hopeful or else we just become cynical, like the people that we just listened
00:28:14.120
And Jesus Christ is the same yesterday, today, and forever, as Hebrews 13, eight says, even
00:28:19.960
And so that is our anchor and that is our strength.
00:28:22.560
And look, the history of the church for the past 2000 years has been being a refuge for
00:28:30.580
And you are doing that by exposing a lot of the corruption that we're seeing.
00:28:35.740
Um, where can people follow you and find your work?
00:28:38.500
Yeah, you can find me on all social medias at Aldo Budazzoni, just my name.
00:28:42.440
And you can find me on PragerU, my man on the street videos.
00:28:45.260
We're going to be releasing a couple this month.
00:28:52.560
Okay, so one state that we continually see push back on the stuff that I was just talking
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about with Aldo, especially when it's in schools, is the state of Florida.
00:29:12.200
That's what I love about Governor Ron DeSantis, that he is not afraid to push back on this stuff.
00:29:17.420
And if there are any two things that I think most Republicans are scared to get into and
00:29:24.020
scared to oppose, it's the sexual stuff and it's the race stuff, because those are hot
00:29:29.740
button social culture war issues that a lot of, I think, people in power, Republicans in
00:29:41.580
They don't want the backlash, especially the LGBTQ lobby.
00:29:45.060
When you try to push back against them, I mean, there's typically hell to pay.
00:29:51.480
He's even gone against Disney for the sake of that.
00:29:54.800
I mean, you'll remember the Parental Rights and Education Bill, which was a very straightforward
00:29:58.720
bill, like a very simple, obvious, innocuous bill that is now a law, thank the Lord, that
00:30:05.620
basically just said, look, kindergarten through third grade, you cannot give formal classroom
00:30:10.980
instruction about changing your gender or sexuality to six to nine-year-olds.
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Okay, it wasn't even K through 12, which I would have been great with.
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All of the LGBTQ activists, not just in the state, but around the country, were like,
00:30:30.560
We cannot talk about chopping off genitalia to five-year-olds?
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It just tells you a little bit about the mission of some of these activists.
00:30:45.420
There are plenty of LGBTQ people who are against that kind of indoctrination in schools who do
00:30:52.000
not want to talk to kids about that kind of stuff.
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But the activist class, the politicians, the political class, the corporate class, they
00:31:00.240
very much want to talk to kids about that kind of thing.
00:31:06.580
It's also the racial division that we just played in that clip from Disney+.
00:31:14.880
That Florida, that Governor DeSantis is getting a lot of blowback for what the left is saying,
00:31:20.000
basically getting rid of black history in schools.
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Some of it has to do with what's happening in colleges in the state of Florida.
00:31:29.240
And some of it has to do with what's happening in K through 12 in the state of Florida.
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Axios says the college board on Wednesday released curriculum for its new advanced placement African
00:31:40.900
American studies course, excluding some of the content that infuriated Florida Governor
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The curriculum does not require teaching on topics including Black Lives Matter or the case
00:31:51.820
for reparations, two topics that were opposed by DeSantis.
00:31:55.440
So DeSantis publicly opposed these things, said, you know, we're not going to have them in our public
00:32:00.660
The college board is now saying, OK, these are optional topics for this course, but they're
00:32:06.180
The reparations debates in the U.S. slash the Americas is listed as a sample project topic
00:32:13.000
on the curriculum, but it is not a required lesson plan, nor is it part of the final exam.
00:32:17.820
The curriculum on slavery, reconstruction, and the civil rights movement remains relatively
00:32:23.140
The Florida State Board of Education in DeSantis earlier this month tried to block the new
00:32:27.140
AP course, telling the college board that it is contrary to Florida law and significantly
00:32:32.940
OK, so the Florida State Board of Education, they did not want this course because before
00:32:39.100
the college board made these changes, it was basically teaching the tenets of critical
00:32:45.340
And the tenets of critical race theory are that fundamentally America is a systemically racist
00:32:51.000
country, that it was built on slavery, not just that slavery was a part of its founding
00:32:56.420
or it's being built, but that it was built on slavery and that that prejudice and that
00:33:02.520
that racism that first founded and then perpetuated slavery is still alive and well today and is
00:33:09.200
the cause of all of the racial disparities between Black Americans and white Americans today.
00:33:14.760
That is essentially what critical race theory believes and basically asserts that there has been
00:33:20.700
no real advancement, no real legal advancement away from slavery to today.
00:33:28.960
They would argue that there's just been this long line of slavery, this long thread of unbroken
00:33:34.440
discrimination that has oppressed Black people, kind of as I mentioned when I was talking to
00:33:45.820
That is a subjective academic theory that has been debated for a long time that should
00:33:53.120
not be accepted as objective truth and should not be taught as objective truth in the classroom.
00:33:58.660
So I think the state of Florida and Governor DeSantis is actually is absolutely right in pushing
00:34:06.420
So DeSantis said, according to Axios, that the course violates a Florida law that bans instruction
00:34:11.800
that defines people as oppressed or privileged based on their race.
00:34:14.780
That is another part of critical race theory that it says that Black and brown people are
00:34:21.000
part of an oppressed class, no matter their socioeconomic class, no matter what rights
00:34:25.460
and privileges that they have in white people, no matter what socioeconomic class or rights
00:34:30.120
or privileges or disadvantages they have, are a part of the oppressor class.
00:34:34.740
And Florida law says, no, we're not doing that.
00:34:37.700
That's not what you're going to teach kids, which again, I think is good because that's not
00:34:41.860
That might be a misinformed opinion that you have, but that shouldn't be taught inside
00:34:47.060
Civil rights attorney Ben Crump, Ben Crump, he's everywhere.
00:34:52.780
Accused the state of violating the federal and state constitutions and threatened to sue
00:34:56.460
if it did not reach an agreement with the college board to reinstate the course.
00:35:00.120
On Tuesday, DeSantis unveiled a proposal to revamp the state's higher education system and
00:35:04.880
to elevate intellectual freedom and push back against indoctrination.
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The proposed reforms would prohibit critical race theory and diversity, equity and inclusion
00:35:12.040
programs and ensure that the Florida public universities and colleges are grounded in the
00:35:16.900
history and philosophy of Western civilization, which I think is good.
00:35:20.520
The AP course is currently being piloted in 60 schools across the country with plans to
00:35:26.480
The Washington Post reported, but as of now, it's still not going to be in the state of Florida.
00:35:29.980
So even after the changes that they made, because of Florida's criticism, it's still not going
00:35:35.880
to be apparently right now in the state of Florida.
00:35:38.980
Maybe if there are more changes, they'll reopen that discussion.
00:35:42.220
The Florida Department of Education is saying, but it's not going to be in schools right now.
00:35:48.240
Does that mean that schools are not going to be able to teach the history of black Americans
00:35:53.640
That they're not going to be able to talk about slavery?
00:35:56.240
That they're not going to be able to talk about Reconstruction or Jim Crow?
00:36:00.780
It's just that they believe that there's not enough educational value in this particular
00:36:05.020
course and that it's too divisive and too much like activism rather than education to
00:36:23.940
And honestly, people equating the tenets of critical race theory with actuality.
00:36:31.020
That's really sad to me because we can talk about the rich tapestry of American history
00:36:37.240
with all of its different kinds of people without employing this radical academic theory that
00:36:42.720
really has nothing to do with fact and everything to do with the feelings of a few intellectuals
00:36:47.420
who decided upon this theory a few decades ago, like Derrick Bell.
00:36:51.640
And so we don't need to be teaching things like that.
00:36:55.060
And by the way, teachers aren't even equipped to teach that stuff properly.
00:36:58.600
Like if you can't teach the history of black Americans without employing the tenets of critical
00:37:04.520
race theory, then you're not a good teacher and you should just quit.
00:37:10.380
And why would you want to carry that burden, by the way?
00:37:12.980
Why would you want to carry that burden of telling white kids that they have white privilege and black
00:37:18.460
kids that they're actually oppressed and they're actually marginalized?
00:37:21.300
Why do you want to be a part of pulling them apart and holding them back like that?
00:37:26.540
You don't want to carry that burden and bear that responsibility.
00:37:32.100
And so I appreciate this is kind of a way to, I think, protect not just students,
00:37:37.600
And then as that Axios article also mentioned, DeSantis says that CRT and DEI are Florida's
00:37:48.360
And his response to the question on how the budget would be affected said spending on both
00:37:54.000
DEI and CRT would be prevented and that the two concepts were essentially a red line of
00:37:58.140
Florida saying lawmakers would work to make those proposals the law of the land and the
00:38:05.520
I mean, diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, again, are not based on fact.
00:38:13.760
And in fact, in the name of equity, it's bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator.
00:38:18.680
It's the soft bigotry of low expectations that has never helped any minority or non-minority
00:38:33.700
I happen to think that people of all skin colors can meet those standards and that they should
00:38:39.760
So I appreciate how Florida continually leads the way in this kind of stuff and how he just
00:38:47.440
takes the hits from the media and now from frickin Donald Trump.
00:38:50.800
I'm sure you've seen some of that stuff that Donald Trump is saying.
00:38:55.440
Ron DeSantis just stays steadfast in all of this.
00:38:57.700
And he does a really good job, I think, of picking and choosing his battles.
00:39:07.340
And I know that there are a lot of other governors who are going to do the same thing.
00:39:10.580
I'm hopeful that Sarah Huckabee Sanders is going to be a similar kind of leader in the
00:39:14.560
state of Arkansas and other Republicans in other states as well.
00:39:17.880
Okay, the last thing that I want to end on, because I've been wanting to talk about this
00:39:31.680
and I just haven't been able to, I just want to emphasize that the divisive conversation
00:39:38.360
and the conversation about race that is not actually based on fact, but is based on radical
00:39:46.960
left ideology that purports things like white privilege and white oppressors and black oppressed
00:39:53.040
and the problem of whiteness and systemic racism.
00:39:56.700
All of these things, again, are part of an academic theory.
00:40:01.740
All of these actually have consequences in real life.
00:40:06.860
Most of you probably haven't even heard about it because it's not the right, it's not the
00:40:12.980
right racial makeup for the media to care about it.
00:40:17.920
Daily Mail does tend to kind of cover these things.
00:40:23.040
Daily Mail always has like the most interestingly worded headlines from February 3rd.
00:40:28.440
Mixed race accountant accused of mowing down California doctor 58 while saying white privilege
00:40:34.680
slurs. And he also wrote rambling posts about ethnicity and religion on Facebook claiming
00:40:39.860
there is no higher race and blasting grudges, malice, separation and hate.
00:40:44.200
And so Dr. Michael Mamone, he was an emergency room doctor at Providence Mission Hospital in Laguna Beach.
00:40:52.140
He was killed a couple weeks ago by a guy by the name of Van Roy Evans-Smith.
00:41:01.020
He was an accountant from Long Beach and he just decided randomly that these two people didn't even have a relationship.
00:41:09.020
Michael Mamone was white and Van Roy Evans-Smith decided allegedly to run into the back of Dr.
00:41:17.260
Mamone as he was riding his bike, run him over.
00:41:21.140
Then he got out and just started stabbing him and he stabbed him to death.
00:41:25.360
According to Daily Mail, he was also holding a BB gun when he approached Mamone, a father of two,
00:41:30.920
and was screaming racial slurs about white privilege.
00:41:34.760
Smith was restrained by passersby until sheriffs arrived and arrested him.
00:41:39.740
A lot of people don't want to interact with that.
00:41:42.820
And so this guy was killed by someone who had talked about on Facebook,
00:41:46.740
had talked about previously the dangers of white privilege, the dangers of systemic racism.
00:41:53.080
And then he literally went out and murdered a white guy,
00:41:57.340
minding his business while screaming about white privilege.
00:42:00.240
This again reminds me of that story out of South Carolina that,
00:42:05.700
A black family that adopted this white daughter and ended up beating her to death,
00:42:13.300
And this mom had talked about on social media the dangers of white privilege,
00:42:16.960
how her black kids don't have the same privilege that her adopted white kids do and why that's so bad.
00:42:22.720
Maybe like we should stop blaming everything on whiteness.
00:42:28.040
Like, have we ever just considered that we should stop blaming white people alive today for the atrocities of the past?
00:42:36.360
Have we thought about how maybe that's irrational and that builds a kind of hate and division that hurts us all?
00:42:42.520
It doesn't elevate black people at all, by the way.
00:42:46.900
Like, have you ever thought Christian organizations who claim to be building bridges
00:42:51.640
that maybe we should stop blaming everything on whiteness and that maybe that's more bullying than bridge building?
00:43:00.580
Maybe that's causing a lot of the problems that we face today.
00:43:04.280
We're not actually bringing any solutions to the table,
00:43:06.980
that it's actually just perpetuating a lot of hate and even justifying some violence that, again,
00:43:13.840
So, yeah, of course, I am for Governor DeSantis pushing back against this stuff
00:43:22.560
And the same thing when it comes to the sexual indoctrination of kids.
00:43:25.820
Because I care about the bodies and the lives and the minds and the hearts of children
00:43:30.220
and because I think it is the responsibility of adults to protect children's innocence
00:43:37.180
like, I think that we all have a responsibility to expose this stuff and to stand up against it.
00:43:42.380
Like, we all say, oh, we want a more unified world.
00:43:49.780
And then we push this kind of crap into their minds.
00:43:55.580
But this, of course, is the consequence of godlessness.
00:43:58.540
When you let go of God, you start to abandon any concept of truth,
00:44:12.960
And wickedness always preys upon the most vulnerable children because they're malleable.
00:44:22.400
And it's actually our responsibility as Christians to stand up against that
00:44:25.600
and be a refuge of both clarity and courage and strength for the most vulnerable.
00:44:30.580
So that's why we talk about this stuff as controversial as it may be.
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We will be back here on Monday after the Super Bowl.