The Auron MacIntyre Show - May 03, 2024


America's New Blasphemy Law？？ ｜ 5⧸3⧸24


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A bill passed the House of Representatives that would ban criticism of Israel by members of Congress from being considered anti-Semitic. In this episode, Oren explains the mechanism of how this bill passed and what it would do to our civil rights.

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00:00:30.000 Hey everybody, how's it going?
00:00:32.160 Thanks for joining me this afternoon.
00:00:34.480 I am Oren McIntyre.
00:00:37.200 So, yesterday, there was a rush through, I should say Wednesday evening.
00:00:42.960 There was a bill rushed through the House of Representatives.
00:00:46.840 And there was a lot of talk about what it did.
00:00:49.460 A lot of kind of panic over what is going on with this bill.
00:00:53.620 And I think that the concerns are very well founded.
00:00:57.080 I think that the response to the bill was proportional to how bad it is.
00:01:03.200 It is a very bad bill.
00:01:04.680 However, there was some hyperbole.
00:01:06.980 There was some misconceptions over what this bill does formally, as opposed to what it will
00:01:13.980 inevitably do through the civil rights law system.
00:01:18.340 And so, I wanted to take the time to go ahead and break down this bill in detail.
00:01:23.260 Because, like I said, the concerns are well founded.
00:01:26.000 This is a very bad bill.
00:01:27.580 This is a very dangerous bill.
00:01:30.060 And I have seen some people who I like saying,
00:01:32.380 oh, it's not a big deal.
00:01:33.600 It's not, you know, we're overblowing it.
00:01:35.760 And no, it's a very bad bill.
00:01:37.680 This is, this bill is very suspect.
00:01:41.780 However, it does not do some of the more egregious things that people believe it does.
00:01:47.640 And I want to explain the mechanisms of kind of how this works.
00:01:51.540 Because it's not just this bill, this H.R. 690 bill, which is the problem.
00:01:56.580 See, this bill is supposed to be about anti-Semitism.
00:01:59.200 It's supposed to be about combating the anti-Semitism that is supposed to be raging across college campuses right now.
00:02:05.640 We see all the protests, the kind of anti-Israel protests and the Palestinian protests.
00:02:11.200 Obviously, there is some degree of anti-Semitism there.
00:02:14.560 But you can go ahead and criticize the nation of Israel without being anti-Semitic.
00:02:20.720 You have to be able to do that.
00:02:22.000 If you can't, then we're saying you can't criticize foreign governments.
00:02:25.260 And that is terrifying.
00:02:27.480 That's not okay.
00:02:29.200 And so this bill is supposed to be, you know, helping with the hate on college campuses, right?
00:02:37.620 It's supposed to be barring that.
00:02:40.060 And, of course, it passed with a large amount of Republicans, as it has to since the Republicans control the House.
00:02:45.900 That means it'll probably sail through the Senate.
00:02:48.260 So this is probably going to become the law.
00:02:49.940 It's already passed through the one chamber that would probably give it any kind of real pushback.
00:02:54.440 And there are only a few.
00:02:55.400 And to their credit, guys like Matt Gaetz and Thomas Massey and Chip Roy were speaking out forcefully against this.
00:03:01.720 So credit where it's due.
00:03:02.900 There are some people who did see how dangerous this bill is.
00:03:07.460 And so I don't want to just say, oh, all the Republicans failed on this.
00:03:10.400 There were some loud voices saying how dangerous this bill is.
00:03:15.380 But it did ultimately fly through.
00:03:17.280 And so I want to get into what this bill says because, you know, this is very serious.
00:03:23.580 And a lot of people kind of overblew, again, the formal things it's going to do.
00:03:27.980 But I don't think people overstated what it will eventually do or how serious this bill is.
00:03:34.620 Because it will, I think, change the way that law is applied in the United States, especially civil rights law.
00:03:41.560 And if you paid any attention to this channel, you understand that civil rights law is the actual constitution of the United States.
00:03:49.520 And that's a critical thing to remember as we dive into H.R. 6090.
00:03:54.760 Because, yes, the changes it makes are they seem very procedural in nature.
00:03:59.880 It's mostly about definitions and applications of title whatever of your civil rights law that you don't even know what it does.
00:04:06.980 And that can make it feel like, oh, it's not as big a problem as it is.
00:04:11.560 And I want to dispel that myth.
00:04:13.180 It is a huge problem.
00:04:14.660 However, to be clear at the outset, a lot of people were acting like this bill was going to make it illegal for members of Congress to criticize Israel.
00:04:24.320 Or, you know, some guy who's talking bad about Netanyahu is going to get snatched off a street corner by kind of, you know, some kind of FBI squad.
00:04:33.980 Or, you know, there would be the banning of the Bible in churches.
00:04:38.060 There could be an interpretation of this that might ban the Bible in some settings.
00:04:42.400 And we'll talk about that for sure, which is bad enough again.
00:04:46.200 But I want to make it clear what this bill actually does, because it's important when you talk about this, you should be impassioned.
00:04:53.880 This is an attack on the First Amendment.
00:04:56.080 This is an attack on freedom of speech.
00:04:58.000 This is an attack on just the natural right of people to go ahead and criticize a foreign government.
00:05:04.020 Why is a foreign government getting special protections in the United States? 0.88
00:05:07.560 That's insane.
00:05:09.040 It is all of those things.
00:05:11.020 However, it is not as explicit as people made it out to be.
00:05:14.020 And so when you explain this to somebody, you don't want to just come out and be like, they're banning.
00:05:18.280 You know, they're going to throw everybody who disagrees with Israel in jail because it's going to make you sound like a crazy conspiracy nut.
00:05:24.260 You should be very forceful about how dangerous this bill is.
00:05:27.680 But I want to arm you with kind of the understanding of what's really happening here so that when you're talking about this, you have a good idea of what's going on.
00:05:37.360 All right.
00:05:37.700 So HB 6090.
00:05:41.780 What does it really do?
00:05:43.320 So the first thing is you can just go read the bill for yourselves, guys.
00:05:46.580 There's a lot of legislation that's overly long and complicated.
00:05:50.480 You don't want to read through it.
00:05:52.540 It's put together by a million different lobbyists and stuff, and it's thousands of pages.
00:05:59.160 This is pretty short.
00:06:00.500 So we're actually just going to read through a lot of the bill together today because it's pretty short.
00:06:05.840 However, and this is going to be a key factor, the shortness of the bill in this rare instance is actually a problem.
00:06:11.820 Because a lot of what the bill does, and this is the real danger of the bill.
00:06:16.000 This is ultimately the scariest part of the bill is that it places the sovereignty of parts of the United States government outside of the United States.
00:06:26.680 It takes the decision making and definitions of a foreign international NGO and makes that the central aspect of kind of how this part of U.S. law is going to work.
00:06:40.240 And that is a terrible precedent.
00:06:43.000 And I'm going to go into why this bill is not the first thing to set this precedent.
00:06:47.320 In fact, Donald Trump has done this.
00:06:49.880 Ron DeSantis has done this.
00:06:51.980 Christine Noem has done this.
00:06:53.540 And they have all farmed the sovereignty of the United States out to the same international organization.
00:07:01.460 Okay, so this has been going on for a while.
00:07:04.220 This is not something that was just dreamed up by Congress, by the House of Representatives a couple days ago.
00:07:11.600 This has been in the works for a long time.
00:07:13.680 And that's not better.
00:07:14.780 That's worse.
00:07:15.700 Because that means that this bill is being advanced as part of an agenda.
00:07:20.100 And they find this single moment a good reason, a good excuse to move things forward.
00:07:26.680 And you should always worry about that.
00:07:28.580 It's always the state of emergency, which creates the willingness to advance bad legislation.
00:07:34.800 And so that means that they know what was in this.
00:07:38.000 They've been planning to advance this.
00:07:40.260 And they saw their opportunity to implement this.
00:07:43.200 And you have to wonder, why is that happening?
00:07:45.960 So we'll go ahead and get into what the bill actually says.
00:07:48.980 So HR 6090 says, to provide for the consideration of a definition of anti-Semitism set forth by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance for the enforcement of federal anti-discrimination laws concerning educational programs or activities or other purposes.
00:08:11.100 All right.
00:08:11.440 So what is this bill doing?
00:08:12.820 First and foremost, it is linking the definition of anti-Semitism to one provided by this International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, which was founded in Sweden and currently resides in Germany.
00:08:27.860 So right away, we have a problem because we're defining the terms that we need to understand U.S. law by the dictates of a foreign power.
00:08:37.880 And it's something that is unaccountable to U.S. legislators, to U.S. voters, anything.
00:08:45.060 There is no recourse for this.
00:08:46.440 It's all being linked to a foreign organization, one that's not even a government organization.
00:08:52.000 So we can't even call on the government of that foreign power and understand what's going on there.
00:08:58.760 It's just some NGO out there.
00:09:00.900 So no accountability.
00:09:02.020 This is a very regime move.
00:09:04.860 This is a very total state managerial elite move to place the sovereignty outside of the United States, outside the accountability.
00:09:13.840 Even though we're a democracy, no democratic process is holding this accountable and making this unattached organization that's not accountable to any government or any voters.
00:09:27.020 And they're the ones who are inserting the definition of what anti-Semitism is going to be for the purposes of this law.
00:09:35.880 Now, this law specifically addresses education.
00:09:38.540 Obviously, we understand what's going on with the protests on campuses right now.
00:09:44.100 One of the major concerns is, of course, the safety of people on that campus, as it should be.
00:09:48.880 That's the one thing that should be a constant.
00:09:51.140 Everyone should be safe.
00:09:52.220 You have the right to criticize Israel, the right to criticize Palestine. 0.99
00:09:56.000 You have the right to be anti-Palestinian or anti-Jewish.
00:09:59.680 You have the right.
00:10:00.720 Those things are not illegal.
00:10:01.980 They might be gross.
00:10:03.360 You shouldn't have ethnic hatred.
00:10:05.100 But they are legal.
00:10:06.340 And there is no law, nor should there be any law or restriction against those things.
00:10:12.140 So, this is addressing what's happening on college campuses.
00:10:16.840 Let's see.
00:10:17.680 It says here in Section 2,
00:10:21.980 Title 6 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities that receive federal financial assistance.
00:10:36.340 Okay, so this is the first thing we need to understand.
00:10:40.700 This is going to be operating under civil rights law.
00:10:43.300 And again, if you're familiar with anything about this channel, if you've ever heard me speak, you know that the Civil Rights Act, whatever its good intentions, whatever the honorable intentions of the people who might have passed it, supported it, people who think it's something that's good today, civil rights law is the secondary and preeminent, I should say, it overrides our current Constitution.
00:11:10.300 It's our secret second Constitution, and it overrides the one that we think about today.
00:11:16.660 Civil rights law dictates the way that all of our public organizations, our corporations, our educational institutions, our media bodies, everything that drives our current society, it regulates pretty much everything they can do.
00:11:30.860 It's one massive excuse for the government to reach in and spread its ideology through every single organization in the United States.
00:11:41.220 And so, of course, they're not going to come out with a law that says, oh, the Bible's banned and we're throwing you in jail for criticizing Israel.
00:11:49.560 And, you know, you're going to jail if you say you don't like, you know, people from Israel, they're not going to pass a bill saying that they're not quite that bold. 0.69
00:11:59.400 But what we will do is we will use civil rights law is so often the case, so much of the left and sometimes the right is very enthusiastic to use civil rights law to apply pressure, to apply this thumb on the scale, to nudge or sometimes throw an elbow into organizations to make sure that they conform to what they want done here.
00:12:26.080 So it's making it clear that they're going to be using the Civil Rights Act and specifically Section or Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which is the one that addresses the distribution of or the regulation, what accounts for discrimination to any organization that receives federal funds, especially education funds, right?
00:12:50.720 So here's the first thing we need to understand, and this makes it clear in the bill.
00:12:56.080 It is already illegal.
00:12:59.740 It's already illegal to discriminate against Jewish people for being Jewish under the Civil Rights Act.
00:13:08.460 That's already illegal.
00:13:10.060 It's already in there.
00:13:11.460 You can see it.
00:13:12.940 You can't.
00:13:13.720 It prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin.
00:13:17.740 You know, the Israel is a nation, so you can't discriminate against people.
00:13:25.460 I guess you would call, you know, being a Jew, a ethnicity, but it's going to be color. 0.88
00:13:31.380 It's going to be covered under this.
00:13:32.740 So to be clear, discrimination against Jews just based on being Jewish in organizations that are federally funded is already illegal under the Civil Rights Act, Title VI.
00:13:47.340 So you have to ask yourself, if it's already illegal, if they're already protected, why do we need additional laws?
00:13:56.860 Why are we getting a law specifically just for anti-Semitism?
00:14:03.340 Why are we getting a law for anti-Asian discrimination?
00:14:06.980 Why are we getting a law for anti-white discrimination?
00:14:09.560 Why don't we have specific carve-outs for all these groups that are not currently, even though it's already technically illegal to discriminate against them?
00:14:18.960 It's already illegal to discriminate against white people, according to this act.
00:14:22.860 But all of these colleges are already teaching anti-white courses.
00:14:26.500 They're having separate graduations white people aren't supposed to attend.
00:14:30.820 That's already occurring.
00:14:32.360 That's already happening.
00:14:33.880 So under the law, as it is now, it's supposed to protect white people, and it doesn't.
00:14:39.540 And it's already supposed to protect Jewish people.
00:14:41.920 If you're saying that it doesn't protect them, why are only Jewish people getting this specific special carve-out,
00:14:47.580 this specific special law?
00:14:50.200 Title VI is not unclear here.
00:14:53.380 So this is already illegal.
00:14:56.080 So what are we doing here?
00:14:58.240 Well, we'll see as we read on.
00:15:00.700 All right.
00:15:01.000 So if we go down here to our findings, it says anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States and impacting Jewish students.
00:15:13.840 And it says the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance and their working definition on anti-Semitism is a vital tool which helps individuals understand and identify various manifestations of anti-Semitism.
00:15:28.840 So basically the entirety of what this bill is going to do is it's going to make the standard of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance the standard for the federal government when it comes to evaluating questions of discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act.
00:15:50.860 All right.
00:15:51.800 So let's get down to business because Section 5 and 6 are where we actually rock and roll here.
00:15:57.000 In reviewing, investigating, or deciding whether there has been a violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on the basis of race, color, or national origin, based on an individual's actual or perceived shared Jewish ancestry or Jewish ethnic character,
00:16:16.500 the Department of Education shall take into consideration the definition of anti-Semitism as part of the Department's assessment as to whether the practice has been motivated by anti-Semitic intent.
00:16:28.900 All right.
00:16:29.860 So that means we need to go ahead and check out this definition.
00:16:34.560 And this is what had everybody up in arms.
00:16:36.680 If you saw this being shared on Twitter, this is where people kind of blew up and with good reason.
00:16:44.680 Let me go ahead and share that one.
00:16:48.520 So this is the definition that people were worried about.
00:16:54.080 And let's go through because it says we're going to use the definition and the examples provided by this international organization,
00:17:04.220 which, again, has no accountability to anyone in the United States.
00:17:09.860 All right.
00:17:10.180 So first, it says that anti-Semitism is a is a certain perception of Jewish people.
00:17:16.480 That's it.
00:17:17.300 Like, that's the only thing that it actually says in the bill is that anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jewish people.
00:17:24.400 Now, if that seems very broad, that's because it is incredibly broad and wildly open to interpretation, which is the whole point.
00:17:31.880 Right. That's the beauty of the Civil Rights Act and the following laws that have built this giant Leviathan that allow the government to go in and alter all kinds of things, 0.51
00:17:42.540 regulate all kinds of things is that you get to mess with this definition at any time.
00:17:46.840 So let's look at the examples provided by this organization of what could be anti-Semitism in the contemporary social order.
00:17:59.620 All right.
00:18:00.420 So contemporary examples of anti-Semitism in public life, the media, schools and workplace and in the religious sphere.
00:18:07.280 Oh, that's interesting.
00:18:10.200 So inside the religious sphere, they mean churches, right?
00:18:14.480 Churches or mosques. 0.96
00:18:16.240 When they say inside the religious sphere, they mean examples inside places of worship that aren't Jewish.
00:18:24.940 So already we have a very big problem.
00:18:27.840 So taking in account the overall context include, but not limited to notice that key, not limited to.
00:18:37.700 So we could always add more calling for aiding or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of radical ideology or any extremist view of religion.
00:18:48.120 All right.
00:18:48.400 I think that one's pretty standard.
00:18:50.180 That one's fair.
00:18:51.140 I think we could we could give everybody that that's actual anti-Semitism.
00:18:53.960 That's actual like you should attack someone or hurt someone because of their their them being Jewish. 0.98
00:19:00.720 That that is absolutely wrong.
00:19:03.020 It's already illegal.
00:19:04.160 So obviously we can understand that one being a problem.
00:19:07.240 Making mendacious, dehumanizing, demonizing or stereotypical allegations about Jews as as such or the power of Jews as collective, such as and especially not exclusively the myth about a world Jewish conspiracy
00:19:22.780 or Jews controlling the media economy, government or social institutions. 0.73
00:19:27.980 All right.
00:19:28.580 Again, you can feel how you want about any and all of those accusations, but all of them are allowed under the First Amendment.
00:19:35.080 Like you have a right to be able to say those things, even if some of them might be untrue or you might feel they're malicious.
00:19:40.980 They are absolutely allowed under the First Amendment, but they are triggering the discrimination aspect of Title VI.
00:19:51.480 Also accusing Jews as people of being responsible for real or imagined wrong wrongdoing committed by a single Jewish person or group or even acts committed by non-Jews.
00:20:02.640 OK, fair, I guess.
00:20:04.380 But this happens to whites all the time.
00:20:06.720 Right.
00:20:07.000 You are, in fact, the entire there are large parts of academia that are specifically, you know, they write books about this, about whiteness, the problem of whiteness, the influence of whiteness, the collective guilts of whites for everything that's happened. 0.70
00:20:20.820 So, OK, I can get down with the idea that we shouldn't be applying this to Jewish people.
00:20:25.100 But again, why this special carve out just for Jewish people when we know that white people who are also, in theory, protected by the same law that already protects Jewish people are not currently being protected in this way?
00:20:39.520 It seems very strange that this is one carve out that is not allowed for other groups, denying the fact, going back to their definition, denying the fact, scope or mechanism or intentionality of the genocide of Jewish people at the hands of the National Socialists of Germany and supporters and accomplices during the World War II, the Holocaust.
00:21:04.160 Again, I guess you can feel however you want about people asking whatever questions, feeling that that's malicious, but that is all allowed under the Constitution.
00:21:15.340 That is all protected by the First Amendment.
00:21:17.600 You can think it's gross.
00:21:18.820 You can think it's nasty.
00:21:19.940 You can think it's unnecessary.
00:21:21.760 But this is all protected.
00:21:22.860 And now it's anti-Semitism, which violates Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, accusing the Jews as a people or Israel as a state of inventing or exaggerating the Holocaust, accusing Jewish citizens of being more loyal to Israel or to the alleged priorities of Jews nationwide than to the interests of their own nation, denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination,
00:21:52.120 e.g. by claiming by claiming the existence of Israel is a racist endeavor.
00:21:57.260 OK, so this one's a huge problem, right?
00:21:59.680 Because this is directly banning.
00:22:01.840 This is directly counting as discrimination the the questioning of a foreign government.
00:22:11.480 Right.
00:22:11.620 This is not about Jews.
00:22:13.340 This is about Israel, the state of Israel.
00:22:16.420 And we're told all the time, and I'm more than willing to accept this, that Israel and Jewish people are separate. 0.96
00:22:25.540 These are two separate things.
00:22:27.280 And so you can look at a contemporary foreign government and say, I like or don't like something they do.
00:22:34.540 And that is not criticism of Jewish people as such.
00:22:38.920 But here, under the definition that is now being accepted by the United States federal government for the application of civil rights law, it specifically says that if you call the state of Israel racist.
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00:23:22.940 You are violating the federal statute.
00:23:31.080 Now, you're not going to jail, again, to be clear.
00:23:34.080 OK, that's not what this law does.
00:23:36.500 They're not snatching you off a street corner.
00:23:39.040 This is not about, you know, they're not going to throw you in, you know, in jail for this.
00:23:43.980 However, it will open you up to legal action.
00:23:50.800 It could be a violation of civil rights law, which, again, is not going to put you in jail, but could open you up to losing federal funds or facing a discrimination lawsuit.
00:24:03.340 We just saw the we just saw a gas station chain sheets get hit with a civil rights lawsuit because it wouldn't hire felons because it was making people pass a background check, a criminal background check.
00:24:21.660 And because minorities are more likely to commit crime and therefore more likely to have a criminal record. 0.96
00:24:26.880 They are more likely to not get hired.
00:24:29.600 And that counts as discrimination under the disparate impact part of civil rights law.
00:24:37.820 So they have they got hit with a civil rights complaint.
00:24:41.700 And even though the Biden administration specifically said, the DOJ specifically said that they were not being overtly racist.
00:24:48.700 Yes, we know you're not being racist.
00:24:50.400 We know you're not intending to be racist.
00:24:52.600 But because you are de facto not hiring as many minority people because you're running background checks, criminal background checks, you are still in violation of the law.
00:25:03.180 Now, this opens up the same problem here.
00:25:06.700 So you have you are open up to a civil rights lawsuit.
00:25:10.760 You could be found in breach of the Civil Rights Act.
00:25:13.940 You could lose federal funding because you criticize the state of Israel in the wrong way.
00:25:19.960 I mean, that's obviously in there that there's just no way to deny that.
00:25:24.620 Applying double standards by requiring the requiring of its be in a behavior or not expected or demanded of another democratic nation.
00:25:33.780 So, again, not Jewish people. 0.96
00:25:36.840 But the nation of Israel specifically, and this is a huge problem.
00:25:42.600 Either we're conflating these two things or we're not.
00:25:45.360 OK, you can't play this game.
00:25:48.500 Either Jewish people and the nation of Israel are separate.
00:25:52.120 As you have to say, if you look earlier, right, it says you're not allowed to accuse people of dual loyalty or saying that you have more loyalty to Israel than your host nation.
00:26:04.480 OK, that makes perfect sense as long as people are identifying as part of their host nation.
00:26:11.000 But if you have this here saying, oh, well, actually, the nation and Jewish people are the same thing.
00:26:16.900 Well, it's like, OK, that can't be all right.
00:26:20.860 Like, you can't put that into federal law, because if you do, then that means that any criticism of Israel is de facto anti-Semitism, which is the point.
00:26:32.560 That's what they're doing here.
00:26:34.900 Using the symbol and images associated with classic anti-Semitism claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel to characterize Israel or Israelis.
00:26:45.620 Again, once again, not Jews, not American Jews, not Jews in America, but the state of Israel.
00:26:52.900 Why is this the case?
00:26:54.600 Why are we importing this language into American legislation?
00:26:59.420 OK, if it was particularly I still think it would be a problem to create a carve out just for Jewish people in a law that is supposed to cover everybody.
00:27:07.320 But at least if it was only talking about American Jews, then it would at least make sense. 0.63
00:27:13.060 It would be in the context of America.
00:27:14.640 It would be wholly contained under the standards of America.
00:27:17.560 But instead, it's talking about the nation state of Israel.
00:27:21.240 And we have another problem here because the claim of Jews kill Jesus is in the Bible.
00:27:27.100 I know a lot of people have a problem with that.
00:27:29.680 I'm sorry.
00:27:30.160 It's in all four Gospels.
00:27:31.600 I'm reading through the book of Acts right now.
00:27:33.680 It's very clearly in there.
00:27:35.800 OK, it's throughout the New Testament.
00:27:38.300 Now, a lot of people can say we all killed Jesus.
00:27:40.520 That's true in a very real sense.
00:27:43.000 But you could say that the Romans executed Jesus.
00:27:45.720 That's also true.
00:27:46.820 They are the ones that ultimately dropped the hammer.
00:27:50.500 But the Bible is not unclear about who asked for the death of Jesus.
00:27:55.660 It's very clear about that over and over and over again.
00:28:00.700 It's not ambiguous.
00:28:01.840 And so what you're doing here is saying that holding the belief or espousing a belief that
00:28:09.520 is very clearly said about the historical reality of Jesus's execution would be a violation
00:28:17.780 because it characterizes Israel in a bad light, which, again, not the Jews, but Israel, the
00:28:24.480 nation state, inflating those two things over and over and over again.
00:28:29.940 This definition does that.
00:28:31.840 That's super dangerous.
00:28:34.220 That is incredibly dangerous.
00:28:36.060 Drawing comparisons of contemporary Israel policy to that of the Nazis.
00:28:40.100 I mean, literally all that our government does today is call people on the right Nazis.
00:28:45.660 They call everybody, your MAGA hat wearing grandpa, everybody who's a conservative.
00:28:53.460 All they do is call these people fascists and Nazis.
00:28:57.580 But now, if you want to say the state of Israel, which, again, is supposed to be separate from
00:29:03.260 the Jews.
00:29:04.520 If you call something they're doing and you compare it to something the Nazis did, then 0.68
00:29:09.120 you're in the violation, again, of federal civil rights law.
00:29:13.480 And holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel. 0.90
00:29:18.840 So, all right.
00:29:19.960 So, let's go back to the, let's go back to the bill real quick because I want to show you
00:29:27.540 a few more things.
00:29:28.380 So, I listened to Will Chamberlain on this and I like Will.
00:29:39.740 I've had Will on the show before.
00:29:41.800 He's the first guy who ever heard talk about the need to seize the endowments.
00:29:46.420 So, Will is a guy who, you know, we've disagreed on a number of things, but he's somebody who
00:29:53.700 I've already always got along with and he's always given me a fair hearing and has always
00:29:58.860 listened when I'm talking.
00:30:00.040 And so, I listened to him because I want, because he was one of these guys saying, look,
00:30:04.040 this bill is not a big deal.
00:30:05.240 It doesn't do anything important.
00:30:06.980 It's not a huge issue.
00:30:09.100 You know, just calm down and don't worry about it.
00:30:11.280 And so, what he brought up and what he pointed out at the end of this bill is that it says
00:30:20.880 here at the end, nothing in this act will be construed to diminish or infringe on any
00:30:28.240 right protected under the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
00:30:32.980 And his take was, well, it says it right there, guys.
00:30:35.940 It says it right there.
00:30:37.080 It says that it can't violate the First Amendment.
00:30:39.800 So, it's not going to censor any of your speech.
00:30:42.160 It's not going to do any of this stuff because it says in the bill that it can't violate the
00:30:47.320 First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.
00:30:50.200 I hear him, but I have some problems there.
00:30:52.860 So, first, again, the Civil Rights Act is used very regularly to get around our constitutional
00:31:01.700 rights.
00:31:02.460 It does it all the time.
00:31:04.060 The Civil Rights Act is basically the easy button, the fast lane to get around the Constitution 0.85
00:31:13.560 as such.
00:31:15.140 And so, the idea that just because somewhere in the bill they throw in the phrase that
00:31:20.640 this isn't going to violate the First Amendment of the Constitution, sorry, that is not the protection
00:31:27.380 for me that you are saying that it is, because many things in civil rights law are used to punish
00:31:35.600 and quash speech.
00:31:37.280 And he said specifically, oh, well, if this is unconstitutional, then all of Title VI of the
00:31:42.460 Civil Rights Act is unconstitutional.
00:31:43.980 And my answer would be, yes.
00:31:45.840 Yes, it is.
00:31:46.920 That's the problem.
00:31:48.160 Like, I'm on board with that understanding.
00:31:51.580 The whole problem is the structure of this.
00:31:54.380 And that's something really important that you need to understand when you're explaining
00:31:57.380 to people what's going on with this bill.
00:31:59.340 If you come up there and you're just like, oh, they're going to throw everybody in jail
00:32:02.640 because you disagree with Israel, they're going to look at you like you've lost your
00:32:05.660 mind because that's not what it does.
00:32:07.860 But what it does do is it alters a critical definition.
00:32:12.720 It farms it out to a foreign organization. 0.98
00:32:15.520 And it beds it in deeply in civil rights law.
00:32:18.180 And yeah, civil rights law here just applies, in a specific instance, to the education system.
00:32:25.140 But guys, how often does it stay there?
00:32:27.740 Remember, think back to the Dear Colleague letter from Barack Obama, which turned on the
00:32:33.520 trans bathroom thing, right?
00:32:35.880 He writes a Dear Colleague letter, says, doesn't even use an executive order, can't even be bothered
00:32:41.860 to use the official power of the office.
00:32:43.960 He just writes a letter saying, by the way, guys, this is how we're going to interpret
00:32:48.300 civil rights law going forward when it comes to public education.
00:32:53.260 And like that, overnight, Target and all these other businesses and all these other places
00:32:58.280 switch their policies to follow the new understanding of civil rights law.
00:33:03.860 It's not even a formal alteration of civil rights law.
00:33:08.200 It was just saying, here's how we're going to interpret this particular thing.
00:33:11.820 We're not going to pass any new legislation.
00:33:13.420 It's not like a house bill that we have here.
00:33:15.700 It's nothing official.
00:33:16.980 We're just, as an administration, going to start applying it this way.
00:33:20.520 And all of a sudden, every school in the United States flips a switch and many private
00:33:26.980 organizations throughout the United States follow suit.
00:33:29.360 And eventually, that becomes the standard across everything.
00:33:33.540 Corporations, NGOs, everything are suddenly doing what was put through that Dear Colleague letter.
00:33:41.080 That's the power that civil rights legislation or regulation rather has in the United States.
00:33:48.180 So altering something in civil rights law is not like, oh, it's just some little tweak.
00:33:53.040 No, it's not.
00:33:54.140 It's critical.
00:33:55.440 It's critical.
00:33:56.360 It impacts everything.
00:33:58.300 OK.
00:33:58.540 And once it's put into civil rights law in the education system, it invariably goes out and impacts every other organization in this country.
00:34:11.120 So I don't think it's fair to say, oh, well, it only impacts these colleges.
00:34:16.400 It's a well-tailored thing.
00:34:17.820 No, it's not.
00:34:18.820 No, it's not.
00:34:19.440 It's actually very dangerous.
00:34:21.180 Now, to be fair, one of the reasons Will points out, I'm going to give him his due here.
00:34:27.080 He says, one of the reasons you shouldn't be worried about this is that we already have this regulation through an executive order.
00:34:33.800 And in fact, you can actually see that in the bill itself.
00:34:37.240 If you look up here, it says that it's only following a previous executive order that was put into place by Donald Trump.
00:34:46.900 It's actually just following a previous executive order put in place by Donald Trump in 2019.
00:34:54.880 So let's be really clear here.
00:34:56.800 We're going to slay all the sacred cows. 0.99
00:34:58.940 We're holding everybody accountable.
00:35:00.440 This isn't just something that started with the current Congress.
00:35:03.220 This goes back to many different places, including what is many people's favorite conservative president.
00:35:10.600 So what is that executive order say?
00:35:13.140 So here's the executive order from Donald Trump.
00:35:16.820 He did it in 2019.
00:35:19.720 It's the executive order on combating anti-Semitism.
00:35:23.080 And he says here, it says here, in enforcing Title VI, identifying evidence of discrimination based on race, color, or national origin, all executive departments and agencies charging the enforcement of Title VI will do the following.
00:35:36.140 And it does the exact same thing.
00:35:37.780 So this is just a codification into law, into formal law of an executive order.
00:35:46.600 Now, that is important because executive orders can be easily rescinded.
00:35:51.280 They don't carry the same force of law as the actual legislation.
00:35:56.140 However, this was already in place.
00:35:58.580 So it already says that you're going to apply and see again here, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
00:36:06.580 Once again, you see their influence here.
00:36:09.960 We're going to go ahead and tie the definition to this foreign body, this foreign organization that has no accountability.
00:36:17.020 And once again, you see this kind of disclaimer at the end.
00:36:21.460 Well, but it can't violate the First Amendment.
00:36:24.360 Now, a lot of people say, oh, well, you know, if it's here and it's already in place and that's already the way that, you know, these departments are operating, then how big of a deal can it be?
00:36:35.020 But again, if it wasn't a big deal and it was already placed, why the importance of getting it through?
00:36:40.560 Why this sudden rush of bipartisan carve-out to reinforce something that was already illegal under the previous SAC?
00:36:50.980 Now, according to Will, this is his, and you can watch his stream on this.
00:36:56.340 He's got it on his Twitter.
00:36:57.840 Again, I don't want to mischaracterize what he said.
00:37:01.240 So, you know, it's pretty short.
00:37:02.940 It's only like 12 minutes.
00:37:03.860 You can go ahead and follow it.
00:37:05.600 But his argument was, well, the people who oppose this, and there are many left-wing groups, by the way, that oppose this executive order.
00:37:14.340 The people who oppose this opposed it because they said it was going to have a chilling effect.
00:37:18.600 And, of course, I think they're right.
00:37:20.240 I think that's 100% correct.
00:37:22.420 I mean, you know, God forgive me for agreeing with a leftist.
00:37:25.380 But obviously, if you encode this stuff into civil rights law, this has a chilling effect on every organization in the United States.
00:37:33.860 So organizations in the United States start thinking, well, I could face civil rights legislation or lose my federal, or I could face a civil rights lawsuit.
00:37:43.560 Or I could lose my federal funding if I criticize Israel, if I have harsh words for a certain set of people, or possibly for teaching the Bible or having religious symbols that people associate with anti-Semitism.
00:38:01.760 Now, do I think you'll probably get a full-on, like, oh, you're losing federal funding because at some point you read through the Gospel of Mark?
00:38:10.700 No, probably not.
00:38:11.640 But it is very clear that that's a possibility that has a chilling effect because you've tied the definition and broadened the definition of anti-Semitism so wide that almost anything, including just saying you don't like the state of Israel, could possibly violate it.
00:38:31.040 Now, I don't have to worry about this.
00:38:32.260 Again, no one's going to drop from the sky, you know, rappel into my house and pull me, you know, out of a studio or something for saying, you know, that I disagree with Israel.
00:38:41.720 That's not what this bill does.
00:38:43.400 But if you have federal funding, if you're an educational institution, then it absolutely could end up having a serious impact on your employability, your ability to operate your organization, your continued accreditation, and all of those standards.
00:38:59.260 Again, and this is the really critical part, all of those standards filter out to other organizations.
00:39:05.480 The civil rights law is regularly the thing that shapes the best practices and policies of all the other corporations and entities in the United States.
00:39:16.660 So once this is the law in an educational setting, it quickly becomes the law across the rest of the federal government, and then quickly becomes the law or the policy of every other corporation, every other entity, every other non-government organization in the United States.
00:39:32.520 It does have a chilling effect.
00:39:34.060 And to be fair, we'll acknowledge that.
00:39:37.140 He said, yes, it does have a chilling effect.
00:39:39.720 And his argument was, well, maybe we should have right-wing chilling effects, because the left does this with civil rights all the time.
00:39:46.340 And I give him credit here, because, you know, saying, hey, we should use a weapon, you know, we should use power.
00:39:52.740 If it's going to be sitting on the table, we should just go ahead and use it.
00:39:55.440 To some extent, that makes sense, right?
00:39:57.200 I'm somebody who's for the use of power in pursuit of political goals.
00:40:01.360 But he says, oh, well, we should be applying right-wing power.
00:40:05.820 And he says, maybe we should have an anti-white version of this bill.
00:40:09.940 Maybe we should make multiple versions of this bill and apply this, right?
00:40:13.340 But right now, this is the only version of this bill.
00:40:16.060 And it's hard not to notice that this bill is specifically only for the protection of Jewish people and not just them, but the state of Israel, which is repeatedly mentioned in the examples given by the organization to which the definition is farmed out.
00:40:33.560 So, who does this protect?
00:40:36.760 Sorry, but it's not protecting the right.
00:40:38.640 That's just not a fair summation of the pressure being applied here, okay?
00:40:43.700 It's very clear about who it's protecting.
00:40:45.500 Even though Title VI already tells you that it's illegal to discriminate against Jewish people, it's broadening what that means to the point where any criticism of Israel could trigger this.
00:41:03.040 Even certain Bible passages could trigger this, okay?
00:41:06.320 Now, again, specifically in educational situations, specifically tied to federal funding.
00:41:11.660 So, in the formal definition, it doesn't affect you, it doesn't affect your business, unless you're a teacher or something like that.
00:41:20.740 You can stand on a street corner, you could write a newspaper column, you could still have freedom of speech in this way.
00:41:28.400 It doesn't impact, technically, the internet or any of these things.
00:41:32.640 But the chilling effect does.
00:41:34.900 And that is very real, and we'll acknowledge that in this stream.
00:41:38.320 And so, I think we need to, like, okay, if we're acknowledging that's what this does, and the bill specifically explains that it doesn't just do it for Jewish people, but it does it for the state of Israel.
00:41:48.840 If, you know, if the definition by the international organization adopted in the bill says explicitly that, then we need to understand what's really happening in this bill.
00:41:58.920 Again, it's not as bad as some people made it out to be.
00:42:02.060 There's a lot of hyperbole about what the bill does.
00:42:05.340 But what the bill does is still horrible.
00:42:08.180 It is still a terrible piece of legislation.
00:42:10.380 It is an incredibly dangerous precedent for multiple reasons, because it places sovereignty outside the United States to an unaccountable international organization, because it creates a special carve-out for a group that is already protected in what is supposed to be a colorblind manner under Title VI of the Civil Rights Amendment, and because it obviously has a chilling effect that stretches well beyond its formal application inside Title VI and its educational boundaries.
00:42:38.260 And for all of those reasons, people should be up in arms about this.
00:42:42.600 It is incredibly dangerous.
00:42:44.560 And the fact that it was just kind of blown through and created very quickly and passed very quickly in the House says something.
00:42:53.180 It's a real problem.
00:42:54.800 The House can't agree on border security.
00:42:56.460 The House can't agree on all kinds of things.
00:42:58.440 But this flies through.
00:43:00.260 And again, I want to make it clear that it is not alone.
00:43:03.840 This language is in the executive order that we see here from Donald Trump.
00:43:10.520 And it's also in Ron DeSantis, my governor, who I like in a lot of areas, but is really bad on this.
00:43:17.780 Ron DeSantis ties the definition of anti-Semitism in the Florida bill, HB 148, to this same organization, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
00:43:30.420 And he is not alone because Christine Noem of South Dakota has also recently passed an anti-Semitism bill.
00:43:39.340 And the anti-Semitism bill uses the definition provided by, you guessed it, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance, and uses the same very vague words of a certain perception of Jewish people.
00:43:53.100 And Bragg's, the press release that she did on this, brags about how they tied, how they adopted this particular definition.
00:44:01.900 Now, when I see all these different politicians, left and right, get excited about adopting a particular definition handed out by an international organization, I start to wonder what's going on, right?
00:44:16.200 That's not great.
00:44:46.180 And it is specifically mentioned as kind of the decider of what anti-Semitism is for Florida, South Dakota, the federal government.
00:45:04.400 Like, that is not good.
00:45:06.340 That is not good at all.
00:45:08.460 Now, interestingly, and this was brought up to me by my good buddy Charlemagne right before I went into the stream.
00:45:13.640 I'm glad he did this because this is really critical.
00:45:16.140 Interestingly, there does seem to be some disagreement here.
00:45:20.020 There does seem to be a split happening on the left.
00:45:24.940 So let me bring this up real quick.
00:45:26.200 So the SPLC has released a statement.
00:45:34.380 And the SPLC, the Southern Poverty Law Center, who writes a number of hit pieces on many people and tries, it's a malicious hate speech organization designed to destroy people.
00:45:46.080 So this is not my endorsement of the SPLC.
00:45:48.920 This is not me saying anything good about the SPLC.
00:45:51.700 They're terrible people.
00:45:53.240 They're paid spear merchants. 0.99
00:45:55.440 They are parasites on the United States.
00:45:59.000 They are fear mongers.
00:46:00.720 They are hateful actors.
00:46:03.100 And they really should just, you know, the organization should be dismantled.
00:46:07.520 However, the SPLC says here that it opposes H.R. 6090 and the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.
00:46:15.380 It says, today the SPLC Action Fund announces its opposition to H.R. 6090, known as the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act.
00:46:24.060 In a letter to members of the U.S. House of Representatives, SPLC Fund urges the U.S. Senate to reject the flawed legislation.
00:46:31.140 And they specifically mention the fact that the definition being adopted is from this international organization.
00:46:42.260 It says that they do not like the fact that it is being adopted in this way.
00:46:47.360 It says it's not the way to combat, you know, this problem.
00:46:52.940 So it's very interesting.
00:46:54.260 It's very interesting that we have the split on the left from more explicitly, you know, Jewish organizations on the left and then an organization that would probably be characterized more of like the woke left.
00:47:08.920 Right.
00:47:09.600 And so we again, we see that inter leftist warfare occurring simultaneously.
00:47:16.240 They're speaking out against this bill because not because I think they care about free speech.
00:47:21.560 They're not because they see the dangers of the Civil Rights Act and its imposition on all of American life, but simply because their political faction is less interested in, you know, in protecting Jewish people or, you know, silencing criticism of the state of Israel and instead is very ardently against the state of Israel.
00:47:41.940 It's much more pro-Palestinian in its kind of its mission.
00:47:48.120 Now, again, there are no good sides here.
00:47:50.180 Like, like both of these people are trying to crush, crush your freedom of speech.
00:47:55.180 Right.
00:47:55.880 The inter left leftist warfare is is hateful towards you.
00:48:01.160 So there's no there's no reason to pick a side here that this doesn't make the SPLC the good guys, even though they're opposing a dangerous piece of legislation in this particular instance.
00:48:12.260 But it is interesting to see this development.
00:48:15.440 This means that the the division inside the left is real.
00:48:18.680 It's not going away anytime soon.
00:48:21.600 It is dangerous for the left.
00:48:24.380 It is it is truly a serious fault line in their coalition and they need to figure out how to address it, which is why, again, I encourage Republican governors, politicians.
00:48:35.320 I know. I mean, obviously, seeing this bill pass that they're probably not going to be listening to this, but I'll do my best again.
00:48:44.460 Do not involve yourselves.
00:48:46.020 Let the left fight it out.
00:48:47.580 There's only victory for you if these two forces are battling against each other.
00:48:52.000 This has nothing to do with you.
00:48:53.640 Now, very interestingly, as the left is trying to crush any criticism, I guess, of Israel through this bill and the right is kind of on board with them on this.
00:49:06.560 Simultaneously, the White House has announced that it will be trying to open up a pathway for some Palestinian refugees.
00:49:19.900 So let me bring that up here.
00:49:21.400 The White House announces that it will consider welcoming refugees from Palestine, you know, from Gaza.
00:49:29.960 All right. So this is amazing because, of course, as the government is already saying, OK, there's a huge problem.
00:49:37.080 These protests, we don't like them, these pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli protests, we need to we need to shut these down.
00:49:46.040 We need to shut down what's happening on campuses.
00:49:47.700 We need to enact new laws that could possibly make what's happening there illegal or threaten the funding of the schools if they allow them to continue while they're passing that legislation.
00:49:59.000 They're also opening up the borders of the United States to Palestinian refugees.
00:50:05.360 And of course, it starts with, you know, it says here in the story that it's going to start with people who have family in the United States.
00:50:11.220 They have relatives, this kind of thing.
00:50:13.280 But we've been here before. Right.
00:50:14.820 This kind of chain migration.
00:50:16.840 This, well, first you let in someone who's a relative and then you let in the relative of the relative.
00:50:21.680 And then, you know, well, you got to get all the kids in and blah, blah, blah.
00:50:24.820 And before you know it, everyone who's ever been related to anyone in Palestine can move into the United States. 0.88
00:50:31.800 This is what happens with many different people from across the world who move into the United States.
00:50:37.500 This is how we get the chain migration thing started.
00:50:39.820 So this is incredibly dangerous.
00:50:42.240 Nobody wants to have Palestinian refugees. 1.00
00:50:44.600 All of the countries around Israel right now do not want to take Palestinian refugees.
00:50:51.220 The ones that are already here are a problem for the regime.
00:50:54.820 So why would you want to bring Palestinian refugees in? 1.00
00:50:58.380 It's insane.
00:50:59.360 It's absolutely insane.
00:51:00.800 But this is where we're at.
00:51:02.360 Right.
00:51:02.620 It's it seems incredibly contradictory until you realize that none of this is done for the benefit of the American people.
00:51:08.840 None of this is done to protect the American people.
00:51:11.500 None of this is done to make a brighter future for the American people.
00:51:15.360 And really, it's disgusting because this continued attack on the United States through things like this legislation and through mass migration is horrible. 1.00
00:51:28.360 It is an infringement on the rights of the people of the United States.
00:51:31.560 And it's relentless and it needs to stop.
00:51:35.840 Hopefully, the level of criticism that has been labeled and to give credit to a lot of people on the right, there are a lot of people on the right.
00:51:42.700 Even people who are vehemently pro-Israel, like super vocally pro-Israel, have said this bill is garbage, that this bill is dangerous.
00:51:51.840 So there is a wide consensus, even in kind of mainstream conservative circles, that this bill is a problem, at least in the commentariat, that this is a problem.
00:52:02.140 There have been a lot of vocal opposition to this.
00:52:04.800 And so you hope you hope that the the lack of popularity, both in the conservative sphere and even on it with many less leftists, as we see with the SPLC's press release there.
00:52:18.520 You hope that that means that they will go ahead and go ahead and block this in the Senate.
00:52:26.080 But I'm not very hopeful about that fact.
00:52:28.800 All right, guys, let's go ahead and take a look at the questions of the day here.
00:52:42.400 Let's see.
00:52:43.600 Paladin YYZ says, I'm disappointed, Oren.
00:52:46.360 Yesterday your show was all about good Christian metal.
00:52:49.000 Today you're showing a light on blasphemy, a dark-themed satanic Canadian metal band with songs like Antichrist and the Bud of the Altar.
00:52:57.300 Yikes.
00:52:57.700 I don't know, man.
00:52:59.140 I feel like telling people that you shouldn't have blasphemy of the laws, kind of censoring on behalf of foreign countries is probably good. 0.96
00:53:08.360 Let's see.
00:53:08.680 Carrero says, has this law been passed or brought into law?
00:53:12.000 So has this law been proposed or brought into law?
00:53:15.460 So this is passed the House.
00:53:16.840 So as I'm sure most people are probably aware, bills need to pass both chambers of the legislature.
00:53:22.940 And then there's like a reconciliation.
00:53:24.360 So what usually happens is it passes one, the bill goes over, you know, the different bills are reconciled.
00:53:31.720 And once everything is passed by both houses, an identical bill is reconciled and passed by both houses, then it's signed by the president.
00:53:39.760 So obviously this is not signed into law yet because Joe Biden hasn't signed it, though I'm sure he would.
00:53:44.560 And it needs to pass through the Senate as well.
00:53:48.300 So right now it is just a bill passed by the House.
00:53:50.300 But the reason this is so important is it seems very likely that the bill will fly through the Senate because all of the opposition was was probably going to be in the Republican side, even though many Republicans also signed on with this.
00:54:03.820 But who knows? Like we see with the SPLC, there is opposition on the left.
00:54:07.740 You would imagine you would see a number of Democrats oppose this.
00:54:12.700 I think more Democrats actually oppose this in the House than Republicans, ultimately.
00:54:16.900 So who knows? Maybe it will get knocked down in the Senate.
00:54:19.300 But as it stands, it looks like it has a decent chance of becoming a real law.
00:54:23.060 So let's see. Paladin YYZ says a Hamilton, a Lincoln and a Lindsey Graham for your thoughts on all our erudition, making making us functionally literate in a world of legal linguistic nonsense.
00:54:40.340 So insane that all of our ups become downs.
00:54:43.580 I'm not exactly sure everything you're asking there, buddy.
00:54:47.100 But if what you're saying is that the fact that people have become literate makes them like more likely to buy into legalese, then, yeah, that's probably right.
00:54:56.900 Like the interesting thing about our situation is more people are literate than have ever been literate before.
00:55:03.260 But many most people who are literate are much less literate than the people who would have become, you know, those that read in previous generations.
00:55:12.840 So like the literate Civil War soldier was writing letters that sound far more intelligent than the average person today, even though the average person today is far more likely to be able to read.
00:55:25.840 And really, all that does is make us more perceptible or more receptive to propaganda, because that allows for mass communication in the written word.
00:55:34.120 And so you have what kind of ends up happening ironically is you have a population that is far more likely to be able to read, but is also far more likely to absorb the propaganda, the mass propaganda that is provided to them, because even though they're more likely to read, they do so on a much lower level.
00:55:52.460 They are far less discerning in what they end up ingesting.
00:55:55.860 Let's see.
00:55:59.020 Brad Barnes says, this is, on one hand, the most predictable betrayal, but nonetheless still remarkable, vexatious.
00:56:07.980 Sorry, I don't know.
00:56:09.140 I've never seen that variation on being vexed.
00:56:11.560 We are ruled over by our enemies.
00:56:14.000 I mean, yeah, this is, unfortunately, like I said, this is predictable if you've been following a lot of what's been happening with these laws in places like Florida and South Dakota.
00:56:25.860 This echoes, again, the executive order that was already done by Donald Trump.
00:56:32.780 So, yeah, if you've been following this, you could have known even what organization they would use when they passed it in the United States.
00:56:38.380 Unfortunately, you're right that this is a serious problem.
00:56:41.220 Even though it's predictable, it is disappointing.
00:56:48.760 Ben Dover says, since the government is close to declaring the Jews killed Jesus illegal, it's now a required confession.
00:56:57.100 Daniel didn't hide while praying, even with the threat of lion's den.
00:57:02.640 Christ is king.
00:57:03.660 Again, to be clear, this is the definition tied in, I want to be really clear, in the educational sense, attached to Title VI and its implications for organizations that receive federal funding.
00:57:18.600 Now, again, I think that will have a wider chilling effect.
00:57:22.140 And the fact that declarations that exist in the Bible multiple times appear in the examples of anti-Semitism for the organization that is referenced as the definer of anti-Semitism in the bill is chilling.
00:57:36.180 It's a serious problem.
00:57:37.540 But I just want to be clear, no one is going to jail for reading the Bible in church on Sunday.
00:57:42.100 However, there is the question of whether or not you could lose federal funding or be subject to a civil rights lawsuit if you're using something like that in, say, an educational program.
00:57:55.300 And, of course, like we said, that's going to filter out to other organizations.
00:57:59.100 So it starts in the universities or in public education, but it almost invariably moves to every other organization in the United States.
00:58:06.960 Tim Miller says, TLDR, it bans a certain perception of Jews with the Civil Rights Act.
00:58:15.460 Yeah, if you want to just boil it down real quick, that's exactly what it does.
00:58:19.800 It's not the clarity of what a certain perception of Jews means.
00:58:24.080 It's farmed out to an international organization.
00:58:26.800 But the Civil Rights Act is the mechanism of enforcement for this bill, which, again, I know a lot of people think it sounds radical.
00:58:35.880 It sounds crazy.
00:58:36.500 Oh, the Civil Rights Act is what makes it OK for us to eat at the same lunch counter.
00:58:40.900 I hear what you're saying, guys.
00:58:42.340 But you have to understand that that is way in the rearview mirror.
00:58:45.540 The Civil Rights Act did that like 70 years ago. 0.97
00:58:48.960 OK, what the Civil Rights Act does now is very different.
00:58:52.780 And you need to understand that it has been used to create a situation where the Constitution can be circumvented.
00:58:59.060 And so when you see things like this where people are like, oh, it's not a big deal.
00:59:02.300 They're just tweaking civil rights law. 1.00
00:59:03.420 No, actually, that's a huge deal because civil rights law is the law. 0.63
00:59:06.860 Civil rights law is the Constitution.
00:59:09.220 And no, oh, well, this can't violate the Constitution.
00:59:12.220 It's not really a protection because the civil rights law violates the Constitution all the time.
00:59:16.500 It happens all the time.
00:59:17.800 It's not a big deal at this point.
00:59:20.140 It's not treated as a big deal.
00:59:21.260 Oh, let's see.
00:59:24.180 Paladin YYZ says meant to say functionally illiterate.
00:59:26.960 OK, well, that makes far more sense.
00:59:28.440 OK, things getting so crazy that our minds have no way of rationally comply with our rulers like a fifth grader trying to negotiate a lease contract.
00:59:36.280 Yeah, that is exactly correct.
00:59:37.980 One of the key things is just piling so much law and so much compliance on top of people that everyone is always in violation of it.
00:59:46.920 Right.
00:59:47.200 This is the case with, say, the IRS.
00:59:49.040 The tax law is is opaque for a reason.
00:59:52.040 It is meant to be confusing so that people are always in violation of it.
00:59:57.060 That's the point of it so that they can drop the hammer at any time, because as long as you are always guilty of violating the law, then it really just comes down to operating in the state of exception.
01:00:08.380 Are you the friend or are you the enemy?
01:00:10.220 If you're the friend, we won't apply the law to you.
01:00:12.900 If you're the enemy, the law will apply to you.
01:00:15.100 Everyone's in violation of the law.
01:00:16.380 We designed the law for everyone to be in violation of the law.
01:00:20.000 It's the only question is, are you on the right side?
01:00:23.100 That's the only way you can avoid persecution, prosecution of the law.
01:00:27.880 Let's see.
01:00:30.140 Robert Weisenfeld says, Jew right wing guy back again. 0.96
01:00:34.460 No idea how anyone could think this bill doesn't make Jews look terrible. 1.00
01:00:38.300 You know, if I did impossible to explain this to my Jewish boomer cons, any ideas? 0.75
01:00:42.780 I mean, it's really simple, man.
01:00:44.180 If you have a situation where you're worried about people seeing, having a perception of people that's negative, and then you create a law banning that perception, that's going to make people feel angry about it.
01:01:01.740 Like, that is, if you're getting a special carve out for what people can say and do, that's going to increase animus, right?
01:01:08.880 So, if you really want to have this equal treatment, then the key thing to do is to actually have the law apply equally.
01:01:17.800 But if you're going to create this special carve out, and you're obviously not creating it for other groups, this is naturally going to breed animus.
01:01:24.860 So, yeah, this bill is unfortunately going to do the opposite of what it says, and naturally so.
01:01:30.400 I don't envy you trying to convince a lot of people who would benefit from this bill of that fact, because ultimately they won't benefit from it.
01:01:40.300 But good luck, man, because that's been a hard sell.
01:01:44.140 I mean, Republicans have been trying to do that for, say, like the black community for a long time, right?
01:01:48.400 And it wins some people over, you know, God bless many people who are trying to do that, but ultimately it's been a failure with the wider community, because the larger cutout, the wider protections just seem more advantageous.
01:02:01.960 And that's unfortunate, that's why you don't want to create wider cutouts.
01:02:05.260 That's why you don't want to create special benefits for different groups, because when you do, you create this animus, you create this situation.
01:02:12.840 But unfortunately, in kind of a democracy, people would rather just have those carve-outs built into the law than kind of go with the law applies to everybody.
01:02:24.300 We've just seen that play out over and over again.
01:02:26.660 And I don't know if there's a solution to that in kind of our current system, because it seems that's what people prefer at the end of the day.
01:02:34.600 Let's see.
01:02:36.760 Maximilian Cunningham says, are we winning or are Emmys losing?
01:02:42.080 What do?
01:02:43.120 Well, like I said, I think that the protests on college campuses, if you just let the left fight, are a win.
01:02:49.880 Because it's two factions that hate you, fighting over an organization that hates you.
01:02:54.180 And they're tearing each other apart in election year.
01:02:56.520 So that's a win if you let it be.
01:02:58.460 But are we winning on this because look what's happening with this bill, look what's happening with the way that some right-wing governors are wanting to step in, right-wing politicians are wanting to step in.
01:03:08.020 No, I don't think that's a win.
01:03:09.360 I think that's a serious problem.
01:03:10.700 And this is a real issue that the right needs to get a hold of.
01:03:14.400 You can't say we don't want to play identity politics, blah, blah, blah.
01:03:18.160 And then the minute a group that you favor gets into trouble, you swing in and create special legislation, creating carve-outs in civil rights law.
01:03:27.440 That's insane.
01:03:28.560 I mean, that's just absolutely insane.
01:03:30.460 And, yeah, that is losing for somebody.
01:03:34.020 Yeah, that is certainly losing for the majority of people who vote Republican.
01:03:37.780 But what can you do, I guess?
01:03:40.980 Let's see.
01:03:42.440 Creeper Weirdo says, how did it go?
01:03:44.840 The only time they reach across the aisle is to something about the Eiffel Tower.
01:03:49.120 I wish I could remember.
01:03:50.800 Yes, we'll avoid completing that joke for obvious reasons.
01:03:53.940 But thank you, Creeper Weirdo.
01:03:55.400 He also says, I was going to make a put-away-the-woke joke, but this might be a real attempt to do that.
01:04:00.400 Yeah, this is most definitely a formal attempt to try to put the woke away, right? 1.00
01:04:06.660 That is creating a carve-out in civil rights law to try to silence part of the leftist coalition.
01:04:14.200 That is a power move.
01:04:16.100 That is certainly a strong attempt to do that.
01:04:19.040 Will they be successful?
01:04:20.240 Will that work?
01:04:21.380 We will see.
01:04:22.440 Only time will tell.
01:04:23.400 I have a cigar resting on this question.
01:04:27.440 But this is probably the best example of trying to put the woke away. 0.99
01:04:32.140 There's simply no arguing that situation.
01:04:36.900 Though really, it is just about actually enshrining an unprincipled exception to the woke.
01:04:41.260 I don't think they'd put the woke away.
01:04:42.980 At the very most, they would enshrine an unprincipled exception to the woke. 0.83
01:04:47.940 That would be what actually happens here.
01:04:50.080 All right, guys.
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