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.
00:04:14.660However, 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.
00:04:24.320Or, 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.
00:04:33.980Or, you know, there would be the banning of the Bible in churches.
00:04:38.060There could be an interpretation of this that might ban the Bible in some settings.
00:04:42.400And we'll talk about that for sure, which is bad enough again.
00:04:46.200But I want to make it clear what this bill actually does, because it's important when you talk about this, you should be impassioned.
00:04:53.880This is an attack on the First Amendment.
00:04:56.080This is an attack on freedom of speech.
00:04:58.000This is an attack on just the natural right of people to go ahead and criticize a foreign government.
00:05:04.020Why is a foreign government getting special protections in the United States?
00:05:11.020However, it is not as explicit as people made it out to be.
00:05:14.020And so when you explain this to somebody, you don't want to just come out and be like, they're banning.
00:05:18.280You 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.
00:05:24.260You should be very forceful about how dangerous this bill is.
00:05:27.680But 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.
00:06:00.500So we're actually just going to read through a lot of the bill together today because it's pretty short.
00:06:05.840However, and this is going to be a key factor, the shortness of the bill in this rare instance is actually a problem.
00:06:11.820Because a lot of what the bill does, and this is the real danger of the bill.
00:06:16.000This 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.
00:06:26.680It 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.
00:07:15.700Because that means that this bill is being advanced as part of an agenda.
00:07:20.100And they find this single moment a good reason, a good excuse to move things forward.
00:07:26.680And you should always worry about that.
00:07:28.580It's always the state of emergency, which creates the willingness to advance bad legislation.
00:07:34.800And so that means that they know what was in this.
00:07:38.000They've been planning to advance this.
00:07:40.260And they saw their opportunity to implement this.
00:07:43.200And you have to wonder, why is that happening?
00:07:45.960So we'll go ahead and get into what the bill actually says.
00:07:48.980So 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.
00:08:12.820First 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.
00:08:27.860So 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.
00:08:37.880And it's something that is unaccountable to U.S. legislators, to U.S. voters, anything.
00:09:04.860This is a very total state managerial elite move to place the sovereignty outside of the United States, outside the accountability.
00:09:13.840Even 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.
00:09:27.020And they're the ones who are inserting the definition of what anti-Semitism is going to be for the purposes of this law.
00:09:35.880Now, this law specifically addresses education.
00:09:38.540Obviously, we understand what's going on with the protests on campuses right now.
00:09:44.100One of the major concerns is, of course, the safety of people on that campus, as it should be.
00:09:48.880That's the one thing that should be a constant.
00:10:21.980Title 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.
00:10:36.340Okay, so this is the first thing we need to understand.
00:10:40.700This is going to be operating under civil rights law.
00:10:43.300And 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.
00:11:10.300It's our secret second Constitution, and it overrides the one that we think about today.
00:11:16.660Civil 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.
00:11:30.860It's one massive excuse for the government to reach in and spread its ideology through every single organization in the United States.
00:11:41.220And 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.
00:11:49.560And, 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.
00:11:59.400But 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.
00:12:26.080So 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?
00:12:50.720So here's the first thing we need to understand, and this makes it clear in the bill.
00:13:32.740So 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.
00:13:47.340So you have to ask yourself, if it's already illegal, if they're already protected, why do we need additional laws?
00:13:56.860Why are we getting a law specifically just for anti-Semitism?
00:14:03.340Why are we getting a law for anti-Asian discrimination?
00:14:06.980Why are we getting a law for anti-white discrimination?
00:14:09.560Why 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?
00:14:18.960It's already illegal to discriminate against white people, according to this act.
00:14:22.860But all of these colleges are already teaching anti-white courses.
00:14:26.500They're having separate graduations white people aren't supposed to attend.
00:15:01.000So if we go down here to our findings, it says anti-Semitism is on the rise in the United States and impacting Jewish students.
00:15:13.840And 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.
00:15:28.840So 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.
00:15:51.800So let's get down to business because Section 5 and 6 are where we actually rock and roll here.
00:15:57.000In 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,
00:16:16.500the 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.
00:17:17.300Like, that's the only thing that it actually says in the bill is that anti-Semitism is a certain perception of Jewish people.
00:17:24.400Now, if that seems very broad, that's because it is incredibly broad and wildly open to interpretation, which is the whole point.
00:17:31.880Right. 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,
00:17:42.540regulate all kinds of things is that you get to mess with this definition at any time.
00:17:46.840So let's look at the examples provided by this organization of what could be anti-Semitism in the contemporary social order.
00:18:16.240When they say inside the religious sphere, they mean examples inside places of worship that aren't Jewish.
00:18:24.940So already we have a very big problem.
00:18:27.840So taking in account the overall context include, but not limited to notice that key, not limited to.
00:18:37.700So 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.
00:19:04.160So obviously we can understand that one being a problem.
00:19:07.240Making 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
00:19:22.780or Jews controlling the media economy, government or social institutions.
00:19:28.580Again, you can feel how you want about any and all of those accusations, but all of them are allowed under the First Amendment.
00:19:35.080Like 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.
00:19:40.980They are absolutely allowed under the First Amendment, but they are triggering the discrimination aspect of Title VI.
00:19:51.480Also 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.
00:20:07.000You 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.
00:20:20.820So, OK, I can get down with the idea that we shouldn't be applying this to Jewish people.
00:20:25.100But 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?
00:20:39.520It 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.
00:21:04.160Again, 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.
00:21:15.340That is all protected by the First Amendment.
00:21:22.860And 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,
00:21:52.120e.g. by claiming by claiming the existence of Israel is a racist endeavor.
00:21:57.260OK, so this one's a huge problem, right?
00:22:27.280And so you can look at a contemporary foreign government and say, I like or don't like something they do.
00:22:34.540And that is not criticism of Jewish people as such.
00:22:38.920But 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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00:23:22.940You are violating the federal statute.
00:23:31.080Now, you're not going to jail, again, to be clear.
00:23:36.500They're not snatching you off a street corner.
00:23:39.040This is not about, you know, they're not going to throw you in, you know, in jail for this.
00:23:43.980However, it will open you up to legal action.
00:23:50.800It 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.
00:24:03.340We 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.
00:24:21.660And because minorities are more likely to commit crime and therefore more likely to have a criminal record.
00:24:26.880They are more likely to not get hired.
00:24:29.600And that counts as discrimination under the disparate impact part of civil rights law.
00:24:37.820So they have they got hit with a civil rights complaint.
00:24:41.700And even though the Biden administration specifically said, the DOJ specifically said that they were not being overtly racist.
00:24:50.400We know you're not intending to be racist.
00:24:52.600But 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.
00:25:03.180Now, this opens up the same problem here.
00:25:06.700So you have you are open up to a civil rights lawsuit.
00:25:10.760You could be found in breach of the Civil Rights Act.
00:25:13.940You could lose federal funding because you criticize the state of Israel in the wrong way.
00:25:19.960I mean, that's obviously in there that there's just no way to deny that.
00:25:24.620Applying double standards by requiring the requiring of its be in a behavior or not expected or demanded of another democratic nation.
00:25:48.500Either Jewish people and the nation of Israel are separate.
00:25:52.120As 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.
00:26:04.480OK, that makes perfect sense as long as people are identifying as part of their host nation.
00:26:11.000But if you have this here saying, oh, well, actually, the nation and Jewish people are the same thing.
00:26:16.900Well, it's like, OK, that can't be all right.
00:26:20.860Like, 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.
00:26:34.900Using the symbol and images associated with classic anti-Semitism claims of Jews killing Jesus or blood libel to characterize Israel or Israelis.
00:26:45.620Again, once again, not Jews, not American Jews, not Jews in America, but the state of Israel.
00:26:54.600Why are we importing this language into American legislation?
00:26:59.420OK, 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.
00:27:07.320But at least if it was only talking about American Jews, then it would at least make sense.
00:27:13.060It would be in the context of America.
00:27:14.640It would be wholly contained under the standards of America.
00:27:17.560But instead, it's talking about the nation state of Israel.
00:27:21.240And we have another problem here because the claim of Jews kill Jesus is in the Bible.
00:27:27.100I know a lot of people have a problem with that.
00:33:58.540And once it's put into civil rights law in the education system, it invariably goes out and impacts every other organization in this country.
00:34:11.120So I don't think it's fair to say, oh, well, it only impacts these colleges.
00:35:19.720It's the executive order on combating anti-Semitism.
00:35:23.080And 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.
00:35:58.580So it already says that you're going to apply and see again here, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
00:36:06.580Once again, you see their influence here.
00:36:09.960We're going to go ahead and tie the definition to this foreign body, this foreign organization that has no accountability.
00:36:17.020And once again, you see this kind of disclaimer at the end.
00:36:21.460Well, but it can't violate the First Amendment.
00:36:24.360Now, 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?
00:36:35.020But again, if it wasn't a big deal and it was already placed, why the importance of getting it through?
00:36:40.560Why this sudden rush of bipartisan carve-out to reinforce something that was already illegal under the previous SAC?
00:36:50.980Now, according to Will, this is his, and you can watch his stream on this.
00:37:22.420I mean, you know, God forgive me for agreeing with a leftist.
00:37:25.380But obviously, if you encode this stuff into civil rights law, this has a chilling effect on every organization in the United States.
00:37:33.860So 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.
00:37:43.560Or 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.
00:38:01.760Now, 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?
00:38:11.640But 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.
00:38:31.040Now, I don't have to worry about this.
00:38:32.260Again, 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.
00:38:43.400But 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.
00:38:59.260Again, and this is the really critical part, all of those standards filter out to other organizations.
00:39:05.480The 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.
00:39:16.660So 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.
00:39:34.060And to be fair, we'll acknowledge that.
00:39:37.140He said, yes, it does have a chilling effect.
00:39:39.720And his argument was, well, maybe we should have right-wing chilling effects, because the left does this with civil rights all the time.
00:39:46.340And I give him credit here, because, you know, saying, hey, we should use a weapon, you know, we should use power.
00:39:52.740If it's going to be sitting on the table, we should just go ahead and use it.
00:39:55.440To some extent, that makes sense, right?
00:39:57.200I'm somebody who's for the use of power in pursuit of political goals.
00:40:01.360But he says, oh, well, we should be applying right-wing power.
00:40:05.820And he says, maybe we should have an anti-white version of this bill.
00:40:09.940Maybe we should make multiple versions of this bill and apply this, right?
00:40:13.340But right now, this is the only version of this bill.
00:40:16.060And 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.
00:40:36.760Sorry, but it's not protecting the right.
00:40:38.640That's just not a fair summation of the pressure being applied here, okay?
00:40:43.700It's very clear about who it's protecting.
00:40:45.500Even 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.
00:41:03.040Even certain Bible passages could trigger this, okay?
00:41:06.320Now, again, specifically in educational situations, specifically tied to federal funding.
00:41:11.660So, in the formal definition, it doesn't affect you, it doesn't affect your business, unless you're a teacher or something like that.
00:41:20.740You can stand on a street corner, you could write a newspaper column, you could still have freedom of speech in this way.
00:41:28.400It doesn't impact, technically, the internet or any of these things.
00:41:34.900And that is very real, and we'll acknowledge that in this stream.
00:41:38.320And 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.
00:41:48.840If, 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.
00:41:58.920Again, it's not as bad as some people made it out to be.
00:42:02.060There's a lot of hyperbole about what the bill does.
00:42:05.340But what the bill does is still horrible.
00:42:08.180It is still a terrible piece of legislation.
00:42:10.380It 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.
00:42:38.260And for all of those reasons, people should be up in arms about this.
00:43:00.260And again, I want to make it clear that it is not alone.
00:43:03.840This language is in the executive order that we see here from Donald Trump.
00:43:10.520And it's also in Ron DeSantis, my governor, who I like in a lot of areas, but is really bad on this.
00:43:17.780Ron DeSantis ties the definition of anti-Semitism in the Florida bill, HB 148, to this same organization, the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance.
00:43:30.420And he is not alone because Christine Noem of South Dakota has also recently passed an anti-Semitism bill.
00:43:39.340And 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.
00:43:53.100And Bragg's, the press release that she did on this, brags about how they tied, how they adopted this particular definition.
00:44:01.900Now, 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?
00:45:34.380And 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.
00:45:46.080So this is not my endorsement of the SPLC.
00:45:48.920This is not me saying anything good about the SPLC.
00:46:54.260It'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.
00:47:09.600And so we again, we see that inter leftist warfare occurring simultaneously.
00:47:16.240They're speaking out against this bill because not because I think they care about free speech.
00:47:21.560They'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.
00:47:41.940It's much more pro-Palestinian in its kind of its mission.
00:47:48.120Now, again, there are no good sides here.
00:47:50.180Like, like both of these people are trying to crush, crush your freedom of speech.
00:47:55.880The inter left leftist warfare is is hateful towards you.
00:48:01.160So 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.
00:48:12.260But it is interesting to see this development.
00:48:15.440This means that the the division inside the left is real.
00:48:24.380It 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.
00:48:35.320I 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.
00:48:53.640Now, 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.
00:49:06.560Simultaneously, the White House has announced that it will be trying to open up a pathway for some Palestinian refugees.
00:49:21.400The White House announces that it will consider welcoming refugees from Palestine, you know, from Gaza.
00:49:29.960All right. So this is amazing because, of course, as the government is already saying, OK, there's a huge problem.
00:49:37.080These protests, we don't like them, these pro-Palestinian, anti-Israeli protests, we need to we need to shut these down.
00:49:46.040We need to shut down what's happening on campuses.
00:49:47.700We 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.
00:49:59.000They're also opening up the borders of the United States to Palestinian refugees.
00:50:05.360And 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.
00:50:11.220They have relatives, this kind of thing.
00:51:02.620It's it seems incredibly contradictory until you realize that none of this is done for the benefit of the American people.
00:51:08.840None of this is done to protect the American people.
00:51:11.500None of this is done to make a brighter future for the American people.
00:51:15.360And really, it's disgusting because this continued attack on the United States through things like this legislation and through mass migration is horrible.
00:51:28.360It is an infringement on the rights of the people of the United States.
00:51:31.560And it's relentless and it needs to stop.
00:51:35.840Hopefully, 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.
00:51:42.700Even people who are vehemently pro-Israel, like super vocally pro-Israel, have said this bill is garbage, that this bill is dangerous.
00:51:51.840So 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.
00:52:02.140There have been a lot of vocal opposition to this.
00:52:04.800And 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.
00:52:18.520You hope that that means that they will go ahead and go ahead and block this in the Senate.
00:52:26.080But I'm not very hopeful about that fact.
00:52:28.800All right, guys, let's go ahead and take a look at the questions of the day here.
00:52:59.140I feel like telling people that you shouldn't have blasphemy of the laws, kind of censoring on behalf of foreign countries is probably good.
00:53:16.840So as I'm sure most people are probably aware, bills need to pass both chambers of the legislature.
00:53:22.940And then there's like a reconciliation.
00:53:24.360So what usually happens is it passes one, the bill goes over, you know, the different bills are reconciled.
00:53:31.720And once everything is passed by both houses, an identical bill is reconciled and passed by both houses, then it's signed by the president.
00:53:39.760So obviously this is not signed into law yet because Joe Biden hasn't signed it, though I'm sure he would.
00:53:44.560And it needs to pass through the Senate as well.
00:53:48.300So right now it is just a bill passed by the House.
00:53:50.300But 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.
00:54:03.820But who knows? Like we see with the SPLC, there is opposition on the left.
00:54:07.740You would imagine you would see a number of Democrats oppose this.
00:54:12.700I think more Democrats actually oppose this in the House than Republicans, ultimately.
00:54:16.900So who knows? Maybe it will get knocked down in the Senate.
00:54:19.300But as it stands, it looks like it has a decent chance of becoming a real law.
00:54:23.060So 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.
00:54:40.340So insane that all of our ups become downs.
00:54:43.580I'm not exactly sure everything you're asking there, buddy.
00:54:47.100But 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.
00:54:56.900Like the interesting thing about our situation is more people are literate than have ever been literate before.
00:55:03.260But 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.
00:55:12.840So 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.
00:55:25.840And really, all that does is make us more perceptible or more receptive to propaganda, because that allows for mass communication in the written word.
00:55:34.120And 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.
00:55:52.460They are far less discerning in what they end up ingesting.
00:56:14.000I 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.
00:56:25.860This echoes, again, the executive order that was already done by Donald Trump.
00:56:32.780So, 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.
00:56:38.380Unfortunately, you're right that this is a serious problem.
00:56:41.220Even though it's predictable, it is disappointing.
00:56:48.760Ben Dover says, since the government is close to declaring the Jews killed Jesus illegal, it's now a required confession.
00:56:57.100Daniel didn't hide while praying, even with the threat of lion's den.
00:57:03.660Again, 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.
00:57:18.600Now, again, I think that will have a wider chilling effect.
00:57:22.140And 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.
00:57:37.540But I just want to be clear, no one is going to jail for reading the Bible in church on Sunday.
00:57:42.100However, 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.
00:57:55.300And, of course, like we said, that's going to filter out to other organizations.
00:57:59.100So it starts in the universities or in public education, but it almost invariably moves to every other organization in the United States.
00:58:06.960Tim Miller says, TLDR, it bans a certain perception of Jews with the Civil Rights Act.
00:58:15.460Yeah, if you want to just boil it down real quick, that's exactly what it does.
00:58:19.800It's not the clarity of what a certain perception of Jews means.
00:58:24.080It's farmed out to an international organization.
00:58:26.800But the Civil Rights Act is the mechanism of enforcement for this bill, which, again, I know a lot of people think it sounds radical.
00:59:28.440OK, 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.
00:59:49.040The tax law is is opaque for a reason.
00:59:52.040It is meant to be confusing so that people are always in violation of it.
00:59:57.060That'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.
01:00:08.380Are you the friend or are you the enemy?
01:00:10.220If you're the friend, we won't apply the law to you.
01:00:12.900If you're the enemy, the law will apply to you.
01:00:44.180If 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.
01:01:01.740Like, that is, if you're getting a special carve out for what people can say and do, that's going to increase animus, right?
01:01:08.880So, if you really want to have this equal treatment, then the key thing to do is to actually have the law apply equally.
01:01:17.800But 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.
01:01:24.860So, yeah, this bill is unfortunately going to do the opposite of what it says, and naturally so.
01:01:30.400I 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.
01:01:40.300But good luck, man, because that's been a hard sell.
01:01:44.140I mean, Republicans have been trying to do that for, say, like the black community for a long time, right?
01:01:48.400And 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.
01:02:01.960And that's unfortunate, that's why you don't want to create wider cutouts.
01:02:05.260That'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.
01:02:12.840But 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.
01:02:24.300We've just seen that play out over and over again.
01:02:26.660And 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.
01:02:58.460But 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.
01:03:10.700And this is a real issue that the right needs to get a hold of.
01:03:14.400You can't say we don't want to play identity politics, blah, blah, blah.
01:03:18.160And 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.
01:05:15.980I'm going to do a celebration stream on Tuesday to kind of go over it.
01:05:20.980I'll talk a little bit about the book.
01:05:22.580But most importantly, it's going to be kind of an ask me anything, just kind of hang out with you guys, kind of a thank you stream, just celebrating the book coming out.
01:05:32.060Because I couldn't have done it without you.
01:05:44.220That's probably your best place to do it at this point.
01:05:46.000It's also at Barnes & Noble Books A Million.
01:05:48.020But if you want to make sure you have a physical copy in your hand on Tuesday, your best bet is to go ahead and put in that order now on Amazon.
01:05:55.340Thank you once again, everyone, for coming by.
01:05:57.900And as always, I will talk to you next time.