The Ben Shapiro Show - America Isn’t The Bad Guy | Ep. 1044

00:00:00.000 The New York Times attacks Mount Rushmore, just like I said they would.

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00:00:23.000 Okay, so we are approaching July 4th.

00:00:26.000 And as I discussed yesterday on the program, July 4th is well worth celebrating.

00:00:29.000 Independence Day is well worth celebrating because it celebrates the fundamental principles espoused by the United States at its inception, not completely fulfilled for huge swaths of Americans, but fulfilled gradually over time.

00:00:41.000 We talked yesterday on the program specifically about July 4th and what it meant, the principles of inalienable rights, pre-existing government, the idea of equality before the law and equality in those rights and the notion of a government that was created to protect those God given rights that is worthy of celebration on July 4th.

00:00:57.000 Well, the alternative perspective, which is that America is not worth celebrating, has obviously gained a foothold in the United States, a massive foothold in the United States.

00:01:05.000 But it's not just that.

00:01:06.000 There's a certain vitriol that comes along with this perspective on America that is truly incredible.

00:01:10.000 I'm going to read you a little bit from a piece by Jamila Lemieux.

00:01:15.000 And I normally don't read from Slate because Slate is obviously a left-wing publication.

00:01:20.000 It's an openly partisan publication.

00:01:21.000 So there's not much to discover there, but there's a mindset that is worthy of evaluation here that I think is exposed in this care and feeding column, right?

00:01:29.000 The advice columnist over at Slate.

00:01:31.000 So the title of this column is, My kid's dad is a Trumper. 0.60

00:01:34.000 Should I criticize him openly or keep it civil?

00:01:36.000 I've been trying to instill my liberal values without disparaging their father, but these times call for more.

00:01:42.000 So, the basic premise of this particular advice question is, I'm divorced.

00:01:47.000 My husband is a Donald Trump supporter.

00:01:50.000 My new husband and I are liberal.

00:01:53.000 My kids come over and they have heard one perspective from their dad, and now I want to give them the other perspective.

00:01:58.000 Should I be polite about it?

00:01:59.000 So the column says, here's the question.

00:02:01.000 I have three young kids, 10, 9, and 6, whom I adore.

00:02:03.000 Due to life circumstances, they live mostly with their dad for the school year.

00:02:06.000 I see them often.

00:02:07.000 They live with me and their stepdad during the summers and breaks.

00:02:09.000 My husband and I are very liberal.

00:02:10.000 My kid's dad is very conservative, like Trump supporter conservative.

00:02:14.000 In my time with the kids, I talk politics a lot and do my best to instill my values while also being very careful not to say anything bad about their dad or his beliefs.

00:02:20.000 For example, if they mention something their dad told them, I focus on saying what I disagree with and why, rather than saying what I really think, such as that belief is immoral.

00:02:27.000 But I can tell that their dad isn't exactly reciprocating.

00:02:29.000 They've said some things that make me pretty sure he's just vilifying Democrats and Liberals every chance he gets.

00:02:34.000 They're young, so nuance is lost on them.

00:02:36.000 I feel like I'm playing the long game by being the one who never disparages the other side.

00:02:39.000 But given what the other side is doing these days, I'm wondering if I should play hardball too.

00:02:42.000 How do I handle this?

00:02:44.000 Politics and Parenting.

00:02:45.000 Here's the answer.

00:02:47.000 Dear Politics and Parenting, The Democratic Party could write a book about what happens when you try to keep to the high road and be the one who never disparages the other side.

00:02:54.000 Spoiler alert!

00:02:55.000 It ends with over 100,000 Americans dead with COVID and millions more who might be considered brain dead.

00:03:00.000 To paraphrase a man who waged a wholly unnecessary war on Iraq and may end up becoming one of your kid's idols if you don't act fast, the high road really ain't high if it means negotiating with terrorists.

00:03:09.000 Ya feel me?

00:03:10.000 Do your best to emphasize the other things that are good about your ex and the importance of loving him in spite of his values.

00:03:15.000 Be careful to differentiate between bad politics and bad people.

00:03:18.000 Which is bullsh- is what she writes. 1.00

00:03:20.000 Which is bull bleep.

00:03:21.000 But your children can grow up and decide to discard their father for being a deplorable when they are old enough to realize the two cannot be separated.

00:03:28.000 And that the idea that they can is a myth that white folks have been spreading to the detriment of everyone for far too long. 0.97

00:03:34.000 This isn't a here's why daddy sucks thing. 0.98

00:03:36.000 It's here's why conservative values are evil. 0.95

00:03:39.000 You need to make the moral depravity and xenophobia of the right wing as painstakingly clear to your kids as you possibly can, whenever you can.

00:03:45.000 This is more than hardball.

00:03:46.000 This is a battle for the souls of your children.

00:03:47.000 And I say do anything and everything you can do to win it.

00:03:50.000 If that includes being the parent who gives the best gifts and lets them stay up to the latest and eat the most junk food, so be it.

00:03:55.000 If your children become MAGA supporters, you will never be able to live with yourself.

00:03:59.000 And most of us won't be able to live with you either.

00:04:01.000 This is war.

00:04:02.000 Godspeed, comrade.

00:04:04.000 Now, the reason I read that is because I think that that lies at the heart of a lot of the radical left that we are watching these days.

00:04:09.000 A perspective that the America that was based on the Declaration of Independence, a perspective on American history rooted in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States, a belief that natural rights pre-exist government, a belief that what we should be seeking is equality before the law, not equal outcome after the law is twisted and changed.

00:04:28.000 That is perceived as legitimately evil.

00:04:30.000 Legitimately evil by a vast swath of human beings in the United States. 0.63

00:04:34.000 That if you disagree with this, that America's a bad, terrible, horrible, no good, very bad place, a racist, terrible place filled with bigotry, and that all the systems of America are at root corrupt, then that means that you're morally depraved. 0.98

00:04:46.000 You're xenophobic.

00:04:48.000 In fact, it justifies giving your children childhood diabetes and sleep deprivation in order to prevent them from believing the kinds of things that would force them to vote for Donald Trump or lead them to vote for somebody like Donald Trump.

00:05:01.000 Now, I know a lot of Trump supporters.

00:05:03.000 I know tons and tons of Trump supporters.

00:05:05.000 I know tons of conservatives, people who voted for George W. Bush twice, or voted for Mitt Romney, voted for John McCain, and weren't even in love with Trump, just pulled the trigger for him, or didn't pull the trigger for him.

00:05:14.000 I know tons of conservatives.

00:05:16.000 I do not know a conservative who fits this description as a human being.

00:05:20.000 I do not know a conservative who fits this description, but this is the myth, the mythical, conservative that has been created in the minds of so many people on the left.

00:05:29.000 Because again, if you believe that America is at root evil, then your obligation becomes quote-unquote resistance.

00:05:35.000 Your obligation becomes tearing down the systems, and if that means the Stalin-esque task of separating children from their parents, teaching their children that their parents are bad human beings, if it means that you have to tell kids that their parents are bad for believing a different thing about tax rates, or believing that America isn't at root evil, Then you do it, because after all, this is war.

00:05:57.000 Now again, this is, I think, just saying the quiet part out loud for a lot of folks.

00:06:01.000 I don't think this represents the vast majority of liberals in the country.

00:06:04.000 I think there are still liberals, this is why I always separate on the show, between liberals and leftists.

00:06:07.000 There are liberals in the country who still believe in open conversation and who don't attribute evil morality to people that they disagree with.

00:06:14.000 But there are an awful lot of people on the left, and the hard left is gaining not just a foothold, but maybe a dominant position in American politics today that believe exactly this.

00:06:21.000 This is war.

00:06:22.000 In war, all is justified, all is fair. 1.00

00:06:25.000 And if that means that you have to castigate the father of your children, a person you chose to have children with, as a terrible human being, then you do it.

00:06:37.000 Can anyone think that this is going to be a livable country with that sort of perspective?

00:06:40.000 Does anyone think this is going to be a livable country with that sort of perspective?

00:06:43.000 And that is the perspective.

00:06:45.000 On the one side are all the good, morally decent, righteous people.

00:06:49.000 And on the other side is innate evil.

00:06:52.000 On the other side are all the deplorables, all the terrible, truly bad people on planet Earth.

00:06:58.000 Now, number one, this is such a self-flattering perspective for a lot of folks on the hard left.

00:07:02.000 And the self-flattering perspective comes from the idea, again, that while they have been shaped by evil systems, they stand apart from the systems.

00:07:08.000 They're sort of citizens apart.

00:07:10.000 They're better than everyone else and more intelligent than everyone else.

00:07:14.000 That's the only way you can come to this conclusion.

00:07:16.000 Because in the view of these folks, they hold a higher morality.

00:07:20.000 Such a high morality.

00:07:21.000 There's a great thread today on Twitter from the McCormack professor over at Princeton University in ethics, Robert George.

00:07:30.000 It's a really terrific thread about how people tend to perceive their own morality.

00:07:35.000 And it is, it is correct.

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00:08:03.000 And in leading their lives today, they have stood up for the rights of unpopular victims of injustice whose very humanity is denied.

00:08:09.000 And where they have done so knowing, one, it would make them unpopular with their peers.

00:08:12.000 Two, they would be loathed and ridiculed by powerful, influential individuals and institutions in our society.

00:08:17.000 Three, they would be abandoned by many of their friends.

00:08:19.000 Four, they would be called nasty names.

00:08:21.000 And five, they would risk being denied valuable professional opportunities as a result of their moral witness.

00:08:25.000 In short, my challenge is to show where they have, at risk to themselves and their futures, stood up for a cause that is unpopular in elite sectors of our culture today.

00:08:33.000 And the answer, of course, is virtually no one does that, right?

00:08:37.000 That is very rare.

00:08:38.000 Because human beings are at root sinful.

00:08:40.000 And one of the great flaws of leftist thinking is the belief that innate human sin disappears as long as you change the system.

00:08:47.000 That human beings aren't sinful.

00:08:49.000 Human beings aren't bad.

00:08:50.000 That you are a better person.

00:08:51.000 You have been changed by your own thought process on politics beyond the capacity for human sin.

00:08:58.000 Which of course puts you on the side of the angels and all of your opponents on the side of the devil.

00:09:02.000 This is a religious philosophy at this point.

00:09:04.000 That peace and slate, it's a good indicator of religious philosophy about politics that is absolutely unsustainable on any logical level.

00:09:12.000 Absolutely unsustainable.

00:09:13.000 Okay, we're gonna get to how that sort of attitude has now infused our major institutions of our society.

00:09:19.000 Which shows these folks aren't the resistance anymore.

00:09:22.000 The hard left is not the resistance.

00:09:24.000 The hard left is the culture.

00:09:26.000 The counterculture is conservative at this point.

00:09:29.000 The dominating heights of our institutional culture are dominated by the hard left.

00:09:32.000 Our media are dominated by the hard left.

00:09:34.000 Dominated.

00:09:35.000 Hollywood is dominated by the hard left.

00:09:37.000 Corporate boards are dominated by either people who are willing to cave to the hard left or members of the hard left.

00:09:43.000 The culture is no longer with conservatives.

00:09:45.000 It is with the hard left.

00:09:47.000 The culture has shifted beneath the feet of conservatives who are so worried about Electing Republicans, that they forgot that the way that hearts and minds change is through the cultural system.

00:09:58.000 And so all of the institutions that conservatives naturally dominate have fallen away.

00:10:02.000 Churches have lost constituents or indeed caved to leftist values.

00:10:07.000 Corporations, where you would think, businesses, where you would think that conservatives would dominate, have caved to the outside cultural pressure to perform leftist woke signaling.

00:10:16.000 All right, what we are watching right now is the same thing that happened in the universities in the 1960s.

00:10:20.000 The student protesters became the professors and the administrators.

00:10:23.000 The commanding heights of the culture have now been taken over by the hard left.

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00:11:36.000 So, the moral gap that now exists in our society, in which an entire sector of society that sneers at the entire other side as immoral, as bad human beings.

00:11:46.000 I've thought for a long time this is a real differentiating factor.

00:11:49.000 I've written about this for probably, at this point, decades.

00:11:52.000 The differentiating factor between right and left is that the right tends to think the left is wrong and the left tends to think the right is evil.

00:11:57.000 The entire culture is now dominated by people who think that the right is full out evil.

00:12:01.000 And this means censorship.

00:12:02.000 It means censorship.

00:12:03.000 CNN, a supposedly free speech outlet, right?

00:12:05.000 They're whining and bitching every single day about the fact that President Trump just means them.

00:12:10.000 Oh, it's a threat to the press.

00:12:11.000 Oh, he's gonna shut down the press when he's done nothing except raise their ratings.

00:12:15.000 Hey, CNN put out a headline yesterday about the advertiser boycotts of Facebook over hate speech.

00:12:21.000 Their headline was, here's a list of companies who have not canceled Facebook yet.

00:12:27.000 Hey, the yet is the key word there.

00:12:28.000 That's an activist headline.

00:12:29.000 That's an activist headline.

00:12:31.000 And that's what these media outlets have become.

00:12:32.000 They are activists.

00:12:32.000 They are activists of the hard woke left who believe that everything must be crushed in their path toward a utopian system that generates better human beings.

00:12:40.000 So everyone can be like Dunn.

00:12:42.000 Everybody can be part of the Borg.

00:12:44.000 All you have to do is simply give away your autonomy and your ability to think as an individual human being.

00:12:52.000 And you have to buy into the narrative that your own individual problems and everybody's individual problems, everybody's individual sins, that is not a result of innate human nature or individual choice.

00:13:00.000 That is a result of the evils of the system.

00:13:02.000 And so every statue has to come down because those statues are part of the system.

00:13:07.000 Mount Rushmore should come to- Now, I'm old enough to remember when I said that Mount Rushmore would be attacked.

00:13:11.000 Within the next week, there'd be people who were calling for the destruction of Mount Rushmore.

00:13:15.000 And Governor Kristi Noem of South Dakota, she tweeted back, not on my watch.

00:13:18.000 Well, now she's gonna get a chance to prove it.

00:13:20.000 The New York Times has an entire front-page article today, at least on their website, called, The entire article is about how Mount Rushmore is evil.

00:13:29.000 Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe and sculpted by a man who had strong bonds with the Ku Klux Klan.

00:13:35.000 This is a tweet from the New York Times.

00:13:37.000 It features the faces of two U.S.

00:13:38.000 presidents who were slaveholders.

00:13:41.000 Ah, so it's time to blow it up.

00:13:42.000 Let me just note, the New York Times is built on land appropriated from Native American peoples for a handful of beads. 0.94

00:13:50.000 They're free to hand it back anytime they please.

00:13:50.000 That's the New York Times building.

00:13:52.000 The New York Times was complicit in the Soviet regime to the point where one of their own reporters, Walter Duranty, won a Pulitzer Prize for covering for the Holodomor, the destruction of Ukrainian peasantry in the great collectivization of the early 1930s.

00:14:06.000 The New York Times is a bleepy, and it has been for a very, very long time.

00:14:10.000 So when are they going to knock down their building and hand it back to the Native American tribes from once it was taken? 0.98

00:14:15.000 When are they going to do it?

00:14:16.000 The answer is never, of course.

00:14:17.000 But they are great people over at the New York Times.

00:14:20.000 They never have to think about such things.

00:14:21.000 All the statues have to be knocked down.

00:14:23.000 Because after all, those statues are emblems of a system.

00:14:26.000 A system before which there was nothing but Rousseauian state of nature in which everyone lived in peace and harmony, which is absolute ahistoric nonsense.

00:14:34.000 By the way, worth noting about Mount Rushmore.

00:14:37.000 I love this to say.

00:14:38.000 Mount Rushmore was built on land that belonged to the Lakota tribe.

00:14:40.000 Okay, the Lakota tribe gained that land in 1775 by expropriating it from another tribe.

00:14:46.000 Which in turn, historically speaking, had expropriated it from another tribe.

00:14:49.000 So it turns out that conquest, human immiseration, has been the constant throughout all of human history, virtually every culture, but because we have now created the world's best people, the most morally wise people in the history of humanity, they can stand atop the pile and they can say that they are different and they know that they are products of an evil civilization, a particularly evil civilization.

00:15:11.000 Over in Columbus, Ohio, they've now taken down a 22-foot tall statue of Christopher Columbus after the city's mayor called for it to come down.

00:15:17.000 By the way, this is happening in Columbus, Ohio.

00:15:21.000 They removed the Columbus statue in Columbus, Ohio, which I guess they will call it Flavortown, which is exciting news.

00:15:27.000 They removed the statue.

00:15:28.000 Why?

00:15:28.000 Not because they're so concerned with the predations of Christopher Columbus as a human being.

00:15:33.000 I don't see any FDR statues coming down these days, and FDR was responsible for the imprisonment of 100,000 Japanese Americans.

00:15:40.000 Okay, but Christopher Columbus has to come down.

00:15:42.000 Why?

00:15:42.000 Specifically because of what he was put up for.

00:15:44.000 See, this is the thing.

00:15:46.000 This is the thing.

00:15:47.000 Statues are generally erected.

00:15:48.000 Okay, not Confederate statues, which are a bit of a different story, which I'll explain in a second.

00:15:53.000 Statues that are coming down now, the ones that are really controversial, the Columbus statues, the Washington statues, the Thomas Jefferson statues, those statues, the Lincoln statues, those are erected in tribute to the good things that sprang from the actions of the men who are being honored with the statue.

00:16:08.000 When you erect a statue of Christopher Columbus, it is not a statue of a saint.

00:16:12.000 It is not an icon.

00:16:13.000 People don't go to that statue and worship.

00:16:16.000 There's a difference.

00:16:16.000 People go to many different places on earth where there are statues of saints and pictures of saints and they worship there.

00:16:22.000 The iconography is a long history in human worship.

00:16:27.000 Erecting a statue of Christopher Columbus, nobody was walking by that statue and bowing their head in prayer.

00:16:32.000 No one was doing that because he's not a religious figure.

00:16:35.000 Christopher Columbus was an important figure because he brought Western civilization to the Western Hemisphere.

00:16:40.000 This is, for civilization, a very good thing.

00:16:43.000 That does not mean that it came without brutality or that it came without cost, because brutality and cost are endemic to human nature.

00:16:51.000 But to disown Western civilization, which is really what you're trying to do when you tear down a statue of Columbus, because let's all be frank about this.

00:16:57.000 The people who are tearing down the statues of Columbus, it's not because they are reading the journals of 16th century Spanish monks criticizing Christopher Columbus.

00:17:07.000 They're not reading the Las Casas and then going, you know, Christopher, it turns out he's a bad guy.

00:17:07.000 That is not why they're doing this.

00:17:11.000 That's not what's happening here.

00:17:12.000 What's happening is they don't like the West, and therefore they are trying to tear down the symbols of the West, including Christopher Columbus.

00:17:19.000 It's why the Boston Art Commission just voted unanimously, not like 5-3, they voted unanimously to remove the Emancipation Memorial in Park Square on Tuesday night.

00:17:29.000 The Emancipation Memorial in Boston is a direct, it's a direct copy of the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, D.C., a statue designed by a Charleston, Massachusetts native named Thomas Ball and dedicated in 1876, paid for by freed slaves and spoken at the inauguration of by Frederick Douglass.

00:17:47.000 This is removed.

00:17:48.000 Why was this removed?

00:17:49.000 Not because of why they say it was removed.

00:17:51.000 So, the people who are doing this, they say that this was removed because people are uncomfortable with the statue and its reductive representation of the black man's role in the abolitionist movement, is according to Mayor Marty Walsh.

00:18:01.000 That is not why it's being removed.

00:18:03.000 The reason it's being removed, because anybody who perceives that America had a role in ending slavery, even in America, or that America did a good thing in ending slavery, or that Abraham Lincoln did a good, humane thing in ending slavery, is not ripping into the system.

00:18:17.000 Lincoln, because he was president, is a symptom of an evil system.

00:18:20.000 It doesn't matter that he fought within the system to end the system of slavery.

00:18:24.000 The system itself is the evil.

00:18:26.000 And so if you are an advocate for the system, if you believe that the system actually is good, and that we strayed from bounding principles, well then, that makes you bad too.

00:18:35.000 You are now part of the system. 0.91

00:18:36.000 You are just as evil as that dad that they were talking about in Slate Magazine. 1.00

00:18:40.000 You're the bad. 1.00

00:18:42.000 This is the great fight.

00:18:43.000 You want to talk about the cultural war that is happening right now in the country?

00:18:46.000 This is the cultural war that is happening in the country.

00:18:49.000 A post-American America versus an America that does root itself in Americanism.

00:18:55.000 As we approach July 4th, that's what this battle is all about.

00:18:57.000 I'm mentioning, I have a book coming out July 21st.

00:18:59.000 It's all about this, how to destroy America in three easy steps.

00:19:03.000 The destruction of America's culture, history, and philosophy.

00:19:06.000 Those things are continuing the pace.

00:19:08.000 That is what we are watching right now.

00:19:09.000 Tearing down America about our ears.

00:19:11.000 Now other countries have experienced post post-European Europe, right?

00:19:16.000 There's something that's, it was a major crisis for Europe.

00:19:19.000 It led to a massive migration of people who are not necessarily instilled with European values and has led to tremendous culture clash, waves of crime, serious living problems in places in Europe, for sure. 0.95

00:19:32.000 A country that cannot stand up for its fundamental principles or refuses to stand up for its fundamental principles puts itself at risk.

00:19:38.000 To take an example, in Israel, this was a big issue.

00:19:40.000 In Israel, there was sort of a post-Zionist period in Israel where a bunch of people decided that Israel, well maybe, should we have had it?

00:19:47.000 Should Israel have been a thing that we established? 0.83

00:19:49.000 Maybe we shouldn't have established it after all.

00:19:52.000 And the voters in Israel started electing very left-wing governments that apologized for Israel's existence. 0.90

00:19:56.000 The result was that Israel's enemies were emboldened.

00:19:58.000 Israel's enemies emboldened then proceeded to kill a lot of Israelis, which resulted in a snapback where Israelis recognized, oh wait, maybe there's a reason we exist. 0.70

00:20:05.000 And so now virtually the entire Israeli populace is center-right.

00:20:09.000 The same thing is happening right now in the United States.

00:20:11.000 We are living through a period of post-Americanism America.

00:20:14.000 Where a huge, where generations of Americans have been taught it is a sign of virtue to disown your Americanism.

00:20:19.000 You're a citizen of the world.

00:20:21.000 You're a citizen of goodness, above and beyond any culture that created you.

00:20:24.000 And you have to take, your sign of strength is as Shelby Steele says, dissociation.

00:20:29.000 If you dissociate from the American system, that is a sign that you are powerful.

00:20:33.000 Now understand that that is not a risk.

00:20:36.000 That is not a risky scenario for you.

00:20:39.000 You get rewarded for that in the culture.

00:20:40.000 This is why I say it's important to note that counterculture is now the culture.

00:20:43.000 There is no risk in saying any of this.

00:20:46.000 If you go out there in public and you say things like, you know, Mount Rushmore was expropriated Native American land, so, you know, if people say it should be torn down, we should think about it. 0.94

00:20:53.000 There is no risk in the culture for you to say that.

00:20:56.000 If you say right now in the culture, Mount Rushmore is a signifier of the greatness of many American presidents because America is indeed a great country and the American flag stands for freedom, there is a shot you will be fired from your job at many corporations these days.

00:21:07.000 I'm getting notes from people all over the country right now that if you simply say, yes, I believe that Black Lives Matter, but the police are, by and large, virtuous people attempting to keep law and order, and if they disappear, people die, you could get fired for that.

00:21:21.000 Okay, we know what, the poles of power have shifted in the culture.

00:21:24.000 Republicans focus so much on winning the political, people always wonder in the Republican Party, I get this question all the time, why is it Republicans keep winning elections and yet the culture keeps shifting to the left?

00:21:32.000 Because you're focusing on the wrong battle.

00:21:34.000 This is not the correct battle.

00:21:36.000 You can win as many elections as you want.

00:21:38.000 If the ground keeps shifting under your feet, you're just shifting the deck of chairs on the Titanic.

00:21:42.000 That's all you're doing.

00:21:43.000 You need to shore up the hole at the bottom of the Titanic.

00:21:45.000 It means re-educating yourself about the United States and not buying into the lie that America is uniquely evil.

00:21:51.000 Another example of people portraying America as uniquely evil as part of the broader Black Lives Matter rubric, which again, it's amazing how the linguistic trick of taking Black Lives Matter, that phrase, which of course is inarguable, of course Black Lives Matter, and then piling on top of it, in the words of Vinny from My Cousin Vinny, is there any more bleep we can pile on top of this?

00:22:11.000 Is there any more bleep we can pile on top of the basic truth that Black Lives Matter?

00:22:16.000 Because we're going to pile on top of it neo-Marxism. 0.99

00:22:18.000 We're going to pile on top of it how America sucks. 0.96

00:22:20.000 We're going to pile on top of it slavery reparations. 0.97

00:22:22.000 We're just going to pile everything on top of it.

00:22:23.000 Defund the police.

00:22:25.000 You start from this one Very easy points of agreement and then boom, you just blow it up beyond all recognition.

00:22:31.000 We'll get to that in just one second.

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00:23:42.000 Okay, so, more examples of the cultural dominance of the perspective that America is evil, and that you are good if you dissociate from America.

00:23:51.000 Long, long feature article in the New York Times Magazine called America's Enduring Caste System.

00:23:58.000 Our founding ideals promise liberty and equality for all.

00:24:00.000 Our reality is an enduring racial hierarchy that has persisted for centuries.

00:24:06.000 So again, the idea is that our founding ideals, they are a lie.

00:24:09.000 They were always a lie.

00:24:10.000 They remain a lie.

00:24:11.000 Nothing has changed.

00:24:12.000 And this article is just another example of the bizarre notion that nothing has changed over time.

00:24:19.000 You'll find a hallmark of these articles, which I've read on the air over and over again, is the taking of a bad, a horrible, horrible situation in 1890, and then just fast forwarding to 2020 and going, nothing has changed.

00:24:29.000 It's something Anna Taverne does in the documentary The 13th. 1.00

00:24:32.000 She'll talk about slavery and then she'll immediately fast-forward and go, and then Michael Brown! 0.59

00:24:35.000 It's like, whoa, a few things happened between slavery and Michael Brown.

00:24:38.000 You might want to like review your history like that much, that much, in order to be semi-honest.

00:24:42.000 But the point, of course, is not to be honest.

00:24:43.000 The point is to give yourself the feeling of virtue. 0.75

00:24:46.000 This is why you see so many white woke liberals jumping on board with this nonsense.

00:24:49.000 To give yourself the feeling of self-righteous virtue because you have dissociated. 0.51

00:24:52.000 You have now dissociated from America.

00:24:54.000 Okay, so this article Likens America to homeowners who inherited a house on a piece of land that is beautiful on the outside, but whose soil is unstable loam and rock, heaving and contracting over generations.

00:25:05.000 Cracks, patched, but the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even.

00:25:09.000 Okay, the deeper ruptures waved away for decades, centuries even?

00:25:14.000 Really.

00:25:15.000 Because it seems to me that a lot of those ruptures have been repaired.

00:25:19.000 And when I say a lot of those ruptures, I mean 600,000 Americans died in the Civil War.

00:25:23.000 I mean, we had a civil rights movement and a civil rights act that completely rewrote the constitutional bargain of the United States and allowed government to do things it had never done before and should, and frankly, run way beyond what the Constitution would generally allow in order to rectify these ruptures.

00:25:35.000 But the idea is nothing has changed.

00:25:38.000 This columnist says, many people may rightly say, I had nothing to do with how all of this started.

00:25:42.000 I have nothing to do with the sins of the past.

00:25:43.000 My ancestors never attacked indigenous people, never owned slaves.

00:25:46.000 And yes, not one of us was here when this house was built.

00:25:49.000 Our immediate ancestors may have had nothing to do with it, but here we are, the current occupants of a property with stress cracks and bowed walls and fissures in the foundation.

00:25:56.000 We are the heirs to whatever is right or wrong with it.

00:25:58.000 We did not erect the uneven pillars or joists, but they are ours to deal with now.

00:26:01.000 Okay, this entire metaphor is entirely wrong.

00:26:04.000 The reason the metaphor is wrong is because whatever inequalities We can address today because we don't have time machines.

00:26:10.000 If you invent a time machine, I'm happy to go back to the past and we can talk about alleviating problems in the past.

00:26:15.000 But we don't have a time machine.

00:26:17.000 So the question is, what can we do today to alleviate the systems that are causing inequality?

00:26:23.000 And I'm not hearing a lot of answers other than people simply shouting at the moon that the systems themselves are bad.

00:26:29.000 And when you say, OK, you know what?

00:26:31.000 I agree with you on some of these police brutality stuff.

00:26:33.000 See, here's the thing.

00:26:33.000 Republicans keep granting the premise.

00:26:35.000 They'll say things like, I'll agree with you on the policy.

00:26:37.000 Sure.

00:26:38.000 Why not?

00:26:38.000 Sure.

00:26:39.000 And then the goalposts keep moving.

00:26:41.000 Because guess what?

00:26:42.000 This has nothing to do with policy.

00:26:43.000 It has nothing to do with policy.

00:26:45.000 The United States has spent tens of trillions of dollars on anti-poverty programs.

00:26:50.000 Last I checked, it may have spent $5 trillion in the war on poverty.

00:26:55.000 It was the last statistic I checked.

00:26:56.000 It may be a lot higher now, given all of the late spending.

00:26:59.000 But, at least $5 trillion spent in the war on poverty.

00:27:02.000 Okay, that is a lot of money.

00:27:04.000 Completely restructuring the federal-state bargain in the process.

00:27:08.000 That is a major move.

00:27:10.000 The notion that structural inequalities have not been tackled at any level, the notion that we have not changed law and systems, is insane.

00:27:18.000 Again, the premise of this piece is that we haven't changed anything underlying.

00:27:21.000 We haven't shored up the foundations.

00:27:22.000 We haven't changed the foundations.

00:27:24.000 Except that we have.

00:27:25.000 Except that we have.

00:27:27.000 This article says, like other old houses, America has an unseen skeleton.

00:27:31.000 It's Caste system, which is essential to its operation, as are the studs and joists that we cannot see in the physical buildings we call home.

00:27:37.000 Caste is the infrastructure of our divisions.

00:27:39.000 It is the architecture of human hierarchy, the subconscious code of instructions for maintaining, in our case, a 400-year-old social order.

00:27:45.000 There it is.

00:27:46.000 There it is.

00:27:47.000 The entire American social order is built on sexism, racism, bigotry, homophobia.

00:27:47.000 Right?

00:27:51.000 It must be torn down.

00:27:52.000 At a certain point, the house can't be supported.

00:27:54.000 You just have to tear down the house and build a new house.

00:27:57.000 Because that's what you would do.

00:27:57.000 I mean, the metaphor is the house, right?

00:27:59.000 The metaphor is a house that is built on unstable foundations.

00:28:02.000 That means you got to raise it. 0.97

00:28:04.000 The best, the most incredible, ignorant, insane part of this piece?

00:28:08.000 Throughout human history, three case systems have stood out.

00:28:11.000 The lingering, millenniums-long case system of India.

00:28:14.000 The tragically accelerated, chilling, and officially vanquished case system of Nazi Germany. 0.62

00:28:18.000 And the shape-shifting, unspoken, race-based case pyramid in the United States. 0.74

00:28:22.000 Really, those are the three that stand out.

00:28:24.000 The U.S., Nazi Germany, and India, where they have actual untouchables. 0.91

00:28:28.000 There are no other case systems that you can think of, other than in virtually every civilization on planet Earth.

00:28:32.000 Right?

00:28:33.000 Other than virtually all of human history, where case existed.

00:28:38.000 This is insane.

00:28:39.000 It's patently insane.

00:28:40.000 Again, that does not excuse a prior case.

00:28:42.000 But again, the case does not exist in the United States.

00:28:45.000 That case does not exist in any formalized fashion.

00:28:49.000 All of human sin cannot be healed by simply changing the systems.

00:28:53.000 But, even if it could, the United States has changed its system radically since 1964. 0.51

00:28:58.000 To pretend otherwise is historically ignorant or deliberately dishonest.

00:29:02.000 And I think we all know that it may be a little bit of both.

00:29:05.000 In a second, we're gonna get to supposed changes to the system that would fix this.

00:29:08.000 But of course, it's not about changing the system.

00:29:10.000 It is about the narrative.

00:29:11.000 It's about a feeling of self-righteousness.

00:29:12.000 It's about being part of the post-America America.

00:29:15.000 The post-American America. 0.79

00:29:16.000 The post-American ideals America. 0.57

00:29:18.000 The post-July 4th America.

00:29:20.000 That is the goal here.

00:29:22.000 Everyone gets you more of this in just, and the entire, I mean, some of the people who are pressing this, it's truly incredible.

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00:30:39.000 Okay, so the effect, this is why the press has been for completely useless solutions.

00:30:47.000 Because any solution shores up the system.

00:30:50.000 Any solution shores up the system.

00:30:51.000 So think about this from a political analog.

00:30:53.000 There are a lot of people on the left who believe that anything that goes right in America is bad for the country because in the end it benefits Trump.

00:30:59.000 And there are a lot of people right now who believe that if the economy were to recover, that would be very bad for the country long-term or even mid-term because it would benefit Trump and he might get re-elected which would do more long-term damage.

00:31:08.000 There's a whole perspective about America that says that if the American system is bad and evil, then anything that is good about the American system is actually bad, because that is upholding a system that promulgates bad.

00:31:19.000 Anything that is good, we can't even acknowledge the good America does, because that might lead people to be...

00:31:25.000 To be complacent about these evil, evil systems.

00:31:28.000 And so we're not going to fix any of the problems.

00:31:30.000 See, here's the thing.

00:31:31.000 Most people kind of have an idea on how to fix some of the inequalities that exist in American life.

00:31:37.000 And most people kind of figure, you know what?

00:31:38.000 If people are going to bad schools, you know what we should do?

00:31:40.000 We should fix the schools.

00:31:40.000 You know what's one way to fix the schools?

00:31:42.000 Give people vouchers and school choice.

00:31:43.000 But nobody wants to pursue that.

00:31:45.000 Most people agree that if we're going to talk about police brutality, we should have more transparent data.

00:31:49.000 We should think about qualified immunity and how we change that slightly.

00:31:56.000 If you get to specifics, you can find agreement.

00:31:58.000 But the point of our modern politics is not to find agreement.

00:32:01.000 It is to exacerbate disagreement.

00:32:03.000 And that is why you see the Democrats focused in, not on getting 75% of what they want in a police reform bill that the Republicans put forward.

00:32:10.000 Instead, Democrats are very excited to do a few things.

00:32:13.000 They're excited to, for example, push forward a House resolution that would set up a committee to investigate slavery reparations.

00:32:20.000 Which is not going to happen, right?

00:32:21.000 It's not a policy that is going to take place.

00:32:24.000 And frankly, any race discriminatory policy is probably unconstitutional in the United States right now.

00:32:30.000 But this is what Democrats are pushing.

00:32:31.000 So Sheila Jackson Lee, who is a representative out of Texas, Texas' 18th district, Sheila Jackson Lee yesterday, she suggested that America needs to pay reparations, which of course is about how America is deeply and endemically evil.

00:32:46.000 We are 150 Five years removed from slavery in the United States.

00:32:52.000 And we are now almost six decades removed from the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

00:32:56.000 And Sheila Jackson Lee says that America needs to pay reparations.

00:33:00.000 Race reparations, make no mistake. 0.80

00:33:01.000 Here she is explaining why she's pushing forward this House resolution, which again, is not designed to do anything.

00:33:05.000 It's designed to simply push the message that America is endemically bad.

00:33:09.000 This 13-member commission established by the federal government answers the question that is not the individual act of holding slaves.

00:33:20.000 It is the government's sanction that denied African-Americans their equality and as well the government's responsibility with this 13-member commission to design the responses to the continued death, murder, and inequities in our community. 0.89

00:33:35.000 This is America's responsibility Okay, so it's America's responsibility because America has never rectified its sins.

00:33:49.000 America is endemically evil and nothing has changed.

00:33:52.000 Can I just point something out about Sheila Jackson Lee? 0.79

00:33:56.000 She's not descended from American slaves.

00:33:58.000 Sheila Jackson Lee would not be eligible for reparations if we actually attached reparations to American slavery. 1.00

00:34:03.000 If we did it based on race, she'd be eligible. 0.99

00:34:05.000 But both her parents were immigrants from Jamaica.

00:34:07.000 She graduated from Jamaica High School in Queens.

00:34:09.000 She earned a B.A.

00:34:10.000 in political science from Yale University in 1972 and a J.D.

00:34:13.000 from the University of Virginia Law School.

00:34:15.000 Okay, that does not sound like a wildly unprivileged, difficult life.

00:34:20.000 It doesn't.

00:34:20.000 That doesn't mean she hasn't overcome obstacles.

00:34:23.000 I'm sure she has.

00:34:24.000 I'm sure she has.

00:34:25.000 Because most people do.

00:34:27.000 But this is not somebody who is kept down by the American system.

00:34:31.000 She's a 13-term congressperson. 0.89

00:34:34.000 A 13-term congressperson.

00:34:36.000 Who is the child of immigrants from another country. 0.99

00:34:41.000 The notion that she's standing there talking about the endemic evils of the United States and that we need to pay reparations on the basis of race, what that really is about is it's not about solving any of the problems.

00:34:50.000 It's not about problem solving at this point.

00:34:52.000 It's not even close to about problem solving.

00:34:54.000 By the way, even advocates of reparations like Ta-Nehisi Coates suggest that paying reparations wouldn't solve any of the problems.

00:35:00.000 It'd mostly be a symbolic move.

00:35:01.000 Well, the symbolism is, again, what?

00:35:04.000 The great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren of people who did not enslave anybody paying the great-great-great-great-great-grandchildren of people who may have been slaves or who may not have been in America at all.

00:35:15.000 What is that about?

00:35:16.000 What that's about is dividing America.

00:35:17.000 It's about suggesting that slavery is not a blot on America's past.

00:35:20.000 It is the heart of America's past.

00:35:23.000 That is the idea here.

00:35:24.000 And this is why you see the left also refusing to separate off from the Black Lives Matter organization.

00:35:28.000 Now again, we could all find agreement.

00:35:30.000 We could all find agreement on all this stuff.

00:35:32.000 Slavery, evil, Jim Crow, evil, systems of discrimination that you can name and point out.

00:35:38.000 They're like racist systems, evil.

00:35:39.000 We're all on the same page.

00:35:40.000 We all want to fight that stuff.

00:35:42.000 But the goal here is that again, the underlying narrative is about much more than that.

00:35:46.000 It's about how America itself is unchangeably, unbridgeably evil.

00:35:49.000 Unchangeably and unbridgeably wrong.

00:35:51.000 And this is why you see so many members of the left defending the Black Lives Matter organization when they don't even have to.

00:35:56.000 Now let's be clear about this.

00:35:57.000 The Black Lives Matter organization is not the same as the slogan Black Lives Matter.

00:36:01.000 The Black Lives Matter organization is a radical Marxist organization.

00:36:04.000 The people who organize Black Lives Matter are openly stated Marxists.

00:36:09.000 And so it is no surprise when the Black Lives Matter organizer calls Trump the terrorist-in-chief on CNN.

00:36:17.000 Hey, here's one of the Black Lives Matter organizers talking about all this. 0.99

00:36:21.000 Donald Trump is the embodiment of white supremacist terrorism. 0.99

00:36:25.000 When he is, you know, tweeting videos of people throwing up white power and really entrenching himself within the white terrorist movement, you know, for him, again, to call anything hate is really the height of hypocrisy. 0.99

00:36:43.000 And, you know, we need as a country to be willing to point to him Okay, Melina Abdullah, by the way, let's just be clear about this.

00:36:54.000 Melina Abdullah suggested I'm a member of the KKK when I visited Cal State Los Angeles.

00:36:58.000 She suggested that I was a white supremacist.

00:37:00.000 Everybody is a white supremacist in the view of Melina Abdullah.

00:37:04.000 And by the way, she also happens to be a far-left neo-Marxist.

00:37:10.000 Okay, that is not a big surprise.

00:37:13.000 It is not a surprise at all, in fact.

00:37:16.000 So, it is worth mentioning here that the Black Lives Matter organization is not the same as the point of Black Lives Matter.

00:37:25.000 It's not the same thing at all, but this has been swallowed hook, line, and sinker by the media, specifically because they actually agree with a lot of the critiques of Black Lives Matter as an organization, not just the slogan of the organization, that America is a deeply systemically evil place.

00:37:38.000 And again, everything is justified in the name of this war. 0.62

00:37:40.000 Everything is justified in the name of this war. 0.95

00:37:42.000 Even the principles that supposedly good liberal people believe go completely out the window immediately if you're fighting a war.

00:37:50.000 And that's how you have bizarre tape of Of protesters cross-dressing, twerking in front of cops in New York City, and protesters who are not of color, apparently, screaming at cops that they are black Judas.

00:38:08.000 Half of you don't even have a college education to be out here making demands about the people.

00:38:16.000 Half of you don't even have a college education.

00:38:18.000 If you can't hear that, these are protesters screaming at cops that they don't have college education.

00:38:23.000 OK, so you want to talk about classism?

00:38:25.000 You want to talk about bigotry? 0.90

00:38:26.000 How about the how about the bizarre notion that you get to scream at police officers for not having a college education and calling black officers black Judases? 0.54

00:38:36.000 But anything is justified in the name of ripping down the system, because after all, that black cop who may have suffered more racism than you have, because what are you, a privileged kid who went to NYU or something?

00:38:45.000 And now you get the privilege of dancing around in a skirt on the public streets of Manhattan in front of, as presumably a biological male, in front of, I mean, this is like a pretty free world for you.

00:38:56.000 In other words, it doesn't seem like you are suffering these slings and arrows of outrageous fortune here. 0.95

00:39:00.000 But you get to shout at that black cop, who I'm sure has suffered much more than you have in your young life, about how he doesn't have a college education and is a black Judas. 0.95

00:39:07.000 Everything is justified when you're attacking the system. 0.97

00:39:10.000 Everything is justified when you're attempting to tear down the system.

00:39:12.000 And here's the thing, again, this is the dominant culture.

00:39:15.000 All will be made to kneel before it.

00:39:17.000 All will be made to kneel before it.

00:39:19.000 Prince Harry will be made to kneel before it.

00:39:21.000 Prince Harry.

00:39:23.000 He was forced into a hostage video, apparently, by his wife, Meghan Markle.

00:39:27.000 Probably the most privileged person on planet Earth, Prince Harry, is going to lecture us all on systemic racism, because this is the culture.

00:39:36.000 You are in the cultural minority if you believe that America is a good place, and that the West is worthy of defense.

00:39:40.000 If you believe that America's system is good, and has created prosperity and freedom for not just millions, but billions of people around the Earth, this puts you in a bad place.

00:39:47.000 If you believe Western civilization has values that are worthy of emulation and teaching, This means you are bad and you are racist.

00:39:52.000 So you will kneel before Azad and you will accept the fact that you are actually part of the system itself.

00:39:58.000 Here's Prince Harry doing exactly that.

00:40:01.000 My wife said recently that our generation and the ones before us haven't done enough to wipe the wrongs of the past.

00:40:07.000 I too am sorry.

00:40:09.000 Sorry that we haven't got the world to the place that you deserve it to be.

00:40:14.000 Institutional racism has no place in our societies, yet it is still endemic.

00:40:20.000 Unconscious bias must be acknowledged without blame to create a better world for all of you.

00:40:27.000 I want you to know that we are committed to being part of the solution.

00:40:32.000 Really?

00:40:33.000 You are?

00:40:33.000 You're like, you want to talk about case systems, by the way?

00:40:37.000 That dude is literally rich because he was born that way.

00:40:40.000 His entire family history is he is he's a prince.

00:40:43.000 OK, don't lecture me on American case systems when you are a prince.

00:40:46.000 Also, I'm just going to point out here that If you think that Prince Harry has any leg to stand on lecturing the rest of us on how Western civilization is bad, you just got another thing coming.

00:40:56.000 Now, in a second, we're gonna get to, you know, there are real problems on planet Earth.

00:40:58.000 While we're shouting at each other over pronouns and pretending that America's police are endemically violent and racist and brutal, there are actual real problems in the world.

00:41:06.000 Okay, there are real problems in America and abroad. 0.98

00:41:09.000 And it turns out that the quote-unquote solutions that are being brought by the post-American Americans suck. 0.91

00:41:14.000 These solutions are not solutions at all. 0.92

00:41:16.000 They exacerbate all of the problems they purport to be alleviating.

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00:42:27.000 Alrighty, in just a second. 0.55

00:42:28.000 We're going to get to another indicator that nobody is talking about solutions because they don't actually give a crap about solutions. 0.89

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00:43:59.000 All righty.

00:44:05.000 So the policies, I keep saying that the policies that are being pushed by the disintegrationist left, the policies that suggest that we get rid of all cops, these are not about alleviating problems.

00:44:16.000 The problems are not there to be solved.

00:44:17.000 The systems must be taken down.

00:44:19.000 So the push of cuts to police is the most counterproductive thing pretty much ever.

00:44:23.000 The notion that you're just going to cut the police.

00:44:24.000 This has been pushed.

00:44:25.000 The defund the police movement is being pushed by the New York Times.

00:44:27.000 It's being pushed by columnists all over the left wing.

00:44:30.000 The suggestion is the police are bad. 1.00

00:44:31.000 The police are useless. 0.99

00:44:32.000 The police are unnecessary. 1.00

00:44:34.000 Bill de Blasio, idiot communist mayor of New York. 1.00

00:44:37.000 He gave a statement yesterday. 1.00

00:44:38.000 He said it's time to cut the police budget in New York by a billion dollars because young people need to be reached.

00:44:44.000 Now police need to be reached!

00:44:45.000 Send a social worker to a shooting.

00:44:47.000 It's time.

00:44:48.000 The time has come. 0.96

00:44:48.000 Social workers to shootings. 0.96

00:44:50.000 By the way, worthy of note, over 100 people have been shot in the past couple of weeks in New York.

00:44:54.000 The violent crime rate is rising rapidly. 1.00

00:44:56.000 Here is Bill de Blasio being a fool. 0.99

00:44:59.000 Our young people need to be reached. 1.00

00:45:01.000 They don't need to be policed.

00:45:02.000 They need to be reached and supported and nurtured.

00:45:05.000 And that's what we're doing.

00:45:06.000 Not only a billion dollars you're talking about, another half billion beyond that, to create recreation centers, places young people can go that are positive, to create broadband access for young people in public housing.

00:45:18.000 We've got to do a lot of things differently if we're going to change the reality for so many young people.

00:45:24.000 Oh, internet porn and midnight basketball.

00:45:26.000 That's probably going to solve this stuff.

00:45:28.000 Broadband internet access and midnight basketball.

00:45:30.000 We never tried this stuff.

00:45:31.000 Back in the 1990s, this was Bill Clinton's big initiative.

00:45:34.000 Midnight basketball to make sure that people have a place to go at night to do something that was not a crime.

00:45:38.000 It was not actually effective.

00:45:39.000 You know what was effective?

00:45:40.000 Putting cops on the streets.

00:45:41.000 The fact is right now in Chicago, 18 people were killed, 47 wounded in drive and walk-by shootings last weekend alone.

00:45:48.000 New York City's homicide rate is at a five-year high.

00:45:50.000 The number of shooting victims is up 42% through June 21st, compared with the same period in 2019.

00:45:55.000 The number of shootings in the first three weeks of June was over twice that of the same period in 2019, making this June the city's bloodiest in nearly a quarter century, according to the New York Times.

00:46:07.000 Milwaukee's homicides have increased 132%.

00:46:10.000 Hey, it's perfectly obvious what is going on.

00:46:12.000 You cut the cops or threaten to cut the cops.

00:46:14.000 You threaten to prosecute every cop who does his job.

00:46:16.000 They're not going to police.

00:46:17.000 And the result is going to be more dead people.

00:46:19.000 But this is the whole thing.

00:46:20.000 It's not about solving one of the problems on the surface.

00:46:23.000 It's about solving the systemic problem.

00:46:24.000 And the systemic problems means you should let the problems on the surface fester.

00:46:28.000 Because after all, that just exposes the corruption of the system.

00:46:31.000 What you don't want, if you're a member of the post-American left, what you don't want is for the American system to be upheld because you fixed all the boo-boos. 0.98

00:46:38.000 Right?

00:46:38.000 You don't want to shore up that house.

00:46:40.000 You don't want to fix the picture frame in that house that has rotting foundations.

00:46:43.000 You want to dynamite the thing.

00:46:45.000 You want it to come down about your ears.

00:46:46.000 Now, the problems that supposedly plague America, let's just be very clear about this.

00:46:51.000 The problems that supposedly plague Americans, the freedoms that we are having ripped away from us, the brutal police, the brutal American system, brutal inequality, Hey, China just took over Hong Kong.

00:47:02.000 There are actual problems on planet Earth.

00:47:04.000 China just subjected over 7 million people to abject communist tyranny.

00:47:10.000 That is what's happening in Hong Kong.

00:47:12.000 According to CNN, Hong Kong was facing up to a new reality on Wednesday after China's central government imposed a sweeping national security law late the night before that critics say stripped the city of its autonomy and precious civil and social freedoms and cement Beijing's authoritarian rule over the territory.

00:47:27.000 At least 370 people were arrested Wednesday, including 10 on suspicion of violating the national security law.

00:47:33.000 Among those was a 15-year-old girl.

00:47:36.000 So they're now arresting everybody who flies a flag.

00:47:40.000 If you fly a freedom flag in Hong Kong, they will arrest you.

00:47:43.000 According to the Wall Street Journal, they say China's decision to impose its national security law on Hong Kong is a seismic event that goes well beyond the sad fate of its 7.5 million people.

00:47:52.000 The illegal takeover shows that Beijing's communist rulers are willing to violate their international commitments with impunity as they spread their authoritarian model.

00:47:59.000 We say this with regret because we were among those who helped amid China's reform era in the 80s.

00:48:03.000 I've suggested, by the way, that anybody who wants to get out and live a life of freedom should be allowed citizenship in the United States.

00:48:08.000 for Beijing to learn from.

00:48:09.000 Now those hopes are crushed.

00:48:10.000 China's communist legislature has imposed the national security law that ends Hong Kong's one country, two systems governance.

00:48:16.000 I've suggested, by the way, that anybody who wants to get out and live a life of freedom should be allowed citizenship in the United States.

00:48:21.000 What we are looking at right now is the complete subjugation of a once free people to tyranny.

00:48:26.000 But don't worry, the real problem in America is obviously policing.

00:48:30.000 It's obviously racist police shootings.

00:48:32.000 Again, grand total, 15 unarmed black people were shot in 2019, according to the Washington Post database of such shootings.

00:48:39.000 15, in a country of 42 million black people.

00:48:41.000 But we are being told by our intellectual and moral betters, people who will tell our children that we're bad human beings, we're being told that we are racist for pointing out facts like this, or for suggesting that America's system is actually free, that America's system is actually prosperous.

00:48:55.000 The same people who are lecturing us on Black Lives Matter and the NBA, the LeBron Jameses of the world, are chiding members of their own organizations for speaking out on behalf of Hong Kong's freedom.

00:49:06.000 Don't tell me that there's a lot of moral courage to that.

00:49:08.000 You take the check from China, and then you say a very, very popular thing among your woke base in the United States. 0.63

00:49:13.000 That doesn't sound a lot like moral courage.

00:49:14.000 It sounds mainly like you're the dominant culture in the United States when it comes to politics.

00:49:22.000 The message that takes moral courage is the message that America is filled with flawed people.

00:49:26.000 That America is filled with sinful people, just like every civilization.

00:49:29.000 And that it is our job to find those flaws, and find those sins, and try to extirpate those.

00:49:35.000 That it is our job to find racism where it exists and try to extirpate it.

00:49:38.000 That when we find a racist law or racist policy, we try to extirpate it.

00:49:43.000 But that America's system is free.

00:49:45.000 That America's system has been driven by the principles of the Declaration.

00:49:48.000 Those principles are not principles that can be alienated.

00:49:51.000 Those are not principles that are worthy of abandonment.

00:49:54.000 Those are principles that are worthy of emulation.

00:49:56.000 Of upholding.

00:49:59.000 If America's not willing to defend herself, if instead America just turns into a slow cultural roll toward post-Americanism, then we're done here.

00:50:08.000 We're finished.

00:50:09.000 By the way, there are a couple of Republicans in the Senate who have proposed a bill to make Juneteenth a national holiday, which I support.

00:50:14.000 That's fine.

00:50:15.000 That's good.

00:50:15.000 I mean, I've called for it.

00:50:17.000 I was one of the people on Twitter openly calling for it this year.

00:50:20.000 Okay?

00:50:20.000 That is a good thing.

00:50:21.000 They also want to get rid of Columbus Day at the same time.

00:50:24.000 Which of course completely caves to the leftist perception of America as rooted in fundamental Western evil and cruelty.

00:50:31.000 And that is not a culture that can survive.

00:50:35.000 A culture that apologizes for its own existence, and I mean American culture. 0.90

00:50:38.000 Not any racial culture.

00:50:39.000 American culture.

00:50:41.000 Any country that refuses to stand for its own existence and stand for its own principles and recognize its own flaws in a nuanced way while standing for those principles, any country that refuses to do that cannot survive.

00:50:53.000 And I think that's the point.

00:50:54.000 I think there are a lot of people in the dominant culture, not the subculture anymore, the dominant culture, who believe that America should not survive as currently constituted.

00:51:01.000 Alrighty, we'll be back here later today with two additional hours of content.

00:51:04.000 Otherwise, have yourself a July 4th weekend where we actually celebrate the fact that this is, in fact, the greatest nation in the history of the world.

00:51:10.000 We may have forgotten that of late, but it is no less true for us having forgotten it.

00:51:13.000 for us having forgotten it.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - July 02, 2020

America Isn’t The Bad Guy | Ep. 1044

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